AgreeRafter S":m53rkzpo said:I wouldn't use a Santa Gertrudis bull on heifers regardless of his EPD. With mature cows I don't worry about it.
Bigfoot":1ndmkt3k said:Hybred vigor will pretty high on those calves. Starts in the uterus imho. Some here disagree with that. Anything but a heifer, I'd do it without looking back.
midTN_Brangusman":dchcupkp said:Bigfoot":dchcupkp said:Hybred vigor will pretty high on those calves. Starts in the uterus imho. Some here disagree with that. Anything but a heifer, I'd do it without looking back.
Lose a few cows and you will look back quite a bit :lol:
Aren't pb Gerts just 3/8 Brahman?Caustic Burno":1sp74xao said:AgreeRafter S":1sp74xao said:I wouldn't use a Santa Gertrudis bull on heifers regardless of his EPD. With mature cows I don't worry about it.
Here is some reading material
http://www.brahman.org/PDFs/Reciprocal- ... rences.pdf
greybeard":dcq3vn55 said:Aren't pb Gerts just 3/8 Brahman?Caustic Burno":dcq3vn55 said:AgreeRafter S":dcq3vn55 said:I wouldn't use a Santa Gertrudis bull on heifers regardless of his EPD. With mature cows I don't worry about it.
Here is some reading material
http://www.brahman.org/PDFs/Reciprocal- ... rences.pdf
greatgerts":28ab4b95 said:I believe some is a regional difference, as well as just genetic difference. One of our bulls has sired calves at our place with bw ranging from 68-74. We had him collected and used him for some ET calves, and they were born in Oklahoma near OKC, and bw was from 70-85.
Another bull of ours had calves that would not even touch the mid 70s on his calves. That was the bull I liked to use on commercial heifers. Of course, I had raised the bull too, so I knew a lot about him.
greybeard":z29kbz1e said:Aren't pb Gerts just 3/8 Brahman?Caustic Burno":z29kbz1e said:AgreeRafter S":z29kbz1e said:I wouldn't use a Santa Gertrudis bull on heifers regardless of his EPD. With mature cows I don't worry about it.
Here is some reading material
http://www.brahman.org/PDFs/Reciprocal- ... rences.pdf