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<blockquote data-quote="Busterz" data-source="post: 642226" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>Sounds like you may have trouble getting the numbers you want of a single breed. You would probably want to focus on frame size and calving ease. What kinds of statistics or records do the keep in europe for things like that? Here we have e.p.d's and the birth weights are usually recorded. </p><p></p><p>You may have to have a mixed cow herd (like hereford and angus) and focus on getting low birthweight continental bulls with a moderate frame and good disposition. The F1 heifers should be good mother cows also. Its may be easier to find a few really good bulls than to put together a single breed cow herd.</p><p></p><p>Here some people are using a lot of composite bulls that are usually half british and half continental, that is supposed to pass on some consistency from both to a mixed cow herd. </p><p></p><p>If you are going to be small at first maybe you want to try to AI to some american or austrailian bulls and produce a few of your own to get you going and go from there. Or try some embryo tranfers in some of those dairy cattle they have around there. I'm only assuming you have access to the resources needed to do something like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Busterz, post: 642226, member: 7999"] Sounds like you may have trouble getting the numbers you want of a single breed. You would probably want to focus on frame size and calving ease. What kinds of statistics or records do the keep in europe for things like that? Here we have e.p.d's and the birth weights are usually recorded. You may have to have a mixed cow herd (like hereford and angus) and focus on getting low birthweight continental bulls with a moderate frame and good disposition. The F1 heifers should be good mother cows also. Its may be easier to find a few really good bulls than to put together a single breed cow herd. Here some people are using a lot of composite bulls that are usually half british and half continental, that is supposed to pass on some consistency from both to a mixed cow herd. If you are going to be small at first maybe you want to try to AI to some american or austrailian bulls and produce a few of your own to get you going and go from there. Or try some embryo tranfers in some of those dairy cattle they have around there. I'm only assuming you have access to the resources needed to do something like that. [/QUOTE]
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