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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 686924" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Maybe I should tell you more about how and why I do things.</p><p></p><p>I farm in an endemic redwater and gallsickness area, so buying expensive bulls from clean areas really isn't an option, so I rather go on a raodtrip every few years and go and find a bull I like out of a line I like bred under conditions as tough as mine. Then I negotiate with the breeder to have him tapped if he isn't already an approved AI sire. I then AI my best cows to this bull to breed a few bulls firstly for my own use and to sell to my regular clients. The bulls I've used will then be sold in a production sale or off the farm to new clients who want an older bull or who hasn't yet proved to me they can look after a young bull.</p><p></p><p>I have long ago given up on matching each cow with a specific bull to try and correct faults or try and breed milk or whatever into a cow. I rather use two AI sires of very similar type, but which may lean SLIGHTLY to different directions to enhance certain areas rather than to correct faults. I've seen over the last few bulls of my own bred this way that the bull born here often outperforms his sire.</p><p></p><p>This coming breeding season I'll use two halfsibs out of my main AI sire as cleanup bulls and use my main AI sire, a bull out of the same herd, a related bull to my main AI sire as a "terminal" bull on some registered second calvers and test a few straws of a Canadian bull I've imported.</p><p></p><p>My cleanup bull of last year will open all the commercial heifers and another halfsib of my two cleanup bulls will get the bulk of the commercial herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 686924, member: 4353"] Maybe I should tell you more about how and why I do things. I farm in an endemic redwater and gallsickness area, so buying expensive bulls from clean areas really isn't an option, so I rather go on a raodtrip every few years and go and find a bull I like out of a line I like bred under conditions as tough as mine. Then I negotiate with the breeder to have him tapped if he isn't already an approved AI sire. I then AI my best cows to this bull to breed a few bulls firstly for my own use and to sell to my regular clients. The bulls I've used will then be sold in a production sale or off the farm to new clients who want an older bull or who hasn't yet proved to me they can look after a young bull. I have long ago given up on matching each cow with a specific bull to try and correct faults or try and breed milk or whatever into a cow. I rather use two AI sires of very similar type, but which may lean SLIGHTLY to different directions to enhance certain areas rather than to correct faults. I've seen over the last few bulls of my own bred this way that the bull born here often outperforms his sire. This coming breeding season I'll use two halfsibs out of my main AI sire as cleanup bulls and use my main AI sire, a bull out of the same herd, a related bull to my main AI sire as a "terminal" bull on some registered second calvers and test a few straws of a Canadian bull I've imported. My cleanup bull of last year will open all the commercial heifers and another halfsib of my two cleanup bulls will get the bulk of the commercial herd. [/QUOTE]
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