Calving Ease for Dirty Hairy and Rocky Balboa

[KMJCC]

Looking for opinions on the calving ease of Dirty Hairy and Rocky Balboa.  I know that they are not a sure bet for calving ease as an easy calving angus but just looking for some peoples opinions.  I have a Who/Simi heifer that I was thinking about using Dirty Hairy on and a Sun Seeker/Anugs in was thinking about using Rocky Baboa on.  I am not for sure of the birth wieght of the Who heifer because I bought her but she has never been overly big and the Sun Seeker heifer I raised and she was born about 60-65 lbs.  Any thoughts and or opinions are greatl appriciated.  Thanks!

 

[herefordfootball]

We had one Dirty Harry out of a Hannibal cow that weighed exactly 90lbs at birth. She calved unassisted. He added hair and a good front end on ours and that was about it. He did add some soundness too. But your cow better have the other parts if you're going to breed to him. He is a good overall bull though imo. I've heard some Rockys' come real easy and heard of one come at 120lbs, I think it just depends on what kinda cow you're breeding him too.

 

[Ausley Family Farms]

Love the Rocky calves. Bred a lot of 1st and 2nd time calvers to him last year. No problems to report here. Biggest calf was 85 lbs. Really like the hair and the front that the rocky calves have.

 

[Oats]

I have had two calves out of a manchild/angus bred to dirty harry. The  first one when she was a heifer came out 60lbs and this year was 85 lbs both were bull calves and seem to be doing good. I plan on using Rocky on some heifers this year.

 

[bcosu]

i don't know if rocky balboa is as much a calving ease as dirty hairy just because he puts a lot a shape in his calves, and not that it's a bad thing. it just seems that he puts some hip in them and that they have a little harder time coming out then.

 

[LFFASHOWER]

Check out the Drifter on this website http://jkthom.com/sires.html . All of these calves have growth, and style.

 

[Darkside]

Rocky is  are pick when it comes to heifers, we have 1/2 Braunvieh 1/2 Angus and he sure puts a shine on them. I work nights for my job that keeps the bills pad and my wife calves a lot of them and she was glad to here the Rocky semen was in the tank.
                                                        Hope this helps

 

[TMJ Show Cattle]

Both are good bulls with relative calving ease. IMO use Total Soluton,sleep at night,and have very saleable calves or really good replacements.

 

[nativeman]

JUst had 3 rocky's and I love them .Small and chunky.

 

[bs372280]

I'm in favor of the total solution idea!  Thats all I use.  In the pasted few years I calved around 70-80 heifers AI'ed to total solution.  There is little to no problems.  The only one I had to pull was the past show heifer.  She had quite a bit of condition on her and after 20 minutes of waiting after her water broke I figured I should give her a hand.  There going to make sellers and super cows.  This year I had 6 heifers that didn't settle so the clean-up bull got them.  He is a Northern improvement out of a Who cow.  Pulled 2 of the last 4.

 

[clubcalve]

I have'nt heard of many big rocky calves and all of them I have seen have had huge amounts of hair

 

[wyatt]

this is a drifter heifer  shes got some hair and muscle realy good structured drifter is a very good bull

 

[AndersenClubCalves]

Bred one heifer to him and got an 85 pound heifer calf little bigger than i was really wanting but she  is a really  stout little girl.

 

[farmin female]

Couple of years ago we bred 3 heifers to Rocky Balboa.  Only 2 stuck (thankfully) and both heifers had 95-100 lbs calves.  One heifer and one bull.  Both nice calves but one was a hard pull and after that we packed the other up and took her straight to the vet for the requisite C-section.  One heifer was a commercial heifer and one was a Mossy Oak/Moody Blues.  Again, I would say that they were both nice calves - we did keep the heifer for a replacement- but I would never, ever use him on first calf heifers.