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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 182468" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>There are soooo many great comments here - both on the PB side & the commercial side.</p><p>To us, the cow is number one, since we use AI. She is our mainstay, must be great. We are a seedstock producer but we, like most seedstock & c/c producers, sell to the feedlots also. Remember, 1/2 our calf crop is bulls, and I don't know about other breeders, but not every calf with testicles is bull quality. We castrate most of our bull calves and some go to a feedlot and some we retain & put on a feedout program. So high quality steers & carcass also matters to us - greatly. That represents a good percentage of our income. Also, sell some steers for show.</p><p>So, breeding AI gives us the opportunity to pick one bull to match one cow. Now I don't buy semen from 40 different sires, but I will breed to 6 or 8 different sires.</p><p>We do try a new young bull most every year, on 2-3 head, but he has to be backed by pedigree, phenotype & numbers (actual & predicted)</p><p></p><p>Great comments everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 182468, member: 968"] There are soooo many great comments here - both on the PB side & the commercial side. To us, the cow is number one, since we use AI. She is our mainstay, must be great. We are a seedstock producer but we, like most seedstock & c/c producers, sell to the feedlots also. Remember, 1/2 our calf crop is bulls, and I don't know about other breeders, but not every calf with testicles is bull quality. We castrate most of our bull calves and some go to a feedlot and some we retain & put on a feedout program. So high quality steers & carcass also matters to us - greatly. That represents a good percentage of our income. Also, sell some steers for show. So, breeding AI gives us the opportunity to pick one bull to match one cow. Now I don't buy semen from 40 different sires, but I will breed to 6 or 8 different sires. We do try a new young bull most every year, on 2-3 head, but he has to be backed by pedigree, phenotype & numbers (actual & predicted) Great comments everyone. [/QUOTE]
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