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« on: June 07, 2020, 08:23:55 AM »
Im trying to write this without bashing on anyone. Im just hoping someone can educate me on the why. Im hoping for a good and honest discussion without the mud flinging. I want to talk about breeding heifer divisions at jackpot shows. The kind Im preferring to is the kind where all breeds and crossbreds compete in the same division. In my mind, usually the champion is flat and a tick frail.
Most of the time the champion is an angus, simangus, or Simmental. When I look at these champion heifers, I wonder if theyll ever make a competitive show steer. Some might tell me that their place is to produce heifers or bulls. In the beef industry, do we want flat light boned cattle? If so, the champion steer should also be a little bit flat and frail. I think theyre a disconnect between the market steer division and the breeding heifer division. The market steer had a mother to hopefully calved on her own and milked.
Now Im not saying a super clubby market heifer should win a breeding division show but I believe a breeding heifer should have a little shape and bone. Im still waiting on watching a Shorthorn, Maine, Hereford, etc to win a breed show. I watched some good heifers that are just as sound but are still feminine but get dinged because they have a little shape and a little power.
Im looking at as a perspective of a parent and wondering if it will ever be worth dragging a heifer to a show. We just wouldnt make any money on trying to make show steers out of these champion breeding heifers.
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