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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1691078" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>I had a lot of EXT up close in this herd back in those days, and most were excellent mothers. I didn't have any trouble dealing with most of them, but of course the more aggressive calves were never kept as replacements. I had to look back to see the pedigree on the one I described as rolling her new born calves around. She was born in 2003 and her mother was an EXT daughter. I had purchased her as a bred cow expecting her third calf. After she had that calf, I began to suspect she was sold because of her calving behavior. I remember that I asked why there was no weaning records for her 2005 & 2006 calves, the seller said something about one had an an eye injury and the other was given to a 4H kid. I always found that suspicious. Fortunately she never injured any of her calves here. </p><p></p><p>I also had a 2012 heifer that was a calf killer. Her sire was an EXT son and her mother went back to EXT in three generations. The EXT line has a lot of really good qualities, but disposition is not one of them. I hadn't considered the aggressiveness towards their calves to be related to EXT, because they were in general very attentive mothers, but I'm thinking that now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1691078, member: 9933"] I had a lot of EXT up close in this herd back in those days, and most were excellent mothers. I didn't have any trouble dealing with most of them, but of course the more aggressive calves were never kept as replacements. I had to look back to see the pedigree on the one I described as rolling her new born calves around. She was born in 2003 and her mother was an EXT daughter. I had purchased her as a bred cow expecting her third calf. After she had that calf, I began to suspect she was sold because of her calving behavior. I remember that I asked why there was no weaning records for her 2005 & 2006 calves, the seller said something about one had an an eye injury and the other was given to a 4H kid. I always found that suspicious. Fortunately she never injured any of her calves here. I also had a 2012 heifer that was a calf killer. Her sire was an EXT son and her mother went back to EXT in three generations. The EXT line has a lot of really good qualities, but disposition is not one of them. I hadn't considered the aggressiveness towards their calves to be related to EXT, because they were in general very attentive mothers, but I'm thinking that now. [/QUOTE]
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