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<blockquote data-quote="beef" data-source="post: 351582" data-attributes="member: 442"><p>One thing you have to keep in mind when pointing out successful sire/daughter, dam/son and full sib matings is that it is easy to point out a few successes and forget about or never hear about the failures. I have bred two sons to their dams and ended up with two below average weaning weight heifers that weren't much to look at. Nothing really wrong with them except that they were both the worst calves their dams ever produced. One lost her first calf and was culled for it and the other was fed out and slaughtered. The second one did a little better than average in the feedlot and qualified for CAB. She had a 28.66 IBC as calculated by the AAA pogram. I wish I had bred her to see how she would have done. </p><p> </p><p>I have seen one of the cows Badlands mentioned and she doesn't look like much. I will say that she has produced some surprisingly nice calves. I have two 12 year old cows that are the result of mating half sibs and they are good cows. I also have a heifer that resulted from mating 3/4 sibs and she had a 106 weaning ratio. From this experience and from what I have read, I plan to breed no closer than 1/2 sibs in the future, but the 3/4 sib heifer may change my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beef, post: 351582, member: 442"] One thing you have to keep in mind when pointing out successful sire/daughter, dam/son and full sib matings is that it is easy to point out a few successes and forget about or never hear about the failures. I have bred two sons to their dams and ended up with two below average weaning weight heifers that weren't much to look at. Nothing really wrong with them except that they were both the worst calves their dams ever produced. One lost her first calf and was culled for it and the other was fed out and slaughtered. The second one did a little better than average in the feedlot and qualified for CAB. She had a 28.66 IBC as calculated by the AAA pogram. I wish I had bred her to see how she would have done. I have seen one of the cows Badlands mentioned and she doesn't look like much. I will say that she has produced some surprisingly nice calves. I have two 12 year old cows that are the result of mating half sibs and they are good cows. I also have a heifer that resulted from mating 3/4 sibs and she had a 106 weaning ratio. From this experience and from what I have read, I plan to breed no closer than 1/2 sibs in the future, but the 3/4 sib heifer may change my mind. [/QUOTE]
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