The Rural Voice, 1999-05, Page 36chooses proven bulls and places
emphasis on protcin test.
They keep two year old heifers
that score "good plus" and have a
potential to score higher. Most of
their breeding stock is sold at two
years of age.
They enjoy supplying cattle that
go on to do well for others and in his
acceptance of the Master Breed
Award Lyle credited the help of
others in assisting him to score the
points needed for the award.
"When you breed cattle they can
go into other herds and they can help
other people held you to gain points,"
Lyle says.
Both breeders stress the
cnjoymcnt of talking to other farmcrs
and learning from them, whether it be
in the show ring or on tours of other
dairy barns.
"You can pick up a lot and learn a
lot from other people and their
operations," says Lyle. "The guys
who get out and see things are more
apt to stay in it (the industry) than the
guys who stay home all the time."
"It gets depressing just milking
cows," says Barbara.
Paul Gibbings says the Master
Breeder goal adds spice to an
operation. "leg awards like this that
keep you striving," he says. "If it was'
just milking cows I wouldn't enjoy it
as much."
Still, he says, you have to have a
partner who is willing to sacrifice too
if you are to build a prize-winning
herd. You need someone to talk to,
he says. Some diary farmers don't
have partners who are interested and
it weakens the operation, he says.
The two families were impressed
with ceremony in Halifax at which
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