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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 157043" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>The Limi breed has had a fertility problem & (which IS connected) smaller testicular size in their bulls. Back about 10 years ago, I got the Nat'l Limo Assn's "guidebook" which recommended using bulls with less than a 34cm yearling SC for TERMINAL breeding only. They said they had a major problem with females getting culled for poor reproduction. They implemented a fertility EPD (I believe) so I'm <em>assuming </em>they are improving. But, if you are raising large growth females with smaller easier keeping females, maybe the larger Limo heifers have not been fed out to their potential growth, which they would need to weigh more than a british heifer.</p><p></p><p>Just as a side note - not all continentals are late maturing. Simmental happen to be very early maturing - sexually. Earlier than Herefords.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 157043, member: 968"] The Limi breed has had a fertility problem & (which IS connected) smaller testicular size in their bulls. Back about 10 years ago, I got the Nat'l Limo Assn's "guidebook" which recommended using bulls with less than a 34cm yearling SC for TERMINAL breeding only. They said they had a major problem with females getting culled for poor reproduction. They implemented a fertility EPD (I believe) so I'm [i]assuming [/i]they are improving. But, if you are raising large growth females with smaller easier keeping females, maybe the larger Limo heifers have not been fed out to their potential growth, which they would need to weigh more than a british heifer. Just as a side note - not all continentals are late maturing. Simmental happen to be very early maturing - sexually. Earlier than Herefords. [/QUOTE]
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