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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 364202" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Typically those high YW calves are also larger framed. If you keep heifers you eventually end up with the dreaded frame creep and the cows end up too big. But, ah yes, there is alwasy a but, there are outliers that can grow like crazy for the first year and then slow down in growth. That's where it's really nice to have a yearling FS and a mature FS.</p><p>We breed some cows to strictly terminal bulls, they're good cows but not the ones that we would like to perpetuate the genes of in our herd. Others we breed to heifer makers to get replacements. This year we got lucky and only one of the meat maker cows had a heifer and only 3 of the heifer makers had bulls. I guess the bad part of it is that we're going to have way to many heifers to select from for replacements this year.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 364202, member: 34"] Typically those high YW calves are also larger framed. If you keep heifers you eventually end up with the dreaded frame creep and the cows end up too big. But, ah yes, there is alwasy a but, there are outliers that can grow like crazy for the first year and then slow down in growth. That's where it's really nice to have a yearling FS and a mature FS. We breed some cows to strictly terminal bulls, they're good cows but not the ones that we would like to perpetuate the genes of in our herd. Others we breed to heifer makers to get replacements. This year we got lucky and only one of the meat maker cows had a heifer and only 3 of the heifer makers had bulls. I guess the bad part of it is that we're going to have way to many heifers to select from for replacements this year. dun [/QUOTE]
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