Thread: Wagyu calves

This here is 24hr old wagyu X, we do about 50 wagyu calves from our low index dairy herd each year.
Last season we had a bit of an issue having big suckers like this and had a lot of assisted calvings but things were much smoother this year. I have heard they can be awful and runty to rear but honestly I have loved them more than my replacements. They have been brilliant big strong kids and think with their stomach.

Originally Posted by Chelsea

This here is 24hr old wagyu X, we do about 50 wagyu calves from our low index dairy herd each year.
Last season we had a bit of an issue having big suckers like this and had a lot of assisted calvings but things were much smoother this year. I have heard they can be awful and runty to rear but honestly I have loved them more than my replacements. They have been brilliant big strong kids and think with their stomach. Attachment 183944

OMG! They need to be born with winch points attached!!! They have to be nudging 50kgs!!?

We have become ruthless in culling difficult calving cows. Or ones throwing monsters, or twins. Twins sound cute and economic but in reality they just never do well, and hold a pens' worth of weiners back at the March sales.

Originally Posted by XR500

OMG! They need to be born with winch points attached!!! They have to be nudging 50kgs!!?

We have become ruthless in culling difficult calving cows. Or ones throwing monsters, or twins. Twins sound cute and economic but in reality they just never do well, and hold a pens' worth of weiners back at the March sales.

I think he was maybe 58kg, can’t quiet remember. We had an even bigger one this year. Born with no assistance from an average sized XB cow. Lucky they are good kids and easy to deal with. Can you imagine fighting these on the feeder...
we only have 180 cows and they are really high index and high producing girls so we can’t be ruthless and cull them. We found making them a little fitter pre calving helped this year and plenty of mag and even early calcium if we had to. They tend to get really fat here which is probably half the problem come calving.
I think out of 180 calvings this year we had 5 sets of twins. Luckily good figures so the H/H have been sold despite being ugly and average and the H/B twins we keep and take a risk on them being freemartin. They go in the freezer if they are no good to breed.