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<blockquote data-quote="Sage" data-source="post: 471716" data-attributes="member: 5352"><p>Oakcreek sounds like a good plan retaining the british cross for the cow herd and using a third breed for terminal breeding.</p><p></p><p>Alacowman, yes the F1 first cross has the most heterosis and works great for the cow herd but you need to breed them to somthing, going back on one of the original breeds would lower your heterosis. This is where a third breed as a terminal cross gives you a little bonus. It gets kinda complicated if the 3 breed crosses are kept for replacements, I'm not saying that they won't make good caows depending on the selected breeds but retaining a high level of heterosis is complicated, too many breeds of bulls on the place and too many breeding pastures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sage, post: 471716, member: 5352"] Oakcreek sounds like a good plan retaining the british cross for the cow herd and using a third breed for terminal breeding. Alacowman, yes the F1 first cross has the most heterosis and works great for the cow herd but you need to breed them to somthing, going back on one of the original breeds would lower your heterosis. This is where a third breed as a terminal cross gives you a little bonus. It gets kinda complicated if the 3 breed crosses are kept for replacements, I'm not saying that they won't make good caows depending on the selected breeds but retaining a high level of heterosis is complicated, too many breeds of bulls on the place and too many breeding pastures. [/QUOTE]
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