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Polledbull. I know its not hard to find a good red limousin bull. However many people put alot of emphasis on a certain bull being black or even homozygous black. I know a limousin farmer who keeps black bulls back just so he gets potential buyers to his farm. Once the customer gets there...

Good muscle on those calves. Nice to see some good red limousin bulls.

I would be willing to put any herd of well managed holsteins against any herd of crossbred dairy cattle in the United States. Put them in identical barns with identical feed, breeding and health protocol. I would be willing to wager the Holsteins will be far more profitable.

Once again still up after checking for calves. I understand why you may say don't use a Limousin bull on heifers. He needs to have good calving ease traits. Just like any other breed. Some heavy muscled Limousin bulls will give you a more difficult calving animal. However as far as many...

For myself I would never give thought to using something from a cloned animal. Improving your own herd through progessive breeding and good management is why I love to raise cattle. With cloning you would know what you are going to get. Takes no brain power. When you breed your animals to...

I have heard all of the problems about Limousin cattle being hard to handle. As a breeder of Limousin cattle I completely understand them. However you don't have to buy wild Limousin cattle. I would hope no Limuosin breeder who wants the breed to advance would sell them as breeding stock. We...

cowspider, Do you buy your bulls from sale barns only? Sometimes calves that go to the sale barn are not fed enough colostrum or really cared about. As long as they look ok to sell. Try getting them straight from the farm. Find a farm that feed calves clean colostrum on time. Never downplay...

Angus aren't the best and most popular meat breed just because of marketing. They excel in many areas. The marketing makes a huge difference, but... All other breeds are too far behind to catch up. They shouldn't try to gear their marketing to overtake angus. I think they should try to gear...

Sorry doc gray bull. I try to check my posts for mistakes. It should have read that they can convert feed efficiently. I had to get out and check on our last heifer to calve. Thanks for pointing it out. If our cattle only did produce their own feed. Up here in WI we have a short enough...

Limousin cattle are very well known for their feed efficiency. They have great ability to convert feed in to red meat. However most tight wound high flanked cattle are identified as Limousin cattle. Therefore the breed needs to work on this problem. If cattle can produce feed so efficiently...

Angus are easily the most popular breed. As a "non-angus" breeder I look at the reasons that they are so popular with a lot of envy. The breed is the most widely excepted for many reasons. Some of them include: They have a great product. The profitability of the breed is very high. The one...

Kansas, What breed(s) do work with. I would be willing to bet someone on the boards would be willing to go through them with you. Let me know I would be happy to help.

When deciding what bulls to use on our cattle we use epds. They are a great tool, but you need to look at accuracies also. If you are looking at a young bull with great epds look back at his pedigree. If you comes from a dam and sire that have predictability behind them you should be more...

I think cutting him is your best choice. I may be wrong about your animal and I know he will be gentle because you bottle feed him, but.... When we had dairy cattle we bought a couple of beef cows for a hobby. All we knew about beef cattle then is that they gave less milk than our...

Angus and Limousin. I know I will be criticized. I will defend my opinion then.

Limiman Both seem to be good choices. I like lot 76 for her bw epd and milk epd. That is one high milk epd. Lot 79 is no slouch either good milk epd and ribeye epd. My only question on both of them is their docility epd. You can't argue with the pedigrees though. Pinegar seems to be a...

I just wondered if anyone interested in Limousin cattle got the new Wulf's Sale Catalog. If so and you have looked at it as much as I have in 24 hours. I have a question. Lot 85. For this bull their comment is, "This bull is nervous." Now having read their catalog and been to their sale...

Thanks Polledbull. You seem to have a lot of knowledge about embryos. The bull you posted about earlier. I like the fact that his pedigree is an outcross to anything in our herd. I really like his epds, but his carcass epds are a little of from what I am looking for. Don't get me wrong I...

Looks like the calf is looking for its cow. Maybe not just a thought.

Thanks for all the helpful posts. What is the average rate of success (cows calving the embryo)? I haven't been around embryo transplant since I was in first grade and my dad flushed some of our holsteins when we milked. Thanks again.