RD-Sam":8tjv1k2y said:
Have you used B/R Future Direction 4268 yet? I was glad to see he is not a carrier.
No I haven't used him only because we have pretty much been out of all Precision lines except for Retail Product for the past two years. One of my buddies who is heavily in to Precision has used him quite extensively and I certainly like the way those calves are put together at the hip and down through the flank as compared to CA Future Direction calves. In my opinion show just how important the dam side of the equation really is and definately increases my respect for the B/R prefix even more. I suspect in looking over all the FD sons that are free and that are carriers, it may be very well be 4268 that carries the torch for those genetics down the line.
I was glad to see Retail Product on the negative list. One of the traits we are trying to work back towards is getting frame size down while keeping the carcass quality and performance up. I have used RP quite a bit especially for a terminal cross kind of bull for my customers who feed their own steers but keep back hiefers in their herd. I really like how that commercial RP hiefers flesh and rebreed while adding some thickness and soggyness to the finished product.
Last spring, just before all this CCS information came out I flushed a Predestined virgin hiefer to GAR Game ON for the customers described above who needed to moderate frame size. I have quite of few of these embryos confirmed safe for spring calves. I was a little nervous when the list came out hoping that RP and Game On were free. Made my day when were marked AMF.