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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1532223" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>To my knowledge, there were three books written on the Murray Grey breed. All of them were published in Australia and two of them in particular placed a lot of emphasis on the various studs that were spread across the continent. They are titled <em>March of the Murray Greys</em> and also <em>Murray Greys: Australia's Own Beef Cattle</em>. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from reading these books. Within them are histories of many influential studs, the role that these studs played in the development of the breed, the conditions in which the cattle were raised, and a major focus was the impact of various sires and dams in each stud's breeding program. </p><p></p><p>These were some of the pictures that I ran across. They don't show tough conditions, but they show the type of cattle that we are striving for.</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/Old%20Murray%20Greys/KoojanHillBuglerwithcows_zps68977a51.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/Old%20Murray%20Greys/Kimolonglightningridgeandcows_zps92379b07.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/Old%20Murray%20Greys/DoubleDStudVictoriaandWilheime_zps6e1c9887.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>We are using many USA bred Murray Grey bulls in our program from the 1970s and 1980s that were direct offspring of some of the first live imports and semen brought over to the United States from Australia. However, we do have a very limited number of straws and ampules in our tank from the original Australian bulls that were first collected for export. We are very excited to see the results from these matings. Off hand, I do not know of anybody that is currently selling semen from these older sires, but we do AI about a dozen cows every year to these sires, so we will have bulls and heifers, out of these genetics available in the future. These are some of our oldest progeny of these older sires. We are expecting calves out of the same sire as BB Ace and BB Goldie next spring.</p><p>BB Ace at 17 months</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/18b4c428-fc23-4d00-b7f4-38cd486c1389-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>BB Goldie at 2 years</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/5dee3c0b-fa77-4d81-a21a-ce3d7165efe9-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>BB Sapphire at 2 1/2 years</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/c7a61876-d407-4eda-82b8-080b52065677-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: 1532223, member: 20754"] To my knowledge, there were three books written on the Murray Grey breed. All of them were published in Australia and two of them in particular placed a lot of emphasis on the various studs that were spread across the continent. They are titled [i]March of the Murray Greys[/i] and also [i]Murray Greys: Australia's Own Beef Cattle[/i]. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from reading these books. Within them are histories of many influential studs, the role that these studs played in the development of the breed, the conditions in which the cattle were raised, and a major focus was the impact of various sires and dams in each stud's breeding program. These were some of the pictures that I ran across. They don't show tough conditions, but they show the type of cattle that we are striving for. [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/Old%20Murray%20Greys/KoojanHillBuglerwithcows_zps68977a51.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/Old%20Murray%20Greys/Kimolonglightningridgeandcows_zps92379b07.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/Old%20Murray%20Greys/DoubleDStudVictoriaandWilheime_zps6e1c9887.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] We are using many USA bred Murray Grey bulls in our program from the 1970s and 1980s that were direct offspring of some of the first live imports and semen brought over to the United States from Australia. However, we do have a very limited number of straws and ampules in our tank from the original Australian bulls that were first collected for export. We are very excited to see the results from these matings. Off hand, I do not know of anybody that is currently selling semen from these older sires, but we do AI about a dozen cows every year to these sires, so we will have bulls and heifers, out of these genetics available in the future. These are some of our oldest progeny of these older sires. We are expecting calves out of the same sire as BB Ace and BB Goldie next spring. BB Ace at 17 months [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/18b4c428-fc23-4d00-b7f4-38cd486c1389-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] BB Goldie at 2 years [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/5dee3c0b-fa77-4d81-a21a-ce3d7165efe9-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] BB Sapphire at 2 1/2 years [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/s0/c7a61876-d407-4eda-82b8-080b52065677-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [/QUOTE]
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