 Virginia 4-H Livestock Program Livestock Judging Contest
These gilts are all sired by Hampshire boars. Rank the gilts as replacements in a commercial farrow to finish operation. These gilts will be mated to Duroc boars and no replacements will be kept. All pigs will be sold on a lean pork value basis. Profit is maximized from the sale of pigs that grow fast and are lean and muscular. They will be raised in total confinement.
Rank the Gelbvieh bulls for use in commercial herds on Hereford-Angus cross cows. All steers and the bottom half of the heifers are owned through the feedlot and sold as finished cattle. The top half of the heifers are kept as herd replacements or are sold as bred heifers to other commercial herds. All cows are raised on pasture and hay. Young, growing cattle are fed grain as needed to gain at the proper rate. These bulls are provided courtesy of Hickory Hill Farm in Blacksburg. They are available for purchase in the fall of 1998.
Rank the Angus heifers as replacements in a purebred herd. They will be mated to low birth weight bulls with moderate growth. Bulls are sold to commercial operations that sell feeder calves and keep their own replacements. Heifers are either kept for herd replacements or sold to other Angus breeders and to commercial operations. This Angus herd and the customers' herds operate with pasture and hay with no grain fed to the cows.
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