Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
Your Favorite Sires
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1070991" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>DOC, </p><p>We've been very pleased with the 537 bull - as you pointed out, he's just an average Angus bull with balanced epd profile, working well in a commercial herd setting - his calves have had as much or more 'grow' than several AI sires with WW epds 20-30# higher. Biggest 'plus' has been his docile disposition, which has carried through to his daughters. Not an udder fixer, but not a destroyer; daughters have showed more frame than their SimAngus dams.</p><p>Hadn't looked at the pedigree in a while - thought I was 'home free' with regard to CA when 878 tested clean, but on closer exam, it looks like he's also got PIKN several generations back on the sire side. No CA-affected calves out of a handful of sire-daughter matings, but certainly not enough of those here to be statistically significant.</p><p></p><p>cp, </p><p>Used a cane of Connection on high-percentage Angus heifers; calves just did not impress me... kept 2 daughters, one each out of a Wave and 6I6 daughter. several other heifers just didn't make the cut, and their steer counterparts weren't much to write home about. However, most were out of first-calf NBPT D806 daughters, which probably accounts for the poor performance...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1070991, member: 12607"] DOC, We've been very pleased with the 537 bull - as you pointed out, he's just an average Angus bull with balanced epd profile, working well in a commercial herd setting - his calves have had as much or more 'grow' than several AI sires with WW epds 20-30# higher. Biggest 'plus' has been his docile disposition, which has carried through to his daughters. Not an udder fixer, but not a destroyer; daughters have showed more frame than their SimAngus dams. Hadn't looked at the pedigree in a while - thought I was 'home free' with regard to CA when 878 tested clean, but on closer exam, it looks like he's also got PIKN several generations back on the sire side. No CA-affected calves out of a handful of sire-daughter matings, but certainly not enough of those here to be statistically significant. cp, Used a cane of Connection on high-percentage Angus heifers; calves just did not impress me... kept 2 daughters, one each out of a Wave and 6I6 daughter. several other heifers just didn't make the cut, and their steer counterparts weren't much to write home about. However, most were out of first-calf NBPT D806 daughters, which probably accounts for the poor performance... [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
Your Favorite Sires
Top