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<blockquote data-quote="Cattleman200" data-source="post: 816675" data-attributes="member: 951"><p>I had a neighbor down the road from me back about 5 years ago asked about using one of my bulls on a small set of his cows. He had been using average bulls of a different breed on his herd. I leased him a bull and he turned him in on 17 females. In about 75 days I picked the bull up. At weaning time the calves out of my bull out weighed the calves out of his bull by 100 pounds across the board out of a similiar group of females. The females that calved to my bull all stayed in good flesh throughout the calf raising period with no extra anything that the other herd was not getting and all bred back in a timely manner. He sold all 17 calves along with the calves out of his bull and averaged $90 - $110 more per calf on an average market out of my bulls calves. Someone explain to me how it cost him more to get those extra pounds and please don`t tell me they had to eat more grass. In this real world that actually happened scenario how is more weaning weight redundant ? In this situation the females bred to my bull were on a rented pasture that actually was not fertilized as well as the pasture his other females were on. Genetics do count for something in the cattle world. I do know he was well pleased with the extra $1700. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Circle H Ranch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattleman200, post: 816675, member: 951"] I had a neighbor down the road from me back about 5 years ago asked about using one of my bulls on a small set of his cows. He had been using average bulls of a different breed on his herd. I leased him a bull and he turned him in on 17 females. In about 75 days I picked the bull up. At weaning time the calves out of my bull out weighed the calves out of his bull by 100 pounds across the board out of a similiar group of females. The females that calved to my bull all stayed in good flesh throughout the calf raising period with no extra anything that the other herd was not getting and all bred back in a timely manner. He sold all 17 calves along with the calves out of his bull and averaged $90 - $110 more per calf on an average market out of my bulls calves. Someone explain to me how it cost him more to get those extra pounds and please don`t tell me they had to eat more grass. In this real world that actually happened scenario how is more weaning weight redundant ? In this situation the females bred to my bull were on a rented pasture that actually was not fertilized as well as the pasture his other females were on. Genetics do count for something in the cattle world. I do know he was well pleased with the extra $1700. Circle H Ranch [/QUOTE]
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