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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 150393" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>We select for the opposite reasons. We've selected for cows that get fat over the winter on poor fescue pasture, they get fat but if they milk well and raise a good calf we keep them. We did have 2 cows that got fat, sired by the same but unknown bull, and they got fat but each year their calves got smaller and smaller. They both milked well but just didn;t put the genetic pop in their calves. Their dams get fat and alwasy raise calves that are in the top 5% of the years calves. Sisters from known bulls out of the same cows get fat but also raise great calves.</p><p>Fat, within reason, isn;t a bad thing in the winter. We've never had calving problems with any of them. The vet alwasy jokes about our BCS 12 cows but he likes them well enough that he bought an orphan heifer and is going to use her as a recip in his ET program.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 150393, member: 34"] We select for the opposite reasons. We've selected for cows that get fat over the winter on poor fescue pasture, they get fat but if they milk well and raise a good calf we keep them. We did have 2 cows that got fat, sired by the same but unknown bull, and they got fat but each year their calves got smaller and smaller. They both milked well but just didn;t put the genetic pop in their calves. Their dams get fat and alwasy raise calves that are in the top 5% of the years calves. Sisters from known bulls out of the same cows get fat but also raise great calves. Fat, within reason, isn;t a bad thing in the winter. We've never had calving problems with any of them. The vet alwasy jokes about our BCS 12 cows but he likes them well enough that he bought an orphan heifer and is going to use her as a recip in his ET program. dun [/QUOTE]
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