Heatwave cows

[CAB]

  Spell Check. My pet peeve is there, their, & they're, our & are, Through & throw, too many grammar mistakes to remember for an older man.

 

[knabe]

how about wilson females CAB?

 

[CAB]

We'll calve our first 2 next spring, so we'll see then. I was going to say that we did breed our one of our HW 2nd calvers to Wilson. After we got the calf we sold the cow and fostered her baby to  another cow. We kept the heifer and she looks good. Hope she will milk. We had 2 Wilson heifers last spring kept one and sold the other for a breeding heifer. Wilson heifers won the over-all commercial breeding heifer classes @ Adams & Union county fairs last summer, & a Wilson steer was reserve GC @ our fair and another that sold in Ruby's sale last fall was reserve @ a fair in Mi. last summer, so no more than were born they did good I guess. I literally lost Wilson this last summer. By that I mean we were gone for 3 days, when I came home, he's gone without a trace. Advertised in all the local papers and radio stations, called all of the local barns and he's still missing. I had went down and picked him up @ REI last June.
  BCCC, how did the Wilson semen end up selling a bit ago in the auction? Brent

 

[knabe]

did you get a DNA profile on him?

does the association have anyway of flagging stuff that comes through suspect, ie database screening skills?

 

[CAB]

No I didn't, but I do know there are some full sibs to him. Never thought of that & I doubt that the asso. would be able to screen all the apps. that come through. It bothers me that I can't find him. I've lost cattle B4, but always was eventually able to find them in one way or another, but I think that Wilson is just going to be gone. I hope that someone is getting some good use out of him.

 

[knabe]

full sibs won't necessarily profile the same.

 

[Steer4Caddy]

Sold all we raised a few years ago even though they looked great.  Unfortunately I bought one from a friend because she was awsome and priced right.  Her first one died when we pulled it out of an Angus bull.  She still looked great so we threw her back out and bred her back.  I just damn near broke my calf puller on this one.  Dead.  She will be also very soon.  The bad part is I new better.

 

[knabe]

all heatwave females that are registered should have their calving stats reported.  the calves don't need to be alive or registered to report it.  he has to have the highest calving difficulty score in cattle history, worse than even fullbloods on angus heifers?

 

[Cattledog]

all heatwave females that are registered should have their calving stats reported.  the calves don't need to be alive or registered to report it.  he has to have the highest calving difficulty score in cattle history, worse than even fullbloods on angus heifers?

I like how you keyed in on the calving difficulty and not the calving weight. 

 

[JWW]

i own one HW cow and she going to have her third calf this spring. she had a 82# Macho bull calf first year that had a WW of little under 800#. This year she had a 87# Dream on Heifer that had WW of 765#. no calving difficulty with either of them. Is she one in a million ? possible but i would have to say the reason she is a good cow and milking well is the otherside of her family tree--- Black Irish Kansas Simmental cow,
Can't wait for her 3rd calf!


JWW

 

[Vacanballs]

I kept and calved out my first heatwave heifer in Aug. She had a Carney Man heifer calf (unassisted)  that is doing just as well as the other heifer's calves. I may even keep her. I just AIed her to Troubadour this week. We'll see what comes of that. I hate to work her though because she is a little goofy. I kept another heatwave heifer this year that was from some embryos that I had bought. She is a an awesome shorthorn looking heifer. I had to keep her. I wanted to breed her to Jakes Proud Jazz.. but she didn't come in when I sync'ed this yrs heifers. I saw her kamar popped the week after so she is bred to a Meyer son that I own. This heifer is pretty nutty herself, and everytime i work them I say that I'm going to sell her. We'll see what comes out of her this summer and breed her back to JPJ next fall.

Moral of the story is that they look great.. but are terrible to work, and the worry they cause you at calving time is not really worth it unless you are right on top of them.. You cant help but think you'll get a great one out of them though..