Preg checked today

[strojanherefords]

I took these pictures of some of our top September bull calves with their cows. All of the calves are out of our 20J son.

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 VS MS APEX 852U (43019587) 

Our top producing young cow, a 14Z granddaughter

 

 VS MS 40W RIBSTONE 150Y (43405654)

852U X LBH 40W cow, She is due 9-25-15 to Ace's 0827 bull

VS MS LEGRAND RIBSTONE 84R (42761568)

The last daughter of our last Ochs bull.

[timbernt]

Seeing pictures like this gives me some hope for our future. When there are Herefords like this why in the world would any Hereford breeder use junk like Durango?

[strojanherefords]

Thanks for the kind words. Ten years ago I learned to preg check at the Graham school. For the first few years the opens and culls outnumbered the replacements, but fortunately this year out of the nineteen cows I A.I.ed to the 0827 bull, I had only one cow that needed to go to the butcher. Though I have improved my nutrition and herd health programs, the largest difference has been culling hard and only bringing in genetics from trustworthy breeders.