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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1681804" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>Thank you for the kind words. TCRanch- General was a bull that was born on our place and we sold him as a yearling. We ended up buying him back in the fall of 2018, and he has really done good things for our breeding program. We love the femininity of his heifer calves, and his bull calves are more consistent than our previous herdsire's, BB Uncle Tony. His dam (who is my avatar) is coming on 13 now, and is still phenotypically one of the nicest cows in our herd. General is by far the easiest keeping bull that we have had to date.</p><p></p><p>Gizmom- I completely agree with you assessment on Rio Grande. In our opinion, he is "good" but not the caliber of either Tony or General. We started to dig ourselves into a hole a few years ago by breeding too closely to Tony, as our frame scores were starting to get smaller than we would like. General has helped us turn that around though. I have an idea as to where I would like our herd to go in terms of phenotype and the combining of certain cow lines in the coming years, and I have to say that Rio Grande is not really a component of that plan. He is an outcross to Tony and out of one of our better cows, so we are using him over some older cows and half siblings to General for the interim until we raise a better replacement. I believe that some of this year's calves and current yearlings that we are retaining will be better than he is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1681804, member: 20754"] Thank you for the kind words. TCRanch- General was a bull that was born on our place and we sold him as a yearling. We ended up buying him back in the fall of 2018, and he has really done good things for our breeding program. We love the femininity of his heifer calves, and his bull calves are more consistent than our previous herdsire's, BB Uncle Tony. His dam (who is my avatar) is coming on 13 now, and is still phenotypically one of the nicest cows in our herd. General is by far the easiest keeping bull that we have had to date. Gizmom- I completely agree with you assessment on Rio Grande. In our opinion, he is "good" but not the caliber of either Tony or General. We started to dig ourselves into a hole a few years ago by breeding too closely to Tony, as our frame scores were starting to get smaller than we would like. General has helped us turn that around though. I have an idea as to where I would like our herd to go in terms of phenotype and the combining of certain cow lines in the coming years, and I have to say that Rio Grande is not really a component of that plan. He is an outcross to Tony and out of one of our better cows, so we are using him over some older cows and half siblings to General for the interim until we raise a better replacement. I believe that some of this year's calves and current yearlings that we are retaining will be better than he is. [/QUOTE]
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