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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1613823" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>One quick check is bone size in the canon bone. Then look to see if shoulders are abnormally straight. True masculinity of the bull (shoulder width)proportion to rear are not true calving problem indicators. Find somebody who knows something about the maternal grandam and the birth weight she carried. Or ask if the calves come either long and tall or short and like a basketball. A heavy long and tall type calf (at birth) is worth 2X what a short one will ever do for you or return in $'s.</p><p></p><p>Tailset on heifers (plus the condition issue already mentioned) will either aid or hurt calving ease. A sloped rump and flat topline is the best of it all. Bonsma shows illustrations on the bones involved. Sway backs and ski slope rumps were culled in the past due to a purpose before folks seemed to want to pull calves or have more problems. I don't get it. They swap out proper structure with low BW bulls (usually just short gestation) to get calves on the ground and then they are stuck in the low BW bull deal to never keep the size and muscle in the herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1613823, member: 24565"] One quick check is bone size in the canon bone. Then look to see if shoulders are abnormally straight. True masculinity of the bull (shoulder width)proportion to rear are not true calving problem indicators. Find somebody who knows something about the maternal grandam and the birth weight she carried. Or ask if the calves come either long and tall or short and like a basketball. A heavy long and tall type calf (at birth) is worth 2X what a short one will ever do for you or return in $'s. Tailset on heifers (plus the condition issue already mentioned) will either aid or hurt calving ease. A sloped rump and flat topline is the best of it all. Bonsma shows illustrations on the bones involved. Sway backs and ski slope rumps were culled in the past due to a purpose before folks seemed to want to pull calves or have more problems. I don't get it. They swap out proper structure with low BW bulls (usually just short gestation) to get calves on the ground and then they are stuck in the low BW bull deal to never keep the size and muscle in the herd. [/QUOTE]
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