What is your biggest?

[KSanburg]

So what is everyones biggest calf that you can remember having without assistance? Had one yesterday that I think is mine, a Tiger Woods that tipped the scale at 145 pounds and was 16 days over due. Nothing to brag about but I thought it would be interesting. I like them 80-90 pounds better!

 

[coachmac]

back when an 8.5 frame cow was to small for simmental, I come home from school one day to a BIG cow that had a 152lb calf walking beside her.  I thought it was a runaway from the neighbor!  haha  The cow was eating grass and carrying on without a care in the world.  Thank goodness we NEVER repeated that scenario

 

[cpratz]

Had a 150 lb Leroy Brown bull calf a couple years ago.

 

[wyatt]

imagine one of those calves born breach 

 

[cjr]

I had one a HW/Sugar Ray 142 lbs breach C-section.

 

[LostFarmer]

Back when I was milking cows on a holstein dairy we had a few that tipped the 150 lb mark.  They were out of 1900 lb cows so it wasn't that big by comparison. 

 

[blinggirl]

we had a hired man bull calf that weight 140 when it was born out of first calf heifer she had it on her own but with a pinched nerve and injuried leg we shipped her that fall ..steer was a gainer tho not on heavy feed but when we sent him to market he weight 1450 that was about a year old

 

[wyatt]

not trying to be mean/rude/start a fight but why would you breed him to a heifer have you seen his shoulders??? there almost as bad as heat wave

 

[blinggirl]

if that is comment to my hired man calf ? this was about 3 to 4 years ago before he had a calf crop he was brand new . and she was a actually now that i think back a 2 year old that had a bull calf the yearhbefore that was 80lbs so we figured it would be ok ...welll it wasnt

 

[Boot Jack Bulls]

Not sure if twins count, but we had a huge foundation simmi cow calve out twins at 85# each back in the day. It was so long ago, I can't even remember who the sire is,but the cow was a massive animal. It was about January 5 and we ended up with two very large broken colored simmi bulls in the house for a few hours to warm up. Talk about bulls in a china shop!

 

[wyatt]

i didnt own the cow or calf but i seen a 165lb heat wave heifer red and white speckled up, she was so massive. i loved her look and as she got older she looked like a sweet deep bodied soft made heifer but i cringed at the thought of someone breeding her...

 

[farmboy]

140lb Naughty Pines... multiple ones

 

[Shady Lane]

The largest calf I've ever seen was a 165# Charolais ET heifer calf.

I was born unassisted from a gigantic black simmental recip.

It looked like a great pyrenese dog trotting around the calving pen.

 

[Chap]

have had some big ones, but the one that stands out was a 132 lb Dr Who on an old line Maine cow.  unassisted.  I remember because my dad called to tell me she calved and said, "don't worry about this one nursing, it's big enough to eat silage!"

 

[KSanburg]

They do look pretty funny being bigger than the calves that were born1 to 2 weeks before them. He was the last of my AI calves so the rest are from the clean up bull and they generally come out around 80, so life is good. All thought I did have to do a C section on a first calf heifer several years ago on a 72 pound calf so it goes from one extrem to the other.

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

107 heifer out of a cow that was 120 herself.  She is now going to be a recip. 

 

[dscott]

had a amen this year 125lbs out of a power plus granddaughter

 

[RyanChandler]

115lb bull calf out of a first calf heifer I purchased

 

[Black Sheep]

The biggest calf I've ever personally seen was a flower-power colored fullblood Simmental out of a first calf heifer. The calf was dead and we didn't weigh it, but it was easily 150-165 pounds AND it was a HEIFER calf!
A friend had a really good herd of registered Holsteins and the absolute biggest calf I've ever heard of was from his herd. The cow was 28 days overdue and he simply thought she was due to another AI date that he'd forgotten to write down. He palpated her, the calf was alive, knew it wasn't coming out by the conventional method, so he called the vet. The vet was in the area and even had the joy of having another university vet with him and vet students that were shadowing. Both vets are awesome! They do a great job and are super people! Did a C-section and the university vet TRIED to pick up the calf. No luck. It took the whole group to get the calf hoisted out of the cow. ...186 pound heifer calf, dead by this time. The pictures are amazing!