I was reading something on the internet about Gardiner and it said that back in the sixties they were the first Angus operation that was strictly AI. Do they not use all those great herd bulls of theres for natureal service? They use NO natural breeding on there ranch? Can someone explain this?
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No natural service as far as I know. They have state of the art AI and embrio facilities. I have seen picture of overhead veiws. They are pie shaped all meeting in the middle. In there catalog they have pictures of there new addition. It qite awsome. Why no natural service? I would guesse that they don't need to. MAny operations do nothing but AI and embrios. Also cuts down on disease and injury with out having a bull butting every girl around.
Scotty
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CopeMan":n7xi50id said:
They use some of their own bulls AI, but they want to use proven bulls. Their aim is to sell bulls to commercial cattlemen. They sell all those "great herd bulls" and if they prove out, use them AI on their cattle, just as any Angus breeder can do. They're also deep into the embryo transfer business in order to produce more bulls from the top cows in their herds.
They were the first operation I heard of that leased cattle from commercial operations to implant embroys into. They ran out of land to increase their cow herd, so they leased their neighbor's cattle to carry their embryos and buy the calves at weaning. I think they also furnish bulls to clean up the cows if the embryo doesn't take.
houstoncutter
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As most people who frequent these boards know, I use Limi bulls on commercial cows. If I were to buy an Angus bull it would be from these folks. They have their act together.
R ^ 5
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I use Gardner Bred Bulls on my commercial brangus cross bred cows.I like-em
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Im sure theres ranches that have bulls just as good as Gardiners but there reputation is where its at. Any feedlot buyer knows what youve got when you say Gardiner calves....and any Cab lot will try hard to buy em from you. Rep is important if you watn top dollar for your calves
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CopeMan":2omxbetc said:
Is his first name "Bill" Where is he located? I dont know why but I heard he mite be in TX?
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Aero":te7dcvp3 said:
Dad went to school with one of the boys. They are good people
showme
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Aero I looked around your site you got some stingers!! :shock: Your doing pretty good it looks like.
showme
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Good ones!!
preston39
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Aero,
What line did you concentrate the New Market breeding on? Any in particular? That is a very old but good line.
What line did you concentrate the New Market breeding on? Any in particular? That is a very old but good line.
we used him on a large percentage of the herd. the "concentration" was pretty much:
if a cow needed something fixed we might try another AI bull with one shot at conception. everything else gets either AI'd by New Market or bred naturally.
there are ~50 of his calves that hit our pastures this year.
if a cow needed something fixed we might try another AI bull with one shot at conception. everything else gets either AI'd by New Market or bred naturally.
there are ~50 of his calves that hit our pastures this year.
