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Eastern Kansas | I'd like some help identifying an issue we are dealing with.
We have a commercial herd of about 150 crossbred cows mostly angus with some limousin and simmental mixed in. We have something going on with our replacement females for about the last 4 or 5 years where some of them absolutely fall apart after having their first calf. These cows will look great as bred heifers and then after calving get ganted up and be really hard fleshing for as long as they stay in the herd. Like if I didn't know better I'd say they have hardware - they get ganted up with very little depth of rib and capacity thru their flank. We can trace these all back to 1 of 2 bulls, but I am pretty sure the culprit bull is a son of Coleman Regis out of a Rito 707 cow. The worst one of these cows ended up getting long toes and her ears and tail fell off when she was 3 years old. It was the weirdest thing.
This has to be some kind of genetic defect going on that I would like to weed out of our herd. Has anyone seen or heard of anything like this? | |
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AngusX cows falling apart
