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<blockquote data-quote="turning grass into beef" data-source="post: 499221" data-attributes="member: 5195"><p>The 12 bulls in the videos have birthweights ranging from 86 to 108 pounds. The average is 98.7 pounds. I don't keep the weaning and yearling weights at my house. My brother has those records at his house. I would guess the average adj. 205 day weight to be 550 - 600 pounds and the average yearling weight to be 900-1000 pounds. They will probably average around 1700 pounds when they turn 2 years old. These are the weights that our sale bulls have averaged the last few years.</p><p>At this point in time we have not tested anything for PHA. To the best of my knowledge there has not been a case in Canada.</p><p>TH is a very different situation. Most cattle going through sales are now TH tested and some breeders have chosen to test their whole cow herd. There have been some breeding stock that have been found to be TH carriers.</p><p>Every bull we sell or use ourself is tested for TH. Last fall we tested the entire cow herd. We found 2 cows that we purchased a few years ago that were carrriers. We have chosen to cull those cows from the purebred herd and breed them in our commercial herd. Because of this, in the future we will be able to declare our sale bulls TH free by parentage, instead of testing every bull every year. It is definately a manageable defect if you choose to use TH free bulls, <strong>NO EXCEPTIONS</strong>. If you choose to use TH carrier cows for breeding stock then you have to continue to test the calves from those cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turning grass into beef, post: 499221, member: 5195"] The 12 bulls in the videos have birthweights ranging from 86 to 108 pounds. The average is 98.7 pounds. I don't keep the weaning and yearling weights at my house. My brother has those records at his house. I would guess the average adj. 205 day weight to be 550 - 600 pounds and the average yearling weight to be 900-1000 pounds. They will probably average around 1700 pounds when they turn 2 years old. These are the weights that our sale bulls have averaged the last few years. At this point in time we have not tested anything for PHA. To the best of my knowledge there has not been a case in Canada. TH is a very different situation. Most cattle going through sales are now TH tested and some breeders have chosen to test their whole cow herd. There have been some breeding stock that have been found to be TH carriers. Every bull we sell or use ourself is tested for TH. Last fall we tested the entire cow herd. We found 2 cows that we purchased a few years ago that were carrriers. We have chosen to cull those cows from the purebred herd and breed them in our commercial herd. Because of this, in the future we will be able to declare our sale bulls TH free by parentage, instead of testing every bull every year. It is definately a manageable defect if you choose to use TH free bulls, [b]NO EXCEPTIONS[/b]. If you choose to use TH carrier cows for breeding stock then you have to continue to test the calves from those cows. [/QUOTE]
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