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Ive heard that the old angus bull "great northern" has some stein blood in him

Handling a steer is a complete waste of time and is just entertainment for the crowd/exhibitor. 

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ah college... the best 9 years of my life

usually primes are fatter too, near yg 4 or worse. 

Ive been told to use cheap injectable in the fall/winter and expensive pour on in the spring/summer. Rotate your brands to reduce time for resistance

cut some hair off her switch and glue it on showday

when you give them an antibiotic for RP, do you inject it or give it interuterine, or both?

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I believe you may know these as "club calves"

No one is trying to lynch the early imports of 3 or 4 decades ago.  You think heat wave was a hard calver?  What about some of the early simmental, charolais, maine, chi, gelvieh, limmy, and any other continential strain that came across the pound?  IMO, those days were FAR worse than what are...

This would be the same as passing judgement on someone because they raise their kids a different way. It is none of your business.

the notion that a bulls acutal BW ( unless it really high or really low--130+ to say 60) has much influence on his progenys bw is false. Whats his BW or CE epd, those are FAR better predictors than his actual BW.

the hundred pounds or so range in carcass weight is kinda of a tough pill to swallow, I'd say your headed on the right track by increasing ADG and muscle.  If your feeding in NE, I'd think you'd want to try and hit 3.50 ADG with these placement weights.  I'm surprised that %Choice is lower and...

this sounds like trying to win a drag race with a ford taurus--why not get a corvette? buy yourself some angus cows, breed them to simmy or maine bulls, keep the offspring--breed them clubby its cliche because it works

yeah I always heard semen can be safe on vapor but eggs need liquid N

the symptoms of this sound like another disease... either way most wouldnt take the chance to have it diagnosed, I know I wouldnt S.S.S.

I love our eby but the real rule of thumb is never buy a trailer from a company that doesnt make a pot

What is the measure of cowherd efficiency?  Is it: F:G--selection creates bigger cows RFI--hasnt been determined Cow weight/pounds weaned No one has that figured out yet. 

the answer to the lack of data is having a total herd reporting system.  Sure, most people dont like it, and think its something similar to NAID or healthcare, but its the only way to increase the accuracy of epds.  Or provide some kind of incentive to report data.  The more I think about this...