where are you? Even a crappy clip job changes a feedlot calf into a show calf. Heads tails and dart hairs do some amazing things. Unless you are in a shack in the mountains there are 4H kids near you that think they are the next bob may with a set of sheepheads. Put a post on the classifieds...
I have been sitting back, but I feel compelled to throw my two cents in. First of all just from reading the prices on individual lots, I am beyond positive there was money to be made buying cattle and shipping them to a salebarn in iowa. That is a shame. After you factor in all the time and...
Bing, your opinion of Monopoly struck me. It goes without saying that he sired as many or more high sellers and winners lately than anything, but from my experience and what I know of others, consistency is one of his few glaring faults. Myself and others have experienced that there are alot of...
I am always puzzled how the name Pharo can incite people the way it does. Its not a religion or a political party, so why are people outspokenly either touting the merits of the Pharo program or vilifying it as if what they do is a personal affront to their existence?
Many of the things I...
Wow. The forgotten continental. If you asked my dad who the best cow he ever had in 87 years of trying to have good ones was, he would tell you it was a Blonde A'quitaine shorthorn cross he had. In the late 60's or so, dad bought 5 amps of whatever BAQ bull Carnation was promoting. He thought...
Hold on here. Raymond buys and sells quality stock. That is a fact and it is irrefutable. If he buys one from you, rest assured the check is good. Whether you like how he markets or what he has to say, the fact is if he bought the calf in the picture and the calf in the video showed up, he...
Call Tyler Campbell. 515-689-5262. The Green Stuff and Breakdown are his products. I have yet to hear anyone not like them. Star Lake herfs, Chris Wilson at Trausch's and Mawsons in MO use them and swear by them. I am told Green stuff has nothing in it similar to sheen, its not a knock off or...
AJ quit being negative. Even if you are right
"The showring has always been the achilles heel of the shorthorn breed. If raising those kind of cattle works for you and makes you money, fine. if not go find something that does. My son has a pasture full of hair and bone conglomerations and I...
" If a gun were held to my head and and I had to do it all over again, I would go to the same place I went in the 60s. I bought Gloriadale Constructor with Leanord Bigham ( Elbees Dad) and Ralph Stirm. He wouldnt freeze semen and Kansas and Brandon Iowa are are fair parcel between, so the...
" Mark, I did not know harry, but I did know Albert Hultine. He and Fred Blomstrom of Nebraska and also Scott Leemon's grandfather were good cattlemen and I am proud to say they were my friends."
What numbers Knabe?
I bought the highest ribeye scanned bull in history back in 1970. He was long, he was thick and he was stout. And nobody gave a shit because he wasnt a frame score 7.
Nobody cared about numbers back then. The only numbers were 205 weight and cannon bone length
"The belt buckle cattle were developed by people who made money in the war and had no place to spend it so they started paying games with non functional cattle. The people on the range had to make a living with what paid their bills and they stayed with that type."
" I thought Latimers had the right type of cattle, and if we would have stayed that way, their bloodlines can still be found found in pedigrees if you go back far enough.Colomeadow carcass issues got lost in the shuffle when the exotics came in You Canadian breeders are on the right track, those...
I am blessed to have the knowledge every day from a man who was there. Tried to buy Leader 21. Told Les Mathers to suck it back in 52.
If you want to know about the real history of the shorthorn breed, ask now and i will make sure Oldhorn answers.
You know Okotoks, I have heard the claim of a cow being so good you could breed her to a dead goat and she'd bring in a good one. Seems to me alot of you folks up there took that to heart and proved it.
I am a huge proponent of cow families. Every master breeder I have admired held the opinion...
Steer so pumped full of swelling agents that he fell over with a heart attack on the final drive at louisville twenty plus years ago. Supposedly died but rumor has it he turned up later and won a big deal out west. Arizona maybe.