I do not know that.Are the sire and dam from warm weather climate? I ask because I have found that I don't have much luck with ai sires from cold weather climates and/or not from the fescue belt.
I do not know that.Are the sire and dam from warm weather climate? I ask because I have found that I don't have much luck with ai sires from cold weather climates and/or not from the fescue belt.
Enhance sired bred heifer, safe in first service AI on timed breeding.Thanks for the article J+. Really nice read, honestly surprised the difference was that great. Amazing you can move that many to Prime in one generation. Having fed out a few Enhance cattle I should not have been surprised. They marble exceptionally well in relation to other current AI sires. The thing we all tend to forget is that we all get paid for what we hang on the rail. And yes I have bred and calved out Enhance daughters, no problems on fertility or structure, but they are still young.. Tonight I can share some pics of Enhances but there is a reason he was the highest selling semen sire (Angus) in the last 2 years..
This would be interesting to know. Enhance has about the worst PAP EPD in the breed, but he is from fescue country. Never used him and never wanted to -- does he work well in fescue country?Is there a link between pap scores and fescue/heat tolerance?
Ok thank you. Good info.so my understanding is pap is about heart health and fescue tolerance is about the endocrinological system.. so different systems. now good pap cattle should be better in the stress of a feedlot situation..
the fat vs muscle deal is outside fat not inside fat (marbling) once again my understanding from what i have read. i have a friend who "plays" with feeding steers out (800 a year). he said the best, most profitable steers are prime yg3.. any yield less than that you left cw on the table, any more than 3 means they were too fat (not efficient) in the last days of feeding..
It sounds like hardware disease, traumatic pericarditis. Puss in the pericardial sac from penetrating hardware would cause cardiac tamponade and signs of congestive heart failure. The heart sounds would be very muffled as well.The second bull I was talking about was diagnosed with congestive heart failure by the vet a couple days ago. He could barely hear a heart beat and the bull has a 106 fever. We owned the bull for 60 days and he only made 30 days in the pasture. Vet says he doubts the bull makes it but if he does to bail him as soon as we can.
That is similar to a bull I purchased years ago. I had him for under 30 days, when it was noticed that he wasn't doing well.It sounds like hardware disease, traumatic pericarditis. Puss in the pericardial sac from penetrating hardware would cause cardiac tamponade and signs of congestive heart failure. The heart sounds would be very muffled as well.
The question would be did it occur at your place or at the breeders place? Possible some hardware could have been there and the effect of travelling and handling, socialising with other bulls could have caused it to move and penetrate the diaphragm.
Ken
I got tired of importing problems and started using my own bulls some 15 years ago. No regrets. However, we are concerned about getting the herd too inbred, so the boy is experimenting this year and bought semen for fifteen cows. Time will tell. One notable event, one summer had four cows drop dead. After the fourth one, in August, I told the boy everything has a genetic component, go pull papers on those cows. They were half sibs, 3 and 4 years old, out of a bull I had purchased. In hindsight, luckily we shipped him after he developed corns on both front feet, only used him parts of two seasons. We had five of his daughters in the herd starting out that year. This happened after we had started down the path of using our own bulls, he was the last bull I purchased, it sure reinforced the decision. Don't beat up us Angus folks too hard, Dad had a herd of Herefords. Around 1980, I was pretty handy at stuffing a uterus back into a cow.I ran only registered Angus bulls for over 20 years, most were AI sired and a couple ET. Seemed like it was first one thing then another after a while and was having to replace bulls pretty often.
Tried to put together a small registered Angus cowherd too, and didn't have much luck with that either,
Have also heard a couple registered breeders lamenting breed problems too.
I have doubts on MM EPD honing in on pure milk production but the definition of it is a catch-all so there is quite the reason to wonder. True high milk production is a terminal trait for more calf growth and less about the cow's maternal function on forages.Small sample size, but 1 thing that jumped out at me...
carcass weight epd 51 lb expected difference
actual difference 37 lbs
27% short fall is very significant and carcass weight is an easy measurement
and should cast at least somewhat significant doubts on epd accuracies
Which leads me to believe Milk epds might be close to useless. Milk is low heritability and difficult to measure... but what else are you going to do?
Yes, we have been using some of our own for a few years now.I got tired of importing problems and started using my own bulls some 15 years ago. No regrets. However, we are concerned about getting the herd too inbred, so the boy is experimenting this year and bought semen for fifteen cows. Time will tell. One notable event, one summer had four cows drop dead. After the fourth one, in August, I told the boy everything has a genetic component, go pull papers on those cows. They were half sibs, 3 and 4 years old, out of a bull I had purchased. In hindsight, luckily we shipped him after he developed corns on both front feet, only used him parts of two seasons. We had five of his daughters in the herd starting out that year. This happened after we had started down the path of using our own bulls, he was the last bull I purchased, it sure reinforced the decision. Don't beat up us Angus folks too hard, Dad had a herd of Herefords. Around 1980, I was pretty handy at stuffing a uterus back into a cow.