purecountry":1v8iy3kz said:She looks great to me. I'd be proud to own her.
DOC HARRIS":1a3yovsu said:No question - darned good cow. If her numbers match her phenotype, she should improve your herd with her heifers that you SHOULD keep - if the bull is equivalent to the cow or better. Her udder ranks in the upper 95% in quality. You don't find many like that. Her heifers should be valuable if only for that reason!
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-Use her as a Donor, ET her as bred to the best (EPD-wise - - MODERATE BW, 45-55 ww, 85-90 yw, 22-25 Milk, plus optimal REA and Marbling readings) Bull with impeccable Phenotype into as many Recipients as possible, breed her heifers back to her sire, and re-breed her to the same bull - keeping additional heifers as replacements and upgrade the bull (with either an Angus bull with DHD Traveler 6807 as a Grandsire and Ohlde breeding in the sires, thereby improving exponentially her progeny's EPD's - and/or - crossbreed the replacements with the best Gelbvieh Quality bull with equivilent Phenotype and EPD's - - and watch the beef quality BLOOM! :banana: 8) ;-)SEC":23rqzbkr said:DOC HARRIS":23rqzbkr said:No question - darned good cow. If her numbers match her phenotype, she should improve your herd with her heifers that you SHOULD keep - if the bull is equivalent to the cow or better. Her udder ranks in the upper 95% in quality. You don't find many like that. Her heifers should be valuable if only for that reason!
DOC HARRIS
What should be done with her if she doesn't have good EPD's DOC? :lol:
*Cowgirl*":3cxq7hh9 said:chiangus 34% 2CA cow (for those familiar w/ chi pedigrees, she's out of powerball (cjb flashXJessica's ms tot pkg) and a southern light cara 60b daughter
EPDs BW.4 WW42.7 YW67.1 M6.5
Active chi dams:
http://www.chicattle.org/journal/active_chianina_dams.htm