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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 349071" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>Thank you for your comment. I buy semen for the registered cattle most of the time, occasionally use a bull I've bred if I need to. I closed my herd a few years ago, so new genetics only come in frozen in small tubes. </p><p>When I started I had to rely on the hoped-for expertise of the semen purveyors, many of whom had firm opinions on what I <em>should </em>do, most of which didn't really fit with what I wanted to do. Some of that was to do with my own pig-headedness but also my strong awareness that pasture conditions here are very different from those further south where most of the semen guys farm. Huge cattle won't work here and they were still the order of the day when I started. I had to rely mostly on numbers since there wasn't a lot of independent advice to be had in my region. More recently I've found a couple of people whose opinion I trust who've seen some of the bulls whose figures also suited my breeding programme and am having a few less disasters come calving time - not calving disasters as such, but animals which I would prefer to hide out the back of the farm. However, it's all been a tremendously interesting adventure which I'm still enjoying by the day and year!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 349071, member: 5956"] Thank you for your comment. I buy semen for the registered cattle most of the time, occasionally use a bull I've bred if I need to. I closed my herd a few years ago, so new genetics only come in frozen in small tubes. When I started I had to rely on the hoped-for expertise of the semen purveyors, many of whom had firm opinions on what I [i]should [/i]do, most of which didn't really fit with what I wanted to do. Some of that was to do with my own pig-headedness but also my strong awareness that pasture conditions here are very different from those further south where most of the semen guys farm. Huge cattle won't work here and they were still the order of the day when I started. I had to rely mostly on numbers since there wasn't a lot of independent advice to be had in my region. More recently I've found a couple of people whose opinion I trust who've seen some of the bulls whose figures also suited my breeding programme and am having a few less disasters come calving time - not calving disasters as such, but animals which I would prefer to hide out the back of the farm. However, it's all been a tremendously interesting adventure which I'm still enjoying by the day and year! [/QUOTE]
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