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Artificial Insemination (AI) for Cattle
Which bull to use?
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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1447669" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>How big of cattle frame size wise do you prefer? 4R tends to sire moderately framed calves, not too small IMO as long as you aren't breeding him to small framed cows to begin with. Most of our 4R calves over the years have averaged about mid 5 frame for heifers, and bulls upper 5 to lower 6 frame. Most of our cows are some type of 5 or 6 frame in size which is right were we like them, any bigger and they can be hard doer's in our environment and any smaller you worry about them possibly being hard calvers. I'm trying to pull up 4R's performance pedigree to see what the average frame size of his progeny has been as he's been a pretty heavily used AI sire but the AHA website appears to be having issues at the moment so I'll check back later on that. If I had to guess it's probably somewhere around 5.5 frame average on a couple thousand registered calves reported.</p><p></p><p>I will send you a PM later on with some suggestions, don't really want to turn this into a post to be promoting certain breeder's genetics over another. I guess my main question is other than preferring a homo polled sire what other qualities are important to you and what kind of traits are you looking to add to your program? That would help with narrowing down some bull suggestions knowing what kind of things you are looking for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1447669, member: 20580"] How big of cattle frame size wise do you prefer? 4R tends to sire moderately framed calves, not too small IMO as long as you aren't breeding him to small framed cows to begin with. Most of our 4R calves over the years have averaged about mid 5 frame for heifers, and bulls upper 5 to lower 6 frame. Most of our cows are some type of 5 or 6 frame in size which is right were we like them, any bigger and they can be hard doer's in our environment and any smaller you worry about them possibly being hard calvers. I'm trying to pull up 4R's performance pedigree to see what the average frame size of his progeny has been as he's been a pretty heavily used AI sire but the AHA website appears to be having issues at the moment so I'll check back later on that. If I had to guess it's probably somewhere around 5.5 frame average on a couple thousand registered calves reported. I will send you a PM later on with some suggestions, don't really want to turn this into a post to be promoting certain breeder's genetics over another. I guess my main question is other than preferring a homo polled sire what other qualities are important to you and what kind of traits are you looking to add to your program? That would help with narrowing down some bull suggestions knowing what kind of things you are looking for. [/QUOTE]
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