Walks Alone help

[Davidsonranch]

We are scheduled to have our first Walks Alone calf on 3-24-14. (PS, this will be the first "Clubby" calf born at our ranch).  Will be coming out of a Ang / Herf brokle faced cow who has never been assisted when calving.  This will be her 6th calf.  Last two AI'ed calves came exactly on thier due dates with her.  Cow is huge on very minimal feed.  She actually was almost looking like she was starting to spring this morning and bagging up.  I know there are a ton of variables, but what should I expect from Walks Alone?  Early calf, late calf, huge calf, ???

 

[ROMAX]

They will have a bit more size and be a lot stouter,but a very mature cow shouldn't have much problem

 

[GoWyo]

Had 2 out of Angus cows last spring and neither one would have been over maybe 80-85 lbs.  The bull calf was built like a brick though and looked like a little baby fat steer as soon as the cow had him licked off.

 

[kjd farms]

We've had 8 WA calves over the last 2 years.  All out of non-clubby Angus based cows, some of which were purebreds. Most were unassisted including twins.  One that was helped was easy enough and another was vet assist, but we don't blame the sire, just one of those deals that the cow was getting lazy about pushing and the calf was pretty far down to even get to. 

We would use him on pretty much any of our non-clubby cows that are 4 and up.

Calves are mostly on time, within 3/4 days either way.  Size nothing bigger than 75 lbs for us.

 

[Warrior10]

We are scheduled to have our first Walks Alone calf on 3-24-14. (PS, this will be the first "Clubby" calf born at our ranch).  Will be coming out of a Ang / Herf brokle faced cow who has never been assisted when calving.  This will be her 6th calf.  Last two AI'ed calves came exactly on thier due dates with her.  Cow is huge on very minimal feed.  She actually was almost looking like she was starting to spring this morning and bagging up.  I know there are a ton of variables, but what should I expect from Walks Alone?  Early calf, late calf, huge calf, ???

Best of luck with your calf. The two Walks Alones we had out of PB angus came right on time and 10 days early, both fairly small actually....80lbs probably.

 

[Davidsonranch]

Thanks everyone.  I was starting to worry a little, but maybe not so much.  Will keep an eye on her and report when I can.

 

[hntwhitetail]

I have a friend who runs a good sized pb angus operation and he has had success using Walks Alone on pb angus 2nd calvers.  I'd say you are good to go w/ the age you are looking @. 

 

[rackranch]

I've used him on second calve Angus and Shorthorn without issue...G-Luck