Faster horses said:
Wow Denny. Good for you even finding that Viking GD60 semen.
How are those calves looking? I'm sure a fan of that old bull.
I just got the semen home 2 weeks ago so it will be next spring before we get any direct son's and daughter's.
I have a grandson of GD60 x Stacker 7040 and we have some of his son's selling in our sale. One of them out of a BCC Bushwacker daughter is gaining 4 1/2 #s a day he's got alot of style to him.He did have an 85# birth weight so he's listed at 4.1 birth epd +36 ww +59 yw +17 milk +12.71 $EN he was out of a 1st calf heifer with an actual weaning weight of 610#s adj. to 646#s.
Just so everyone knows he was gaining this on a 52 meg diet with 4 #s of whole shell corn 1/2# of bean meal 1/2# of mineral and 17#s of distillars syrup 68% moisture and free choice 8% protein hay. We have them up to 9#s of the grain mixture now which is 8#s of corn 1/2# of mineral and bean meal and 19#s of syrup plus hay.I did'nt start graining any of my bulls until December 26th they were weaned and turned out on grass for a couple months they did have access to some wet distillars grain but the gain was about 2 #s a day the first 60 days.It did build alot of frame though they are just now getting fleshed up good.We have some younger bulls that will be 11 months old on sale day and will weigh over 1100#s by then.Our pen of bulls are gaining 3.25 #s a day average with a cost of $1.23 per head per day.