Ky hills
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Just throwing around ideas, and looking to see what y'all would do?
We have 4 fall heifers almost ready to breed, 3 RWF and 1 BWF.
Our heifer bull is their sire.
We have some heifers due this spring in which some are going to be father daughter matings too, but in this fall group sone of them are hitting on both sides being related. We are at the point where we realize the need for outcross genetics, and need to go with a different bull. Should we go ahead and breed them to him or sell those heifers and buy different heifers some nice we are going to try to buy a few more anyway and get another season out of the bull?
My wife is wondering about using our Simmental bull on those heifers but he is not a heifer bull? I'm not overly comfortable with that option since he has an 8.6 CE and 3.8 BW and it would be on Hereford/Angus cross heifers.
We have 4 fall heifers almost ready to breed, 3 RWF and 1 BWF.
Our heifer bull is their sire.
We have some heifers due this spring in which some are going to be father daughter matings too, but in this fall group sone of them are hitting on both sides being related. We are at the point where we realize the need for outcross genetics, and need to go with a different bull. Should we go ahead and breed them to him or sell those heifers and buy different heifers some nice we are going to try to buy a few more anyway and get another season out of the bull?
My wife is wondering about using our Simmental bull on those heifers but he is not a heifer bull? I'm not overly comfortable with that option since he has an 8.6 CE and 3.8 BW and it would be on Hereford/Angus cross heifers.