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If I've read and interpreted the literature correctly... it seems as though the GeneStar and subsequent genetic tests for Tenderness look to be applicable across breeds... though one report I read suggested that the Quality Grade/Marbling GeneStar markers (initially identified for Angus?)...

aj, We're using some Braunvieh sires this fall...mostly over solid black or brown(diluted) ANxSimAngus cows... but have bred some ANxSH cows - red and black - to them, as well.  Will be interesting to see what sort of color we get...brindling is a distinct possibility from the red and...

Thanks for posting this; will have to have a look. My dad bred and showed Red Poll and Guernsey cattle back in his youth, in the 1940s-1950s... not sure if I have any of the registration papers on any of his cattle... and they were all long gone or absorbed into the commercial beef herd by the...

rolaine, My first foray into Simmentals, back in the late 1980s, were some Proto daughters I bred out of black commercial cows.  They were GOOD.  Saw some APP semen on 'clearance' at SEK recently...was tempted to buy it... but 25 years down the road, I'm still trying to breed away from the...

Commercial outfit here, with no inclination toward the show ring. Have been using only high CED SM sires on heifers (mostly ANxSimAngus or ANxSM) for several years... why use an Angus sire and give up WW? Have used several Shear Force 38K sons/grandsons. Triple C Bettis - small, easily-born...

Sue, The abysmal performance (though it was all we had to work with at the time) of the old CF test was responsible, in large part, for some of the previous outbreaks of anaplasmosis in Canada and northern-tier US states, as animals frequently tested negative (though they were false...

When we move animals from one area of the country to another... sometimes you get 'more than you bargained for'... Our knowledge of anaplasmosis - and diagnostic tests available, as well - have improved significantly in the last few years.  There's a lot of outdated information still hanging out...

Ronnie van Zant

Base herd here is predominantly ANxSimAngus.  Just wasn't getting what we wanted from Angus sires...so we switched over to red polled Shorthorn sires... LOVING what we're getting from that cross of SH sires over 3/4AN 1/4SM cows. Breeding a select group of cows back toward purebred Simmental...

Commercial producer here, have been dabbling with some Shorthorn sires over ANxSimAngus(Fleckvieh influenced) cows for the past 6 years or so.  I feel very fortunate to have been recruited by Toby Jordan to do a progeny-test breeding trial for them, and have the resulting steers entered into the...

Back in the GeneStar days, a very few Shorthorn breeders had done the testing, and made that info available...  Whether or not those markers were valid for Shorthorns, I don't know - I don't see why they wouldn't be, but a regular poster here alluded to the fact that they were not... but I...

E+ form of the MC1R gene that yields 'wild type' coloration is on chromosome 18 Form of the KIT gene that codes for roan is on chromosome 5 Do they influence one another... I have no idea... Look here: http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/colors.html

There are many of them. Can't give you any personal recommendations if you're breeding for show stock, but we breed almost all of our commercial heifers - AN, ANxSH, SimAngus - to high CED Simmental sires.  Have recently used Triple C Bettis, WS All In W111, Hooks Pharoah 16P, and this spring...

Commercial outfit here, with predominantly ANxSimAngus cows, some higher% AN, and a few ANxSH. Spring SM-influenced calves were primarily by Long's Shear Force... one last Triple C Singletary - all heifers, and all looking like they'll be keepers. Fall herd just now calving... most cows, and a...

Take fecal samples and have your veterinarian either do - or submit to the diagnostic lab for - fecal egg counts.  Will give accurate numbers of 'worm eggs' and coccidia, to help determine if these animals actually need to be treated.

r.n. reed nailed it; it's a snapshot in time, and for me - this was a chance for me to see what my calves could do 'at the next level'.  Have been selling weaned calves all my life, with no idea how they performed in the feedlot or on the rail.  Big thanks to Toby and the folks at Waukaru for...

Have done a dozen or so around the farm like this: http://extension.missouri.edu/adair/tiretanks.aspx They're tough, cows/bulls can't really hurt the tire, they will freeze in winter, but the black rubber absorbs sunlight and will thaw them some.  Miscreants can even shoot 'em with a rifle, and...

Beebe, We went to SH sires with the intent of making some ANxSH females to be bred to black Simmental sires for 'terminal' calf production.  Performance has been so good with the Shorthorn-sired steers that we're sort of rethinking that deal.  We've kept most of the Shorthorn cross heifers as...

LOL, duncraggin, He's just a Shorthorn Plus...he is red, out of a black 86%AN female...don't guess he'd really qualify as a Durham Red. I've had plenty of experience with crossbred bulls over crossbred cows...uniformity may not be there... but when I'm already using several different Simmental...

She's got an Angus-sired calf this time out; didn't stick to her AI service. Did keep one Orion bull calf intact, this spring, out of a paternal half-sib to her that's been her close second and out of a more preferred cow family, for potential use as a cleanup sire in future breeding seasons. ...