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Show Bull Testing Continues At Center field Station The 208 bulls of twelve , different breeds on test at the Centerfield bull test station of the Utah Beef Improvement Assn. show an average daily gain on a high roughage ration after the first 56 test days. High gaining individual bulls by breed include: A Simmental with an average ' daily gain (ADG) of 4.91 owned by Glen Johnson of Manti; a LeRell Hansen Blonde at 4.20 ADB: a Sheldon Quarnberg of Scipio Hereford at 3.93; a Leo Gillespie of Fairview Angus and a Neal Kellett of Moroni Charlois tied at 3.84; a Karl Dean of Salt Lake Limousin at 3.57; a Chianiria owned by Elmer Yergensen of Roosevelt at 3.39; a Phil Black of Lehi Beef Master at 3.21; a Polled Hereford owned by Phil Allen of Antimony at 3.13 and a Clark White of Perry Red Angus at 3.04. Special attention is being paid to the progeny bulls from the 28 herd sires represented on the test. The high gaining sire groups by breed-sire, owner and ADG arc: Angus - 1339, Leo Gillespie, 3.20; Charolais - Mr. Barton 8116, Neal Kellett, 3.26 Hereford -YL1 Tiberius 122, Southern Utah State College of Cedar City, 3.08; Polled Hereford- Big Sky Domino, Reed L. Orton of Parowan, 2.57; Limousin-TCC 7K, Karl Dean, 3.14; and Sim-mental-Chester, Grant Hansen of Mayfield, 3.48 ADG. The top feed converison rates in lbs. dry feed - pound of gain for the pens of 5 in increasing order by breed-owner, and feed conversion rate include: Simmental-Grant Hansen, 4.91; Simmental - Kent Bangerter of Bountiful, 5.04; Limousin-Karl Dean, 5.28; Hereford, John Hickley of Ogden, 5.49; Red Angus-Clark White, 6.09; Charolais -James Festron of Brideland and Juel Rasmussen of Manti, 6.11. Performance testing of bulls like these measuring the main economic factors in beef improvement-rate of gain, feed efficiency, and rib eye measurements upon completion of testing-under controlled uniform conditions provides the only suitable means for comparatively eyaluating bulls within a breed coming from many varied management units. Bulls contribute over 83 percent of the genetic improvement of a herd over 3 generations. |