BBQ and RHF Springers

Madden171

Hi
I have two springing heifers calving to BBQ and RHF in the next few days from good tall angusX heifers what kind of calves are these bulls throwing and how easy is BBQ calves calving,
Thanks

Seaba

BBQ is one of the easier calving blues but overall he is not that easy - at 8.3% on the icbf bull search
http://herdplus.icbf.com/bull-search/view/animalId/534482302

The neighbour always gives him to heifers and said he is OK overall. Some flew out but others he had to jack. Same guy gives BBQ to well muscled limousin and Belgian Blue heifers - crazy.

We had a BBQ out of a 3rd calver 2 months ago - VET had to jack him, massive bull calf. Other neighbour has lovely calves out of him

Every cow/heifer different tho. It mightn't make much of a difference at this stage but I'd keep them on bare enough pasture for the last few days/weeks.

Don't know anything about RHF except he's 6.2% calf diff on the website

Madden171

Thanks seaba
There due date is Saturday so hopefully they don't go too far over, has BBQ calves done well overall ?? She's a good angusX limousin heifer so should be well fit to calf.😄

mikeoh

Madden171 wrote: »

Thanks seaba
There due date is Saturday so hopefully they don't go too far over, has BBQ calves done well overall ?? She's a good angusX limousin heifer so should be well fit to calf.😄

Worst calf I have this year is by BBQ out of a big Lim cow and had a job jacking too

Madden171

Did you use him on a heifer ??and in Which ways was the calf bad, have my heifer in about 3 weeks so hopefully she calves ok thanks for reply

Bodacious

mikeoh wrote: »

Worst calf I have this year is by BBQ out of a big Lim cow and had a job jacking too

I only used one BB straw this year and it was BBQ on a red limo first calver.. she had a quality muscley OZS bull calf this year got E3 a kg for him which I thought was good for a limo

Madden171

My heifer calved her BBQ calf this evening unaided, really good calf very pleased with her 😄

towzer2010

Madden171 wrote: »

My heifer calved her BBQ calf this evening unaided, really good calf very pleased with her 😄

Now Madden, you know the rule. Pic required...:D:D

J DEERE

Use RHF on heifers here. They cough them out, very easy calver

simx

J DEERE wrote: »

Use RHF on heifers here. They cough them out, very easy calver

I used him on a few and had mixed calving, both hard and easy, would love to had been able to get pam, thought he was the job

Seaba

I used him on a few and had mixed calving, both hard and easy, would love to had been able to get pam, thought he was the job[/QUOTE]
PAM is still to be got around the West - we had a lovely heifer off him this year. Our AI man is Dovea but he carries a bit of everything in the tank

Madden171

Here's the calf she from BBQ less then a day old heifer calved her on her own.