THE LIGHTEST CALF EVER BORN IN OUR PROGRAM'S HISTORY Everyone that has ever dealt with an oversized calf at birth knows what a terrible experience that is. It tends to go something like this: There's a family event you should be at - your kid's game, your mom's birthday party, a family dinner - but you have to stay home to watch the heifers that are calving. Once everyone is gone - all of your help, all of your extra sets of hands - a heifer goes to calve. You give her 30 minutes to work on it, and there is no progress.  The feet are still stuck right where they were.  You give her another 30 minutes, hoping she'll get it done on her own.  Another check, and the heifer is standing again and circling - with no calf on the ground. That baby isn't going to get here on its own. You make a call in to the vet to try to get some help, but it's past normal office hours and no one answers the emergency line.   There are just more animals needing help than what one on-call vet can get to. You're on your own.   You run the heifer in the chute, and go to work placing the chains for a hard pull.  There's not much room to work, and you feel your hands cramping as both the heifer and the unborn calf make it difficult to get the chains where they need to be. FINALLY!  The chains are on, the calf jack is connected - you can go to work. You ratchet up the slack, and put some pressure on the end of the bar as the heifer strains. A little headway, a little slack ratcheted up, repeat. You don't want to go too fast and hurt the heifer, but you don't want to go too slow and lose the calf. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, the calf breaks free and is on the ground! He is big - no wonder the heifer couldn't get him out on her own! You hurry to clear the calf jack and chains, and go to work clearing the calf's nose and mouth. COME ON!  BREATHE!  You scramble to grab a piece of straw, a stick, anything to try to tickle that calf's nostril and get him to take his first breath.   Meanwhile, the heifer is trying to go down in the chute. She's hurting, but you can only be in one place at a time! Your attention shifts back to the calf - what more can you do?  Clear mucus, tickle the nostril, try to get him to sit up on his sternum....none of it is of any use. After a couple of minutes of frantic work, the calf's glassy eyes and outstretched tongue tell you what you already knew but didn't want to admit: he's gone. FRUSTRATION.  You're exhausted and covered in every kind of muck imaginable from head to toe, and what do you have to show for it?  A dead calf and a heifer that will be lucky to breed again on time, if she breeds again at all! What could you have done differently? You could have bred to a lighter birthweight bull - that's what. CG Hero 3338 (AF298224) is an aptly named young stud. He boasts the lightest actual birth weight EVER recorded here. This stud will be the hero before you need one - PREVENTING the nightmare that is oversized dead calves and worn out heifers. "But calves that are born tiny never amount to anything!  Too much calving ease isn't a good thing!" - every Facebook expert ever Does this calf look like a dink to you? Hero is pictured here at just seven months of age, without ever having a bite of corn in his life. What's more, he's backed by two rockstars: My #1 pick of all of the cows in the flesh at Heartbrand, 7662D. Jon's #1 pick of all of the bulls in the flesh at Heartbrand, Hiromitsu. AND his dam scanned PRIME on actual carcass ultrasound. You're running out of reasons not to want this bull, aren't you? He is available to buy OR lease with FREE nationwide delivery included. No delivery cost + no calves to pull + impressive bull calves to sell and heifer calves to retain = happy days ranching! So what do you think? Do you want a HERO siring your next crop of calves, or do you want to wait for the NIGHTMARE that could happen to you otherwise?