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TOP SET OF COMING
2-YEAR-OLD BULLS FOR SALE!
A good number of these bulls are ET calves out
of our top donor cows.
Overall, this is the most genetically dominant
performance bulls in all phases of the beef
industry. All sale bulls are DNA gene
tested for marbling, tenderness, backfat, yield
grade, ribeye area,
and carcass weight.
This is the most uniform set of sale bulls that
we have produced to date. They are sired
by seven of our proven herd sires.
They are identical in their conformation
-- it is difficult to distinguish one
bull from another. Calves by these
long, deep, thick-bodied bulls will also
look alike, perform the same and cut out
at premium values. We also have a
choice set of bred heifers, open heifers
& Select Embryos! |
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The Beef Industry Needs A Genetic
Overhaul!
For a cow-calf operator to survive in a
trouble beef market, he MUST produce
calves that will perform exceptionally
well in the feedlot, and the carcass
MUST have high cut out value with high
consistency and uniformity.
The genetic make up of a large portion
of today's beef herds have become highly
HETEROZYGOUS. They have lost their
ability to transmit carcass cut out
value with consistency and uniformity.
This lack of carcass consistency and
uniformity is costing the beef industry
thousands upon thousands of dollars per
day! The public consumer, the meat
purveyor, and the large restaurant trade
are finding it extremely difficult in
purchasing quality beef that is
consistent and uniform. This lack of
consistency is easily corrected by using
bulls that are highly HOMOZYGOUS. Bulls
with a highly concentrated small genetic
gene pool are proving to be the solution
to this problem.
Early Maturity and High Fertility
 Dominance
in transmitting these gene traits is the
key to profitability in both the Grass
and Grain
finishing programs. We have found that
there is a positive correlation between
these two essential gene traits. Our
early maturity gene trait reduces the
slaughter date by 3 to 5 months! We have
followed a strict closed herd line
breeding program since 1971. The actual
205 day weight on our June 1, 2003 bull,
I.B. 28 was 73.9% of his dam's 1170
pounds. This clearly expresses our early
maturity gene trait. I.B. 28 carries
both the high marbling and tenderness
gene traits. I.B. 28 is backed up by
five consecutive generations of herd
sires that carried the marbling gene
trait. All the imported foundation sires
were raised and developed on grass and
foliage. IRISH BLACKS are 98.98% pure
Friesian blood. Our gene pool is small
and highly concentrated. 1/2 blood
calves sired by purebred Irish Blacks,
regardless of the breed, or breeds, of
females they are mated with, will all
look alike, perform the same, and cut
out the same at premium values (choice
and some prime grades). At two years of
age the Irish Black bulls have reached
their mature frame structure. In the
bulk of the other beef breeds it takes 2
to 4 years for the bulls to reach this
mature frame structure. Our high
fertility gene trait is
responsible for selling one coming two
year old bull per 70 to 75 females to be
bred in the herd. In the
grain finishing program hundreds of
calves sired by our purebred bulls have
slaughtered at 13 to 14 months of age,
weighing 1300 to 1400 pounds, dressing out at 64.97%,
with rib eyes averaging plus 13 inches
and feed conversion of 5.1 to 5.3 pounds
of feed per pound of gain. A number of
these young calves made the prime grade.
A good number of the 3/4 blood calves
gained 4 pounds per day from birth to
slaughter. The
big BONUS in using our pure blood is the
resulting heifer calves. Mate these F1
heifers back to our purebred bulls and
the resulting 3/4 blood calves will
increase the performance and cut out
values. 36 years of records have proven
that the higher percentage of Freisian
blood the higher the performance and cut
out figures become. In the Grass
finishing program Irish Black sired
calves are performing extremely well,
grading choice and shortening the
slaughtered date by several months.
I.B. 28 is backed up by five consecutive
generations of herd sires that carried
the marbling and tenderness gene traits.
All of the imported foundation sires
were raise and developed on grass and
foliage.
Course 101 In Basic Genetics
The Problem: The bulk of the calf crops
in the U.S. do not look alike, perform
the same or cut out the same. Today's
beef slaughter is at the lowest level
for QUALITY since record keeping began.
It is doubtful that the prime grade
would reach 2 percent of the present
total daily slaughter. The quantity
(volume) of the choice grade has also
been drastically reduced. The public
consumer, the meat purveyor, and the
upscale restaurant trade are finding it
extremely difficult in purchasing
quality beef that is consistent and
uniform in marbling and tenderness. The
extremely broad, ever expanding, gene
pools of today's cow herds can be held
responsible for this decline in quality.
It is most important to understand that
a percentage bull can not, and will not,
reproduce himself. Simple arithmetic
clearly points out this fact. An
example: calves sired by a 1/2 blood
bull only possess 1/4th of the blood
that one is trying to make improvements
with. Then consider one's chances when
using a percentage bull whose gene pool
is made up of several different breeds.
The result of such matings will produce
a broader more diverse gene pool with
hundreds of different gene trait
combinations. It is an excepted fact
that these ever expanding gene pools are
responsible for the loss of some of the
most essential gene traits. This is
especially noticeable in their inability
in transmitting the consistency and
uniformity gene traits. Keep in mind
that in the "dog world" animals of such
breeding are referred to as "mongrels".
Can we then refer to such breeding
programs as being the equivalent of
playing "Russian Roulette"? Thus one
would assume that beef producers should
over look today's promotional "hype" of
continuous heterozygous breeding
programs which has resulted in ever
expanding, unpredictable gene pools,
that continue to multiply the quality of
meat problem.
Breeding Carcass Quality Back into
Beef
It is no secret that the quality of our
daily beef slaughter is at it's lowest
level in the history of the beef
industry. We are now hearing that
barely 2% of the daily beef slaughter
makes the Prime grade. It is also
noted that the percentage of the daily
slaughter that makes the Choice grade
has decreased by 50%, or more, of what
it was thirty years ago. This
drastic decrease in carcass quality is
the direct result of continuous cross
breeding, the infusion of the blood of
numerous other breeds, and the
persistent programs have become
extremely broad and ever-expanding.
This has produced the predictability and
variation in each new calf crop
multiplied rapidly.
Dr. Jay Lush (world-renowned geneticist,
Iowa State) stated that the hybrid vigor
in crossing two lines of pure blood was
of a very short period. The gene
traits for consistency would noticeably
decrease in the third generation.
If this cross breeding program continued
the loss of other essential gene traits
would also continue to occur in each of
the following new generations.
Those that followed this high
heterozygous breeding program are now
faced with a huge problem in trying to
breed carcass quality back into their
broad gene pools. If they try to
proceed by using their present broad
ever-expanding gene pools as their sole
genetic base, they are look at many
generation, probably fifteen or more,
before they get back to the carcass
quality that was prevalent thirty years
ago.
Irish Blacks and Irish Reds have
consistently concentrated, year after
year, the carcass quality gene trait for
the past 37 years. Therefore, it
definitely appears that Irish Blacks and
Irish Reds hold the "Trump Card" in
solving the carcass quality problem that
the beef industry is now facing.
The commercial cow-calf producer can
take advantage of this high carcass
quality genetic concentration and return
to producing calves that will grade 80%
to 90% Choice with some Prime in just
two generations. The third
generation will put one at the head of
the line and it will be smooth sailing
and an easy downhill pull in the future. |
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