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<blockquote data-quote="curvebender" data-source="post: 420795" data-attributes="member: 5324"><p>Sorry but there is no way on this earth you can create a similar quality cow on your own farm.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps a similar looking animal yes but in terms of what really matters to actually make sustainable PROFIT year in year out from suckler beef production then no.</p><p></p><p>Firstly, where in the UK do you source a bull that's got robust data (40 years recording across literally hundreds of thousands of cattle) and is in the top 10% of the breed for net feed efficiency, fertility, longevity, scrotal size, cow feed intake, mature cow size, feed conversion, birth weight, calving ease, daughter calving ease, growth rate, weaning weight, yearling weight, marbling, muscle depth, feed intake and most imporatntly an EBV for PROFIT!!</p><p></p><p>Once you have found this bull you then need to find 2 similar bulls from 2 other breeds, create your 3 way composite to retain 86% hybrid vigour and stabilise it into a breed!!</p><p></p><p>This should will take about 40 years and £25 million pounds (time and cost invested into creating the Stabiliser) to do. </p><p></p><p>So perhaps a Stabiliser bull at £3k or heifer at around £1300 doesn't look so expensive after all!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curvebender, post: 420795, member: 5324"] Sorry but there is no way on this earth you can create a similar quality cow on your own farm. Perhaps a similar looking animal yes but in terms of what really matters to actually make sustainable PROFIT year in year out from suckler beef production then no. Firstly, where in the UK do you source a bull that's got robust data (40 years recording across literally hundreds of thousands of cattle) and is in the top 10% of the breed for net feed efficiency, fertility, longevity, scrotal size, cow feed intake, mature cow size, feed conversion, birth weight, calving ease, daughter calving ease, growth rate, weaning weight, yearling weight, marbling, muscle depth, feed intake and most imporatntly an EBV for PROFIT!! Once you have found this bull you then need to find 2 similar bulls from 2 other breeds, create your 3 way composite to retain 86% hybrid vigour and stabilise it into a breed!! This should will take about 40 years and £25 million pounds (time and cost invested into creating the Stabiliser) to do. So perhaps a Stabiliser bull at £3k or heifer at around £1300 doesn't look so expensive after all!! [/QUOTE]
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