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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1632648" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>That is similar to my way of thinking when I pick out calves to use the following season. I like them to be out of good fertile dams and this usually happens because I keep the ones that conceived in the 1st round of AI so they will be big enough to use as yearlings so they will usually have low ear tag numbers being born early. I have a couple of cow families that always seem to be vying for that number 1 ear tag for their calves. likewise with growth, they are the ones that catch the eye and again the cow plays a big part in providing the milk for that growth. Some of those fast growing ones come back to the pack after weaning but some will stay ahead. One I used last year weaned 50 kg ahead of his contempories and kept going after weaning in a pretty tough year. He was by Bruns Blaster and when I did his genomics he was in the top 1% for feed efficiency. I do like that feed efficiency EBV.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1632648, member: 16453"] That is similar to my way of thinking when I pick out calves to use the following season. I like them to be out of good fertile dams and this usually happens because I keep the ones that conceived in the 1st round of AI so they will be big enough to use as yearlings so they will usually have low ear tag numbers being born early. I have a couple of cow families that always seem to be vying for that number 1 ear tag for their calves. likewise with growth, they are the ones that catch the eye and again the cow plays a big part in providing the milk for that growth. Some of those fast growing ones come back to the pack after weaning but some will stay ahead. One I used last year weaned 50 kg ahead of his contempories and kept going after weaning in a pretty tough year. He was by Bruns Blaster and when I did his genomics he was in the top 1% for feed efficiency. I do like that feed efficiency EBV. Ken [/QUOTE]
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