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<blockquote data-quote="driggsimm" data-source="post: 30729" data-attributes="member: 280"><p>I agree 100% in that you can get more variation from lines within a given breed than you can from animals crossed between breeds sometimes. Like you said, it is all in the matings. Where a lot of cattlemen miss the boat on using composite bulls is that they can simplify crossbreeding and cashing in on hybrid vigor by letting the bull be a crossbred rather than their cows. Pretty much everyone knows that you get maximum heterosis from crossing a third breed of bull back onto an F1 cow. Example, using a PB Simmental bull back onto an F1 Brahman X Angus cow. You can do almost as well by using an F1 Simmental X Angus bull (Or similar breeding) back onto a Hereford cow or a Braford, etc. What matters most is that the F1 bull that you are using is a genetically high quality animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="driggsimm, post: 30729, member: 280"] I agree 100% in that you can get more variation from lines within a given breed than you can from animals crossed between breeds sometimes. Like you said, it is all in the matings. Where a lot of cattlemen miss the boat on using composite bulls is that they can simplify crossbreeding and cashing in on hybrid vigor by letting the bull be a crossbred rather than their cows. Pretty much everyone knows that you get maximum heterosis from crossing a third breed of bull back onto an F1 cow. Example, using a PB Simmental bull back onto an F1 Brahman X Angus cow. You can do almost as well by using an F1 Simmental X Angus bull (Or similar breeding) back onto a Hereford cow or a Braford, etc. What matters most is that the F1 bull that you are using is a genetically high quality animal. [/QUOTE]
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