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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 435425" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>Appreciate all the compliments everyone! We are trying our best to run a quality program.</p><p></p><p>We have over 5,000 sires and dams in our database that we use for computer simulated "what if" (bloodline) breedings. The database covers some 25 years back as we add prominent animals to it. Since the majority of cattle people want animals that look good and work for them "in the pasture", the show animals are just primarily that (for whatever the purpose).</p><p></p><p>Our program strives to produce quality animals in "pasture condition", not "show condition", since we only rarely take an animal to a show. Several of our matings have produced calves that have exceeded the conformation of their dam. The proof is what the sire and dam can produce, not what they always look like themselves...this is how the breed is improved in future offspring and matings.</p><p></p><p>In our program, if one of our bulls works for us in our matings, then he stays until he proves otherwise...if he doesn't do something for "our" program, he grows wheels. We are not married to any given bull (or dam, for that matter). We have sold several quality bulls to other breeders over the past 5 years that didn't fit our on-going herd improvement program. Essentially, each of our bulls is tried out on each of our females to see what works (assuming the bull/cow pairing is appropriate in the first place).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 435425, member: 9"] Appreciate all the compliments everyone! We are trying our best to run a quality program. We have over 5,000 sires and dams in our database that we use for computer simulated "what if" (bloodline) breedings. The database covers some 25 years back as we add prominent animals to it. Since the majority of cattle people want animals that look good and work for them "in the pasture", the show animals are just primarily that (for whatever the purpose). Our program strives to produce quality animals in "pasture condition", not "show condition", since we only rarely take an animal to a show. Several of our matings have produced calves that have exceeded the conformation of their dam. The proof is what the sire and dam can produce, not what they always look like themselves...this is how the breed is improved in future offspring and matings. In our program, if one of our bulls works for us in our matings, then he stays until he proves otherwise...if he doesn't do something for "our" program, he grows wheels. We are not married to any given bull (or dam, for that matter). We have sold several quality bulls to other breeders over the past 5 years that didn't fit our on-going herd improvement program. Essentially, each of our bulls is tried out on each of our females to see what works (assuming the bull/cow pairing is appropriate in the first place). [/QUOTE]
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