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ELBEE

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I just sent you a picture taken by Nick Hammet summer 05 at Pollmans. Let me know if you receive it. I have no idea how to put it on the Planet.
Sorry, now that I think about it I may have sent it to Shortdawg. I need your E-mail GaryBob?
 

genes

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ELBEE said:
Yes Red I still use the term, and it's one of the first things I look at when evaluating. But you'd be surprised how many of these kids don't even Know where it is. When I was judging, if you didn't use the term at least 5 times in your reasons, you weren't going to score very high.

Just curious, when were you competing that this was the emphasis?  I'm going to guess it was when T A L L cattle were in?  The way I judge it is the legs should be sound and carry the animal around, but length isn't on my priority list.  After all, when a steer gets to the slaughterhouse, they very quickly proceed to cut off the cannon bones.  And trust me, it doesn't take many inches of extra cannon bone to add 20 pounds to the scrap pile.
 

ELBEE

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My post about cannon bone was very much "tongue in cheek". I'm getting tired of influential people calling Gizmo, and our kind of cattle "dinky", when they have never seen them. Gizmos mature weight was 2300#!
 

genes

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Oh duh...reading that again it's pretty obvious, but I guess that's why not to post at 2 am.  :D  Do they have one of these  :)))  with the arrow going this way <-- ?
 

garybob

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ELBEE said:
I just sent you a picture taken by Nick Hammet summer 05 at Pollmans. Let me know if you receive it. I have no idea how to put it on the Planet.
Sorry, now that I think about it I may have sent it to Shortdawg. I need your E-mail GaryBob?
Get it from Red, If she'd be so kind as to assist us, I'd really appreciate it. I saw a pic of one of your cows drinking from a tank on your ranch. Don't remember where i saw the article. Congrats on all your accomplishments.
 

OH Breeder

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garybob said:
ELBEE said:
I just sent you a picture taken by Nick Hammet summer 05 at Pollmans. Let me know if you receive it. I have no idea how to put it on the Planet.
Sorry, now that I think about it I may have sent it to Shortdawg. I need your E-mail GaryBob?
Get it from Red, If she'd be so kind as to assist us, I'd really appreciate it. I saw a pic of one of your cows drinking from a tank on your ranch. Don't remember where i saw the article. Congrats on all your accomplishments.

Gary Bob,
I still didn't get an asnwer to your original question post statement what ever. How big should a new born calves cannon bone be?
 

garybob

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She just looked to be on the "short" side of moderate. Keep in mind, I am just not used to seeing cattle like that. Here, We still need cattle that exhibit a little bit more skeletal extension than what is required or accepted in most other parts of the USA. Excuse my lack of tact. Our buyers here want far more "Black Exotics" than Emulous-bred Angus.Hence, my subjective evaluation of a heifer calf's skeletal profile.  Not the perfect situation, but, unfortuneately, it's how it is where I live.We have always been twenty years behind. I was born in '70, but I can still remember having to have a perfectly Hereford-marked calf, comeplete with the "feather" on the neck, and NO EYE PIGMENT ( boy, has that changed) or freckle-faces. Things that had left other parts of the country, we were still dealing with. Didn't see a Charolais bull until I was eleven years old.
 

DL

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OH breeder - I think she is really cool! DL (cow) (cow) (cow)
 
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