new maine anjou customers

[knabe]

anyone got any new maine anjou customer stories?

i sold two to an angus purebred breeder.  the rest so far have gone to slaughter, a different kind of customer.

 

[xxcc]

how have you been marketing them?  were the two you sold to the angus breeder 'look alike' cattle, i.e. polled, homo-black, homo-solid?

 

[knabe]

how have you been marketing them?  were the two you sold to the angus breeder 'look alike' cattle, i.e. polled, homo-black, homo-solid?

yup.  homo black, homo solid, homo polled probably, with het scurs.

 

[Joe Boy]

I recently sold 3 pairs to an angus breeder.  They were young.  He called me.  He said he did not like the white on the feet of two of the cows.  He worked the calves.  He said those three bull calves were thicker than any calves he had.  He thought he should have left the bulls, bulls.  He callled me after the fact to ask what type of bulls were they out of.  The heifers were 1/2 Maine and the bulls were 3/4.  They were black, polled and good for heifers calves.  He said if I had any more he would be interested.  I told him I had 12 more heifers with bull calves.  I told I only pulled one calf this year out 75 or so to calf.  He said he could not believe how much muscle they had after he got his hands on them.

 

[xxcc]

joe boy,

how are your calves out of Thunderbolt?

 

[CPL]

.  He said he could not believe how much muscle they had after he got his hands on them.

That doesn't surprise me. Just about anything has more muscle than angus, especially commerical angus. What type of maine bulls do you use in your herd?

 

[AAOK]

Our first several years of Maine-Anjou production was when our girls were showing.  Our sales came exclusively from word of mouth, because we were making lots of shows and having good success in the ring.  All of us are almost too outgoing by nature, so everyone   The kids would make up a simple flyer from time to time which we would tape up at the shows, and since I traveled a little, I would also leave them at the area Feed stores with some business cards.  My first out-of-state sale didn't happen until we had an internet presence.  This was after the girls had finished showing.  In addition to having a website, I was on all the message boards offering help, and posting photos of calves for sale.  In today's world I think you have to take advantage of every way possible to utilize the internet for your marketing.  Locally, winning your area shows will probably bring more customers than any other means.  

 

[forbes family farms]

I sold one maine anjou calf this year, to a couple this calf was so sweet it was so hard to get rid of but, they were looking for a very tame calf for there girl and this calf is the only calf that i know that you can do pratically anything to without the steer getting mad. I will be keeping 8 of ours for showing and keeping some back for replacements.