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The farther North you go, the better the commerical cattle?
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<blockquote data-quote="BA" data-source="post: 184743" data-attributes="member: 1319"><p>By saying that the calving ease bulls are gaining well on test I am not saying to use 55-65 lbs. bulls on cows.</p><p></p><p>I'm saying that in the Angus breed you don't have to have bulls that are +4 BW to get performance. You can look all through the sire summaries and see bulls with a BW of 2 and less with more performance than is needed. Red Angus is the same way. Why use the +5 bulls to get the same weaning weight as a 0 BW bull? </p><p></p><p>Another annoying thing is looking through a catalog of bulls with 90-95 birth weights saying that they are recommended for heifers. Anyone ever notice that 99% of the bred heifers sold are bred to a low bw Angus or Red Angus bull. I've looked through countless catalogs and there arent' that many true calving ease being sold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BA, post: 184743, member: 1319"] By saying that the calving ease bulls are gaining well on test I am not saying to use 55-65 lbs. bulls on cows. I'm saying that in the Angus breed you don't have to have bulls that are +4 BW to get performance. You can look all through the sire summaries and see bulls with a BW of 2 and less with more performance than is needed. Red Angus is the same way. Why use the +5 bulls to get the same weaning weight as a 0 BW bull? Another annoying thing is looking through a catalog of bulls with 90-95 birth weights saying that they are recommended for heifers. Anyone ever notice that 99% of the bred heifers sold are bred to a low bw Angus or Red Angus bull. I've looked through countless catalogs and there arent' that many true calving ease being sold. [/QUOTE]
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