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Here are some pictures of some F1 Barzona x Red angus calves. Adds heat tolerance and hybrid vigor without adding ear. Unfortunately, the Barzona is all but a dead breed. I am looking at other alternative breeds that gain heat tolerance from African genetics rather than Indian.

For a commercial herd the benefits of cross breeding are too great to ignore. I have had the idea to do a three breed maternal rotation cross using Hereford, Red Angus and Beefmaster AI, then cleaning up with a terminal continental bull. I would sort the cows based on phenotype to ensure that...

I did that protocol with some heifers a couple of years ago except I didn’t give the shot of lute when I pulled the CIDRs. Worked pretty well to move up the heats without having them all come in at the same time.

Has anybody ever put their money where there mouth is when it comes to EPDs?

To answer the question I finally armed the cow and found that she was open. Hadn't had any thing sucking on her for about a year.

Actually maximum heterosis and maximum consistency occur at the F1 cross. If you cross a horned Hereford with a black Angus, the resulting calves will all be heterozygous black, polled and white faced. Crossing an F1 black baldy to an F1 black baldy will result in 64 different genotypes and 8...

I have a cow that I was curious whether it was bred so I grabbed a tit and there was milk. I was just curious.

When I tried asking google, all I got was PETA saying dairying is bad.

The half of the equation is that if a person has those top end animals, they aren’t going to get top end prices for them. The big money chases the prefix. I know several people who had good Angus herds, sold bulls to the AI studs, but wound up selling their cows without papers.

Getting back to the OP's original question. I am not sure why it makes sense for a person with a single breeding group to keep their own heifers. At weaning time, a short bred cow that will give you a calf to sell next year isn't worth much more than a heifer calf. Once you factor in the expense...

Back in the days before DNA testing, it was standard practices to breed a bull to 30 of his daughters to determine if that bull had a harmful genetic disorder. For me, it is more important to keep using the genetics that work for us than getting the occasional inbred calf. I put a big priority...

Dystocia happens because the calf's hip bones are too big to fit through the cows pelvis. A small light birthweight bull will sire calves that calve easy because they fit through the pelvis of a normal sized cow. But a heifer out of a lightweight bull will tend to have a smaller pelvis herself...

If a cow needs to be induced, she needs to become hamburger.

How hard is it to get genetics into China? My advice would be to purchase semen directly from the breeder.

The thing that is so often missed about crossbreeding is what makes a good cow is different than what makes a good feeder calf. I recently attended a presentation by PJ Budler, where he observed that over the past 40 years the Angus breed had improved terminal value by $140 a calf at the...

Environment plays a huge factor in birthweight. I have found that the calves born fall time in California are about 15 pounds lighter than their siblings born than their spring born Canadian siblings. For me, I have a larger problem with calves being born too light rather than too heavy. I do...

If you have a good market for pairs, I would sell the late calvers and buy back feeder cows from a good source. Even if they don't breed up, they will make you money as fat cows.

I don't like the idea of breeding everything to just one bull, there is simply too great a chance breeding everything to the wrong bull. The biggest advantage of AI over using a bull is that I don't have to use the same bull on everything. When I AI, I generally use at least three bulls and...

Environment can't modify a gene directly but environment has a large impact on the genes that are passed down the generations. Over the past few decades we have seen many new animal health technologies yet cattle haven't been getting healthier because unfit animals are no longer eliminating...