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Yeah...I've not seen any scientific data on that, but I figure there has to be something to that.

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I kinda like that. I always have a due date down, just so we know when to be paying attention & don't let stuff slip up on us, and I think I remember the ones that either come real early or real late, but I think it would be interesting to pay a little more attention to the type of information...

Now I'm curious...what is "brand paperwork"? Health papers are required for all interstate shipment of cattle and other livestock. Each state will have different requirements as to what needs to be on that paper, and that might sometimes depend on what state you're coming from...where the...

You're probably thinking 5 or 600 straw capacity is WAY more tank than you'll ever need, but keep in mind it's the number of canes it holds that's important...more so than the number of straws. Each cane will hold up to 10 straws of semen, and you can't mix bulls in a cane, so a tank that holds...

Yes...Uno Mas was in Louisville, and he was Reserve to Broker. He's a nice bull phenotypically...he doesn't necessarily jump out as overpowering or supremely impressive, but the more you study him, the harder it is to really criticize him. He reminds me just a little of how I felt about Black...

I think that's great advice! I was thinking our better tank is an MVE. I need to find a replacement for my other tank.

I've loved the look of Great Divide ever since I first saw his picture. I'd love to use him, but his numbers just won't work for what we do. I think he's a GREAT suggestion! One thing that would scare me, though, regardless of what scenario you were using him in is that docility EPD...one of the...

There's a clubby bred bull I really like called Simple Math. He's not as terminally muscled as a lot of these bulls, but I've heard he makes really nice heifers...probably better daughters than steers. And I don't think the steers calves would be culls either. He seems sounder and more real to...

Right or wrong, that's exactly what I would have done. It's hard to tell from the picture, and I don't know that I have any experience with hernias...that did come to mind when I saw it, but I think I'd have to look at that one in person to give any advice on what else to do for it. I'd say keep...

I'm really not the best guy to ask for that advice. Cattle Visions carries a lot of those showy type Simmie bulls, and Lance Ellsworth is good to offer some advice. The more maternally bred bulls will give up a little bone and maybe some butt, but they'll usually add some rib and soften up the...

It's hard for me to have an opinion at all on Grandmaster. I try to lean more toward only making positive comments or lending constructive criticism in regards to specific bulls and pedigrees, and this is one I have a very mixed review on. I have seen a handful of really nice females by...

I've been around cattle all my life, and I've always been interested in matings and pedigrees...what works and doesn't work. We've shown a few, and we sell a show heifer every now and then...our business is mostly commercial bulls and replacement heifers. I get that a lot of people see the...

I wasn't gonna comment since none of these bulls are really on my radar for various reasons, but one thing you mentioned struck me, so I looked em all up just to see if there was something I had missed. You said, "without giving up too much performance" and the three bulls you listed are in the...

Growing up in the Simmental business, I've always been really interested in color pattern. I picked my first heifer based solely on color pattern--she was spotted! I was eight, and I had never seen a prettier calf out of our Hereford & Angus based commercial cows. As spots fell out of fashion &...

I had a calf just like him last spring that we thought about keeping to use on Angus cows...I would just about guarantee all blazes and baldies on Angus cows! I questioned my bull's manhood, and he was too young to use when I needed him, so we he ended up making a show steer. I looked and looked...

I'm glad you have faith in them, and I don't mean this to sound overly critical, but I would think they would know what a vaginal prolapse is. And I wouldn't expect him or her to take any responsibility for causing it. I doubt it helps the situation for the cow to be super fat, but I don't think...

Come to think of it...the cow I told the story about being induced...she was a Polled Hereford. I'm not sure what the pedigree was...that happened several years ago...and I didn't remember this part until the subject of vaginal prolapse came up, but the reason the owner was concerned about her...

Apparently... A vaginal prolapse usually only occurs when a cow is very late in gestation, and you typically only see it when she's laying down, putting pressure on her rear end. Some are worse than others, and when these cows stand up, everything goes back inside like it's supposed to be...

Hey, if you really want to stick to the 3/4 blood, no Legacy thing, check out these two bulls... Neither of them are baldies, but they are homozygous black and polled 3/4 bloods that don't have Legacy in the pedigrees. Both are out of strong programs and have good numbers. I don't know exactly...