Recent content by clifflem

Sorry to hear of Chuck's passing.  I always enjoyed visiting with him.  He was a great breeder and will be missed.

Oakview-- there aren't very many of the old timers that shipped cattle by rail to shows left.  One of my Dad's cousins worked for a Polled Hereford outfit that showed cattle all over the US that operated in the Northeast Texas Panhandle.  He can tell some interesting stories about traveling by...

I'll try to post a picture of my brownie clippers with the brush attachment.  Thought some of the youngsters wouldn't understand what we were talking about.

International Hereford Organization was the breed association that registered the perfections and some of the other crossbred Hereford cattle.  They had an IHO show in Louisville for 2 or 3 years when they were in existance.  I remember some good cattle(at that time) that were spotted and...

RW, speaking of old school fitting equipment, a couple months ago I was in a second hand junk store about 25 miles from home and found an original O.M. Franklin Serum Company,  Denver, CO fine tooth scotch comb with the big wooden handle.  It was a bargain at $8.  That was more than it probably...

Joe, never carried a pair of sheep shears, but we had a big pair of scissors with curved blades we used to trim tailheads after we got enough glycerine bar in them to make them stand up.  If you still have your brownie clippers, I bet you could get your money back. I still have a brownie motor...

M-Bar and Roadwarrior bring back fond memories of the good fitting stuff we used to use.  Orvus soap that about 1/2 teaspoon would make a 5 gallon bucket of soap.  Everyone just used it straight out of the jar.  Every time for about a month after you used it and would get your hands wet, you...

One of my favorite western authors is Elmer Kelton.  His stories are fiction based on Texas historical facts.  I have also read the entire series of Louis LaMour and Zane Gray. 

Could the red gene come through the bottom side of the bull's pedigree?  My brother is using a Lutton son also on angus cross females and it seems like he may have had a red calf too.

Several years ago, one of my friends was single egg flushing a heifer.  Does anyone still do that?  What I understood was that they set her up and bred her without superovulation drugs and then flushed the single fertilized egg.

I looked at Ivy League at REI a couple weeks ago.  He is a really complete bull that is well proportioned and sound.  He is not really all that big, but there are enough big cows out there that he could help.  If I was going to pick on him any, I would like to see him a little wider through his...

Monopoly was at REI in Stillwater last week when we went by there to look at bulls.  Also several other Lautner bulls.

Irish Pride is the sire of Double Stuff.  George Alschwede in Texas owned his.  He could give you an idea of the value of the semen.  I doubt that there is much of it still around.

I would suggest Northern Improvement for the Charolais heifer.  We have used him on Maine cross heifers and they were in the 60-70 lb. range.  If you want to stay with the Charolais deal, I saw several nice Yellow Jacket calves at Kris Black's.  I would probably wait until her second calf to try...

She's a Sin City out of an Eskimo Joe cow.  We bred her to K-Kim Payton.  Calf was a red, polled bull calf.  I looked at him when he was less than a day old so he probably has changed some.  Big boned, wide made and stout.  I'll try to get some pictures in a few days when he has filled out some...