I'm too sleepy to get too angry about much of anything right now... LOL! That's part of the reason, I've been offline for a while... that & trying to catch up on everything from being gone 3 days during the last week.
I raised her & I raise Lowlines, so I probably am barn blind too, but I thought she looked pretty good for a Smokey heifer out my wife's grandfathers herd. She doesn't need to get any fatter, but I don't think she's too fat yet... keep in mind that her head was turned toward the camera & that helped to produce the "fat rolls". I will say one thing, Justin has done a good job with her & I am amazed that he has only been doing the show cattle thing about 5-6 years now & is as knowledgable & as skilled as he is. He's also got some nice cattle, too... not just the Lowline. ;-)
FWIW, General Sherman is a 44 inch Lowline bull. The Charolais cow is probably a 1,300 lb. frame 5 - 5.5. This heifer is probably a frame 3. She's shorter than I prefer my 1/2 blood Lowlines, but she makes up for it in mass & quality, IMHO. And, in the percentage Lowline shows, they are supposed to judge for quality instead of size & I think she will run with some mighty fine heifers. I still think that she will make a 46 inch, 1,100+ lb. powerhouse of a cow & 1,100 lbs., isn't all that small!! I'm just guessing & may be wrong, she may end up bigger... it will be interesting to see how she grows & turns out. In a couple of years, she could be flushed a to bigger clubby bull & really produce something special, IMHO.
I'd also be interested to hear Dori weigh in on this heifer... she has a good eye.
