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Thanks guys! It was a good day; spent in peace with my family with barbeque and beer.

A terminal bull should do three things: add muscle, add growth, and do this without making calvings too difficult. Some breeds, like Blonde d'Aquitaine, and Limousin, are the perfect terminal breeds. Just make sure there is plenty of muscle in the actual bull (look at it) and that the numbers...

Orchard grass outcompetes meadow fescue, grazed, cut or left alone. That is it. It has nothing to do with what the cattle prefers to eat.

There is no such animal - although many claim to have them. Muscle mass has a certain pattern: when you increase it, there is a little change in the front of the animal moerate change in the back of it, and a lot of change in the rump. Why is there a focus on big rumps? Those are the meatier...

Blonde d'Acuitaine, or Limousine works for basically anyone. Piedmontese can do good here and there.

Exactly my thoughts. The video is horrible; in the title the words "basics of linebreeding" appear, the book is called 'the Basis of Linebreeding, then the spell 'linebred' like "line bread", the credibility of the videomaker is gone there already. Playing the footage at the wrong speed is...

If you did not think of it before it should be a game changer! It is one of the signs of difficult delivery, weak or too big calves. It is a good thing to breed away from in any case.

Agressive easily spooked open calving late those that needed any kind of help or doctoring and last we cull the worst performers

I have designed one composite cattle breed, one goat breed and three sheep breeds. The goat and one of the sheep are on planning stage, the cow and two of the sheep are operational.

SEEM is the operative word, no difference otherwise.

Many good things have been said here. The only thing needing correction is the Cityguy stating something off about muscling. Typically Piedmontese calves have full muscle at six weeks.

The difference is Zietsmann is areal world man, while Fry is a hopeless theorethic. Bonsma is good. Drayson I can not get any books from.

Yes simply because these breeds are too related to give the full bang (Angus being very close to and partly derived from Shorthorn). While crossing a british breed to a continental, african or asian breed gives far more heterosis, the prime example being Hereford crossed with Brahma and a French...

A threeway cross and a four way cross is about the same in heterosis. A threeway has more consistency in the offspring, so more profitable. With a crossbred cow from breed 1 and 2 mated to a bull from breed 3, you get full MATERNAL HETEROSIS in the cow plus full DIRECT HETEROSIS in the calf at...

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Someone is missing the point. It is not me. By putting a Terminal sire on them the calf will be better and look better than an average Angus steer. So the price for such a crossbred calf will not be bad, nor will its actual worth as a feeder be. The breeds I listed also slicks the calves off...

And a Blonde cross looks far better than a Char cross. Not only because of hair.

The issue is not how to cheat order buyers, the issue is to make functional proffessional cattle from the first cross of Highland Cattle. Crosses with which there is no need to play games or acting immoraly by misrepresenting them. Also, a calf that is 3/4 Charolais is not fooling anyone either...

Beefmasters can be bred up from other breeds, the story is the black ones were bred up from Brangus.