Guess what.....

Well, since the stock market is in the toilet along with my IRA investments, I decided to invest in something that might actually appreciate!  I bought a halfblood Lowline heifer sired by TJ's Doc Holiday bull!  Her dam is a Reg. Angus cow - Traveler bred w/no 1680.  I also bought the Angus dam!  Guess I'm 'back in the biz'!!  I'll probably breed the heifer to my own bull, ABF Fitz, in the Spring! 

Congratulations Dori <party>

only live once..might as well enjoy what you like.  Congrats!

Congrats Dori!  (clapping)  I still have a few heifers available if you would like to make the herd a little bigger   

dori36 said:

Well, since the stock market is in the toilet along with my IRA investments, I decided to invest in something that might actually appreciate!  I bought a halfblood Lowline heifer sired by TJ's Doc Holiday bull!  Her dam is a Reg. Angus cow - Traveler bred w/no 1680.  I also bought the Angus dam!  Guess I'm 'back in the biz'!!  I'll probably breed the heifer to my own bull, ABF Fitz, in the Spring! 

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Good deal Dori...if you need the booger showed, I've been known to show a Lowline or two!

Good deal, Dori.  Glad that you are back in the Lowline biz!  I think that I have seen pictures of that calf.  I'm thinking that Fitz would work well on Doc heifers & vice versa.

BTW, if you want a couple more percentage Doc heifers, I may know where you can find a couple.  Extra fancy & show quality.  One of them is really good.  They are not mine, but I think that they can be purchased fairly reasonable.  I don't really need any more right now, but I'm tempted to buy them myself.     



 

TJ said:

Good deal, Dori.  Glad that you are back in the Lowline biz!   I think that I have seen pictures of that calf.  I'm thinking that Fitz would work well on Doc heifers & vice versa.

BTW, if you want a couple more percentage Doc heifers, I may know where you can find a couple.  Extra fancy & show quality.  One of them is really good.  They are not mine, but I think that they can be purchased fairly reasonable.  I don't really need any more right now, but I'm tempted to buy them myself.     

 

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Thanks, TJ and everyone!  I don't think I'm getting back in in a big way, but couldn't pass up a very good deal.  TJ, these girls came from Hancock's but were owned by a friend of theirs.  They finally convinced him that either he had to move them NOW, or sell them.  I was able to step in, along with a neighbor who is renting my place to run a few Angus cows, and he bought one Angus cow and I bought the other cow and the heifer.  I've only seen the heifer once and I'm living off the farm, about 3.5 hrs away, for the winter so I won't see them 'til next month when I'm running down to be sure all's well.  When I can,  I'll get some pics.

Dori, I can understand about the stock market. My poor 401K plan is getting smaller every quarter.
I'm like you & leaning towards some really good genetics. We've already talked about culling at least 2 cows after calves are weaned next year. Unless they produce a decent calf next year they'll be going bye bye. Also one is a PHA carrier & am tired of spending $'s to test offspring.

love your new avatar picture too!

Red

red said:

Dori, I can understand about the stock market. My poor 401K plan is getting smaller every quarter.
I'm like you & leaning towards some really good genetics. We've already talked about culling at least 2 cows after calves are weaned next year. Unless they produce a decent calf next year they'll be going bye bye. Also one is a PHA carrier & am tired of spending $'s to test offspring.

love your new avatar picture too!

Red

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Thanks for the good thoughts, "Red".  You've quit toppling over, right?  There's a real interesting movement in the reg. Angus world, coming from Sinclair (Jeff Ward and Tom Elliot) and some other breeders, to have a niche among reg. Angus that are pure Scottish bred.  One one hand, I see that Lowlines offer the exact advantage.  On the other hand, I've had many Angus breeders say to me that until Lowlines develop viable EPD's, we will be hamstrung in the larger cattle world.  These Scottish bred Angus have the full power of the American  Angus Ass'n behind them with all that encompasses - good and bad.  For Lowline people, I think it spells a problem as even though the Scottish Angus are a real niche in the larger world of Angus, they're still in the Registry, still have all the numbers generated by the AAA, and are getting a lot of attention from some Angus breeders who are tired of the large, "hybrid" Angus.  The people who are renting my place/pastures/corrals are going in that direction even though I tried my dangest to get them into Lowlines.  Just not enough data on Lowlines for them.  But, I did convince them to at least use the Lowline genetics for a small grass fed beef herd they're also going to run within the Angus herd.  The cow I bought is all old bloodlines (well, at least that's what her reg. certificate says!) and I'll probably breed her to one of the Scottish bulls this Spring.  She's currently carrying a calf by my Lowline bull.

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TJ said:

Good deal, Dori.  Glad that you are back in the Lowline biz!   I think that I have seen pictures of that calf.  I'm thinking that Fitz would work well on Doc heifers & vice versa.

BTW, if you want a couple more percentage Doc heifers, I may know where you can find a couple.  Extra fancy & show quality.  One of them is really good.  They are not mine, but I think that they can be purchased fairly reasonable.  I don't really need any more right now, but I'm tempted to buy them myself.     

 

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Thanks, TJ and everyone!  I don't think I'm getting back in in a big way, but couldn't pass up a very good deal.  TJ, these girls came from Hancock's but were owned by a friend of theirs.  They finally convinced him that either he had to move them NOW, or sell them.  I was able to step in, along with a neighbor who is renting my place to run a few Angus cows, and he bought one Angus cow and I bought the other cow and the heifer.  I've only seen the heifer once and I'm living off the farm, about 3.5 hrs away, for the winter so I won't see them 'til next month when I'm running down to be sure all's well.  When I can,  I'll get some pics.

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I was 99.99% sure that it was one of the Hancock's calves that their friends owned.  Susan sent me a picture of it & from what I could tell, it looked like a pretty nice little heifer.  If you do get recent pics sometime, send me one or post it, if you don't mind.

From TJ: 
<<I was 99.99% sure that it was one of the Hancock's calves that their friends owned.  Susan sent me a picture of it & from what I could tell, it looked like a pretty nice little heifer.  If you do get recent pics sometime, send me one or post it, if you don't mind.>>

Will do!

Thanks

That's great, Dori!  Let me add that you could add a little 'red' to your herd by breeding to Bluey      He sired last week's reserve champion percentage heifer at the NAILE. Just a thought....