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Well he is the sire of Leader 21 who weighed 2250.  If a frame 3 can sire a 2250 pound bull I want him.  He sired many ton plus bulls.

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I like the head on that calf.  He looks like a bull.

Tell me  where there are native Shorthorn cows that don't have dual blood in them and I will.  The Albaugh herd while having  dual purpose blood have compact smaller cows that produces grass finished beef for the California restaurant trade.

Back in the 70s I thought performance was the ability to gain fast.  Then Doc Nold told me that performance was the ability to turn something that we can't eat into something we can.  Now that I am producing gourmet grass finished beef. The rate of gain is not as important to me as the...

So if a person had a bull that would increase the percentage of primal cuts and increase the tenderness it would seem like a person in the grass finished business where tenderness is so important would be very interested in that bull.  It seems like a bull with two copies of the F94L variant...

Of the four bulls that I had from Weston my favorite was a Romeo son.

Yes there is plenty of that but what I am talking about is from the shoulder blades down to just behind the front legs.  In the 70s I would have said he was a little out of balance, now I think that is a phenotype that I would like to work with.  I can put up with a little extra skin on the front.

Doc was a friend of mine.  I worked for him a little, I learned a lot.  I had four Weston bulls.  My taste in cattle has changed.  In the 70s I would have liked less front than Resource shows in that picture.  Now that I am in the grass finished beef business I think that is spot on.

I love the heart girth.  It is better than I remember.  I liked him back in the day but I didn't remember that much chest.

I visited with him a few years ago when I bought semen from Butterfield Krakatoa.  He seemed like a very nice gentleman.

In my opinion big should be measured in pounds rather than inches.  Clipper King of Bapton weighed 2650 pounds that is big enough for me.  I am sure Cat 20 weighed well over a ton.  I have a young granddaughter of Clipper King of Bapton that my granddaughter showed in 4H that still has not had...

Yes the Piedmontese pay a premium for the Myostatin gene.

So if I am reading between the lines correctly you are saying that the meat quality might not be very good, correct?

Based on what I have been reading and learning lately the F94l variant is also called the profit gene as it improves cutability without adding any calving difficulty.  So if it occurs in native Shorthorns why is it a bad thing?

I agree, I recently harvested a steer sired by  a not quite frame score 4 bull out of a cow that might weigh 1200 lbs.  He weighed 1250 and hung an 830 pound carcass.  That is profitable even though some people would think that is too small.

Has there been a way established to verify if an animal is native or not?

I think that sounds like a good thing.

I know the source of the E226 variant, I do not have any of those genetics in my commercial herd.  That is why I think that if all offspring were marketed as beef it should not cause any problems in the future. Thanks for your comments, I want to be very careful about what I do.  I agree on the...

I know where there is a bull that has one copy of F94L and one copy the of  E226 variant.  He is a nice thick bull with a really strong loin.  It seems like a guy like me who sells meat might get some good out of a bull like that used as a terminal cross on commercial cows. Any thoughts?