hornedfrogbbq
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Realizing that seedstock folks may not look at it that way and this is from a commercial cow/calf point of view: Does anyone AI their herd but put different breed cover bulls on them? That way you retain the AI, first heat, most fertile cows and the later breeders you sell the calves from? That way you are potentially getting hybrid vigor in the calves that sell and potentially more weight gain at the time to sell.
As an example, we have finally gotten our herd fertile enough and large enough and the breeding window small enough where we could retain ONLY the AI heifers to remain in the program and could sell everything else. Obviously it could work with almost any other breed since we are using black angus but depending on the cover bulls (say, charolais bulls) it would also be more obvious on sight which calve was an AI calf versus not.
As an example, we have finally gotten our herd fertile enough and large enough and the breeding window small enough where we could retain ONLY the AI heifers to remain in the program and could sell everything else. Obviously it could work with almost any other breed since we are using black angus but depending on the cover bulls (say, charolais bulls) it would also be more obvious on sight which calve was an AI calf versus not.