If you have a good registered bull, putting him on his daughters out of unrelated cows concentrates his good qualities…along with his bad qualities. You only do his with a very good bull from a very good breeder.

I have done this for years with my Schu-Lar and Ellis Hereford bulls, primarily to concentrate the marbling, calving ease and yearling growth EPDs. It has worked well. I have a herd that can calve unassisted and steers that can marble nicely on good grass and hit 1000 lb + at 12-16 months of age.

One problem I have is that I’m now at carrying capacity, I hate to process good heifers and hate to sell good reliable older cows. I will take a cow with a bad bag to the sale barn after weaning but have trouble parting with good older cows. I am seeing demand for my yearling bulls but that reduces the number of steers I have to process for sale inventory. I’m probably going to start processing some heifers.