Iowa Angus Breeder Glen Jones

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Gelbvieh and Balancer females offer a reduced mature cow size, more maternal milk, greater calving ease, and reach puberty at an earlier age. Visit gelbvieh.org. Here’s our co-host David Woodruff with Glenn Jones from Iowa. So what kind of stock have you got? What breed of cattle? I buy 100% black bulls and Angus and I’ve got some Charolais, a little bit of Charolais back in my herd.

I’ve only got one white cow right now. So when she’s gone, that’ll be the last white one. And I’ve got a little bit of, I got some black baldies because I got some showing in the back in the background 20 years ago.

But for the most part, I’m running black and using 100% black bulls. I’ve got right now, everything is here at home and I’ve got the heifers in a separate lot and I got the other 85 head on a bigger lot. So they’re getting fed different ration.

They’re getting fed better than the rest of them. I’m trying to grow them and get them as big as I can, but they’ll go to grass in May. I will take them through the, probably through the vet’s office and give them a round of shots and put fly tags in their ears and then haul them to grass.

And then June 10th to June 12th is when we turn the bull in. So that gives me, that gives me the earliest calves come about March 15th. And that’s going to do it for today’s Cattleman’s Corner.

Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.