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<blockquote data-quote="WalnutCrest" data-source="post: 1292077" data-attributes="member: 21715"><p>Lots of questions and a few answers ...</p><p></p><p>Can you AI your heifers for their first calf? If you can, I'd seriously try -- give each one two attempts at AI, and if they don't take, either sell them or let the bull breed them and hope she has a heifer calf (because a bull calf would probably be a nice vet bill, and maybe a dead cow and/or calf).</p><p></p><p>Whether or not a calf will be horned/scurred is a multi-gene trait and I don't feel knowledgeable enough to tell you whether or not some miscellaneous horned/scurred bull will produce horned/scurred calves out of your cows -- you'd need to DNA test everyone to have a better handle on what's hiding in the woodshed.</p><p></p><p>There are many guys who like Char x. cows ... so, you can sell your Char x. BL/BWF heifers to those guys and put your money back into more BL/BWF cows so you can keep your crossing system in tact.</p><p></p><p>**********************</p><p></p><p>So, here's what I'd do if I were you:</p><p></p><p>* Breed your BL/BWF cows to a terminal bull -- Char is fine for that.</p><p>* Sell your steers however you'd like.</p><p>* AI your heifers to a calving ease bull of the breed of your choosing and sell them as breds (once you can confirm they're bred) and anyone that doesn't breed up goes into your personal freezer.</p><p>* Take the money you get for your steers and bred heifers and buy more BL/BWF replacements (and/or a new bull when it's time) out of a program that's near you and where the management is at least as hard as your own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalnutCrest, post: 1292077, member: 21715"] Lots of questions and a few answers ... Can you AI your heifers for their first calf? If you can, I'd seriously try -- give each one two attempts at AI, and if they don't take, either sell them or let the bull breed them and hope she has a heifer calf (because a bull calf would probably be a nice vet bill, and maybe a dead cow and/or calf). Whether or not a calf will be horned/scurred is a multi-gene trait and I don't feel knowledgeable enough to tell you whether or not some miscellaneous horned/scurred bull will produce horned/scurred calves out of your cows -- you'd need to DNA test everyone to have a better handle on what's hiding in the woodshed. There are many guys who like Char x. cows ... so, you can sell your Char x. BL/BWF heifers to those guys and put your money back into more BL/BWF cows so you can keep your crossing system in tact. ********************** So, here's what I'd do if I were you: * Breed your BL/BWF cows to a terminal bull -- Char is fine for that. * Sell your steers however you'd like. * AI your heifers to a calving ease bull of the breed of your choosing and sell them as breds (once you can confirm they're bred) and anyone that doesn't breed up goes into your personal freezer. * Take the money you get for your steers and bred heifers and buy more BL/BWF replacements (and/or a new bull when it's time) out of a program that's near you and where the management is at least as hard as your own. [/QUOTE]
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