Bringing Back Some Old Genetics

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This heifer is out of VDAR Elluna 97 and VDAR Traveler 71 we really like this old cow she died about 8 or 9 years ago and I don't know when the bull died. We had embroyos out of Elluna 97 and Traveler 71, New Trend 315, Sitz Alliance 6595, VDAR Lucy's Boy and 234-D. We put in a total of 17 of the embroyos in on 1/6/2010. We have four Traveler 71 calves, three Lucy's Boy, four VDAR New Trend 315's I only had two of the 6595's and they were grade 3 but I tried but they didn't stick. I didn't use any of the 234D eggs. So overall pretty good results. The calves will all be a little larger framed than I like but I will breed the heifers to my Coleman EXT 6149 bull to moderate them a bit overall I think they are going to work.

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nice calf, we've got some (8) Paramount Ambush calves on the ground now, from semen frozen in what would have been near the end for the old bull, 1994, along with 6 eggs in the tank by him out of a cow who was herself from an embryo produced in 1995 (she was born in 2005) a 23-4 x 315. Interesting to use these bulls and find that the performance on the paper gets comfortably exceeded by the performance in the pasture......
 
You didnt happen to get a picture of the 315 calves did you. I would come over and look at them but it is so far away.. :lol:

All the calves look nice, with spring hopefully around the corner they will really take off I bet.
 
Dylan and I are marketing an old 'B' model year 315 son out 23-4 and a straight Canadian cow. I looked long and hard for a 315 son back in the day that wasn't too frail and old 60B fits the bill. My only regret is the semen is almost gone.
 
jscunn

I understand it is a long way over to our place from yours and those roads are really curvy lol. I didn't get a photo of the 315 calves I will try to the twin heifer that we left on the recip is really looking good the other one that I bottle fed looks like a bottle fed baby, but the genetics are there so she should overcome my poor mothering skills. The bull calves all look a bit leggy to me at this point, but I will get some photo's next time I get a chance to walk through them.

I have one Lucy's Boy heifer that looks really good my only concern is the Lucy's boy they sometimes can have attitude issues and you know my thoughts when it comes to bad attitudes. That will get her a quick trip to town! So far she hasn't shown any indication of a bad attitude, but then again she hasn't been penned up and worked yet, so time will tell on that issue.

Northern Rancher

I bet a 23-4 and 315 mating did make a powerful bull. I would like to see some photo's if you have one of him.

Robert, our experience with the older genetics is that the performance usually exceeds the epd's which was a nice thing to discover.

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