Cool fronted?

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afhm

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Cool fronted refers to a calf with a long extended neck with very little to no dewlap and brisket.  This term is synomynous with goose fronted, so think about what a goose's neck looks like and that will give you an idea.  Bulls that exhibit this include Full Throttle, Full Flush, XRAy Vision, and  Gizmo to name a few.  On the shoulders you want them smooth and have about a 45 degree angle.
 

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From a performance-oriented viewpoint, it means cattle that wean 75lbs lighter, and weigh 350lbs too light at a year, and, mature into hoard-doing, high maintenance cattle.
 

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    top of shoulder           
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                          \  point of shoulder
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Please excuse the crudeness.
 

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afhm, that's ingenious! Cool diagram...How difficult would it be to do the whole profile like that;  head, neck, body, legs, top, rear, even the tail?  Heh,Heh,Heh...

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Very, I tried to do a neck and head on there for demo purposes and stopped when the headache started.
 
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