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Some Viking Calves

Denny

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The calf in the middle is a Shoshone Viking GD60 bull calf

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Bigger calf GD60 son

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Center calf is a DDA Fahren 58f son 62# birth weight which carries from the cow side.

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Another GD60 son

We've had ample grass this summer which makes running cows quite simple.The rain made making hay difficult.
 

Justin

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i don't know if you'll ever make it producing cattle like that, Denny. you might want to think about running some horses. :wink: :D
 

gcreekrch

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Those scrubs didn't do all that well on your washy old grass Denny, you should have had a creep feeder out for them so they could show their true growth potential. :wink: :D

There are some thick rascals in there. :D
 
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gcreekrch said:
Those scrubs didn't do all that well on your washy old grass Denny, you should have had a creep feeder out for them so they could show their true growth potential. :wink: :D

There are some thick rascals in there. :D

Yep-- shows that all those creepfeeder folk that say those old bloodlines and the Shoshone and Wye breeding are pudmakers really know what they are talking about :wink: :roll: :p :lol:

And the added benefit from these cattle are the heifers will make you some real momma cows.... :)
 

Denny

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Oldtimer said:
gcreekrch said:
Those scrubs didn't do all that well on your washy old grass Denny, you should have had a creep feeder out for them so they could show their true growth potential. :wink: :D

There are some thick rascals in there. :D

Yep-- shows that all those creepfeeder folk that say those old bloodlines and the Shoshone and Wye breeding are pudmakers really know what they are talking about :wink: :roll: :p :lol:

And the added benefit from these cattle are the heifers will make you some real momma cows.... :)

You should see the heifers calves of GD60

I gave some of that semen to a good friend of mine. Someone asked him if we were'nt going backwards with our genetics. He gave fall shots yesterday anf if I remember his Viking son weighed 640#s heaviest of all the bull calves sired by modern genetics.With 40 days left until weaning.

As far as creap feeders go I have enough expense the way it is without masking a cows poor genetics. We've still got dink calves but those cows are being sold or rolling into the commercial herd.
 
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Denny said:
Oldtimer said:
gcreekrch said:
Those scrubs didn't do all that well on your washy old grass Denny, you should have had a creep feeder out for them so they could show their true growth potential. :wink: :D

There are some thick rascals in there. :D

Yep-- shows that all those creepfeeder folk that say those old bloodlines and the Shoshone and Wye breeding are pudmakers really know what they are talking about :wink: :roll: :p :lol:

And the added benefit from these cattle are the heifers will make you some real momma cows.... :)

You should see the heifers calves of GD60

I gave some of that semen to a good friend of mine. Someone asked him if we were'nt going backwards with our genetics. He gave fall shots yesterday anf if I remember his Viking son weighed 640#s heaviest of all the bull calves sired by modern genetics.With 40 days left until weaning.

As far as creap feeders go I have enough expense the way it is without masking a cows poor genetics. We've still got dink calves but those cows are being sold or rolling into the commercial herd.

I'd love to see pictures of those daughters-- and any info you have on any you have to sell later this fall/spring...Those are the type cattle that I have found really work in this area and are switching the herd over to...

Cattle like Shoshone, Diamond D, Whitney Creek, Cole Creek, Indreland, Cedar Hills, Gary Funk, Ohlde- old Dale Davis breeding and a few others in this state have run for years.... And now I see so many out of state folks running too...

Thats what I've been trying to do- is put some more old Dale Davis Rito 707- Shoshone- and Juanada breeding into my herd...Looking at keeping a Whitney Creek Rito Legacy 726T (traces back 16 times to 707-3 times to Shoshone Viking) son out of a little Cole Creek Goldmere 31N daughter- and an OCC Magnitude son out of a Cole Creek Juanada Lad 81T daughter as potential herd sire prospects to join the old Whitney Creek Bannon of Wye 730T bull...

Pounds in the fall- easy keeping- well dispositioned cows- that have longevity-and take care of themselves--- which is a h*ll of a lot better than the "bigger, better, fasters" I battled with for several years...I'm getting too old to be a babysitter or a rodeo cowboy...

Besides- I like looking at pictures of good cattle better than arguing :wink:
 

Denny

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Funny you mention the Rodeo Cowboy line we spent the day ropeing some run away cows 2 cows 2 calves we got two going back in the morning for the other two we hope lots of timber to hide in. We get 1 cow in exchange for getting them caught.Shes about 1500#s of orneryness.Going to drop her off at the packing plant in the morning.

I will sell 2 of the Viking sons next spring in my sale which two I have'nt quite decided on.
 

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