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Generally speaking, I can understand how an extra low BW can take away from performance. Can you explain why a high IMF takes away from performance? Again, since I am not familiar with current hereford genetics and epd's so I may be speaking a little out of place. What I have seen with many...

Angus, your wife is probably just about right on the money. We allocate all of our costs to each cow for both our registered and our commercial herd. We have been running around $ 425 per calf breakeven on our commercial herd and around $ 490 per calf on our registered herd. I am pretty sure...

So did I read that correctly that they originated from the old aberdeen angus? What is the availability of seedstock, semen and embryos in the US?

Jeanne: Where can I find out more about the origination of Murray Greys? They are very nice looking cattle.

I think that some cows just don't settle well with AI. I am not sure why. I have a cow that just would not settle AI but settled in the first cycle everytime with the clean up bull. I used her for a recip this year and she ultrasounded safe the other day so I have no idea. Not a mineral...

We have actually had very good success with Retail Product daughters and fertility. On the hiefers that we have kept from RP, they were some of the quickest to come back into condition after birth and have been some of our better cows with AI success rates. I don't have a lot of them so I am...

It takes a very short embryologist... :lol2:

Well, we all have differences of opinion and different objectives. When you have two or three successive generations of proven donor dams plus the best AI sires loading up your pedigree, what is the chance that your not going to carry on that tradition? Is it a risk? For sure. Ben Eggers of...

The rules have not been finalized yet and could have changed since I read the action of the Board of Directors but it was my understanding that you could continue to register those calves from a known carrier AMC but that it must be tested and then would either have the designation of AMC for...

I am an Angus breeder but I agree with your tenets. After many years of being a commercial cattleman in addition to my real job, I entered into the seedstock business for only one reason. I do a significant amount of work with feedlots and have analyzed thousands of lots of calves performance...

Not sure this will work, but at least I read the directions first. :D This is our latest donor that we added and flushed her as a virgin. Can't tell much about her from the pic but it is one of my favorites. The hiefer is out of Predestined on a really nice Pride Family cow.

I will give you my thoughts. I am not much of a hereford fan so I try to be as objective as possible. Overall, I think phenotypically she is pretty good. I had to move my pic from my normal screen which is a wideview because it tends to distort things east to west. Overall, I like her...

Final Answer is a really good outcross bull. I have seen many of his sons and daughters and they are thick and soggy and made right. Schaff does have a phenomenal cow herd. I love their Emblynette line. They haven't had great numbers on their $G and I think that has kept them from being used...

I should clarify my last post. My point was that there are very few seedstock producers who don't have 1680 in at least some of their cows going back three generations. Since a high percentage of the bulls in current bull studs also have 1680 and many of those cows are being bred to those...

I am not sure that you have looked at a lot of the current Angus genetics. 2536 is by far the highest valued cow in the industry, at least before CCS. No telling how many embryos that she has produced and then her next generations. There were 63 bulls on the initial AMC list that by...

There would be no problem with them being a recip cow. I suspect that many of the average to slightly above average cows that are carriers will wind up as recips. The recip does not contribute any of her DNA to the embryo so even if she was a carrier, there is no chance that the embryo could...

Over the years, I have had a lot of people help me get started in different ventures. I got to thinking tonight that I have more embryos than I have recips. I wouldn't mind entertaining the idea of doing some kind of joint venture with a beginning Angus breeder or a young 4-H or FFA member...

Frankie: I think he is referring to the Genestar markers for tenderness. There is little question that there is a correlation to the Dna markers and ultimate tenderness and with the QG markers even marbling. However, it seems to me that the EPD's are still the most widespread and best used...

When I buy seedstock in the future, it is doubtful that I will pay a lot without a test for sure. I only have one cow that could possibly be a carrier and even though I paid a fair amount for her, she is a dud and is headed for the commercial or recip herd anyway. However, before I put a lot...

I noticed in a sale book I got from Camp Cooley the other day that they are guaranteeing all cattle sold in their November sale to be CCS free or your money back. I had pretty much decided that was how I was going to market my Angus cattle too which was not going out on a limb much because I...