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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1845710" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Thanks Warren, </p><p>So far we've only lost the one set of twins. Looks like gonna have the Jersey full capacity and maybe bottles if the streak continues. Honestly there's a lot of things that were my decisions that could come into play, </p><p>The calves are all by our BWF bull, several of the heifers themselves are by him too and the others by a half brother.</p><p>Calves are all small the twins that were lost were probably no bigger than 30 pounds a piece. 2 more of the calves are probably 40 pounds maybe a little more but seem lighter than a 50# sack of feed.</p><p>The largest of the calves are probably a little over 50 maybe around 60#.</p><p>A few issues I've attributed to inbreeding like the smaller size calf the one deformed twin, and another calf that has just been slow to take off, but it's doing much better as of today. </p><p>I think the lack of milk is coming from a particular Hereford bull I had that is the grandsire on the cow side of my BWF bull. That Hereford bull was all over the place as far as his daughters milking, some were improvements over their mothers, most were on par with their mothers and a few wouldn't have milk at all. It seems like this BWF bull is picking up on the no milk thing and passing it at a much higher percentage to his daughters. The milk issue is not from inbreeding as the heifers are first generation from that bull, some of the calves are by the same bull though so definitely inbred on the calf generation and we won't keep any of them for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1845710, member: 24816"] Thanks Warren, So far we’ve only lost the one set of twins. Looks like gonna have the Jersey full capacity and maybe bottles if the streak continues. Honestly there’s a lot of things that were my decisions that could come into play, The calves are all by our BWF bull, several of the heifers themselves are by him too and the others by a half brother. Calves are all small the twins that were lost were probably no bigger than 30 pounds a piece. 2 more of the calves are probably 40 pounds maybe a little more but seem lighter than a 50# sack of feed. The largest of the calves are probably a little over 50 maybe around 60#. A few issues I’ve attributed to inbreeding like the smaller size calf the one deformed twin, and another calf that has just been slow to take off, but it’s doing much better as of today. I think the lack of milk is coming from a particular Hereford bull I had that is the grandsire on the cow side of my BWF bull. That Hereford bull was all over the place as far as his daughters milking, some were improvements over their mothers, most were on par with their mothers and a few wouldn’t have milk at all. It seems like this BWF bull is picking up on the no milk thing and passing it at a much higher percentage to his daughters. The milk issue is not from inbreeding as the heifers are first generation from that bull, some of the calves are by the same bull though so definitely inbred on the calf generation and we won’t keep any of them for sure. [/QUOTE]
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