Good advice until you got to the Blues part. We have friends who bred dairy cows limo with great success and thought they would try belgian blues. 2/3 of the calf crop was c-section, the other 1/3 was dead. What worked well was a 1/2 belgian blue 1/2 angus bull that they used afterwards. Holsteins aren't built to calve those big shouldered blues.-XBAR- said:^^ If you're just wanting feeder calves, Id be using a really terminal fullblood Limo or Charolais. Maybe even look into the Blues.
chambero said:I can't imagine a legitimate purpose for breeding a club calf bull to a holstein. Calves are unlikely to be good at anything. I'd be shocked if you could get a competetive show steer out of a dairy cow. It's hard to get one out of good Angus cows.