Easy calving CH Bull?

scarriff

I would like to hear of peoples experiences on any easy calving charlaois stock bull?

pajero12

Could you elaborate a bit...As in Which sire?

whelan1

scarriff wrote: »

I would like to hear of peoples experiences on any easy calving charlaois stock bull?

have you been looking at done deal ?

ellewood

any bull bred by pirate, hollowtree nicholas, saphir, enfield picasso, old grange sinduran - just a few - any charolais bull with a calving difficulty of less than 10% on icbf bull serch would be easy calving

pakalasa

ellewood wrote: »

any bull bred by pirate, hollowtree nicholas, saphir, enfield picasso, old grange sinduran - just a few - any charolais bull with a calving difficulty of less than 10% on icbf bull serch would be easy calving

Agreed......I use a cut off calving difficulty myself of 10%. I have had no problems yet, having used PTE and HWN.
I am tempted to use KIB (at 14.7%) on 1 or 2 of the bigger cows just to see what the calves are like.
Has anyone here used him?
What about Cottage Devon, the Texan-Gie son. I know he is still in the test phase, but he looks like a super bull?

You could also add CF85 to that list at 8.7%.

ellewood

kib very easy claving used him on 2 average sized pb ch cows and 1 handy 2nd calver they spit em out handy calves but smashers a week later calves not pure white though a fawney colour but great shaped calves

ellewood

klu is also an easy calver with great calves but his calfing diff on icbf is prob very high if reliability is low on bull check out figure for bulls sire and dams sire if you arnt familur with the breed

bogman_bass

Wouldnt call KIB an easy calver but he does make smashing calves. Probably better suited to weanling production than for stores. He's muscley but not that big.
Devon is a nice looking bull. it will be interesting to see what the calves are like next spring.

85 is a nice bull, good frame