Recent content by robert

Ditto AllForage.

Get bred and raise a calf every year and they stay as long as the calf is profitable/saleable. This year even the 13 yr old that raises the 400lb calf is profitable as that calf x $2.50 is still $1000 and that's more profitable than retaining that heifer calf to replace her now. Sure if they're...

Yes it does but it also eliminates most of the bigger, better, faster bull of the month types that instead of becoming the breed legends they purport to be become the dogs you wish weren't in a pedigree due to their ability to bite you in the @ss down the line!

I generally won't use a sire that has a lower CEM than CED, which should minimize creating hard calving daughters of calving ease bulls.

Pelvic measurement was the big deal 25 years ago, but was found to be highly correlated to frame size therefore selection for larger pelvis = selection for larger frame size. Measurement can certainly identify those few individuals with problematic small size pelvic area however. One trait we...

Usually a cow or heifer will try and deliver approx. 5 to 7% of her bodyweight on deliverable calf. To me it makes sense to select replacements from the one's that replicate themselves under our management program, which basically means "have a calf on your own, every year, own it, raise it and...

thanks all!

Ideally that would be the goal for DNA testing however the current tests, either Geneseek or Zoetis, do not give you that information so there is no way to 'stack' traits per se as there was with the older star system test which relayed whether an animal carried one, two or no copies of the gene...

Looks like a partnership dispersal.

Disposition is highly heritable, in all species! :D

The variable chamber, belt type baler will start making a bale from the center, depending on the pressure setting the density of the bale will be consistent as the bale forms and grows, they work best on dry crops like hay and straw, longer the stem the better the bale generally. They also...

the biggest flaw in the EPD system is that people in the search for 'the one' apply a population genetics tool to an individual, whether parent or progeny. EPD is the predictor of performance, trait etc, individual performance is the result of parents, environment and management. On the DOC...

As far as slicking off it seems to follow the cow family more than any specific bull.

New Day has worked well over any EXT / Explorer / Right Time / Just Right females and vice-versa. We have also found his daughters nicked very well with Bushwacker 41-93 but even better with Paramount Ambush 2172. I've used Pioneer on a couple of New Day's and liked the results. New Day...

We used Pioneer a little bit over the past couple of years, bred a few more to him this year and flushed a new day daughter to him. Not wild about final answer, too frail for my liking, but have been gradually working in a little more new day each year either through the old bull himself or...