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There is usually a very good reason this old semen hangs around in tanks.  That is because it came from bulls who didn't perform as expected.  Not to say that the odd calf couldn't be an eye-popper but most would probably disappoint.  Best to leave it in the tank and hope somebody is fooled...

What is really tragic is the willingness of the American public to buy into the panic which is politically driven and enhanced and promoted by a complicit media.  Covid-19 started,  we are told,  in the city of Wuhan in the province of Hebei,  China.  Wuhan has a population of 3.9 million and...

You can look him up on Shorthorn Digital Beef.  He had 178 registered progeny of which 144 had birth weights which averaged 98 pounds.    His range of birth weights was 61 to 125 pounds.

Glad to see the white bull doing so well,  but it reminds me of going to look at cows from breeders years ago and when asked how much milk they gave,  the answer was "Lots"!    Need to get weights on this bull and his contemporary group,  then we know how he performs compared to others under the...

Performance programs have been around a long time.  The first bull test station was in Texas in 1941.  In 1954,  The Red Angus Association of American became the first breed association to initiate a performance program.  In 1955,  a group of West Texas producers and Extension Agents developed...

Weston Resource -  45 registered calves,  3 birth weights,  2 weaning weights,  1 yearling weight.  Wow!  No wonder EPD's have a dismal reputation.  No data becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

Nice calves!    Too bad there is no weaning weights recorded.  Also,  with birth weights of 72 and 74 pounds,  yet they still have a recorded calving ease of 2.    Is this owner just a nervous nellie,  or did they really need a little  help?    Births weights that small should just spit them...

In the time before 1786,  lyery or doubled-lyery cattle evidently had poor quality meat and were descriminated against.  In the 230  years since then,  there  has been selection pressure exerted to find cattle with good meat quality combined with myostatin. 

The myostatin mutation probably came from Holland originally.  George Culley,  in his book Observations on Livestock,  published in 1786,  describes cattle imported from Holland called lyery or doubled-lyery.  They were described as follows in a quote from his book:  "it will feed to vast...

It may be of interest to some of the readers that I recently tested some ET animals in my herd for Myostatin.    One ET daughter of CYT Sparkle Girl 0166  ET sired by Kamilaroi Meat Packer is positive for the E226X mutation.  Since Meat Packer is tested homozygous free in Canada,  this means...

Where did this information come from?  I have heard nothing from Shorthorn.

EPD's are nothing more or less than another tool for making breeding decisions.    I have seen buyers come to a sale will extensive analysis of EPD's and never look at the animal.  Others never look at the numbers.  Both are wrong.  Secondly,  EPD's need to be evaluated by the accuracy...

Zero value in submitting data UNLESS you have calves sired by high accuracy reference sires WITHIN THE SAME CONTEMPORARY GROUP.  Without relevant sample sizes, much of what the ASA is trying to accomplish with EPDs is useless.  Even look at sire test.  They’re doing as much bad as they are good...

" or was that BIRTH DATES"  Amen,  brother!

Thanks for the picture.  If I had seen both pictures without identification,  I would not have suspected that they were the same bull.    It is a sad comment that Hot Commodity has 1528 registered calves,  889 had birth weights,  277 had weaning weights and only 98 with yearling weights. ...

Does anybody have a "real" picture of Hot Commodity?  That is,  a picture in working clothes out in a pasture.    I understand this is a show cattle discussion group,  but real pictures of real cattle are more useful when making breeding decisions.  Also,  I would like to see pictures of Hot...

Charles Colling did,  indeed,  use a bull that was one-half Galloway.  In the year 1791,  a neighbor of Colling had two Galloway heifers that he contracted to be bred to the bull Bollingbroke (86).  One,  a red,  polled heifer had a roan  bull calf in the year 1792.  This bull was bred to an...

Those who appear to know the history of the Shorthorn do not accept that there are Wild White Cattle in their ancestry.    The Shorthorn has an oral history of being bred "pure" since the Dukes of Northumberland back into the 1500's.    The article tries to make it clear that black noses are not...

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If  you follow the history of the Shorthorn,  cow families were always a prominent part of discussions of those early breeders  and it seems to have made a lot of sense in those days.  Today,  the breed is so mixed up with various breeding tangents,  it seems that the good in those cow families...