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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1747180" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>I appreciate the feedback! By no means do I take offense to anything that you have said. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the majority of the Beaver Creek herd. They have been a terrific foundation for us, and in my opinion, were some of the best Murray Greys in the US. They have terrific carcass attributes, and have done really well in our environment.</p><p></p><p>To achieve the goals that we have laid for ourselves, we do not intend to breed to the "bull of the month". There are a lot of bulls that we are purposefully not using, and with the Australian bulls that we are considering, where the data is available, I am finding as much information as I can about the sire, dam, progeny performance in carcass competitions, as well as photos/ performance of the progeny. For instance, Wallawong Under the Radar, the first bull I pictured, is in the top 5% of the breed for 200, 400, and 600 day weights, as well as the top 5% for ribeye area. He is still a frame 6 or so, so by no means massive. The three sons of Under the Radar that we saw in Ohio, years ago, were some of the most correct, uniform, physically mature yearlings that I have seen in the breed. </p><p></p><p>We bred very closely to BB Uncle Tony for a number of years, as he was the only walking sire that we had. During those years, the frame score dipped below what we thought to be desirable, and we found that the fertility of the young cows that were double or triple bred to 1 or more animals in their pedigree dropped. We were culling open 3 and 4 year old cows. The cows that we initially purchased from Beaver Creek were aging, and with culling many of the young stock coming on, it was not going to be sustainable for us in the long term. We have been really pleased, so far, with the calves that we are getting from the older AI sires, and we are going to continue to use them in our program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1747180, member: 20754"] I appreciate the feedback! By no means do I take offense to anything that you have said. We were extremely fortunate to acquire the majority of the Beaver Creek herd. They have been a terrific foundation for us, and in my opinion, were some of the best Murray Greys in the US. They have terrific carcass attributes, and have done really well in our environment. To achieve the goals that we have laid for ourselves, we do not intend to breed to the "bull of the month". There are a lot of bulls that we are purposefully not using, and with the Australian bulls that we are considering, where the data is available, I am finding as much information as I can about the sire, dam, progeny performance in carcass competitions, as well as photos/ performance of the progeny. For instance, Wallawong Under the Radar, the first bull I pictured, is in the top 5% of the breed for 200, 400, and 600 day weights, as well as the top 5% for ribeye area. He is still a frame 6 or so, so by no means massive. The three sons of Under the Radar that we saw in Ohio, years ago, were some of the most correct, uniform, physically mature yearlings that I have seen in the breed. We bred very closely to BB Uncle Tony for a number of years, as he was the only walking sire that we had. During those years, the frame score dipped below what we thought to be desirable, and we found that the fertility of the young cows that were double or triple bred to 1 or more animals in their pedigree dropped. We were culling open 3 and 4 year old cows. The cows that we initially purchased from Beaver Creek were aging, and with culling many of the young stock coming on, it was not going to be sustainable for us in the long term. We have been really pleased, so far, with the calves that we are getting from the older AI sires, and we are going to continue to use them in our program. [/QUOTE]
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