Anybody remember this breed Association ad campaign

[creativecattle]

A pretty creative ad campaign considering what the cattle industry looked like at the time. Does anyone remember seeing this ads in print?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHdH6wy7wG4

 

[knabe]

looks like the rear end of angus today.

 

[sue]

I love it (clapping)

 

[FCCO]

Does it make me an old timer if I remember when they started this ad???

 

[justintime]

I remember these ads vividly. Do u have any idea what year they were run? To me it doesn't seem that long ago....

 

[Telos]

I remember the ad. I don't think most breeders paid much attention.

 

[creativecattle]

The ads were created in 1984 and ran for two years. The initial plan was to run the campaign for three years, but the board decided to pull them after two since they made fun of exotic cattle.

 

[aj]

I would say in the early to mid 80's. These ads were only run a few years if I remember right. I became aware of the Red Angus in the early 1980's. I will say that if you had angus in say 1979 and you stuck with them till now you are a true breeder of cattle cause in the early 80's you weren't worth crap if you had Angus. Anyone that stuck with British breeds during the exotic explosion deserves a medal. Especially if you were an Angus breeder and you didn't use the chi genetics. Thats why Red Angus impress me so much is because they didn't chase the showring. They didn't know what a showring was. They kept raising Red Angus with mainstream common sense and didnt do the chi or simmental mixture.  Straight blooded cattle cattle with a strict selection process. jmo

 

[LostFarmer]

I would say in the early to mid 80's. These ads were only run a few years if I remember right. I became aware of the Red Angus in the early 1980's. I will say that if you had angus in say 1979 and you stuck with them till now you are a true breeder of cattle cause in the early 80's you weren't worth crap if you had Angus. Anyone that stuck with British breeds during the exotic explosion deserves a medal. Especially if you were an Angus breeder and you didn't use the chi genetics. Thats why Red Angus impress me so much is because they didn't chase the showring. They didn't know what a showring was. They kept raising Red Angus with mainstream common sense and didnt do the chi or simmental mixture.  Straight blooded cattle cattle with a strict selection process. jmo

I have some ocean front property in AZ to sell you to AJ.  There were back yard bulls that landed in every breed.  You don't think a little Limousine or Selar went into the red angus?  The strict selection was to select which exotic to cross without getting caught.  I'm not saying everyone did it but there was some and a bull would get widely used that was a pure cross. 

 

[outlawcattlecompany]

minimizing structural soundness and frame score...worked real well

 

[aj]

Lost Farmer.....I am just saying that a lot less of it went on in the Red Angus breed. I'm sure especially the show ring cattle of today that there is some funny business that went on. To start with there wasn't a whole lot of Red Angus Breeders in the 70's and 80's. From what I've heard the breeders were stacking numbers and pedigree. I would think the Beckton linebred cattle would be petty predictable. They look like Angus. Just seems like to me alot of black Angus look like black chi's to me cause of their lack of fleshing ability. I bought a Red Angus bull once that actually throwed a horned calf. He also throwed bigger bwts. He also assumed room temperature. He was the showring type. I'm just saying........

 

[garybob]

The grey, crossbred cow pictured in the ads was about a quarter Angus, wasn't she? We had some like her from 85 to 92. They had awesome udders.

GB

 

[sue]

This ad started in 1984, stated in the video. It was suppose to run for 3 yrs but ended at 2 yrs.