Runboard.com
Слава Україні!

runboard.com       Register for a free global account (learn about it) |
Log in: (), globally (lost password?)

Page:  1  2  3 

 
Escocito Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

VG85

Registered: 11-2011
Posts: 58
Karma: -1 (+0/-1)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


We are currently using a Sanchez x VG-88 Advent xVG-88 Talent x EX-90 Aeroline sister to Gibson and Cousteau
11/2/2019, 14:05 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
mckeague Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Ex 97 2E

Registered: 06-2003
Posts: 1628
Karma: 14 (+14/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re:


Quit using herd sires, if they don't hold to AI they get a visit from Stuart our Angus sweeper, block calving system there is no room for late born dairy heifer calves

---
Reproduction drives production
11/2/2019, 22:40 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
foxleigh Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Ex97
True blue dinky-di maverick


Registered: 06-2003
Location: southern,oz
Posts: 2938
Karma: 33 (+33/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


still using our 2 threat bulls.have a contender son from meyerlane catamount (ex atwood x ex Damion x starbuck lili)that has left some nice calves to date.
Gone back to using semen from our counsellor son from the 90s
23/2/2019, 14:29 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
cdcr Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

GP82

Registered: 08-2013
Posts: 21
Karma: 0 (+0/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


With the sire of some of these bulls on the list being recessive carriers, do any of you test your bulls to make sure they are free of any undesirable recessives?
23/2/2019, 16:50 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
mitchmast Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

VG87

Registered: 08-2013
Posts: 103
Karma: 1 (+1/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


We've started genomic testing some of our younger bulls now depending on the pedigree. I have my own personal herd within the herd and I genomic test almost every bull that I keep. I have two of my own that I'm really excited for right now. One is a Brigham son Baron (Reg#: 840003150913268). He is free of Goldwyn, Planet, Mogul and Bookem. The other is a Melarry Dark Horse named Dare (Reg#: 840003150913249). They both have pretty nice fertility and livability indexes and high component %'s but show low milk. I'm not really worried about their milk though as their dam is an EX94 Pronto x EX92 Durham x EX94 Charles and despite her PTA for milk of -1327 lbs she is over 184,000 lbs lifetime 4.6F 3.5P, has completed 3 30,000+lb records and all of her offspring have been over herdmates. It's a family that I'm really excited about and so far no fertility affecting haplotypes have shown up on any genomic tested offspring.

Our current heifer bull is a polled bull (Reg#:840003143485986) that I'm really excited to get calves out of. He is Lawn Boy free and goes back to April-Day Verdejo. He's 2655GTPI, 731NM, +1785milk, and over 2 for the type indexes. I'm hoping for all three of these bulls to have a large impact on the herd and we'll hopefully be collecting all of them so that we can continue to use them once they're unsafe to handle.
1/3/2019, 20:20 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
KINGMAMBO Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Ex97
Addict!


Registered: 07-2012
Posts: 1381
Karma: 1 (+11/-10)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


I hope they work well for u and it is good to see people using there own bulls.From what i can see u have very strong MDNA within your herd which i think is vital for using your own bulls especially when it is 80% female 20% male in a mating in most cases.This would be a great path for commercial milk producers who want to use there own bulls would be to improve the MDNA of the herd through embryos or livestock.If we all had a herd of Dellia's would we need the studs i don't think so.

The Pronto cow looks a great cow have u ever thought of breeding her to Ocean View Zenith. I think Zenith could of being a great friend to Pronto/Outside daughters along with him being a Durham son u will bring in male Durham blood in the pedigree.
14/3/2019, 18:38 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
errolston Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Ex 97 2E

Registered: 07-2003
Posts: 2041
Karma: 32 (+33/-1)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


Mitchmast, your Pronto cow sounds like the kind of cow I like to keep a bull from.

The bull running with my heifers at the moment is called Errolston Security and is sired by Beeze Maikman. Maikman is a son of Hoekland Maik (by Mascol) who is a leading longevity bull in the Netherlands. Maikman comes from the great Dutch Roza family.

The dam of our young bull is a 92pt(4yr) daughter of Co-op Don Juan, from our Scant family. A family which is a great source of high milk yield and components.

Granddam is a VG88 daughter of Bomaz Marion Emerald that has made some great milk records.

Great Granddam was a 91pt Fantasy Britt Gap daughter than did 90,000kg lifetime.

The bull has been seen by my aAa analyser who really liked the bull and thought he was a 165. He should be a nice cross on the heifers I am serving at the moment.

Last edited by errolston, 17/3/2019, 13:38
17/3/2019, 13:34 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
mitchmast Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

VG87

Registered: 08-2013
Posts: 103
Karma: 1 (+1/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re:


Thank you KINGMAMBO. What we have tried to do is buy into strong cow families and create herd bulls from those families. We've bred many herd bulls going back through various daughters of Tony Rae's Lindy daughter that we were part owner of as well as bulls going back through an EX Lee from Chief Adeen and a Red Marker granddaughter of SD Tobi. We know that the dams of the bulls that we keep work in our system and the offspring compete well with the AI bulls we use. It also allows me to increase the influence of some AI bulls that are more expensive than I would prefer to use across the herd. Looking at 2018 data just over 63% of our approximately 100 calves were sired by our herd bulls. I haven't thought of Zenith on the Pronto yet. She is getting older and I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to flush her well. She's currently pregnant with an Airlift bull that I am looking forward to having on the ground to use. She has milking daughters by Gold Chip VG-86 (sold before I bought the Pronto), VG86 Bradnick, VG86 polled Magna and a VG86 2yr old Airlift that I'm really excited about. She also has unfresh daughters by Lindell (3), Mogul, Accelrenown (2), Golden Dreams, and Dark Horse. I try to mostly flush her to sexed semen to increase her maternal influence in the herd but two conventional bulls that I would really like to try on her are Damion and Shottle. I think both bulls mate nicely with her plus there are two cows from the Ardel family sired by the bulls that I really admire, M-Riverview Shtl Raquel and a Damion whose name escapes me right now.

errolston, it sounds like we are breeding for similar results. I haven't used the bulls you mentioned but I remember Emerald as being a bull I thought looked interesting from right before we started having an Accelerated rep. Once we had a rep we jumped very heavily on the Airlift train and he probably has more daughters than any other bull in the herd. The first ones are calved in very nicely and I hope they continue because we have about 25 under 2 yrs old. I haven't done much with aAa but I did have them out to analyze a bull and some cows for Triple-Hil Sires. They ended up not taking the bull (a Stormatic from the Pronto) but they were interested in her. We ended up deciding to flush her to Rex-PP-Red and hopefully they will get a bull they like from that mating. We have 2 male and 2 female pregnancies so far due starting in June and I have 5 #2 embryos to put in yet. The #1 embryos settled very well but the #2s are not settling at all yet, hopefully we get a few more yet. The Pronto flushes decently well, usually averaging about 6-8 implantable and around 50% or greater conception. I flushed her Airlift daughter as a heifer and she released 19 but only 2 ended up fertile at all and they were degenerate. I tested the semen and it was very poor quality. It looks like the flushing abilities passed down though so I'm excited about that. The Airlift also just had a polled Piranha-p son that is tested at 3.41 type and 1100 lbs milk. He should make another good herd bull from the family. I have a facebook photo album for the Pronto (she was my first purchase and I may have gone overboard on taking pictures of her) https://www.facebook.com/mitchell.mast.1/media_set?set=a.127458090732695&type=3&uploaded=11
20/3/2019, 19:31 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
foxleigh Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Ex97
True blue dinky-di maverick


Registered: 06-2003
Location: southern,oz
Posts: 2938
Karma: 33 (+33/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: Your home grown breeding bulls


just lately one of our ets has come back from Peel Valley AI where he was leased for about 5 years and we are back into using him real heavy .Foxleigh Liberator EX 92 is a Damion x EX 94 starbuck x EX 95 liberty rae xEX 94 lana rae. His oldest dau is VG88 on 3rd calf and won the 5yo in milk class of the Northern Vic onfarm competition.So far every heifer classified has gone GP bar one on 78 2 days after she calved.Every 2nd calver classified has gone VG.Think he is running at 95% GP.I would suggest his daus are a lot like starbucks.
 we have been wanting to collect him for the USA but everyone seems to think they need aAa to breed a cow and we did his mating by looking at all 3 cows in Daves barn.Anyways we have been waiting 3 years for the aAa people to come ….. maybe may this year they said
21/3/2019, 15:10 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 
mitchmast Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

VG87

Registered: 08-2013
Posts: 103
Karma: 1 (+1/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re:


foxleigh I don't think I could get dad to order enough to make it worth shipping it here just for him but I'm pretty sure if I told him that pedigree I could get him to use some in a hurry. We love the bulls from that family. We've used many herd bulls going back on Lana's Stardust and Rudolph sisters we had here and love the results. A neat heifer we have right now at breeding age is a Skychief from Lana's VG88 Raider sister. I have some pretty high expectations for her based on how she looks now.
21/3/2019, 15:43 Link to this post PM via Email   PM via Forum
 


Reply

Page:  1  2  3 





You are not logged in (login)
Back To Top

Disclaimer: Any views expressed on this site are not necessarily the views of the owner or any of the sponsors of Cowtalk..

Google
WWW COWTALK