Chambero and Justintime are both right on track - I always thought that the market animal shows for youth were supposed to be hands on learning projects to produce what was the "ideal" market animal of any species that can be commercially reproduced - granted the Heatwave "kind" are interesting to look at, have bred them, but not practical cattle at all for a long list of reasons - I often wonder who decided that the college professor kinds of guys were the "experts" to get to judge cattle shows? And then how they figured that the square made kinds of cattle could come out of a round hole? And then have the nerve to stand at the mike at wax poetic about how that kind was ideal for the industry. Unfortunately as Justintime expresses, it just shows their cattle ignorance. They never think about what kind of calf that it takes to mature into an animal like that massive fat steer, as they have little to no experience "in the field", they just have the belt buckle and the big hat.
But I must admit that when I saw Heatwave on display at Denver I would have never expected such a cow-killer. I really liked him and and started using the semen early on and boy was I surprised when they started calving.
