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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
2004; Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 04-242-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 923; Beef; Breeding; Soundness
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Changes In Breeding Soundness Evaluation During A Breeding Season, A.W. Thompson, T.T. Marston, M. Sanderson, P. Chenoweth
Changes In Breeding Soundness Evaluation During A Breeding Season, A.W. Thompson, T.T. Marston, M. Sanderson, P. Chenoweth
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
Breeding-soundness evaluations are a common tool in the beef industry to test a bull's potential fertility. These evaluations place a bull into one of three categories: satisfactory, unsatisfactory, or deferred. These categories only refer to the bull at a specific time, and his status can and will change over time. The purpose of this report is to explain and demonstrate the changes in a bull's breeding- soundness evaluations during a breeding season.