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Finally a truthful name for a club calf bull!!!! That pretty much sums up all of them.

I am curious why no one has recommended just a 50/50 mix of gluten and soybean hull pellets for what is apparently just a calf?  The price for that has ranged from $125 a ton delivered and now is up to 175 a ton delivered.  Works well enough for calves of all sizes on a commercial basis.  We use...

Yes on Ildeno looking good as an aged bull - interesting bull in that he had that nice pattern but was not really that large of a chi bull - what would you say 56 to 57"?  I bet that Tim still has a lot of semen on him in storage as he said that one day he might make a comeback.  A quarter blood...

Mixed memories when I see a bull like that - some good and bad - the bad has been discussed but the good was you could breed one of those fullblood chi bulls to a 46" 1000 to 1100 pound Angus cows that were in abundance and with the great hybrid vigor and growth you could reasonably expect them...

back then we bred him quite a bit - he could cripple them off both ends - he was thick for the day and would size them up but not as thick as today and surely no body - but in those days we had lots of these little 1100 pound ground sows to breed bulls like that to - that is just what the cows...

he was a 3/4 maine bred by Bremmer's in Iowa -

You will probably get many answers that will suggest that ag classes are essential because that is what they did and that is fine.  However I suspect that many successful livestock people never took an ag class, as to a great extent you learn old information and a particular line of thinking...

simply glue it to the belly at shows - been done a lot - 3M

Interesting points all around - to me the "genie is now out of the bottle" and technology moves on - it is a very competitive business (aka youth 4-H/FFA activity) and people will use various forms of technology to advance progress - started with AI then embryo transplant and now cloning - with...

can't really see him as a steer for any significant premium?  with fat cattle/feeder cattle prices/futures as they are looking right now a $1,500. club calf is not that much of a premium considering the trouble and expense of AI and working with selling a calf -  however a horn heifer or a...

A really, really nice cow and very good calf - great pair - my question is what is the value of a blue roan bull calf of a Simmental x Shorthorn cross, as in what is the objective of breeding like that?  With a horn cow like that it would seem that there would be a ton of ways to breed her for a...

Just curious - you said that he is 51.5" as a 3 year-old, about his mature height I would suppose?  So about a frame 4?  And a curve bender?

It seems that you have named him and made a video of him already, but you asked for opinions - he is a stout calf with rib shape issues - however unfortunately he reminds me of some that I have bred that even the buyers at the sale barn will discount - under stress and a haul he might get put in...

I always thought that it was just something that you said about cattle that were underfed and you pointed at them and said another victim of "high trough disease"  as in the trough was up too high for the cattle to get any feed - and I really think that is all it means -  ;)

But that is California, they can't do anything right - look at the numerous examples - now if that cow was loose at say Iowa or Ohio state fairs- very different result I would expect  ;)

correct me if I am wrong but with his mother being an American citizen does not this mean that he is an American citizen by birth no matter where he was born?  making all of the speculation moot?

When deciding a major for college I recommend that you think of it as an investment in time and money toward making a secure income so that you can do the things that you like to do and be where you want to live - too many people that I see get what is essentially a worthless degree in something...

Chambero and Justintime are both right on track - I always thought that the market animal shows for youth were supposed to be hands on learning projects to produce what was the "ideal" market animal of any species that can be commercially reproduced - granted the Heatwave "kind" are interesting...

Try Richard Cox Inc. portable cattle feeders on wheels, made in MO - cheaper than Apache feeders - work just fine and last - contact them for local dealers - 660-542-0967

You are a nice person Chambero as you are trying to deal with folks with nothing better to do than over-analyze comments on a gossip board - I think that a lot of what both of us reference is that most cattle in this country and probably Canada are in places that don't have a "breeding program"...