CROSSBREEDING PAYS
- Add the Salers Influence to Your Cow Herd Now is the time to add the inputs to position your cow herd for the future. As the nation’s cow herd prepares to be rebuilt, you can add those genetic inputs to insure you are well positioned for Profit for today and in the future. Why not add those inputs that would insure things such as calf vigor and calf survivability, fertility, maternal excellence and unmatched cow longevity? The advantage of crossbreeding comes in the form of heterosis or hybrid vigor. We have known for decades that the biggest advantages come to those traits that are lowly heritable. Traits like reproduction and fertility. You can spend a lifetime working to improve these traits, or you can add crossbreeding to your cow herd and see improvement very quickly. The advantages of Maternal heterosis are significant. The effects are multiple and cumulative. You will see them add up to be drastically significant over time. If you’ve got fertility in the 70% to 85% range for breed up come pregnancy check time, it’s time to re-evaluate what is going on. It’s time to consider crossbreeding and adding the Salers-influence cow to your cow herd.
Increase in Maternal Heterosis Trait +3.7% Increase Individual Weaning Weight +3.8% Increase # of Calves in Lifetime +17% Increase Longevity +38% Increase % Advantage Calving Rate
Pounds of Calf Weaning Weight for the Lifetime of the Cow
+25.3% Increase
After the analysis of many ranches and what drives profitability, Clay Travis, King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management, shared at the Beef Improvement Federation meetings that while keeping costs low is important, the single largest factor to profitability is having more calves born early in the calving season. How is that going to happen unless you have excellent fertility? When you have calves born early in the calving season, you add 20-60 pounds of additional weaning weight per calf. Selling more pounds of calf per cow exposed will definitely enhance the single most important trait on your ranch – Profit! Add the Salers convenience traits of fertility, calving ease, calf vigor, increased pelvic area in females, better feet and legs and sound udders resulting in additional longevity to your cow herd. It’s time to enjoy your cows working for you. Turn out Salers and Optimizer bulls and keep the females.
BW WW YW Milk MM Fat -0.5 60 89 19 49 -0.5 0.61 0.1 21.8 11 16 13.3 www.SalersUSA.org
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REA Marb CW DOC Stay CED CE Daughters
Breed Average EPDs
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