Glad to be done

[Jake]

Had our biggest breeding season in history. AIed 115 head and put 75 embryos in. Lot of trips through the chute, but excited for what the results could be.

Used this list of bulls:
316
SAV Rainfall
Ideal Encore
Blackline Plainsman
XXP
SAV Downpour
SAV Renown
SAV Renovation
SAV Density
Bruin Torque

 

[TwoByrdsMG]

Had our biggest breeding season in history. AIed 115 head and put 75 embryos in. Lot of trips through the chute, but excited for what the results could be.

Used this list of bulls:
316
SAV Rainfall
Ideal Encore
Blackline Plainsman
XXP
SAV Downpour
SAV Renown
SAV Renovation
SAV Density
Bruin Torque

That's a whole lot of embryos!

We are trying ET for the first time this year. So far we are running at 75% conception and still have a late group we will work the end of June before July 1 bull turnout. Its not near as big of a herd though. Running 18-20 pairs since the hay is more valuable than the cows in our area.

 

[Josher]

Used this list of bulls:
316
SAV Rainfall
Ideal Encore
Blackline Plainsman
XXP
SAV Downpour
SAV Renown
SAV Renovation
SAV Density
Bruin Torque

Which are your favourite sire groups?

 

[W.B.]

I like your list of bulls. Tell us about the Jorgenson bull you used and your thoughts on using a Charlo son. Just a bit curious is all.

 

[wbvs58]

That's a big "ambitious" programme Jake, I wish you well with it. I have used 316, Renown and a flush brother of Rainfall in Rainmaster and am very happy with them except my EBV carcase numbers suffer with the SAV bulls, guess I'll have to use a bit of Gardner genetics to pick them up a bit now, (I remember how much a fan you are of GAR).

Ken

 

[gizmom]

Hope you have tremendous success!

 

[Jake]

The calves we have on the ground this year my favorite sire groups are Renown and Plainsman. Rainfall and Ajax would be the second favorites.

Renown has been a no miss sire in our operation, daughters and grandaughters are easy fleshing and fertile with near perfect udders. I'm still not a fan of most of the flush brothers for our applications(Raindance too wild, President too restricted in movement) but Rainfall seems to be the one that stands out. Calves had a ton of vigor at birth and the heifers are definite improvements of their mothers. Plenty of rib shape and very attractively made. The Plainsman heifer calves are knock outs, they are younger as we used him for clean up a year ago, can't wait to see them as they grow.

I picked the Encore bull to try on heifers because of the nursing data behind his daughters at Jorgensons. Most heifer bulls on the market are pretty tough to look at and he definitely still has the phenotype of a female producer.

 

[W.B.]

I asked about Encore because I used his maternal grandsire at one time. Based off of that and what I know about pedigrees I would say feet could potentially be a problem. Interesting that you talked about disposition issues with Raindance. I visited with an Angus breeder that said his Raindance daughters had to be separated from their calves at birth to keep them from killing them.
All the home raised heifers that we AI here are being bred to Powerpoint.

 

[Jake]

I asked about Encore because I used his maternal grandsire at one time. Based off of that and what I know about pedigrees I would say feet could potentially be a problem. Interesting that you talked about disposition issues with Raindance. I visited with an Angus breeder that said his Raindance daughters had to be separated from their calves at birth to keep them from killing them.
All the home raised heifers that we AI here are being bred to Powerpoint.

We're only using Encore on rito bred females so if feet are a problem we should be protected. Honestly first I had heard that so will have to watch them closely.

We purchased raindance heifers with a group. One culled herself due to going bezerk and slicing her leg. Took some work but we got the others tamed down enough, but fertility was a problem.