{"id":1283,"date":"2016-09-29T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:30:12","slug":"base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/base\/","title":{"rendered":"Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Lots of new breeders are looking for &#8220;that&#8221; buck. &nbsp;The one to elevate their program. &nbsp;This is all well and good, but&#8230;. &nbsp;But, you first have to have a base of genetics built into your doe herd. &nbsp;Get those females similar in type and kind and most imortantly, similar in genetics. &nbsp;Then, when you get &#8220;that&#8221; buck, it is more apt to have a large impact instead of just working on a doe or two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>This isn&#8217;t a new recipe for success. &nbsp;Helms had a fleet of S100 does, then he dumped 191 on them and BOOM! &nbsp;Pfeiffer started a herd with a set of Harbour females, then dumped Okie on them and built a whole empire of wether producing females, then put Colt on them and we are still seeing the positive results of all of those matings. &nbsp;Schneberger has a pile of 1315 females. &nbsp;Now, he is in the process of spreading his new bucks genetics across them to try to make a splash for next year. &nbsp;I bet it works. &nbsp;If it doesn&#8217;t, he will wish it would have. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>As much as I dislike dealing with does, in order to build a successful breeding program, you have to have a consistent doe base. &nbsp;Those good does can make common bucks look good. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of new breeders are looking for &#8220;that&#8221; buck. &nbsp;The one to elevate their program. &nbsp;This is all well and good, but&#8230;. &nbsp;But, you first have to have a base of genetics built into your doe herd. &nbsp;Get those females similar in type and kind and most imortantly, similar in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}