garybob,
Nothing interesting today on Dr. Phil, so I guess I am going to spend my time getting into trouble.
I realize that most of the pictures posted are posted by people ASKING for comments about their cattle. I have never made a comment, posotive or negative. I want to see that animal from all angles AND see it walk. Plus, what someone else raises is really none of my business. All I say is that if you like looking out the window at them, like working them (disposition) and they make you money, I don't care what breed they are or how they are made. IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINEES.
When I first started working with my local vet he would bitch and moan about how big my cows were. I finally had enough and ask him when he had ever sold a calf for $1000, $1500, $2500 or $5000. He has been quiet since (although I am sure he is still THINKING).
The vet was out one day and saw a first calf heifer with some grain I had just fed. He started fussing about hard keepers. I told him her yearling weight, present weight and told him she had not had any grain for 5 months prior to calving. BUT....... I reminded him that cattle CONTINUE TO GROW UNTIL THYE ARE FOUR YEARS OLD. Well, he has gotten off that issue also. If I choose to supplement my first calf heifers for the first 100 days after calving that is MY BUSINESS.
I have also told my vet I think a lot of these smaller framed cow aren't really smaller framed cows.....THEY ARE NUTRITIONALLY DEPRIVED FEMALES THAT NEVER REACHED THEIR POTENTIAL.
I am getting my fat cattle to the butcher at 13 1/2 months weighing 1345# to 1390# and my butcher says I have made a Shorthorn beleiver out of him. He told me 4 years ago that a 13 month old heifer I brought in was the best beef he had ever cut.
Some of us choose to show, some do not. Good for everybody. Do your own thing.
So, garybob, why is it that we have never seen pictures of any of your cattle that can thrive so well on poor grass, travel on rough terrain, take the heat, are the right color, etc? I would love for one time in my life love to see the perfect beef animal; please enlighten me. But, you fuss at people on here about what they raise. I'm glad you have cattle that can thrive in your environment. Some of my cattle came out of the mountains of Wyoming. Got any terrain like that in your area? I came from looking at cows in those mountains one time and I had been bounced around so much I had blood in my urine that night! How many of your cows know about blizzards and bears? You imply other people's cattle can't thrive in poor terrain. I have cattle in a couple herds in West Virginia that you can't get to without a helicopter. They have been there 5 years and are calving every year and making them money.
I will admit my cows know nothing about razorbacks.
Well, Dr. Phil is going off, so I better go take care of my inefficient, bad footed, infertile, mean and some solid red cows. After that I will take my check to the bank.
Everyone have a good day.
Malinda