A diverse herd can be a good start on your ultimate breeding/crossbreeding program. The catch is, you need to know where you plan to go with the breeding . Do you want a herd consisting of 3 way cross cows, 2 way cross, will you use a terminal sire on your crossbred or straightbred cows. It all goes back to if you dont know where you are headed how will you know when you get there? It takes more years to get to want you want with a mixed breed herd but with proper selection of bulls and replacment heifers you can achieve a pretty high degree of consistancy in your calf crop. At almost mandates using AI to be able to accomplish the optimizing your results ort even the interum steps. It's easiest to define your goal then get heifers/cows that will be the best fit to achieve the goal. But is can be done with a mix and match herd. For instance, if your goal is to have a 50% MG 50% Beefmaster cow herd and will breed them to say Charolais for a terminal breed. You would select the best MG cows and breed them to a top Beefmaster bull, take your top Beefmaster cows and breed them to a MG bull, cut nad sell all bull calves and only keep the heifers that really meet your selection criteria for quality, disposition, etc. Sorry, too longwinded again
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> I have 3 murray gray, 3 big
> exelant droughtmasters, 1 herford
> and 2 angus cows. What sort (top
> 5) bulls do you recomend for my
> cow and hefers?. I want to build
> up a breeding stock and them beef
> cattle.
> sorry about the spelling.
