Holsteinfriesian90
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- Cornwall
old AI chap told us the best bulls in the world, go as bobby calves, that was years ago, genomics are here now, but then it was matching a good cow, to a bull, that one thought would turn out right, and some did, others didn't. Old man bought a well bred hol bull, well bred, ever so quiet, lovely to handle, he broke his own rule, 1 yr hfrs, 1 year cows and out, we used him over a lot of hfrs and cows, ended up with about 80 hfrs, none of which beat 4000 litres. Yet very well bred, plenty of milk behind him, lesson learnt.
The reverse side, with more grazing type cows, do you actually want a pli 700 plus bull ? Because if you use one of them, on your 6000 litre grazing type cow, it isn't going to work out that well.
I give up chasing pli don’t get me wrong I sill use it as a tool but I can’t keep up with it now bulls come and go so fast.