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<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 602642" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>I will save myself some typing:</p><p><a href="http://www.herfnet.com/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll?1=232B21&2=2934&3=56&5=2B3C2B3C3A&6=5B595B5A5859272E2D&9=5E515D&11=525F51&12=4241404F2D" target="_blank">http://www.herfnet.com/online/cgi-bin/i ... 4241404F2D</a></p><p>He is listed as a trait leader for calving ease. I have never considered him a "heifer bull". His newborns are consistantly thick. I consider them to be very well built. The tenderness seems to be for real as the butcher beef we have gotten from his progeny is very good. I got him pretty fleshy one winter and he weighed 2400#. He weighed 2200# when sold through the sale barn. He is intensely inbred. If you look at his pedigree, his dam is also his sire's granddam and his sire's dam is also his dam's dam and his sire's greatgrandam is also his dam's dam. He is a maternal brother to the 37G cow. I sold him a few years ago and I probably shouldn't have, but I wanted to turn the page. If he had had better testicles, he would have been a great bull. At times the testicles looked fine, but often they would hang uneven. Maybe I was too picky, but I believed that in a linebreeding program, I had to limit the influence of an inferior trait and try to use his progeny to breed away from the testicle weakness and keeping his positive traits. His progeny's growth and performance were superior within the line and I figured he would eventually appear in the pedigree of every King Domino I owned, but I didn't want them all to be half sibs sired by him with the weankess in the testicles! I live with my decisions. He was a very good bull, I have never seen a perfect one. I flushed the 37G cow to the KPHR HL1 KING DOM 8, who is her great grandsire, and have some nice calves, but they don't display as much growth as the 71J calves. The AF HL KING DOMINO 505 calves that I have gotten have had good growthiness. 505 is a son of 37G and a grandson of 71J. </p><p>505: </p><p> <img src="http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr72/alexfarms/Picture134.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr72/alexfarms/Picture015.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 602642, member: 8677"] I will save myself some typing: [url=http://www.herfnet.com/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll?1=232B21&2=2934&3=56&5=2B3C2B3C3A&6=5B595B5A5859272E2D&9=5E515D&11=525F51&12=4241404F2D]http://www.herfnet.com/online/cgi-bin/i ... 4241404F2D[/url] He is listed as a trait leader for calving ease. I have never considered him a "heifer bull". His newborns are consistantly thick. I consider them to be very well built. The tenderness seems to be for real as the butcher beef we have gotten from his progeny is very good. I got him pretty fleshy one winter and he weighed 2400#. He weighed 2200# when sold through the sale barn. He is intensely inbred. If you look at his pedigree, his dam is also his sire's granddam and his sire's dam is also his dam's dam and his sire's greatgrandam is also his dam's dam. He is a maternal brother to the 37G cow. I sold him a few years ago and I probably shouldn't have, but I wanted to turn the page. If he had had better testicles, he would have been a great bull. At times the testicles looked fine, but often they would hang uneven. Maybe I was too picky, but I believed that in a linebreeding program, I had to limit the influence of an inferior trait and try to use his progeny to breed away from the testicle weakness and keeping his positive traits. His progeny's growth and performance were superior within the line and I figured he would eventually appear in the pedigree of every King Domino I owned, but I didn't want them all to be half sibs sired by him with the weankess in the testicles! I live with my decisions. He was a very good bull, I have never seen a perfect one. I flushed the 37G cow to the KPHR HL1 KING DOM 8, who is her great grandsire, and have some nice calves, but they don't display as much growth as the 71J calves. The AF HL KING DOMINO 505 calves that I have gotten have had good growthiness. 505 is a son of 37G and a grandson of 71J. 505: [img]http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr72/alexfarms/Picture134.jpg[/img] [img]http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr72/alexfarms/Picture015.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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