Posted by CB_3 on 4/6/2007, 10:39 am, in reply to "Re: heatwave calf"
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I'd cut him. Great club calf bulls are few and far between. There are only a handful born every year. There is no use in leaving him a bull if he isn't that "great" one. For good functional cattle with good maternal traits, easy calving, and easy fleshing Heat Wave is not the bull of choice so many potential customers will move on when they find out he is a Heat Wave. There are so many ways to screw up a whole cow herd just by AI'ing that most people won't take the chance of doing it with a herd bull also. There are a million Heat Wave's bulls out there, a couple are good, the rest are just average bulls that people promoted because the calf is a Heat Wave and they think that's what you have to do to become big in the industry. Cut the calf, sell him as a steer, and move on. You'll get the same amount of money either way and there are a lot more good things going for him as a steer than as a bull. You will also never have to worry about the buyer getting mad after he has to pull half the calves and looses 1/4 of them. Chances are he isn't even going to be that great of a bull. Just get rid of the risk of getting yourself in any bad situations and cut the calf. As soon as you sell him you'll never have to worry about him again.

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