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This year we are following the advice of a local breeder and our vets. Gave an injectable wormer and Multi Min before start of protocol. We keep out Concept Aid year round. We don’t give any live virus vaccinations on vet advice.

I believe in known genetics and knowing the sire and dam more than I do low accuracy fabricated numbers. I recently bought a polled Hereford bull to use to make black baldie replacements. He has 2 crosses to UPS Domino 3027 in his pedigree. IMO 3037 is one of the proven cow makers that have...

As a commercial breeder we have learned the hard way to not put any merit in an low accuracy EPD. I start looking if they are 60% or above and put merit in them when they are 80% or above. We ask for actual numbers. We use them, visual appraisal and progeny data from the sire and dam’s progeny...

Interested in what sire you went with? Not seeing your heifer or knowing you’re goals hard too give good advice on what you should use. Some of the Growth Fund genetics have worked well here. We are using a Connealy Confidence son as walking sire on them. Will use Jet Black and Musgrave...

Walking sires

I thought about learning how. I’m 71 and even if I learned how our facilities are still 20 miles from the house.

Times AI is the only option for many of us if we want to AI. If you have the time and the cattle are close then standing heat is an option. When you’re cattle and facilities are 20 miles away and you’re AI tech 90 miles it isn’t an option

Great set of cows and heifers. F76 is impressive. Wish it wasn’t so far too western Oklahoma. You have a true breeding program. Our results with SAV genetics has been mixed.

Bulls were off $10.00 dollars this week. Still high. They were $1.60- $1,79. Not as drastic as I had heard. Still good money.

What class are you talking about. In this area cows and bulls were up. 8 weight ms up off 6-8 dollars and lighter calves 3-4 dollars. The board went down as some say due to a convenient crisis. One reason I don’t have any confidence in the market. Too many outside factors have an influence on...

Thanks for the pictures. We are going to AI our replacements and only a few mature cows. Will likely leave the Iconic in my tank this year. Going too use Jet Black on many of the replacements. Been told he crosses well on the Growth Fund influence

And make you consider some you hadn’t planned. Have a 4 y/o and a 5 y/o that I had planned too keep at least another year. Will likely sell both if I can find one reasonable replacement. Figure both should bring over 3 thousand. Not willing too pay more than the 2 will bring. The other option is...

Be interested how he develops. Drag Iron didn’t work in our herd.