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To me one important concept that I would include in when talking about frame size is environment. I have grown up in eastern Colorado in hard, short grass country. We have had everything from 4.5 to 7+ frame cattle and the ones that have consistently done the best job of producing (i.e. breeding...

Angus3, nothing personal taken. I am in fact a college kid, who judged at the Junior and Senior College Level, however, I was never good enough in College to get too big of a head about it. I was always pretty decent at placing classes but having never judged until my Sophomore year of Junior...

Rusty, I for one will definitely have to disagree with this statement. How can Angus have the only reall EPD's , when yet they don't require whole herd reporting. So guess what, not everyone of those 130lb. calves gets reported. Not every cow that doesn"t have a calf gets reported either> Like...

I'm also coming in a little late on this topic as I just noticed it. I will say one thing, that unless that is absolutely nothing else to use, I mean nothing that is even adequate in terms of muscle and condition, I will not use a steer that is extremely restricted in his movement to win a show...

We have run commercial Red Angus Cattle for about the last 20 years in Eastern Colorado. They have been doing very well for us in terms of cattle that will hold up on short grass, especially since we've been in a drought for about the last 8-10 of that. They are very docile, easy fleshing...

Justintime, I will give a few of my thoughts on your comments. Overall, we have not had too many problems with udder quality in our herd of commercial Red Angus cows. However, that is something that my father and I are the hardest on when making culling and selection decisions. I try and keep...

My family has run a commercial Red Angus herd for about 20 years now. I agree with many of the things that Road Warrior has said about them. The reason that we love them has a lot to do with their temperament, along with great maternal traits, mothering, and fleshring ability. For the most part...

As a judge myself, I try to hold myself to the highest standards. I think it's important that if you are working with today's youth that you know they are the leaders of tomorrow and you need to set forth a positive example. I also know that I will never make everyone happy and that not everyone...

Would it be Art Bakenhus? I know that Bakenhus's carry the Ar Su Lu prefix. When I was at UNL I got to know his grandson pretty well through Livestock Judging ll along with meeting Ward, who now runs the day to day operations. They seem to be more successful with their bulls than heifers but a...

Like Red said we discussed this a little earlier but here a few examples of questions I've been know to ask: Heifers: 1. What breed is she? 2. Is she bred? 3. How long is the average cows gestation length? Answer: Depending on breed but around 283-285 days. 4. How long is a normal heat(estrus)...

That is a bull, it is Prince Peer 15 RLS, Junior and Grand Champion bull in Ft. Worth 1955. Alot of good stories found on Harlan Ritchie's website: http://www.msu.edu/~ritchieh/historical/cattletype.html

That is very true "itk", I knew the steer was picked by Dr. Good but for the life of me I couldn't remember the steers name. It was "Conoco", he weighed 1250 lbs. was a yield grade 2, and quality graded out choice. He was a Charolais/Angus Cross. Definitely a high quality steer.

Was it Crazy, that ended up becoming huge for Patsy Cline?

dl, Is the Charolais bull pictured, BR Duke 261? Not really having any luck looking so that's my best guess.

Is the bull Red Baron?

I completely understand your thinking on both topics, I don't feel questions should be the focal point but at the same time feel there is some relevance. To me it sometimes splits up the knowlegeable showmen from the "trained" and that's why I like to use them. Also, I will only switch with...

I agree with you on a lot of the things that you talk about, however, I do think some industry knowledge is relevant. If you are showing a steer you should know what the avg. dressing percentage, avg. Rib eye area, and current market prices are. The same thing for a heifer, you should know how...

Your Welcome, Just found the board and so far I really like how everything seems to be going. A lot less personal attacks and it seems to be a lot more civil and straight forward. Keep up the good work. I'm enjoying it.

I have judged a few shows and in talking to many of my contemporaries, the reason that many of them do not have kids switch anymore is because of the amount of time it takes. I enjoy judging showmanship but sometimes shows have it scheduled for the end of the day and by then I know that I am...