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Weaned calf weight as a % of Mothers weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 808496" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>My T21 bull with 3008 in his pedigree had numbers somewhat along those lines: good calving ease and good growth. He was a bit large however. But keeping heifers sire by him but out of my "1200 lb" cows I am ending up with some very nice moderate size heifers who appear to have both the calving ease and growth from their sire but the moderate size of their dam.</p><p></p><p>I also have a homegrown bull out of T21 and my best cow who seems to have the best characteristics of each: smaller size but good CE, WW, YW and very good conformation, who I am going to use on my commercial females this summer.</p><p></p><p>Using a different bull with much the same calving ease and high growth on them I should end up with some calves that can be born unassisted, have good growth and early maturity so they are near 1100 lb finished in the 13-14 months that I need them to be in my system shown on the other thread with steers grazing corn. Am I missing something in this logic?</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 808496, member: 7509"] My T21 bull with 3008 in his pedigree had numbers somewhat along those lines: good calving ease and good growth. He was a bit large however. But keeping heifers sire by him but out of my "1200 lb" cows I am ending up with some very nice moderate size heifers who appear to have both the calving ease and growth from their sire but the moderate size of their dam. I also have a homegrown bull out of T21 and my best cow who seems to have the best characteristics of each: smaller size but good CE, WW, YW and very good conformation, who I am going to use on my commercial females this summer. Using a different bull with much the same calving ease and high growth on them I should end up with some calves that can be born unassisted, have good growth and early maturity so they are near 1100 lb finished in the 13-14 months that I need them to be in my system shown on the other thread with steers grazing corn. Am I missing something in this logic? Jim [/QUOTE]
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