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I think a lot of it has to do with what state you are entering and what state you are leaving. The folks that bought this farm bought a load of Hereford bred heifers and they got stopped coming from tx to MO But that was during the height of the trich and bangs problems tx was having.

The difference between beef herds and dairys makes conception rates apples and oranges. If the loe first service conception is basicly the same in every herd then so be it. When I was DHIA testing here I found the conception rate varied significantly. The herd I AIed for was the second...

At 35% there is something wrong. All but one of the dairymen I know around her un well over 50%. Back when I did we synced most of a herd, 131 head. Of the 78 I bred 74 settled. That's why I see a problem with that poor of a success rate. That herd has a nutrionilst on board and his rate...

All of the cows and calves at side and bulls get blood drawn. Since they all are tattooed that information all goes on the interstate papers. Nobody has mentioned if they were checked but I was talking a while back with a guy that had his checked and he didn;t have them. Ended up having...

Your buddy needs to either examine his AI and heat detection skills or look into his nutritional program

Thanks. From the pictures, which can always fool you, they appear over conditioned to me

Well I guess there always has to be at least one naysayer. If the calves are being marketed as feeders I would think yo would get killed for them being over conditioned. As breeders I want mine to grow moderately. Heifers Growing well but not nay real fat, just well covered. Bulls the same...

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We've only ever lost one z-tag. We also tattoo the animals individual ID in the right ear for anything that isn;t sold as a feeder

My thought

For left and right I usually substitute drivers sign turn and passenger side turn

We do just the opposite sides. Left for heifers and right for boys

The ink we use is Destron Super Marker. The oldest tags we used it on are 12 years old and are still legible from a distance. I do it with 2 coats of ink. Works on both Y-Tex and Z-tags. Some of the origianl calf tags are so faded you can;t read them so I just redo them with the new marker.

We use cheap tags for the calves and use a better quaility permanent tag that is larger for post weaning permanent tags

That's pretty simple really. We don;t retain or sell as breeding stock every heifer born. Most go to the salebarn with the steers. Our criteria for breeding stock is as tough for heifers as it is for bulls.

We just use a sequential numbered tag based on order of birth. First calf is "1" 20th calf is "20". At weaning those being retained get their own individual ID tag. The individual tag is simply order of birth and year code. Too much information makes the tags cluttered and the printing has...

It takes both, genetics AND proper feeding. If genetics didn;t play a roll the various EPDs for carcass wouldn't mean diddly. Through the years we've had cows who's calves, no matter who or what the were bred to wouldn;t grade. When we quit retaining ownership we had gotten to where all of...

But since polled/horned and scur genes are different that's not important.

A not polled purebred angus is not possible.

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