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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1564919" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>I know that SAV has a very successful program, but I do not see anything wrong with using the son of an AI sire as a herd bull over your females and keeping the progeny. Our best calves have consistently come from the grandson of a bull that was used as an AI sire. I understand that there is more hype with selling a son of so and so rather than selling a son of a bull with your prefix, but the quality of the cattle may be more consistent if you focused on the best producing cow lines in your herd, retained a bull from them, and then used that bull over the rest of your herd. You can still AI for genetic diversity and to improve traits that are lacking, but I have a hard time understanding why you discount the progeny of the clean up bull, especially if he comes from a high producing line of cows and a top AI sire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1564919, member: 20754"] I know that SAV has a very successful program, but I do not see anything wrong with using the son of an AI sire as a herd bull over your females and keeping the progeny. Our best calves have consistently come from the grandson of a bull that was used as an AI sire. I understand that there is more hype with selling a son of so and so rather than selling a son of a bull with your prefix, but the quality of the cattle may be more consistent if you focused on the best producing cow lines in your herd, retained a bull from them, and then used that bull over the rest of your herd. You can still AI for genetic diversity and to improve traits that are lacking, but I have a hard time understanding why you discount the progeny of the clean up bull, especially if he comes from a high producing line of cows and a top AI sire. [/QUOTE]
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