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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1289211" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>It's hard to sell bulls that aren't calving ease. Even when a customer uses them on cows they really like to see lots of yellow "trait leader" in the catalog. In reality, there are lots of perfectly acceptable two star calving ease bulls... we're talking a pound or two difference between them and the four stars. Once they hit about 75% reliable they're good to go. There are very few angus bulls that I wouldn't use on a predominately angus heifer in my own cattle. A plus three on BW is still better than most continental sires when you adjust the numbers to an angus base and I've bred hundreds of heifers to char bulls for customers without calving problems.</p><p>Breed plays a factor as well. Some breeds are more resilient than others and can have a big calf and recover from it. On the dairy side of things about fifteen years ago there was a study where they put a bunch of jersey embryos into holstien heifers and holstein embryos into jerseys... The jerseys still didn't have many calving problems and the holsteins still did. Resilient cattle can handle more stress.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1289211, member: 14661"] It's hard to sell bulls that aren't calving ease. Even when a customer uses them on cows they really like to see lots of yellow "trait leader" in the catalog. In reality, there are lots of perfectly acceptable two star calving ease bulls... we're talking a pound or two difference between them and the four stars. Once they hit about 75% reliable they're good to go. There are very few angus bulls that I wouldn't use on a predominately angus heifer in my own cattle. A plus three on BW is still better than most continental sires when you adjust the numbers to an angus base and I've bred hundreds of heifers to char bulls for customers without calving problems. Breed plays a factor as well. Some breeds are more resilient than others and can have a big calf and recover from it. On the dairy side of things about fifteen years ago there was a study where they put a bunch of jersey embryos into holstien heifers and holstein embryos into jerseys... The jerseys still didn't have many calving problems and the holsteins still did. Resilient cattle can handle more stress. [/QUOTE]
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