sue said:
Okotoks said:
Here is a heifer calf by Diamond Prophecy 21P born March 20, BW 82lbs. She is out of Diamond Regal Legend 4R’s full sister. Not the best picture and she is definitely photographed in the rough. She is from our Diamond May family and this family traces all the way back to Amos Cruickshank’s herd in Scotland to a cow born in 1843 named Clipper. The Clippers were a famous Scotch Shorthorn family and they were imported to Canada, then to the US and then back to Canada in the late1940’s. The Diamond Dottie cow family goes back to the same Clipper cow and they are now in the US again. Next month we are flushing a Dottie cow for a herd in Scotland so they will have gone full circle.
Yes I remember doing that search. So what has happened to the Butterflys, I found the nonpareils?
nice hfr
You know, that brings up another item that bugs me about the present status of Shorthorns in the United States. I hope i don't offend anyone. Russell Sloan, when he died, had a herd of about 75 cows. All those cows had the name of their ancestral Cow Family on thier pedigree, not a pet-name, or a "barn Name". As you could imagine, the herd was dispersed among various buyers, all but one of whom, bred them all to show sires, for the next 3 generations. Every birth of heifer calves resulted in each of those female offspring having a different name ( the smaller the "breeder", the worse it is). No more Butterfly's, Foxgloves, Joy Maids, Claras,etc. Russell could tell you where each of the original cow lines started from. Joy Maids came from Baughman's, etc. Nowadays, it's Buffy, Scruffy, Snuffy, Tuffy, Puffy, etc.
I don't know for sure, but one of my goals is to come back into active status as a breeder of Shorthorn cattle. During the past 9 years, I have sat on the sidelines and watched things "progress" within the breed through both print ( magazines and sale catalogs) and interactive media (internet). Please, guys, stop ruining the cow families. I can't, and won't go to a sale and buy something if I look at a 2-generation "pedigree" and see inconsistency.
Heritage means something. Like begets like. C'mon, Y'all, look at what Y'uns are doing.
Please???
GB