we had 46 bull calves were going to keep 17 bulls
with the older cows you know certain cows that just consistently hit it out of the park. We have one cow she is now 14 confirmed safe again AI she has slowed down but still getting the job done. She has made pathfinder numerous times in her caree. Her daughters work we had never retained a bull out of her And I started asking myself why not. So one of our clean up bulls is her 2020 bull calf out of a Resource son, he is. Stud. This year we Have several that just catch your eye as you drive through some are ET calves so you expect them to give you the wow factor. The ones I'm super excited about are the ones giving me the wow and it's out of a first calf heifer. When that happens I get plum tickled.
They will be genomic tested before I register them, they have a whole lot of hoops to go through before they get marketed as a bull. The truth is we can do all of these things and still have a failure but we sure nuff try to make it so that the failures are few and far between.
If the boss had his way that is exactly what we would do! I'm getting closer every year to making the decision to just put a horned Hereford on them and making my golden years a little easier on us.
We started weaning today gave all the calves their final vaccinations steered out the unlucky ones. I ended up keeping 17 bulls intact we sure banded some that would of made mighty good bulls lol.
It is different in this region. Top quality horned bulls are cheapest and easiest too find. Then top quality Sngus are next cheapest and harder to find. The highest and hardest too find is a good polled bull.
Wish you were closer. Your cattle overall is a little smaller framed than I desire but bet I could find one.
thanks elk I appreciate that!
