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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1466747" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>Jeanne</p><p></p><p>Replacement with the full sib probably won't happen. We have a commercial customer that loves to buy our four year old bulls and we like to use yearling bulls on our heifers. 1339 has a -2.9 birth weight with a +14 CED which I love for heifers but to be honest I like to use a bull with more birth weight on the mature cows.I don't want to use an older bull on heifers due to his size and weight. My reasoning and it could be totally flawed is that if I retain heifers I am then stacking low birth genetics. So if the full brother works out he would be a sleep all night heifer bull but he would also be breeding paternal siblings so probably will not get picked for the job. I am constantly studying the bull calves to see who our next herd sire will be. I have hit some home runs and confess screwed up big time as well! The truth is until you get heifers into production you really don't know if you made a good or bad decision.</p><p></p><p>Gizmom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1466747, member: 13402"] Jeanne Replacement with the full sib probably won’t happen. We have a commercial customer that loves to buy our four year old bulls and we like to use yearling bulls on our heifers. 1339 has a -2.9 birth weight with a +14 CED which I love for heifers but to be honest I like to use a bull with more birth weight on the mature cows.I don’t want to use an older bull on heifers due to his size and weight. My reasoning and it could be totally flawed is that if I retain heifers I am then stacking low birth genetics. So if the full brother works out he would be a sleep all night heifer bull but he would also be breeding paternal siblings so probably will not get picked for the job. I am constantly studying the bull calves to see who our next herd sire will be. I have hit some home runs and confess screwed up big time as well! The truth is until you get heifers into production you really don’t know if you made a good or bad decision. Gizmom [/QUOTE]
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