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[mymilliefleur]

My grandpa got his second calf!! Mom is a quarter red Angus and three quarter Charlois. Babies dad is BIG Black Angus! We should have calves next spring as the moms will be bred this summer!!

That's a pretty cow!

 

[Birdrain92]

Wow, cool. We've talked about breeding some of our cows to Gelbviehs. Have your considered importing genetics? We did that last year when we wanted to breed some of our cows to Montebeliards.

I looked up some Registered Gelbvieh sires that I could buy a straw from and I found an awesome bull I would like to AI her to.
http://bullbarn.com/gelbepd.asp?ID=433 I love 08W CED, BW, CW, YW, and MK. Those are what I usually look at in EPD. I love seeing a negative number for BW, and a number near 30 for MK. He's got some amazing genes. You can also find my Granite's Promise and our Gelbvieh bulls dad and grandfather from the dad. Sadly the Gelbvieh bull and Granite share the same dad so I won't breed them together. We had to breed her to our Balancer bull. He's not 50% Gelbvieh and 50 Black Angus, He's more on the Gelbvieh side but not enough to be a Gelbvieh. To be registered as a PB Gelbvieh they must contain at least 72% Gelbvieh. Post Rock Granite 200P2, and then MRCO New Direction 905. I think you should go on http://bullbarn.com/gelbprice.asp. They have some nice Gelbvieh sires. Since both Granite and Surprise are both halter broke it would be easy to use a straw on them compared to our other cattle.

 

[mymilliefleur]

I looked up some Registered Gelbvieh sires that I could buy a straw from and I found an awesome bull I would like to AI her to.
http://bullbarn.com/gelbepd.asp?ID=433 I love 08W CED, BW, CW, YW, and MK. Those are what I usually look at in EPD. I love seeing a negative number for BW, and a number near 30 for MK. He's got some amazing genes. You can also find my Granite's Promise and our Gelbvieh bulls dad and grandfather from the dad. Sadly the Gelbvieh bull and Granite share the same dad so I won't breed them together. We had to breed her to our Balancer bull. He's not 50% Gelbvieh and 50 Black Angus, He's more on the Gelbvieh side but not enough to be a Gelbvieh. To be registered as a PB Gelbvieh they must contain at least 72% Gelbvieh. Post Rock Granite 200P2, and then MRCO New Direction 905. I think you should go on http://bullbarn.com/gelbprice.asp. They have some nice Gelbvieh sires. Since both Granite and Surprise are both halter broke it would be easy to use a straw on them compared to our other cattle.

Those are some nice sires. Here are the bulls we were looking at: http://genex.crinet.com/beef/index.php?action=BYBREED&Breed=Gelbvieh
Have you ever milked any of your cows? I've heard that they are good duel purpose cattle.

 

[Birdrain92]

Those are some nice sires. Here are the bulls we were looking at: http://genex.crinet.com/beef/index.php?action=BYBREED&Breed=Gelbvieh
Have you ever milked any of your cows? I've heard that they are good duel purpose cattle.

Not Granite nor Surprise. I might try when they calf. I've heard that about Gelbviehs. That's the biggest reason why I love my Gelbviehs over Black Angus because they are dual purpose. I like how they are prone to double muscling and have that high milk quality to get calves growing. I've milked our Nurse Cow Maggie, she's a Jersey and she would take abandoned calves. I find it amazing that I can find most of my cow and the bull's blood line. I wish I could register Surprise but we have no idea who the sire is.

 

[Birdrain92]

Never mind sorry I thought Granite was a PB. She's 75% and it requires 87.5% to be a PB. Her half brother though is 88% so he barely makes the PB area. I'm sure Surprise could be a PB though. She's still mainly Gelbvieh though. If I AI her with 08W I could register the calf and hopefully the calf could be considered a PB Gelbvieh. I would love to have PB Gelbviehs or cattle that are mainly Gelbvieh like Granite.

 

[ChrisandraO]

Hey guys :3 I live on what i guess you would call an urban farm haha. we raise c.quail, rabbits(meat and pet), hedgehogs, fancy rats (hairless, rex, satin, dumbos, and sell our culls as feeders), a ferret and have 3 cats. we currently are working on a raised garden so we wont be so dependent on grocery stores.

we live on the out skirts of the city so we aren't allowed to have a lot but im hoping in a few years we can move some where I can have about an acre to work with so I can get back into goats and sheep (what I grew up raising)

I never was in 4-h or anything like that (my dad didn't like to show anything so we didn't) so I don't know much about how to show or where to start but i would like to start showing my rabbits and quail some day (and maybe my rats but there are not any shows around here for them)

 

[Birdrain92]

I decided since the sun come back out after the rain I decided to take some photos of my cows and one of our bulls.
Also it's Surprises Birthday!!

This is Granite. If there are two green ear tags with one of them having the number 1 on it it's Granite. If there's only one ear tag and if it says 2 then it's Surprise.

This is the Balancer bull.

 

[farmgirl360]

My grandpa got his second calf!! Mom is a quarter red Angus and three quarter Charlois. Babies dad is BIG Black Angus! We should have calves next spring as the moms will be bred this summer!!

that is a pretty calf

 

[farmgirl360]

welcome member new to this for

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[Birdrain92]

Had an amazing day! Had my State Degree ceremony! My Appaloosa mare finally foaled, it's a colt! I got Gold on my Proficiency Award! I competed in Nursery and Landscaping and I figure out the result tomorrow morning!