Recent content by Sammy

a serious question for you shorthorn folks as I read with great interest your posts and appreciate the passion that you have for your cattle - we all know of the color bias, particularly in the states, of your breed - let me state that I do appreciate your breed as I have owned Shorthorn cattle...

with that color and those rear legs plus the breeding on the dam's side  cut him and sell him this fall as a 700+ pound feeder @ $1.40 or so a pound - nearly a $1000. feeder calf - save yourself the time of breaking and clipping and move on - no diamond there - as mentioned before there is...

why do you want big-butted cattle like the Belgian Blue X Angus AKA purebred Angus in the photo - in fact why is it desirable to have a huge-butted market calf of any breed?  It causes nothing but trouble as in hip locked and the resulting retail beef product, round steak, is about the cheapest...

some might consider a black Charolais the ideal beef bull.....

Yep - and in addition to a truck with all the bells and whistles that won't make a dime for them those same commercial guys have 1 or more $250,000 + combines, several six-figure tractors and an assortment of other expensive equipment and toys - plus are paying $200 a bag for seed corn - by...

Add another bull to the opinion/comparison equation - NLC Fortunate Son - what is the evaluation of this bull?

What are the good, bad and ugly opinions of Ebony's Trademark - I know that he has been around a while and is still used some - what are some of the positives and negatives of the bull?  What are his strengths and weaknesses? What frame size is he and what about the longevity of his daughters? ...

going back a bit - Maine Break, what was he like 5/8 or 3/4 - calving ease and great females - he would still work - to me calving ease must be paramount these days with cattle prices where they are - you can give up some performance to get more live calves - the commercial cattle need to do it...

I was just thinking of how much white meat there would have to be on a 1500 holstein, but then they would perhaps not be as wasteful as a little pud angus - back to the original post I think that the Maines will make a run in the next few years if they do their homework and produce commercially...

WOW - 1500+ pound holstein steers -

was just looking at" Nebraska Weekly Direct Slaughter Cattle - Negotiated Prices" for last week online - could not figure out how to link the site to this board - so anyone interested can Google it -Nebraska  live sales of 9,000+ steers AVERAGE wt of 1394 - on almost 18,000 head sold on rail...

what I posted earlier was from conversations with several large cow-calf guys and guys that market hundreds of bulls that were getting off the maine sired bulls and I asked why -  there are good ones and bad ones in all breeds - it is about perception of potential buyers - where is there any...

not trying to offend anyone but..... from speaking with other cattle folks the Maines have a reputation of being hard-doing, bad-structured, hard-calving that don't do well at high altitudes - bred too much for the showring it would appear - just what I am told - you see fewer and fewer of them...

I hear through the grapevine that some folks in TX are now flushing mini herfs to herf appearing club calf bulls to make those little stout herf appearing steers - only flushing of course as they could not be expected to have one naturally - the females have the right kind of compact pattern for...

I was just looking at some reports on NE fat cattle - and noticed the weekly average live weights from Dec 10 to present generally go from 1420 to 1460 - they prefer bigger carcass weights as it lowers per unit processing costs in the plant - just don't want rea too big or Y3 or less - red meat...