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    New show mom needs steer coat color advice

    Yeah we dye ours also with young color dye from sullivans supply or they have their own dye or if you don't want to spend too much money go to walmart and buy the cheap stuff. but its worth the money to use the good stuff last longer and gets them black recommend young color or black velvet from...
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    angus defects

    I never said angus were the purest breed out there if you refer to other post of mine I admit that holsteins have had thier influence on the breed but I will dispute the shorthorn people who seem to be the only ones saying on here shorthorns were bred into the angus breed. Once again I wold not...
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    angus defects

    I would believe that steer that won the 1901 first international to be named advance not a 100% but pretty sure and yes he did have some white on his leg but there was a time you could show only angus steer with white on places other than behind the navel. If that steer was advance the americas...
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    angus defects

    is grain even necessary for select beef?  what is the average back fat of select beef?  0.2"?  it seems to me, select beef is grass fattened fed beef year round at a younger age. So when you go to the store and look at a package of meat and it says select beef for the grade you assume that to...
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    angus defects

    I believe we probably have higher standards for choice meat than 290 years ago that is a long time ago. I was talking about black angus not to be confused with red angus and where can you show me in the black angus you can trace shorthorns. Also if black hided cattle are lowering the % choice...
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    angus defects

    Why is there a need  to insult another breed.   ??? Usually when someone specifically singles out , like you have shorthorns,  and uses a condoscending tone or comment as "hobby breed" they lack knowledge. You realize that many of the mainstream breeds have Shorthorn blood in them as a...
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    angus defects

    I would say the angus defects shouldn't be worried about most all the popular angus bulls have been tested anything positive doesn't get used in the angus industry or very little use eventually the problem will weed itself out unlike TH and PHA where some people keep breeding them and do nothing...
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    Thoughts on Slick Shearing show heifer

    I agree hair is not everything and definatly for angus cattle I don't think you'll need that much hair for eastern regionals just enough to stand out more importantly I would idealy like to have more hair for state fair. The reason why I wanted to do it this weekend is that is what some other...
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    Thoughts on Slick Shearing show heifer

    I am from Illinois and our state fair is the second week of aug. however eastern regional for angus is in bloomington il in june along with a could other shows her mother is a TC Freedom and had tons of hair early summer but had a neck sweat on her by state fair she had just enough but not...
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    Thoughts on Slick Shearing show heifer

    We show angus cattle and I have never slick sheared one out just always grill bricked the old hair out we always seem to get along good doing this and have pretty good hair all summer but I am working and my sister is in school so not as much time to work on her I was wondering people input on...
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