ProCROSS calves sired by Montbéliarde (MX), Holstein (HX), and Viking Red (VX) bulls were compared with pure Holstein (HO) calves sired by Holstein bulls for calving ease score (CE; 1 to 5 scale), stillbirth (SB), and gestation length (GL). Calves were born in 1 of 2 research herds at the University of Minnesota, the high-input dairy at St. Paul (HO = 324, HX = 57, MX = 92, VX = 77) and the low-input dairy at Morris (HO = 239, HX = 89, MX = 156, VX = 196), from August 2009 to July 2016. Twin births were removed. Independent variables for statistical analysis of all traits included the fixed effects of herd, year of calving nested within herd, parity (primiparous or multiparous), sex of calf, breed, breed of sire nested within breed (breed group), interaction of sex of calf and breed, interaction of sex of calf and breed group, interaction of parity and breed group, and the random effect of cow nested within breed group. Female calves (1.3) had lower (P < 0.01) CE compared with male calves (1.6); however, SB was not significantly (P = 0.35) different between female (4%) and male (5%) calves. Furthermore, female calves across breed groups and parities (279 d) had significantly (P < 0.01) shorter GL than male calves (280 d). For first calving, the HO (1.6), HX (1.4), and VX (1.5) were similar for CE, and were significantly lower (P < 0.01) than MX (2.0) calves. However, for multiparous cows, CE was not significantly different between breed groups. For first calving, HX (2.5%), MX (6.6%), VX (5.7%) did not differ from HO (8.1%) calves for SB because standard errors were large. Furthermore, The HO calves (279 d) had significantly shorter (P < 0.05) GL than MX (282 d) and VX (280 d) calves across parities. Results indicate the 3 types of ProCROSS calves were similar to HO calves for CE and SB; however, GL of ProCROSS calves was 1.6 d longer than HO calves.