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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1746228" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>I will admit that that is something that we are trying to work on. Our herd has terrific carcass traits and the phenotype that we desire, but I feel that more performance and growth pre-weaning would go a long way in making our Murray Greys more marketable to the commercial producer. We are using a lot of older genetics from the 1970s and 80s in our AI program, which seems to have helped us establish more genetic diversity and we have gotten some phenomenal calves in the process. The BB Backbone's General bull that sired most of these calves is out of a bull that was born in 1989. With our females out of General, Tony, and these older AI sires as our base, we intend to breed to some newer genetics out of Australia. Two of the bulls are pictured below. They are a frame 5 1/2 to 6, and if I recall correctly, they are both in the top 5% of the breed for growth traits. There is another bull at a collection facility now in Australia that I am very excited about too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]16451[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]16452[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1746228, member: 20754"] I will admit that that is something that we are trying to work on. Our herd has terrific carcass traits and the phenotype that we desire, but I feel that more performance and growth pre-weaning would go a long way in making our Murray Greys more marketable to the commercial producer. We are using a lot of older genetics from the 1970s and 80s in our AI program, which seems to have helped us establish more genetic diversity and we have gotten some phenomenal calves in the process. The BB Backbone's General bull that sired most of these calves is out of a bull that was born in 1989. With our females out of General, Tony, and these older AI sires as our base, we intend to breed to some newer genetics out of Australia. Two of the bulls are pictured below. They are a frame 5 1/2 to 6, and if I recall correctly, they are both in the top 5% of the breed for growth traits. There is another bull at a collection facility now in Australia that I am very excited about too. [ATTACH type="full"]16451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]16452[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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