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use top notch on maine anjou sooner and limited edition pedigrees :)

better pic of top notch https://www.ihfa.ie/media/history-of-ihfa/

missed this one. pages not in order

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i think this bull might be straight friesian. listed at end of catalog https://issuu.com/tracyhm/docs/v_bar_cattle_company-sb-s22/56 so sad they dispersed byerfos 36 prophet

cool retro link. top notch. a damn good bull back in the day. saw a few offspring of him. i think i would use him today. now you know where some of those hips came from. decent rear end too. for whatever reason, they clicked with angus to downsize the milk. don't know that i ever saw a dairy...

uh, we used to get charcoal foam and make smokey's. i personally never saw a smokey calf from ildeno on an amerifax back in the day, everyone wanted a "black" ildeno. a few classmates of mine had them, but they weren't that good. the "answer" was breeding them to soggy cattle as they would...

because they toed out etc. we used to trim hooves to minimize that and also to make their toes more splayed so their feet looked bigger to "have more bone", take a little height off them, etc. they probably still do that

The best thing the Frieslans did for calves is put a big square hip on them. Cows had milk. Duh. Wish I woulda took pics of ildeno. I think he was 10-12 when I saw him. He was test bred to 30 or so daughters and no defects.

Sone of the old posts, pics seem gone. High point had fly bites on his tail, went in a pond to submerge it to get relief and sunburnt his balls. We used to joke it was a low point in his career. Should took more pics. :(

Ildeno was at stud. Finally came home. All 3 at ranch at same time. Also so v8 Brahman fullblood Frieslans. Hi point was an outstanding bull.

ino's perfection (in lower right corner, fullblood chianina) i have a picture of ino's perfection and black answer head butting in a pasture somewhere. ino's perfection was an absolutely spectacular bull past his time:(

couple pics. can't find my other catalog yet that has shandon ali, mr beefy and several other friesian and amerifax bulls.

found my 1983 friesian catalog. any sires of interest or just general

In 40 years, the Amazon has lost an area as big as California to deforestation. America has similar statistics, china, Madagascar, everywhere. the issue isn't really too many people, it's the continued doubling of the population. america and many countries would have negative population but...

bloomberg articles so free articles may run out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-29/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-land-grabs-surge-under-bolsonaro-in-brazil

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/?leadSource=uverify%20wall article talks about how JBS is supposedly trying to minimize cattle sourced from deforested land. not sure how they can do that, since most of it was deforested...

https://www.buckinghambooks.com/book/the-longhorns-3/

https://www.buckinghambooks.com/book/historical-and-biographical-record-of-the-cattle-industry-and-the-cattlemen-of-texas-and-adjacent-territory-4/ "This compendium on Texas cattle and cattlemen is also one of the rarest Texas books. J. Frank Dobie once said: 'In 1928 I traded a pair of...