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One more vote for a website.  Although there are some old farmers who ever see much of the world wide web, it is the way things are done now for so many people.  Also, for myself I know it is both easier and sometimes less intimidating to look at websites, and email if I have questions, than to...

Oh my goodness Brahmergirl I can just imagine your poor little trailer hanging off a cliff.  At least you got it back....try explaining to your husband that it was "somewhere in the river"  (lol) I am an extremely nervous driver, so I don't attempt pulling (especially with backing) of any...

Wow this is an interesting post.  Thanks for taking the pictures Iowa. I think the picture angle is accentuating it, but is Hired Man's shoulder huge or something? I agree on the welfare issues too.  I don't think the bulls being clean matters a whole lot (though given it's open to the...

Ok I won't comment on bulls, just the color genetics.  She is a white shorthorn, correct?    This means that bred to a solid colored bull (be it black or red) she will only have roan calves.  Bred to a roan, you would have 50/50 chances between roan and white. The reasons for this is that roan...

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2 broken arms (of course, from the quiet calves).  The first time was at a show, we had our club group of 4 class first, and we had other members setting feet and didn't carry our own show sticks.  So when my steer got a little rushy, I couldn't use the showstick to help slow him, I got pinned...

Most of my shows have gone to an all day showmanship anyway, which makes sense I guess.  At the bigger shows that are all one day, you wear a colored tag in your card harness during your regular classes, to show what age group you belong in.  Then they have someone watching just for showmanship...

so Knabe you are saying you would like to just see a graph of the raw data submitted to check for normality?  Interesting.  While some skewdness would be a result of know effects we end up correcting for in the EPD equations, it would be interesting to see if there are some red flags for certain...

I wish  :D

Well like you say, no one recommends using EPDs for single trait selection.  That is why there are EPDs for many different traits, not just one.  And just because EPDs are looked t does not mean a breeder has to abandon all other types of selection.  It's just something to give you an idea of...

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Sadly sadly true in my experience. :( That's terrible to all you who have lost  animals to dogs.  I guess I am lucky all out neighbouring dogs seem to be of the better behaved stay at home (well one follows us out of her place, but that is friendliness) type. 

Knabe, at some point in showing I've been asked to do all of those things you listed in showmanship.  Sometimes if they do less it is a matter of time constraints.  I guess some judged just don't feel they need that to make placings, but I know lots who really seem to have fun with it.  One at a...

Mmmmmroooowwrrrrrrr    (lol)

I like the looks except he's soo straight up and down.  Don't like that.

That Bachelor heifer is really nice.  Good luck with the sales.

HAHAHA  (lol)  You and I are on the same page Knabe.  I remember hearing a few weeks ago that the guy who invented Word was so rich that he was going to be a space tourist.  First thought, not fair (I mean who needs that much money?).  Second thought, leave him out there. Farmboy, I happened...

She is gorgeous cow.  The kind that makes you say wow.

I think that the heads are olives, and the legs are some kind of stems.  Apple stems maybe?

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