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    NEW - Simmental breeder in Northern PA

    Hey Justin, I followed your facebook page. Hopefully see you at Stars and Stripes this year!
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    Bull Percentage

    From Bull barn - Two Tone is: 6.18% CA 35.81% AN 25.39% MA 32.62 xx And your description of the Cow is: 50% AN 50% SM The progeny would be: 3.09% CA 42.91% AN 12.70% MA 16.31% XX 25% Simmental AKA - Club Calf
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    HOC Broker Calves

    It was a heifer! Born unassisted at 85 lbs.  <beer> Will post more pictures on facebook - OEF Simmental Farm Beyond excited to watch our first Broker calf grow.
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    NEW - Simmental breeder in Northern PA

    Hi everyone. My brother and I began breeding Simmental's in 2011. We have been lucky enough to purchase heifers from HPF (Hudson Pines), CWSF (Curry Wagner Simmentals), CLO (Cliff and Lynn Simmentals), WPCC (Palmer Cattle Co.) and many others through the Stars and Stripes sale in Gettysburg and...
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    Suggestions on Simmental bulls

    I purchased some of WLE Big Deal semen to use this year. I really like the look of my WLE Uno Mas calves and Big deal is his maternal brother. He is a Steel Force son while Uno Mas is Dream On. Uno mas has better calving ease. I see people are having small calves out of HPF Optimizer. That was...
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    HOC Broker Calves

    Thank you to everyone for the info. The cow's due date is tomorrow. I thought for sure she'd calve early. Hoping this means it's a heifer! I will post a picture and the BW soon.
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    Suggestions on Simmental bulls

    For heifers I'd suggest WLE Uno Mas. We also are impressed with our calves out of Yardley High Regard and TKCC Classified. This year we are using a red son out of Remington Lock n Load (WC Last Call) and WC United. Haven't seen their calves grow in person yet but from ones I've seen at sales...
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    HOC Broker Calves

    I'm curious on the birth weights people are seeing from Broker. I have a 3 year old Milestone cow that is bred to him. She is huge! I hope she's not carrying twins but after looking at Broker's EPDs i'm hoping its just a big bull. Has anyone seen 100+ lb calves out of Broker? Thanks you in...
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    Using dairy cows as Recips

    We used a Simmental bull on our grandfathers dairy heifers a few years back. My brother decided to retain one of the half sim/Holstein heifers to use as a recip cow. She has been an outstanding mother and the calves grow extremely quickly due to the increased amount of milk. I've often wondered...
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