reading confirmation traits on icbf

50HX

breeding season kicking in soon

looking at bringing thru a few replacements hopefully
is width at the hips the key conf trait to watch under skeletal? and would you want to be going above 50%

have a few nice AAX off of fresian cows, v docile and plenty of milk, calving zag ok at the mo

what would ye recommend AI wise, APZ?

Who2

50HX wrote: »

breeding season kicking in soon

looking at bringing thru a few replacements hopefully
is width at the hips the key conf trait to watch under skeletal? and would you want to be going above 50%

have a few nice AAX off of fresian cows, v docile and plenty of milk, calving zag ok at the mo

what would ye recommend AI wise, APZ?

Apz is one of the worst simmentals out there for replacements. His daughters wouldn’t calve a mouse.

patsy_mccabe

It would want to be a small mouse. Don't use APZ.

Never wrestle with pigs

Don't know how he is aloud to be still sold in ai as a replacement bull. You can afford to go fairly muscular and not be to worried about milk by the sound of those cows. If you want a chance of colour use fawn sims instead of dark red.

tanko

Daughter calving difficulty and especially daughter calving interval are well worth looking at also. I had eight OZS heifers earmarked for replacements here three years ago, lovely looking heifers but they'll all be gone later this year after having three calves at most. They have very poor fertility and are difficult to get in calf. The fact that thayre well able to calve isnt much use when theyll only have a calf every 400 days.
His figures on icbf back this up too.

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

Daughter calving difficulty and especially daughter calving interval are well worth looking at also. I had eight OZS heifers earmarked for replacements here three years ago, lovely looking heifers but they'll all be gone later this year after having three calves at most. They have very poor fertility and are difficult to get in calf. The fact that thayre well able to calve isnt much use when theyll only have a calf every 400 days.
His figures on icbf back this up too.

Have 2 pio cows. Hes 3rd for daughter calving interval out of all bulls. Theyd calve buses.

tanko

PIO has a terrible figure for daughters milk tho, have your cows off him any milk?

50HX

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Don't know how he is aloud to be still sold in ai as a replacement bull. You can afford to go fairly muscular and not be to worried about milk by the sound of those cows. If you want a chance of colour use fawn sims instead of dark red.

Will have to go shopping, all i have in the pot with width on the skeletal and low % daughter calving diff is mwu

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

PIO has a terrible figure for daughters milk tho, have your cows off him any milk?

One is ok. The other is good albeit shes out of a sim x fr cow so shed want to be