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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 863488" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>well, I think you can have beautiful flawless lemons and productive, long-lived turds any way you go... maybe we've been doing it ass-backwards, and I know that we started out with really poor stock (20/20 hindsight), but now that I've been doing this for 20 years, I can see patterns in the bloodlines, I have records of each cow, and use it to anticipate what to expect in the future.</p><p></p><p>We had 1 herf X (simm/RA?), she was built like a tank, ate like a hippo, and made big strong calves, but her granddaughters are becoming skinny and hard keepers, though they still milk well... On the other hand, one of the smaller cows who produced average, or just above, her granddaughters are build far better and live much longer... that cow was called "the ugliest cow I've ever seen" on here by someone, but most anyone would like to have any 3 of her granddaughters in their herd. Our first 3 bulls, which we kept for an average for 5 years each, were all grand champions, and no doubt that plays a role when you haven't developed an eye for what's good, and I'm only starting to get it...</p><p></p><p>Breeding cattle is a long road, and if we were to start over, we would have looked at a breeder who was in the business for 50 or more years</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 863488, member: 9096"] well, I think you can have beautiful flawless lemons and productive, long-lived turds any way you go... maybe we've been doing it ass-backwards, and I know that we started out with really poor stock (20/20 hindsight), but now that I've been doing this for 20 years, I can see patterns in the bloodlines, I have records of each cow, and use it to anticipate what to expect in the future. We had 1 herf X (simm/RA?), she was built like a tank, ate like a hippo, and made big strong calves, but her granddaughters are becoming skinny and hard keepers, though they still milk well... On the other hand, one of the smaller cows who produced average, or just above, her granddaughters are build far better and live much longer... that cow was called "the ugliest cow I've ever seen" on here by someone, but most anyone would like to have any 3 of her granddaughters in their herd. Our first 3 bulls, which we kept for an average for 5 years each, were all grand champions, and no doubt that plays a role when you haven't developed an eye for what's good, and I'm only starting to get it... Breeding cattle is a long road, and if we were to start over, we would have looked at a breeder who was in the business for 50 or more years [/QUOTE]
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