Lol I'll keep that in mind about the timeline...
My hide is just one I thot was too pretty to throw out. We needed a beef to feed last summer, and one day at the sale barn was a real pretty registered shorthorn heifer...she was nice enough that she stood out in the pens at the sale barn, and I even thot about keeping her around after I found out what she was. I bought her thinking I'd like to have that hide, and after I figured out how hateful she was, I didn't think much about not keeping her around! The reason she ended up there in the first place...she was a show heifer that no kids could handle! If I was a shorthorn breeder, it'd be super cool lol. The hide is obviously not a Simmental, but I still think it'll be neat.