hornedfrogbbq
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Ok, this is just an exercise but something I'm interested in everyone's opinion. IF you excluded EVERYTHING else and just focused on wanting replacement females (without sexed semen), what bull would you use? So I am thinking we are talking about fertility, frame size of mature cow matching your forage and environment, milk matching your environment, etc.
Obviously you are going to get some bull calves but assume you make them all steers and they are sold. So no replacement bulls being retained...just focus on the best female making bull out there. I know the steers are revenue so you want them to grow and score when sold (regardless if at wean, fed out and sold fat or taken through and sold on a value grid) so i realize what i'm asking, to only focus on the females he is going to produce, leaves alot of debate short. I'm most interested in which AI bulls you all think make the best replacements and why.
I fully realize the answer to this will vary depending on personal experiences and choices as well as geographic and forage differences.
For our two cents, we like the females out of CC&7, Hoover Dam, Connealy Consensus and his son 7229 and his son Hickok, SAV Bruiser has some good females in our program...super efficient. I'd prefer your opinion on bulls that you can still buy semen on to keep it relevant to today. We LOVE Connealy Impression daughters but with his death this spring, his semen's availability will soon dry up.
Obviously you are going to get some bull calves but assume you make them all steers and they are sold. So no replacement bulls being retained...just focus on the best female making bull out there. I know the steers are revenue so you want them to grow and score when sold (regardless if at wean, fed out and sold fat or taken through and sold on a value grid) so i realize what i'm asking, to only focus on the females he is going to produce, leaves alot of debate short. I'm most interested in which AI bulls you all think make the best replacements and why.
I fully realize the answer to this will vary depending on personal experiences and choices as well as geographic and forage differences.
For our two cents, we like the females out of CC&7, Hoover Dam, Connealy Consensus and his son 7229 and his son Hickok, SAV Bruiser has some good females in our program...super efficient. I'd prefer your opinion on bulls that you can still buy semen on to keep it relevant to today. We LOVE Connealy Impression daughters but with his death this spring, his semen's availability will soon dry up.