A commitment to science
In our quest for excellence in performance recording we are now applying more science than ever before by entering our 450 stud females on the American Simmental Association (ASA) database while maintaining our primary registrations with Simmental Australia. Continue reading
How Can You Keep The Positive Effects Of Heterosis?
The maximum benefit from heterosis is in the first generation (F1), producing a crossbred animal from two different parent breeds. The next generation (F2) loses some of that vigor if the F1 female was bred back to a bull of one of the parent breeds. Continue reading
Crossbred Cows Provide the Ultimate Benefit
The greatest amount of benefit gained by crossbreeding is with crossbred cows. Even though many stockmen use crossbreeding of straightbred parents to produce exceptional market calves (calves that gain faster than straightbreds and do well in the feedlot), the crossbred cow is the key to maximum beef production and profitability in a cow-calf operation, since hybrid vigor in the cow produces phenomenal maternal advantages. Continue reading
Cross Breeding provides benefits to breeding programs
Many commercial stockmen take advantage of heterosis (hybrid vigor) by crossbreeding. Research in the early 1900’s demonstrated the benefits, which include breed complementation (combining some of the desired traits from two or more breeds, to gain characteristics that were lacking in one of the parent breeds) and heterosis. Continue reading
