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We too processed 100 feeder steers and bulls last month and gave them bovi shield gold and 8 way. Last week we lanced probably 15 lumps on the neck (and just looking today i can see there are a few more to do) at the injection site. We vaccinate over 600 feeders a year with this program (plus...

Ya it guess gets me nervous to see them big birth weights on them simmi bulls when they are being bred to a small/medium framed cow. But its worth a try for me. I would have gone the other way and sim/angus cross cows, but them bigger cows in these cold temps eat way more feed than a straight...

Ya i am concerned with how they look. Black calves are a dime a dozen, unless you can produce the absolute best they sell pretty avg. Dont get me wrong though, its how we got started. With black cows and our entire commercial herd are still straight black cows. Just havent done much with baldie...

Right. So what do you guys do for color? Getting them black baldies back out of a simmi bull and my heifers should we go with a homo blaze faced simmi bull? Or a black simmi bull? I'm worried about there being a chace of too much white on them and them not fitting in on presort sale and taking...

Right. So should be buy a homo blaze face simmi bull or

We have a dozen replacement black baldie heifers that we bred to a black angus heifer bull this year simply because he is extreamly low BW and claving is a breeze with him. But next summer i was concidering shopping around for a black simmi bull to breed to this group. The heifers are from...