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<blockquote data-quote="Nick Wagner" data-source="post: 1753097" data-attributes="member: 25329"><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Wagner, post: 1753097, member: 25329"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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