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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1531804" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>Uncle Tony is right around a frame 4 and weighs over 1,900 lbs. He is consistently siring our best calves to date. We have many of his daughters and one of his sons coming on and we are needing to add a bit of genetic diversity to our program. The majority of the bulls that we are using in our AI program are older genetics, many of which date back to the 1970s and 1980s. This was a time when Murray Greys dominated carcass competitions throughout Australia and had to survive on minimal inputs; we feel that the bulls from this era match up best with our breeding goals. We have yet to have a calf out of Francois. We bred our first female to him this year, but she did not take. Francois is still above our herd average for both tenderness and marbling, so he can add to our program in that regard. He is larger framed than Tony, so we are likely going to breed him to some of our smaller females to increase frame and maintain the body capacity at the same time. Our goal for this area is a 4 to 5 frame score. This is the Ballee Thumbs Up son that we are planning to retain as one of our herdsires going forward; he is 7 months old here.</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/ddf9aa05-c5e3-426f-b07d-202d24c127d2-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And these are some Tony daughters in our herd. These are all pictured as bred heifers, but the Tony daughters that are in production currently are producing some very nice calves.</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/ef1806d1-8b33-42fd-a665-975269566a2f-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/e36a2736-ba7d-493a-b33f-c324d654c374-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/3f8df92e-eacd-4753-8811-c0b8bf715a09-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1531804, member: 20754"] Uncle Tony is right around a frame 4 and weighs over 1,900 lbs. He is consistently siring our best calves to date. We have many of his daughters and one of his sons coming on and we are needing to add a bit of genetic diversity to our program. The majority of the bulls that we are using in our AI program are older genetics, many of which date back to the 1970s and 1980s. This was a time when Murray Greys dominated carcass competitions throughout Australia and had to survive on minimal inputs; we feel that the bulls from this era match up best with our breeding goals. We have yet to have a calf out of Francois. We bred our first female to him this year, but she did not take. Francois is still above our herd average for both tenderness and marbling, so he can add to our program in that regard. He is larger framed than Tony, so we are likely going to breed him to some of our smaller females to increase frame and maintain the body capacity at the same time. Our goal for this area is a 4 to 5 frame score. This is the Ballee Thumbs Up son that we are planning to retain as one of our herdsires going forward; he is 7 months old here. [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/ddf9aa05-c5e3-426f-b07d-202d24c127d2-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] And these are some Tony daughters in our herd. These are all pictured as bred heifers, but the Tony daughters that are in production currently are producing some very nice calves. [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/ef1806d1-8b33-42fd-a665-975269566a2f-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/e36a2736-ba7d-493a-b33f-c324d654c374-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/3f8df92e-eacd-4753-8811-c0b8bf715a09-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [/QUOTE]
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