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Charolais bulls good, bad?
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oldskool
Posted 5/20/2017 22:21 (#6028255 - in reply to #6027913)
Subject: RE: Charolais bulls good, bad?



Feeding your own calves is a plus in my eyes for breeding char. Smaller groups tend to get picked apart at a barn and discounted. But once they're fat they bid the same regardless if they have the skunk tail or rat tail. They also are pretty flexible in the finish weight department. You can pour the coals to them and have them finished at 1200 well before their black hided siblings, or take your time and get those 15-1600lb monsters.

As far as docility, definitely ask around and go walk through before buying any bull no matter what breed. Char calves handle different though imo. They look for a way out instead of milling in front of a gate. I've loaded pot loads of chars without so much as a whisper and they single file it on and don't usually care to come back towards me. If you are going to be the one handling them from birth you'll be pleased with the docility when they hit your lot in the fall. Most of the wild chars I've seen have been singled out and ran around a pen until they have blood coming out both nostrils. Those are the kind I try to avoid as they blend into a group, but if you get them alone again they remember.
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