neocattleman
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what are peoples opinions on these 2 bulls? thinking of breeding some maternal bred simms to them? which would work better? what are the birth weights? are they heifer safe?
For what you are trying to do, both will work and the calf will can be registered maintainer.neocattleman said:the ones that I'm really considering using them on are second calvers but i asked about heifers because i have a couple heifers to breed that i wasnt sure what to breed them to and was curious on other peoples opinion but it looks like i wont use either bull on the heifers.
i looked into uno mas to use for a sim on them but all these females are either dream on daughters or granddaughters and i dont want to linebred them that closely since uno mas is a dream on son. also i have heard good things on the maine x simm cross
thanks for the replies
Till-Hill said:Just my opinion but there is no such thing as a clubby bred heifer safe bull.
I did not call them mongrels but original poster was asking about on Simmental heifers that cross breeding is going to add some heterois and usually birth weight is going to be higher. I have no knowledge of Jose bull but around this area there have been some guys custom AI'ing heifers all over to Daddy's Money and there are some upset kids when their show heifer from last year had trouble.Tyler said:Till-Hill said:Just my opinion but there is no such thing as a clubby bred heifer safe bull.
Jose is a purebred Maine and Daddy's Money is a 3/4 blood.
You can look up extended pedigrees on the Maine website, both have excellent ced and bw epd's.
I would not call them crossed up mongrels.
Till-Hill said:I did not call them mongrels but original poster was asking about on Simmental heifers that cross breeding is going to add some heterois and usually birth weight is going to be higher. I have no knowledge of Jose bull but around this area there have been some guys custom AI'ing heifers all over to Daddy's Money and there are some upset kids when their show heifer from last year had trouble.Tyler said:Till-Hill said:Just my opinion but there is no such thing as a clubby bred heifer safe bull.
Jose is a purebred Maine and Daddy's Money is a 3/4 blood.
You can look up extended pedigrees on the Maine website, both have excellent ced and bw epd's.
I would not call them crossed up mongrels.
I'd must rather let a heifer have an average calf vs the risk of a great one with the pulling, vet calls and after all that sometimes then the heifer won't take a calf. Just how we do things. Don't mean it's right. BTW the Sim x Maine deal works. We got a few of them around and I do like the looks of them. They raise Angus calves for a year or two tho.