Semen Prices on New Bulls

[dare3324]

Leanbeef and justintime hit on this. In my mind if I owned a new promotional bull I would price it high in order to insure use on high quality females in order to produce a high quality calf crop right out of the gate. I do believe 1/2 of the genetics come from mama.

 

[J2F]

Disclaimer, we do not do what I am about to say in our operation.

If people are out their to raise steers, why pay high dollars for semen on unproven sires when you can buy reasonable priced semen on a proven one, or a clone.  If you get a good one, just call it out of the high priced semen bull.  Again, we do not do this, but don't tell me this isn't done.  Kind of like how no calves were sold this fall out of 65,000 calves online out of clean up bulls.  And how do we have two different sires being claimed as the sire of the Champion at Louisville?

I think this is a much bigger problem then anyone will admit to in the clubby industry. Just from some of the practices I have seen some producers have no clue who the sire is with an certainty. If a calf is bred and put right out with the bull how do you know? Even if you wait a day or two  and the calf is 11 days overdue is it overdue or early? Always overdue to ai sire never early to the clean up bull. 

 

[Cow Chaser]

That is true about the calf being out of the original or the clone, you see a lot of clone semen selling but you don't see many clone sired calves being sold.  It doesn't really matter to me if it's original or clone it's the same genetic make up and if you are showing in a crossbred steer class then it really doesn't matter.  I also agree that out of the 65,000 calves sold last year there had to be some herd bull sired calves in their.