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It's all about sending a consistent message, when you apply pressure to the lead rope you cannot release that pressure until the animal takes a step forward, which releases the pressure on them. When they've taken that step and released the pressure, after a second or so reapply pressure, keep...

I agree, sound plan and you may end up getting half or more bred off the one shot of lute. You can save the cidrs you don't have to use next week til next year!

first you will have to join the AAA ($80) The AI company who sold you the semen can furnish certificates directly to your membership number. AAA have one of the easiest online registration systems out there, you get a login ID, and voila, all your herd inventory, ways to sort data, epds...

suggest you re-read my post, I highlighted the pertinent parts in red.....well aware he was a double carrier.

might be a different Future Direction (a simmy bull maybe?) called that. The original FD was an Angus bull in the Genex stud, he's been unavailable for several years and was hard to get even before the genetic defect doors got blown off as he was never a reliable semen producer.

So, by that rationale how could you promote, for example, calving ease if your own genetics are incapable of calving naturally to your own genetics?

as for CED my rule of thumb when putting eggs in is would I use the sire on a heifer? If the answer is no then I put those eggs in cows only, if the answer is yes then I'll use yearling heifers for those eggs. For the most part embryo's we put in are out of our own cows that have demonstrated...

Headcatch and no bar behind them, squeeze depends on the individual, some are more antsy so I'll just snug them up a bit.

we've used 10 yr old cows before no problem, in fact an 11 yr old calved an embryo calf for us last night, no problem. As Knersie said, fertility is key, milk production good enough.

Right, you can have as much 'performance' as you care to support / feed, whether that is lbs of gain to weaning or yearling or if it is lbs of milk yield per cow/lactation. It is human nature to want more, there's no bragging rights for a 500lb weaned calf yet that may well be the optimal level...

It's likely I wasn't clear, I was more pointing out that when we refuse to accept the form that evolves under the pressure of environment / management because it doesn't meet our minds eye vision of perfection and end up distorting true functional selection in favor of idyllic phenotypic...

as I see it the major flaw in DNA technology as marketed by Pfizer and Igenity is that hey give you a score of 1 thru 10 on each of the traits they measure, but for example if there are 20 markers for say calving ease and your animal scores a 5 that may mean she has 10 of those 20 markers, you...

If you allow nature to eliminate problems then you will find that functional characteristics will multiply simply due to survival of the fittest (fit for their environment). However the temptation is always to modify that type to fit your own 'ideal', for example if you dislike more set to the...

the biggest problem we've had with older bulls is them wanting to jump the steer when there are none of the usual stimuli to make them want to, young bulls will happily screw anything that stands still long enough. The place we use will get one of the horny holstein yearlings to jump the dummy...

Genex make a really handy breeding/calving notebook, in the back is set up to record which bulls (sire code and name), how many straws, in six separate lists to account for each canister in a tank. When I breed a cow I check off a unit of whatever bull I used and note the date and sire used next...

my bet would be BoSe, that's what we give everyone of ours born, counteracts white muscle disease.

I'll be honest I like the calf by your own bull the best, might be just a better photo or angle than the rest but he's a dandy!

7HP107 is a calving ease bull I like the look of a lot.

with the price of feed and culls I can't see any economic benefit to letting a cow have a free meal ticket for a year in the hope she doesn't screw up again next year.

first thing to do is cull the cows who try to kill you, disposition is one of the easiest and most heritable functional traits to select for, if you're laid up in the ER with a big invoice sitting on your chest you won't be caring too much how heavy the calf was.........