She is a PB simmy. Her mother is a Steel Force that we bought at Louisville from Happy 6 Simmentals
http://highcountrycattle.com/donors/cajselegantforce.html
If you are looking at using Top Gun, watch out for the fertility in these cattle, especially testicle size on the bulls. He has been used heavy in Canada and this seems to be a common theme. Really good cattle though.
As for Explorer, we have only 1 heifer out of him. She is super quiet and...
The cow did not die from natural causes. Although it will never be published, the cow was pumped and from a lack of knowledge or carelessness they killed her. I think this is fair punishment. And their name will always be tarnished now anyways
We have been using power drive and joker on all of our cattle for a somewhat outcross calf. We have a great set of 1st calf heifers out of them right now
My family is over there right now. They went for the show, and stayed to do some touring and visiting afterward. We had sold a group of black embryo's to Australia a few years ago. The first group of bulls sold this summer, and one was at the show. Sounds like it was a great show regardless of...
From what Justin and Roger have said it sounds like they are just getting to big and had to make some decisions about where the farm is going to go. They will still have all of their black angus, so well over 200 cows.
Detour's mother may look good in that picture, but when her udder is not played with and right milked out it is not a pretty sight. It has just gotten worse the older the cow gets.
At most of your breed and 4-H shows we do fitting competitions. They are always teams. Most times teams of 2, or 3 just depending on the number of kids. The younger ages are given 15 mins with the older kids given 20 mins.
They are judged on how the animal looks going into the chutes, how they...