Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Bull influence on BW
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="brandonm_13" data-source="post: 624165" data-attributes="member: 7875"><p>Considering high BW cows, that makes me wonder. If you breed them to a low bw bull and they throw large calves, what would happen if you bred them to a larger bw bull that could increase weaning weights. Would the birth weight stil be about the same since the cow seems to have the prepotency for certain size calves, or would the cobination of a large bw bull and a large bw cow cause you to have an extremely large bw calf???</p><p></p><p>I was worried about birthings this past season. The brother-in-law was in charge of feeding the cows. They were being fed too much grain. I couldn't seem to convince him to stop feeding so much(he was feeding in the morning when I was at work.), and the cows kept getting fatter. Luckily we did alright. Teh feed wasn't all that high in protein, but the cows were getting too fat. Since then, I've been feeding and gotten the excess weight off them without any problems. Now they are all in the 5-6 bcs range, not 7 and 8.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brandonm_13, post: 624165, member: 7875"] Considering high BW cows, that makes me wonder. If you breed them to a low bw bull and they throw large calves, what would happen if you bred them to a larger bw bull that could increase weaning weights. Would the birth weight stil be about the same since the cow seems to have the prepotency for certain size calves, or would the cobination of a large bw bull and a large bw cow cause you to have an extremely large bw calf??? I was worried about birthings this past season. The brother-in-law was in charge of feeding the cows. They were being fed too much grain. I couldn't seem to convince him to stop feeding so much(he was feeding in the morning when I was at work.), and the cows kept getting fatter. Luckily we did alright. Teh feed wasn't all that high in protein, but the cows were getting too fat. Since then, I've been feeding and gotten the excess weight off them without any problems. Now they are all in the 5-6 bcs range, not 7 and 8. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Bull influence on BW
Top