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Yes, he died pre proof and there was maybe ~150-200 doses all up.

People are pretty happy as he made a lot of brood cows and excellents and they have bred on. The breeders that used him, when they calved their Fabulons in kept asking if we had any left.

If people are disappointed they have not shown it.

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That great that people are happy more that his index doesn't show up very good.
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This is funny because the numbers and index seem wrong in this case when the breeders are happy and the bull you mentioned before bazza didnt work for you and im sure he had good figures.
 Just goes to show all the numbers doesnt automatically mean you get what you were hoping for.
And Fabulon- i know nothing about him but its like the genomics game now, limited semen from a sire and immediately hes in demand, look at snowman!!
Dreadful components and average health and type but hailed as a great one!
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This is funny because the numbers and index seem wrong in this case when the breeders are happy and the bull you mentioned before bazza didnt work for you and im sure he had good figures.
 Just goes to show all the numbers doesnt automatically mean you get what you were hoping for.
And Fabulon- i know nothing about him but its like the genomics game now, limited semen from a sire and immediately hes in demand, look at snowman!!
Dreadful components and average health and type but hailed as a great one!



Not really, fabulon has only 140 daughters in 70 herds. The herd with the most daughters has 8. That leaves a lot of herds with only 1 or 2 daughters. So most of these are saying this bull is great from milking only 1 or 2 daughters and many were only from their top cows. A couple of daughters from a bull doesn't really tell you anything.

I am also milking about 15 daughters of a fabulon son. They look ok and milk ok but the way it is at the moment half won't make it to second lactation.

Also our index seems terriblely unreliable compared to other countries.
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like i said fabulon-like the genomic sires now, only a few in each herd put on the best cows, impossible to get reliable proofs from the ones that are in short supply
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Fabulon is a 1998 bull. He got a proper distribution at the time.

In 2005 he sat at no 27 on APR looking at the May proofs.

Not sure what the fuss is that over 10 years after he was proven he isn't high on the index now?

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Fabulon is a 1998 bull. He got a proper distribution at the time.

In 2005 he sat at no 27 on APR looking at the May proofs.

Not sure what the fuss is that over 10 years after he was proven he isn't high on the index now?



Apart form his test proof the rest of his daughters are from top animals you would even expect him to have an inflated proof. His health traits are terrible. His index is terrible even for a 10 year old bull. Does he have any good sons? I know I avoid him in a pedigree now.

The problem with aussie bulls in general is health traits. They are useless compared to overseas alternatives. Production is usually good and type is ok.
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His cell count is 122 with is pretty ok so you cant really say his health traits are all bad. Fertility is the major hole in his proof, and that was when there was less emphasis on that trait. Hindsight is 20/20.

I was wondering with his fertility though. I know a heap of those cows were kept open for flushing for a long time, some were permanent flush cows as their eggs were worth more than risking the cow calving in again. I am not sure how much that may skew the proof with low daughter numbers? With only 143 production daughters not all of them will be in his fert proof. It would be in interesting case to look at.

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His cell count is 122 with is pretty ok so you cant really say his health traits are all bad. Fertility is the major hole in his proof, and that was when there was less emphasis on that trait. Hindsight is 20/20.

I was wondering with his fertility though. I know a heap of those cows were kept open for flushing for a long time, some were permanent flush cows as their eggs were worth more than risking the cow calving in again. I am not sure how much that may skew the proof with low daughter numbers? With only 143 production daughters not all of them will be in his fert proof. It would be in interesting case to look at.



Fertility and survival and he passes it onto his sons well. I will be lucky if half of my oranas make it to second lactation because I just can't get them pregnant. They milk and look fine. My willcoys died before even getting in the herd.


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Only have 5 Orana dgtrs mine haven't been bad, not as good as other bulls. Last few years I've been going thru hfr groups and generally poorer fert bull dgtrs don;t do as well on the synch programs.
2 of 5 held to Cidr AI program as yrlgs other 3 all got preg next round to Jer Bulls.
1st dgtr calved 27/3/12 and 9/3/13 and currently joined again she is out of L/Strike x Delroe x Bellwood.
2nd 27/7/12 due 26/7/13 1st serve
3rd 7/8/12 due 3/8/13 1st serve
4th 10/8/12 just joined was a bit dirty after calving
5th got a LDA so I got rid of her

Last batch Esquire's all held AI, all but 1 Delsanto held. Moilinrouge and Cardinal were just on avg. Cassini not a GA bull none held AI. Sandblast were good and Jurace not so good. It seems to be fairly consistant with Dtr Fert ratings. Whole group were just on under 70% this time have been up around 75 -78% before but alot more Holst hfrs in herd now.

Next batch should be interesting got Delsanto, Esquire, Jiffey Yonder and Jetfiinn, Crackajack, Janek plus a few other PT bulls. Proven vs Genomic. Elton, Eclipes and Larfalot as well
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