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beanplanter
Posted 11/24/2024 20:53 (#10981381 - in reply to #10981157)
Subject: RE: Third time losers


Missouri

Big Swede - 11/24/2024 17:26
beanplanter - 11/23/2024 19:36

Do you buy bulls of very similar pedigree or do you buy bulls of like type and varied pedigrees?

We usually buy 6 half brothers every year for our mature herd. We stick with that sire group for 3 or 4 years then switch to a different sire. One year I recall we turned out 23 half brothers on the mature herd. My philosophy is to buy cow maker bulls and the steers will take care of themselves so the answer to your question is we buy like type bulls with varied pedigrees.


Seems like this could be a pretty big piece of the puzzle. When I worked the breeding crews to your north and east everyone cleaned up with a group of sons of the bull we AI'd their cows to. It made for very consistent groups of calves, but that consistency runs both ways when it comes to culls. Can you track the increase in opens to the start of a new sire group or do you keep some form of records to ID some of the open cows' sires? If you don't it might be worth blood testing some of those open cows to figure out which sire group they belong to before the sisters who failed as 3s come back to haunt you as open 7s instead of making it to your normal culling age. 

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