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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 628601" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>First of all, it is a crossbred calf so we know he won't fit into the breeding program suggested here of crossing two pure breeds to get a commercial crossbreed female. Secondly there are probably a 1000 dairy cows to each AI dairy bull so there is no shortage of dairy bulls for breeding. Third this is Uruguay, where historically beef prices are LOWER than in the rest of the world. It is highly unlikely that you can sell that day old dairy calf for what it cost to keep that recipient cow in good flesh for a year because the cost of growing out dairy calf is probably more than he will be worth when grown out. At our chicken hatcheries just about every leghorn (a laying chicken breed) rooster is killed upon hatching because you can't economically grow out longhorn rooster. Like a dairy bull.....not enough meat. Lorenzo used sexed semen and accepted a lower conception rate so he would not have to kill or give away a bunch of useless bull calves and to cut the cost of his project almost in half.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 628601, member: 7645"] First of all, it is a crossbred calf so we know he won't fit into the breeding program suggested here of crossing two pure breeds to get a commercial crossbreed female. Secondly there are probably a 1000 dairy cows to each AI dairy bull so there is no shortage of dairy bulls for breeding. Third this is Uruguay, where historically beef prices are LOWER than in the rest of the world. It is highly unlikely that you can sell that day old dairy calf for what it cost to keep that recipient cow in good flesh for a year because the cost of growing out dairy calf is probably more than he will be worth when grown out. At our chicken hatcheries just about every leghorn (a laying chicken breed) rooster is killed upon hatching because you can't economically grow out longhorn rooster. Like a dairy bull.....not enough meat. Lorenzo used sexed semen and accepted a lower conception rate so he would not have to kill or give away a bunch of useless bull calves and to cut the cost of his project almost in half. [/QUOTE]
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