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<blockquote data-quote="CattleMan1920" data-source="post: 1549485" data-attributes="member: 37967"><p>If you look at SAV Harvestor, he is the product of SAV Heritage, a -5 CED bull, and SAV Emblynette 7749, a -4 CED cow. here is the description on Herbster's website, and I can say without exaggeration that Harvestor delivers the goods.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000FF">"SAV Harvestor, our $275,000 Angus sensation, is a true breed changer and performance powerhouse. He has no equal among all proven sires in the Angus breed for performance and real beef value. This has been documented in many large commercial and purebred herds. Harvestor progeny are stamped with breed character and built right from the ground up. They are perfect in their structure, with massive thickness, volume and expressive muscle shape. His sons are loaded with performance and substance, while his daughters are feminine with beautiful udders and added dimension to make real brood cows. Kelly Schaff says, "Harvestor's progeny dominate the ground they walk on and come with the highest recommendation to real-world cowmen. His powerful sons have been well received in our past sales, as well as in sales across the globe."</span> </p><p></p><p>SAV sells a lot of bulls each year with high demand, including other countries. I trust their program, and they have no problem breeding terminal to terminal. The calf above was 97 pounds at birth, was born in minutes with no issues, and has never looked back.</p><p></p><p>Would I breed Harvestor to a small framed cow? Yes, if she were healthy, and was on a good nutrition program. People freak out about a 97 pound calf versus a 65 pounder. I personally like big calves, and have no problem with them. In Kentucky, too many people chase low birthweight and extremely high calving ease numbers. They are ending up with females that one highly respected cattleman told me "couldn't give birth to a jackrabbit!" I think Angus are naturally calving ease, and in my experience, we could probably use a terminal bull on our heifers and they would be fine, but then again our heifers are big gals. What I'm doing is not going to be right for everyone. I'm using SAV Elation on some heifers right now, he is +1 CED, but the gals that he is bred to are about 1350 pounds with about 2 months until they calve. I'm not expecting any problems. I'm not faulting anyone else's program or breeding decisions, but I don't choose sires based solely on high CED and low birthweights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleMan1920, post: 1549485, member: 37967"] If you look at SAV Harvestor, he is the product of SAV Heritage, a -5 CED bull, and SAV Emblynette 7749, a -4 CED cow. here is the description on Herbster's website, and I can say without exaggeration that Harvestor delivers the goods. [color=#0000FF]"SAV Harvestor, our $275,000 Angus sensation, is a true breed changer and performance powerhouse. He has no equal among all proven sires in the Angus breed for performance and real beef value. This has been documented in many large commercial and purebred herds. Harvestor progeny are stamped with breed character and built right from the ground up. They are perfect in their structure, with massive thickness, volume and expressive muscle shape. His sons are loaded with performance and substance, while his daughters are feminine with beautiful udders and added dimension to make real brood cows. Kelly Schaff says, “Harvestor’s progeny dominate the ground they walk on and come with the highest recommendation to real-world cowmen. His powerful sons have been well received in our past sales, as well as in sales across the globe.”[/color] SAV sells a lot of bulls each year with high demand, including other countries. I trust their program, and they have no problem breeding terminal to terminal. The calf above was 97 pounds at birth, was born in minutes with no issues, and has never looked back. Would I breed Harvestor to a small framed cow? Yes, if she were healthy, and was on a good nutrition program. People freak out about a 97 pound calf versus a 65 pounder. I personally like big calves, and have no problem with them. In Kentucky, too many people chase low birthweight and extremely high calving ease numbers. They are ending up with females that one highly respected cattleman told me "couldn't give birth to a jackrabbit!" I think Angus are naturally calving ease, and in my experience, we could probably use a terminal bull on our heifers and they would be fine, but then again our heifers are big gals. What I'm doing is not going to be right for everyone. I'm using SAV Elation on some heifers right now, he is +1 CED, but the gals that he is bred to are about 1350 pounds with about 2 months until they calve. I'm not expecting any problems. I'm not faulting anyone else's program or breeding decisions, but I don't choose sires based solely on high CED and low birthweights. [/QUOTE]
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