Oh AJ!!! I'm really glad your back on SP!!
I don't buy very many heifers over $5,000 but I have purchased a number of Shorthorn heifers in the last few years. Every one of them are either in our herd now or are producing for the people I sold them too. I have found them to be awfully good mothers. I wish I could say that about all the heifers we have purchased of other breeds. Now, I understand that my experience has been on a pretty small scale but I'm pretty sure you could talk to a lot of long time cattlemen that would not pick maternal traits as the first place to criticize the Shorthorn breed. Having said that, I can't believe that an arbitrary dollar amount would change the overall maternal ability of the breed very much. I'm not demeaning any other breed and Shorthorns aren't perfect, but overall they're generally darn good mothers.
I'll give you credit , though, you do like to stir things up. Sometimes that's good as long as you don't confuse bold, pretentious statements of personal opinion with fact. I'm not saying you are in this case, its just that I think you'd be a long time working to convince many cattlemen that have experience with Shorthorn females that they are not worth keeping in their herd.
Keep posting---SP is a more lively place since your return!!
