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3rd Time is NOT a Charm
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1788234" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I picked up three nice angus heifers at a sale one time, two with obvious big hips and one with very small hips from appearances. The little hipped heifer birthed a nice, moderately sized calf with no assist, and one of the others had a dead calf. The other heifer had one with the head presenting and no feet so assisted. I would have sworn the heifer with the tiny hips would need help and if she wasn't so cheap I would have passed on her.</p><p></p><p>When I was selling replacement heifers I bred my cows to maternal bulls with high weaning weight EPDs. I avoided calving ease and BW bulls. CE and BW are for first calf heifers and I considered the calves they produced as terminal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1788234, member: 42463"] I picked up three nice angus heifers at a sale one time, two with obvious big hips and one with very small hips from appearances. The little hipped heifer birthed a nice, moderately sized calf with no assist, and one of the others had a dead calf. The other heifer had one with the head presenting and no feet so assisted. I would have sworn the heifer with the tiny hips would need help and if she wasn't so cheap I would have passed on her. When I was selling replacement heifers I bred my cows to maternal bulls with high weaning weight EPDs. I avoided calving ease and BW bulls. CE and BW are for first calf heifers and I considered the calves they produced as terminal. [/QUOTE]
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