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Hope to have calf pictures available late next week.

BUMP  <cowboy>

Great job!! I found mine. Thanks!

For those that asked, he's the information we ran on our Leader bull earlier this year.  You can contact me or JiT if you have any questions. Thanks! <cowboy>

You and i must be going to the same sales!!!  <cowboy>

The one thing that's not clear is how good are the 5 cows you have.  If they really aren't what you want - either from quality or genetic standpoint then, I'd sell the 5 cows and add this money to my $5000.  Then I'd go and try and find some good 3 in 1 pairs with older cows and heifer calves -...

Great post – I think you’re right on a great many things.  It’s funny you mentioned Nick – he and I had some very similar conversations.  The only thing I really disagree with you on is that I think there are quite a number of bulls out there that do exactly what you mentioned.  You’ve hit on...

Sue, I would never try to suggest what customers in other parts of the country might desire – as environmental and feed resources create different demands for the right type and size of cattle.  What I can tell you from this part of the world is that the premium is being paid for cattle that...

RFL, You’re asking the right questions and I’m going to try to answer some of these.  The best explanation of calving ease EPD’s and their relationship to birth weight that I’ve read is found at: http://www.angus.org/Nce/Documents/BytheNumbers0107.pdf Something that I would offer is that while...

We have his maternal brother - Matador and he has worked very well as a sire of moderate birth weights.  With the genetics behind him,  I would suspect he would work well. His sire, - Gold Spear - also tends to be a good sire of moderate birth weights, BUT he has been known to have an outlier or...

Sue, I don’t think I’ve ever been confused on the difference between birth weight and calving ease – in fact I’ve read a fair amount of the research related to the subject – including US, Australian and European research.   All of these conclude much of the same thing (and we all know this)...

Grant, I have to agree with you on how we’ve created part of our problem with the way we’ve designed our cattle.  As the Shorthorn breed has become noted for its show ring style and phenotype (at least in this country), some of those eye appealing traits may actually be counterproductive to...

Not sure if I should have posted this in JiT’s bull sale post or in the “Schrag bull” post below, but since the topic of calving ease and birth weight is running through both threads and it’s that time of year for most of us, I’ll thought I’d just start a new one here. When you bring up the...

One way to be sure that the teams are relatively even is to blind draw the kids.  Set up  definitions of each level - i.e. for a beginner or novice you have to be in your first year or can't have shown more than 3-4 times.  Someone who had shown for years and had several top placings in...

OK, I'm one of those goofy golfers that loves to play in golf tournaments - sometimes to win but sometimes for fun.  One tournament I play in is an ABCD tournament, where teams are randomly assigned based on their skill level, with each tam having an "expert" down to the "novice/beginner".  The...

So sorry to hear about your father - hope he's doing better now. 

These trailer stories are enough to make you wonder why we do this.  Several years ago, when I was still fitting a few cattle on the side, I was asked to take a Simmy bull and heifer around the southeast for a good friend.  After one show we were getting ready to head home when my clients...

I would agree with Sue about the need to check TH, PHA status.  But don't rely just on the web site - it's not always immediately up to date.  In fact, I just looked at our bull and it has his PHA results but not his TH, yet the tests were done the same time and I have the results for both.  You...

I sent you a PM, but here's a couple of pics we've used in ads. Joe