Post by Applelonia on Nov 14, 2017 0:09:44 GMT -5
I debated waiting to breed France until next spring/summer so we’d have a spring calf and not another fall calf. But, decided to go ahead and have her bred - she’s crazy when in heat - trying to crawl over stall walls and get through gates. The neighbor’s bull has returned home from his secure rented pasture and if he shows up - as he has done in the past, on a number of occasions, I suspect France would find a way to get out to see him. She’s a jumper - like a deer. I just don’t want to deal with six months of her going into heat every 19 days.
Our AI guy said he’d pick out a bull if we wanted him to, to AI her to. I requested A2/A2 and one that came from shorter statured lines. Don’t know much about selecting a bull, so I figured why not!
After she was bred this evening, I asked for the name of the bull. Looked him up - rather disappointed. He seems like he comes from tall leggy cows and is A1/A2. He was the only choice for a Guernsey that the company our AI guy gets his straws from had.
I’m torn ~ I hope she settles ...yet, I don’t because I don’t care for the looks of him.
France is a much shorter - smaller Guernsey ...I prefer her type ...sigh....
Does anyone have any offspring by this bull that they like real well? Maybe he’s not so bad ...just don’t care for him....I’m not used to such dairy looking cows. How much influence does the bull have over the calf’s full grown type/size? Here’s a link to the bull she was bred to. 😕
ct.wwsires.com/bull/7GU00440/EN
Any suggestions for a shorter statured A2/A2 Guernsey bull? I want to find another option if she doesn’t settle. If she doesn’t take, I’m tempted to cross her with the Randall straws our AI guy stores in his tank for us.
Our AI guy said he’d pick out a bull if we wanted him to, to AI her to. I requested A2/A2 and one that came from shorter statured lines. Don’t know much about selecting a bull, so I figured why not!
After she was bred this evening, I asked for the name of the bull. Looked him up - rather disappointed. He seems like he comes from tall leggy cows and is A1/A2. He was the only choice for a Guernsey that the company our AI guy gets his straws from had.
I’m torn ~ I hope she settles ...yet, I don’t because I don’t care for the looks of him.
France is a much shorter - smaller Guernsey ...I prefer her type ...sigh....
Does anyone have any offspring by this bull that they like real well? Maybe he’s not so bad ...just don’t care for him....I’m not used to such dairy looking cows. How much influence does the bull have over the calf’s full grown type/size? Here’s a link to the bull she was bred to. 😕
ct.wwsires.com/bull/7GU00440/EN
Any suggestions for a shorter statured A2/A2 Guernsey bull? I want to find another option if she doesn’t settle. If she doesn’t take, I’m tempted to cross her with the Randall straws our AI guy stores in his tank for us.