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Charolais bulls good, bad?
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j.p
Posted 5/21/2017 12:49 (#6029144 - in reply to #6027019)
Subject: RE: Charolais bulls good, bad?


NWIL		Dad always had an Angus based herd, as he started winding down and I had the opportunity to essentially start from scratch I settled on a Charolais herd. Now 13 years into this I'm still quite pleased. I sell several purebred bulls each year, mostly to guys with stock cows of every breeding you can think of, and they have been successful. Docility and calving ease are two things I pay attention to, the growth kind of takes care of itself. I would consider my cows tame, maybe have a couple you watch when tagging a calf, but nothing like what we used to have where you really didn't want to work around them. My cow size is moderate, the huge ones that people remember from the 80s are no more. Calving ease involves spending time watching the shape, making sure bulls with big shoulders don't get used, etc. Overall birthweights have been smaller then the black cows used to have, generally 75-80lbs. Calf growth speaks for itself, I've had to move the weaning date forward 1.5-2 months from where it was traditionally. Even with my purebreds I sell the ones that aren't saved as heifers and the steers for the same price as black calves are going for and always have ready buyers. As I've built my herd and hope to continue to do so I continue to be pleased with the direction I chose to go.
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