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<blockquote data-quote="WarEagle73" data-source="post: 1594052" data-attributes="member: 19171"><p>Long time without posting, but still been lurking around. Had a question for the board to see if anyone has any experience with this. </p><p></p><p>We have a small commercial herd, calve out 20-30 cows a year. Utilize AI in a pretty big way and every calf produced in the last three years has either become a replacement heifer or we have retained ownership. We have bought a couple of registered Angus cows and have thought about trying to produce a few bulls a year to sell locally and potentially buy the calves back to fill a truck to the feedyard.</p><p></p><p>My question is has anyone used the commercial options in the Total Herd Enrollment Program for the Simmental Association? Or used regular THE with commercial cows? My math says its cheaper to just used their normal version of THE rather than the $500 commercial option. I would really like to find a way to utilize all of this data that we are collecting, and I think the EPD's they can generate on our calves might be worth it. We would also be willing to do genomic testing on the commercial cows too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WarEagle73, post: 1594052, member: 19171"] Long time without posting, but still been lurking around. Had a question for the board to see if anyone has any experience with this. We have a small commercial herd, calve out 20-30 cows a year. Utilize AI in a pretty big way and every calf produced in the last three years has either become a replacement heifer or we have retained ownership. We have bought a couple of registered Angus cows and have thought about trying to produce a few bulls a year to sell locally and potentially buy the calves back to fill a truck to the feedyard. My question is has anyone used the commercial options in the Total Herd Enrollment Program for the Simmental Association? Or used regular THE with commercial cows? My math says its cheaper to just used their normal version of THE rather than the $500 commercial option. I would really like to find a way to utilize all of this data that we are collecting, and I think the EPD's they can generate on our calves might be worth it. We would also be willing to do genomic testing on the commercial cows too. [/QUOTE]
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