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Semiahmoo Gringo is the one that Mid-Continent used. He was purchased by a Saskatchewan club calf breeder and then sold to Mid-Continent after that.

Blue, Gringo was a 100% (no-asterisk) Shorthorn bred by Gary Woods, in BC, Canada. His momma is a roan cow they showed for a number of years. Here is his pedigree, etc., information...

Sounds like rocket surgery to me...

If you refer to my original post, the scenario I referred to was one in which 8 Carrier x Carrier Embryos were implanted (not 28!) and 7 of them turn out to be affected by PHA (PHA because Dusty referred to 'shooting a few cows' which hopefully you wouldn't have to do for TH). My point being...

Maybe you could breed a fullblood Chi to a lowline and then back Chi again... Maybe you'd eventually get a short, white Chi!  :D

Chap, I just LOVE this heifer. She's not tight wound, she just doesn't have a whole bunch of waste in her bottom third. I bet she could raise a steer with a pretty good carcass when you were done showing him. It would be great to see an updated picture of her milking. Congrats on a good one!  :)

Dusty, Here are my calculations: 7 Dead Recips @ $1200/each = $8400 What 7 Dead Recips Ate For the Year $500/ea = $3500 Cost of flush $1000 (or if you bought the right to flush, substantially more)... 7 Dead Calves @ $2500/ea = $17,500 (no, maybe they weren't Louisville Champions, some would...

I haven't actually heard of anyone breeding a carrier to a carrier on purpose. I'm not sure who is willing to take this risk, but it is no one I know. I know people who are breeding carrier's to non-carriers from carrier lines, but if someone can get it done with carrier genetics and still avoid...

Scales ARE expensive for as many times a year as you use it. When our old one broke, we decided not to buy a new one and now just rent one from the County instead.  Its probably a considerably more accurate scale than one we could afford ourselves and we rent it at weaning and yearling for the...

We tattoo everything that is born on the place...since they are done at about 8 hours old, so all our market steers sell with tattoos. We put both the tattoo and prefix in one ear though...tag goes in the other...

I think...(don't quote me) the chances of it being double-clean are 1 in 16 or 6.25%...

I have to cross into another country if I want to attend a club calf sale. You obviously have local club calf breeders in your area if there is a club sale around you (the one that she had an eartag from?) If you want a club heifer and want to be economical, why not stop in at one of their...

How do you know she lost her calf in the first place? Maybe she kicked the living daylights out of her own calf and THAT's why she was shipped. Sometimes paying a bit more for a heifer from a reputable breeder and getting her history with her instead of getting a sale-barn "deal" with a lot of...

I'm not sure if getting out of bed to check is a sign of calving difficulties, at least where I live. Forty or so of our calves were born (unassisted!!!) in -50 degree weather this year. If we didn't go out and bring them in, we would have found a bunch of calf-sicles in the morning!!  :o Might...

We had three sets this year out of a herd of 80 cows. Three to four sets seems to be a normal course of events for us the last couple years. The cows were all bred normally and not heat-synched. I think its probably a side effect of breeding fertility into your cow herd. Two of our sets this...

What is slowing the progess of this breed is not the kind of cattle breeders are choosing to use or the kind of cattle judges are choosing to use. Its the constant squabbling between 'show ring' people and 'commercial' people. If breeders put as much effort into promotion as they put in...

I do have a Bachelor of Design and was very lucky to be taught by senior creative directors from some of the more prominent Canadian advertising agencies. I also work at an agency and have worked on branding for companies such as Sharps Audio-Visual, DMG World Media, Meristem, Shell Canada and...

ZNT, I'm pretty picky about this, I suppose, but I consider many of the people who are hired by 'professional' magazines in the agriculture industry to be pretty amateur. They can run a computer and know how to open photoshop, and are willing to work cheaper than what most desigers ask from...

TJ, Nice ad. I'm not knocking your skill at designing by any means...I'm just saying I wouldn't hire a dentist to calve out my cows or a construction worker to clean my teeth...A good idea is worth a thousand good layouts. I just received an Angus magazine that's three quarters of an inch thick...

This can be true, but usually...its not. The essence of good advertising is that not only people see it, but that it strikes a chord with them that makes them react to it. Thousands of people drive by hundreds of billboards every day, but because they don't connect with billboard's message, they...