Appendix shorthorn req

[Mill Iron A]

I'm sorry but I dislike the ASA website. Maybe I just don't have any patience... Could someone please describe what the requirements for appendix shorthorn classes are? Also, what seems to be more marketable, purebred or appendix heifers and steers?

 

[librarian]

I'm with you on not liking the site.
Whenever you want to work back thru a pedigree it requires you to go thru a seperste epd page for every animal. It takes you to the epd page first as if assuming that is the thing one is most interested in looking at. I miss the good old days of just clicking onto ancestor after ancestor, down the river of ancestry.
AND I just tried to look up information on the way CED is calculated and keep getting Oops this page isn't working. I bet there's more...
It's like the site was built by the healthcare.gov people.

 

[aj]

I always imagined the appendix Shorthorn classes to look similar to sim-angus, mainetainer, or Red Angus-Shorthorn crosses. The classes have turned out to be a club calfy type deal with allmost of them being genetic defect carriers. I'm not sure what % Shorthorn they have to be to be shown.

 

[shortybreeder]

Most shows require 1/2 or 3/8 shorthorn to show, but you can register as low as 1/4 for breeding up purposes. It is highly dependent on what your market is, and I'd say for selling show stock, I'd think a PLUS steer would sell easier (assuming it's clubby-bred) as for heifers, the purebred show is always larger, so that's where I'd expect the higher demand to be.

Edit: when selling show stock, a good one will sell whether it's purebred or appendix. Just look at Sullivan's past sales.