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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 687456" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Paul, I don't have any photos of him that young, but I think I have some of when he was about 10- 14 days old, I'll have a look. </p><p></p><p>He is extremely big for his age in my herd and at the moment my biggest fear is that he will be too big for me, although he doesn't have that typical giraffe like legs that the real framey bulls have at his age.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>WLB Global 72m 50S, was browsing the web and saw WLB's previous sale catalogues, was impressed by the type and started to dig deeper. For the moment he will offer outcross genetics for the entire SA genepool, so that should help with marketing. The plan is to use him almost terminally for now to get a unique product whilst my current breeding program is going on as always. Depending on how his get perform I might retain a few heifers or even a bull to start another line. Typically the halfbred Canadian cattle do very well when bred back to SA genetics to keep the Canadian influence at about 25%. The reason I decided on him is that he is phenotypically closer to my ideal than any other foreign bull I've seen and also closer to the type I breed. I'll use him sparingly, but he'll get bred to the best heifers this year to give him a fair chance and to give me a better idea of what he brings to the table. I'm not about to make a change of direction at all, its much more a business decision than its a breeding decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 687456, member: 4353"] Paul, I don't have any photos of him that young, but I think I have some of when he was about 10- 14 days old, I'll have a look. He is extremely big for his age in my herd and at the moment my biggest fear is that he will be too big for me, although he doesn't have that typical giraffe like legs that the real framey bulls have at his age. WLB Global 72m 50S, was browsing the web and saw WLB's previous sale catalogues, was impressed by the type and started to dig deeper. For the moment he will offer outcross genetics for the entire SA genepool, so that should help with marketing. The plan is to use him almost terminally for now to get a unique product whilst my current breeding program is going on as always. Depending on how his get perform I might retain a few heifers or even a bull to start another line. Typically the halfbred Canadian cattle do very well when bred back to SA genetics to keep the Canadian influence at about 25%. The reason I decided on him is that he is phenotypically closer to my ideal than any other foreign bull I've seen and also closer to the type I breed. I'll use him sparingly, but he'll get bred to the best heifers this year to give him a fair chance and to give me a better idea of what he brings to the table. I'm not about to make a change of direction at all, its much more a business decision than its a breeding decision. [/QUOTE]
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