CarleyE
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Does anyone have pictures of his calves, it seen any of them? Thanks
Rockefeller said:we flushed him on a pretty common Meyer x Angus cow.
Mr. Negitivity- with a goal of Negitive KARMA said:Rockefeller said:we flushed him on a pretty common Meyer x Angus cow.
care to explain??? Was it 'instinct', extra cash, or the cow's pedigree or past-- that was a causal agent? Usually that phrase doesn't work out, or ever happen...
If it was her past.. then most likely she'd click with anything-- if not then????
Rockefeller said:we flushed him on a pretty common Meyer x Angus cow. the first set of embryos we put in we got 4 calves and sold 3 in our labor day sale. the 4th was TH free as he didn't have the hair and bone as the others and we all know they don't sell as well but still a good steer that gained and grew to sell well at the sale barn, especially compared to most clubby bulls. I attached pictures of the steer we sold for $15,500 and the heifer that sold for $7000. The other heifer sold for $2500 which put us at an average of over $8300. If you include the 4th sold at the sale barn we still averaged $6500. You'll be seeing more full sibs at our sale next year!
Rockefeller said:Mr. Negitivity- with a goal of Negitive KARMA said:Rockefeller said:we flushed him on a pretty common Meyer x Angus cow.
care to explain??? Was it 'instinct', extra cash, or the cow's pedigree or past-- that was a causal agent? Usually that phrase doesn't work out, or ever happen...
If it was her past.. then most likely she'd click with anything-- if not then????
That cow was a first calf heifer when we flushed her. Her first calf was out of our angus bull to have an easy calf. She has Angus bone and hair. She does have good rib, nice front, and is sound. What we did was pair her with a bull that we felt was going to give her the bone, hair, & stoutness she needed. Plain and simple. You can call it luck or instinct, we simply paired her with a bull we thought she would click with. We also flushed her to Lutton to try and make some females. That worked pretty well too.
Mr. Negitivity- with a goal of Negitive KARMA said:Rockefeller said:Mr. Negitivity- with a goal of Negitive KARMA said:Rockefeller said:we flushed him on a pretty common Meyer x Angus cow.
care to explain??? Was it 'instinct', extra cash, or the cow's pedigree or past-- that was a causal agent? Usually that phrase doesn't work out, or ever happen...
If it was her past.. then most likely she'd click with anything-- if not then????
That cow was a first calf heifer when we flushed her. Her first calf was out of our angus bull to have an easy calf. She has Angus bone and hair. She does have good rib, nice front, and is sound. What we did was pair her with a bull that we felt was going to give her the bone, hair, & stoutness she needed. Plain and simple. You can call it luck or instinct, we simply paired her with a bull we thought she would click with. We also flushed her to Lutton to try and make some females. That worked pretty well too.
so you flushed a 'common' cow, that had only had an 'average' calf- in her 'only' calving- TWICE- to make keeper 'females'?
what was it that 'plain and simple' pushed you over the edge and decided to flush her, instead of sticking a straw in her and seeing what happend?
Rockefeller said:This was our 2nd sale. First one was called The Fab 5, and the second one was called The Titanium 10. Not sure what next years sale will be called til the calves start hitting the ground.
She was bought with the intention of flushing, as well as two other donors. We run a small herd of western cows to serve as recips. That's the way we wanted to run our operation so that's the way we are doing it. We took the gamble on flushing her that early and to a new bull, and it worked. We even got the type of females on the Lutton mating that we wanted so we were quite happy.
Going back to the original topic of the post, I feel Salty Dog is a bull very capable of siring quality cattle. I would guess there will be a few more hitting the ground next year.