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Breeding / Calving Issues
Having too much calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1506401" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Select for a comfortable CED but with bulls that show +BW. Just a few years ago, Angus folks would say +3BW or lower or +2BW or lower was great for heifers. Then the bottom fell out and now a bull needs to be negative BW to be a heifer bull. Ten or 15 years does not change the need of the numbers to be different. The people and opinions changed and it has hurt the cattle. Some of the best bulls we used on heifers were +BW and OK (not extreme) on CED when they developed it. Curve benders are anomalies that seem to create problems in the second or third generation when genes rearrange back toward normal. So I avoid that too but could sell you some semen pretty cheaply on an old one if you want to learn, too!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1506401, member: 24565"] Select for a comfortable CED but with bulls that show +BW. Just a few years ago, Angus folks would say +3BW or lower or +2BW or lower was great for heifers. Then the bottom fell out and now a bull needs to be negative BW to be a heifer bull. Ten or 15 years does not change the need of the numbers to be different. The people and opinions changed and it has hurt the cattle. Some of the best bulls we used on heifers were +BW and OK (not extreme) on CED when they developed it. Curve benders are anomalies that seem to create problems in the second or third generation when genes rearrange back toward normal. So I avoid that too but could sell you some semen pretty cheaply on an old one if you want to learn, too! [/QUOTE]
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