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FINK 5707 9526 GS
Calved: 9/1/15
Reg#: EM876322
Tattoo: 5707
BF (in): .12
Marb: 2.78 REA (sq in): 12.7
Actual Scrotal: 41 cm
FINK 5703 9526 GS
Calved: 8/31/15
Reg#: EM876319
Tattoo: 5703
BF (in): .18
Marb: 2.76 REA (sq in): 14.3
Actual Scrotal: 38.5cm
FINK 5702 9526 GS
Calved: 9/6/15
Reg#: EM876318
Tattoo: 5702
BF (in): .15
Marb: 2.36 REA (sq in): 12.7
Actual Scrotal: 38.5cm
FINK 5700 9526 GS
Calved: 8/27/15
Reg#: EM876316
Tattoo: 5700
BF (in): .08
Marb: 2.32 REA (sq in): 11.3
Actual Scrotal: 36 cm
FINK 5701 9526 GS
Calved: 8/28/15
Reg#: EM876317
Tattoo: 5701
BF (in): .15
Marb: 4.58 REA (sq in): 11.7
Actual Scrotal: 37 cm
FINK 5705 9526 GS
Calved: 8/29/15
Reg#: EM876321
Tattoo: 5705
BF (in): .13
Marb: 2.50 REA (sq in): 11.7
Actual Scrotal: 38 cm
FINK 5704 9526 GS
Calved: 8/26/15
Reg#: EM876320
Tattoo: 5704
BF (in): .09
Marb: 2.66
REA (sq in): 11.7
Actual Scrotal: 38.5cm
M6 New Standard 842 P ET
Fink Gold Standard 0153
Finks Miss 25503575BUDET
M6 Grid Maker 104 PET
Fink Ease 9526 6851 GM
Fink Ease 6851 2125 GG
A set of power brothers—2.6 CE, low BW, Top 3% YW, 4% Carcass wt,
15% ribeye, and 15% marbling. Try to find a volume number of bulls and
as much power traits anywhere else as you do at Finks in one day.
Top 2% TSI!
CE
BW
WW
YW
Milk
SC
CW
REA
FAT
2.6
1.2
40
81
17
1.0
35
0.62 -0.006 0.20
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
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FINK 5617 2687 GS
Calved: 8/20/15
Reg#: EM876250
Tattoo: 5617
BF (in): .11
Marb: 3.24 REA (sq in): 11.5
Actual Scrotal: 37 cm
FINK 5615 2687 GS
Calved: 8/15/15
Reg#: EM876248
Tattoo: 5615
BF (in): .14
Marb: 3.02 REA (sq in): 12.2
Actual Scrotal: 36 cm
FINK 5618 2687 GS
Calved: 8/16/15
Reg#: EM876251
Tattoo: 5618
BF (in): .11
Marb: 2.91
REA (sq in): 11.8
Actual Scrotal: 38.5cm
M6 New Standard 842 P ET
Fink Gold Standard 0153
Finks Miss 25503575BUDET
VPI Free Lunch 708T
Fink Ms Grade Now 2687 953 FL
M6 Ms Grade Now 953 P ET
Brothers that are in the top 4% YW, 20% ribeye, 10% marbling! Free
Lunch dam—there will be a lot of this mating in the future!
Top 2% TSI!
CE
BW
WW
YW
Milk
SC
CW
REA
FAT
4.7
0.2
41
78
12
1.3
39
0.56 0.013 0.24
186
185
184
Crossbreeding…Can you afford not to?
The benefits of crossbreeding have been documented and
reported time and time again. The advantages of breed com-
plementarity and heterosis are real dollars in the pocket of
commercial cattlemen. Breed complimentarity is necessary
to allow producers to take advantage of the differing
strengths and weaknesses of each breed, since no one
breed can excel at all economically important traits.
Heterosis is the advantage of crossbred calves over the aver-
age of their parents. Heterosis is the closest thing cattlemen
have to a ‘free lunch.’ The best aspect of heterosis is that it
has the greatest effect on traits that are lowly heritable and
difficult to improve through selection.
Traits like percent calf crop weaned, pounds weaned per cow
exposed, cow longevity, and cow lifetime productivity are
vital to a commercial producer’s bottom line. These are also
the traits that are improved most by heterosis.
A commercial producer running a straight-bred cow herd, of
any breed, is forfeiting real dollars through lower weaning
weights, decreased fertility and decreased cow longevity. Not
to mention the fact that they are missing out on the ad-
vantages of breed complementarity.
Iowa State University research has stressed that reproduc-
tive efficiency is 10 times more important to financial viabil-
ity than carcass traits.
Information by: Ron Bolze, PhD
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Full brother sets of bulls will always
be listed together in a shaded box,
as the group shown above.
