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<blockquote data-quote="Northern Rancher" data-source="post: 643169" data-attributes="member: 5898"><p>If you want to buy bulls that will sire easy keeping daughters you have to buy bulls from an outfit that allows the enviroment to put some selection pressure on their cowherd. Some of the herds mentioned here have cows that have never had a tough day in their life. A good rule of thumb is buy from a place that runs them as tough or tougher than you-haven't had too many disappointments as far as working cattle with that policy. as far as the backfat EPD-you breed the bark of your cowherd and the increased cost of running your cowherd will eat up the grid premiums pretty damn fast. We've sold on a carcass grid for a long time-I don't really select for carcass per se in buying bulls or picking A'I bulls but we hit 95%+ AAA's up here in Canada. Our average yield grade could be a touch better but I can live with that. I can fix my yield grade in a second by including an exotic breed in our crossbreeding deal-but right now good F1 heifers are worth more that AAA Y1 steers. Trying to get straightbred cattle of ANY breed to be the best at anything is at best frustrating and in reality a fallacy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Rancher, post: 643169, member: 5898"] If you want to buy bulls that will sire easy keeping daughters you have to buy bulls from an outfit that allows the enviroment to put some selection pressure on their cowherd. Some of the herds mentioned here have cows that have never had a tough day in their life. A good rule of thumb is buy from a place that runs them as tough or tougher than you-haven't had too many disappointments as far as working cattle with that policy. as far as the backfat EPD-you breed the bark of your cowherd and the increased cost of running your cowherd will eat up the grid premiums pretty damn fast. We've sold on a carcass grid for a long time-I don't really select for carcass per se in buying bulls or picking A'I bulls but we hit 95%+ AAA's up here in Canada. Our average yield grade could be a touch better but I can live with that. I can fix my yield grade in a second by including an exotic breed in our crossbreeding deal-but right now good F1 heifers are worth more that AAA Y1 steers. Trying to get straightbred cattle of ANY breed to be the best at anything is at best frustrating and in reality a fallacy. [/QUOTE]
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