Why Simmentals? Back then and today!

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I wanted to get you guys a how and why history of our Simmental herd. Why Angus or Herford or any other breed. I might every topic in this video but if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.
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[@pauldoc567]

Hey Chris, first time viewer here, here in Ireland we run herd of Simmental cows. We are now 5th gen sim and really like them. Calves getting big has been an issue, getting a bull suitable for both heifers and cows is difficult so have been using AI on all maidens. Thankfully having good results. Used Angus on empty heifers last year and though calves were vigorous as hell, they are way behind Sims on size and weight so won’t be going that route again! Simmental are hard to beat and cows make great mothers

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Awesome! Thanks for watching. Couldn't agree more with your findings in breeding.

[@allenmeinhold7038]

Great video, Thank you Sir! Butch Ashland Ohio

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Thanks Butch! Glad you liked it.

[@alexwarstler9000]

We've been raising Commercial Balancer cattle for close to 30 years now. When my dad and grandpa got started, they had Limousin cattle that they used Angus, Red Angus, and Simmental bulls on. We settled on the Gelbvieh's and Balancer, but I still love me a good Fleckvieh cow or bull. You have nice looking cattle!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Thank you! 🙂👍

[@simmenta]

I wish you luck

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Thanks! Best of luck to you as well. 🙂

[@mikehoffman1027]

Thank you Chris! Love the history!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Your are most welcome Mike! 😊

[@mihandsplitters705]

New subscriber from across our little pond. We are getting ready to start running some cows on 30 acres over here in Michigan. Looking at several breeds and enjoy the information you share. Thank you

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

No problem. Hope you find some nice ones. 😊👍

[@e.a.bfarms]

The biggest reason i try and stay with angus is feed efficiency. It's amazing the feed consumption difference from 1,100 to 1,500 cow. And the buyers at the sale barn like black hided calves.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Definitely don't disagree with that. That's why I don't like really big frame. Plus our cows need to do well on grass hay over the winter without much else. I have always been annoyed by the " we want black hide" at the sale barn. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good the calves are either. We sometimes see a bunch of Angus/Holstein cross calves around here and you can tell they're more Holstein than Angus but they have a black hide. 🙄 The only thing good about the high demand right now. It's that colors don't seem to matter.

[@e.a.bfarms]

@@ohrmundtsimmentals Completly agree on the black. But we have to do what pays best!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

@@e.a.bfarms yes you do. That's what I like about selling beef locally. The average person don't care what the hide color is. 😉

[@e.a.bfarms]

@@ohrmundtsimmentals The direct marketing is an awesome addition, just very hard to scale!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

@@e.a.bfarms oh yes. Around here we have to book butcher dates 14 months in advance. We only do like 5 or 6 steers a year. It took us a couple years to build up to where we are now. We just book the dates and not worry about selling the beef. We never have a problem selling it.

[@Masseyman471]

So far have watched a few of your video's. Just subscribed! A neighbor of ours has the traditional Simmentals like you, Very good breed, We are going to a black Simmental bull for 2025 breeding on our cattle, currently running a Purebred but non-registered black angus herd with some Angus x Hereford. Excited to see what the Simmental bull will do on the black baldies we have.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Awesome! That should be a very nice cross. I'm sure you'll be pretty happy.

[@Masseyman471]

@@ohrmundtsimmentals my Dad has always had a sweet spot for the Simmental/Simangus bulls for the growth of calves, and I think Simmentals are an “aggressive” looking animal with the flesh flap below their head going down their brisket

[@dustinadams9136]

Really good explanation Chris. We have a mixed commercial herd, switched to using sim. Bulls in 2009 and been very happy since. Been trying some AI the last couple years, I want to learn how to do that myself too continue that project lol. I’m really impressed with your herd and how well you know all the pedigrees . Thanks for sharing, glad I came across your channel!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

Thank you so much. I know there's so much more I could have talked about and missed but I also thought I rambled way too much. 😆 I might be learning Ai pretty so too. It's hard to find a good tech that's flexible with our work schedule.

[@dustinadams9136]

@@ohrmundtsimmentals I agree, mine has been great to work with and is very accommodating. Trying to time everything so breading is done over a weekend. Last year was a real pain to get them bred though.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

@@dustinadams9136 so far ours haven't too bad too get Ai'd but we know our tech will fully retire in next couple years.

[@dustinadams9136]

@@ohrmundtsimmentals mines been great at teaching me and explaining everything along the way. I’m just not confident enough to try yet. He told me to try practicing on some cull cows.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

@@dustinadams9136 our tech has told me that he'd teach me how to do it too. I'm a little nervous to try it but most likely will.

[@dubns]

Angus now has a larger avg frame size than many breeds. And hereford got left in the past for many reasons.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

I would agree and not that it's a bad thing either. Good animals are good animals as long as you can make them profitable. 👍

[@LVFFarmVlogs]

We had Simmental when I was younger, started breeding with Angus later on. Now my cows are Angus, Simmental, Limo, and now some British White Park. We like colors. Solid black or red gets boring! Lol And on the rail, without hide on them, they are hard to tell apart if they are fed the same!

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

That's one reason I like the full blood and Simmentals with chrome. You never know what you're gonna get. 😊

[@simmenta]

😮😮😮😊😊😊

[@Jsuds-kp3cj]

I think it might be best to focus on all black and black blaze animals. Calve ease high growth. Since you have a small herd go with large cows Big herds need medium efficient cows. Your specialty could be powerful calve eash high. Growth bull sales. I’m in Wisconsin and would buy those type of bulls from you.

[@ohrmundtsimmentals]

We usually have kept 4 or 5 bulls. Then selling all the steers but 1 for us. Now we keep all the steers and finish them ourselves. That's why we don't mind adding the color of the full bloods. We do really like the blaze faces from the full blood bulls on our black cows. This also why I want to keep the data up on our full bloods to help the epds be a little more represented.

[@punjabilivekustihub]

Good💯💯💯💯💯 I hv boby bull