DISPOSITION SCORING TABLE
GENE PLUS
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Extremely gentle, difficult to get out of the way
GENE PLUS
Calm but moves away from you when you get close to them
J J J
Calm but moves away from you sooner than a 4 (Larger Flight Zone)
Nervous and moves away rapidly when you enter their flight zone Extremely nervous and/or aggressive temperament. Thrashes about when confined and may attack the scorer in the pen.
J J J
We have included a disposition score for every Brangus & Ultrablack bull selling. These bulls were scored following gathering yearling weight and ultrasound data. Vern and Cody scored them individually at this time. Please note the explanation of our scoring system above, with 5 stars being the best and 1 being the worst. There are no 1 or 2 star rankings in this sale because they were culled. Please contact us with any questions you may have.
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NEW SCORING SYSTEMS FOR 2025
Throughout the years G+ has tried to stay abreast of changes in the industry and provide more pertinent information to help guide our customers’ decision-making process. We were the first to use a star rating to score disposition on sale bulls. In this catalog we have made the decision to take another step forward and assign a score to three other traits to help better quantify them and lend our expertise from a cowman’s perspective in your decision making process. We are in no way trying to discredit EPD’s but only through our knowledge of the sire and female lines behind these cattle help to enhance them through day-to-day rancher experience and hopefully enable our customers to make the most accurate assessment possible. All of these traits have been ranked with 1 being poorest and 5 being best. The added traits are Calving Ease, Maternal, and % Retail Product. CALVING EASE – We evaluate not only their EPD’s but also their pedigree history and the generations of stacked CE behind them. The BW published on ET calves in some instances can leave questions in buyers’ minds. Those BW have not been used in the EPD calculations and because they have been raised on a foster dam are not very reflective of that animal’s genetics. We maintain that the EPD’s plus our knowledge of the genetics behind them and the environment they were raised in can be of help in your decisions. Please note that a 1 or 2 rating for CE does not make these bulls unusable but are bulls that would need to be used on mature cows and preferably cows without a lot of BW stacked behind them. The cow does generate ½ of the genetic make up. MATERNAL – When evaluating maternal customers primarily look at milk which is one trait that has considerable challenges to evaluate. Our star rating not only looks at that trait but also encompassed a stockman’s critique of how their pedigree and dam’s data would influence udder quality, fleshing ability, longevity, fertility and vigor to arrive at a final star rating. % RETAIL PRODUCT – Since the mid 80’s when Glenn Brinkman did some of the pioneer work with ultrasound to evaluate rib eye area this breed has followed that path. Our thoughts and evaluations over the years have shown us an indication that not all big ribeye animals express abundant muscle and that big ribeyes are highly correlated to weight when measurement was taken. New research has shown that rib eye area is not an adequate indicator of muscle. Cody Gariss and Vern Suhn evaluated the bulls from a cattleman’s viewpoint and ranked them for muscle. We considered, front forearm expression, width and dimension through the lower stifle, base width front to rear, rib shape and volume plus fat cover. If Cody or Vern can be of any help in further explaining our cattleman’s approach to this, please contact them. We hope that these evaluations are helpful to our customers.
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