Birth Weight

[gmoo]

Would you keep a 50% Maine Anjou heifer with a 120lb birth weight for a replacement ?

 

[RyanChandler]

Of course not.  That’s a dead cow and calf in most scenarios.

 

[Wildmustang777]

Who is her sire???

 

[gmoo]

I Deliver.

 

[gmoo]

I Deliver/ Kadabra x Cow

 

[JDP]

I have 2 Wave On Wave daughters that are 10 years old still producing calves every season. They were both 100 lbs BW. Never have pulled a calf out of them. One had a Broker bull that had BW of 110 unassisted. Just sharing my experience.

 

[Wildmustang777]

Hmmm nice bull..

I have a kadabra cow that just had a 70 lb heifer calf...

I have kept a 110 pound shorthorn heifer calf and bred her to a low birth weight bull every time bc of her high birth weight and every calf has been 70-85 lbs 

Different genetics though...

 

[aj]

From my experience once yo have a high birth weight in the pedigree...…..it can reappear 2 or 3 generations at a inconvenient time. It takes at least 3 generations to breed it out.

 

[beebe]

what would be the advantage of having that large of a calf?

 

[gmoo]

IKR

 

[Till-Hill]

Kept a Critical Mass heifer. 128# bw. Bred her to a bet the ranch calving ease Red Angus bull. Had to use my Ford Ranger to get the calf out dead of course. She ended up taking a twin I had and guess what happened the next year!!!! DOA calf again being bred calving ease also that time.

Had a 112# Simmental x Shorthorn heifer this year. Soon as I weighed her she went on the sale barn list, NEVER AGAIN!