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EPD are a good tool but a cow with the same bull 2 years in a row can have a calf of the same sex with a 20 pounds difference or more as birth weight. Which genes the calf inherited you never know. We are into moderate frame but our cows are a bit fat so range 1600-2000 lbs. The heifers calves...

Two WR Wrangler heifers had Xplorer calves with 81lbs and 82lbs birth weight. Average BW on 15 cows is 99lbs for Xplorer calves. For Wr Wrangler 6 heifers had 78 lbs average birth weight and 15 cows average 94 lbs birth weight. Our average on 125 cows is 99 lbs, they eat free choice hay and they...

We are the breeders of Dubuc Zénith 202Z. We flushed a full sister of him with MVY Xplorer and expecting calves this spring. The Zenith mother gaved us 2 daughters with Shelco Made Easy. The first we flushed her with Wr Wrangler and have 2 good calves from that flush. I thing the calves from Wr...

We use Wr Wrangler W601 and MVY Xplorer 21X on heifers with good results.

We have 9 calves from embryos this year, gestation 277-284 days. The 277 days was an embryo that slit into 2 identical male. I use 283 days as gestation, charolais is suppose to be 286 but my average of the last 5 years is 283. When we use full french charolais bulls it's 286 and more.

We have 113 calves for 107 calving cows so there's hope!

Is someone try the charolais bull EC FOREFRONT 8066 PLD from Genex?

For Canadian Charolais (from the web site): -Walking sires must have DNA on file -All AI sires, including semen from on-farm collection must be parent verified (sire and dam) -Embryo transfer calves must be parent verified -Donor dams must have DNA on file Rules for Random Parentage...

First time I hear or read about that.

Will be a great weekend to exchange between breeders.

That calf from our herdsire (SLL King Pin 19X) is the favorite of the visitors we had this summer.

I hope that I will not live long enough to see that kind of beast like Roxy's Jack Dempsey return in the show ring circuit and win! BW EPD 8,6 ouch.

Is someone know if Lt Ledger is free of the scur gene?

@ Mark H We have 17 cows in calf with MVY Xplorer for next winter. We will see if those numbers hold.

As I understand the milk EPD is in pounds of calves at weaning from the daughters of a sire. Even if his daughters have plenty of milk the calves from a negative milk EPD (-11) sire are suppose to be lighter than those from a sire with a positive milk EPD in the same environment. But you know...