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great looking cattle as alway. You know I'm an Angus guy but I could look at a pasture full of Lot 61 and be happy. Thats a beautiful young cow.

Plus the fact that its a lot more profitable to get 10 500 lbs calves out of a cow than 4 800 lbs weaned calves and then an open 6 year old who is out of the herd. You cant have it all. I will take the 500 lbs calves out of 10 year old cows while I also get to sell replacement females to others...

This is a home bred bull out of a straight Wye bull on the top and a cow that I just lost this spring at 12 years old with in her pedigree EXT top and bottom. Wish I could use him more but have too many close relations so am looking to send him somewhere else.

Not sure if I'm THE one, but I do own a nice Wye bull as well as a nice bull from Oliver Angus that is Wye bred. I brought that bull up from fescue land to lake effect snow land this winter and he's done remarkably well.

Bill and Dan are both good guys and there are some interesting lines that they use. I will probably get around to using Pinebank 41/97 at some point. What breed and lines are you looking into?

Needing a skidsteer for the farm. Just bought one of these at auction. Seemed like reasonable value. Anyone ever use one? If so, pluses and minuses would be appreciated.

I finally decided I would give myself a chuckle and look up where our bull fell in the new and exciting value index called $M that the AAA has graciously given us. Unsurprisingly to me, he is in the bottom 5% of and index that is supposed to "predict profitability differences in progeny due to...

Arent you worried he would feel inadequate if all his partners were 2000 lbs. meatwagons? Poor guy. :roll:

Not a matter of "want". Like CP said, I also watched the dairy industry go from relying on progeny results to create indexes to relying on genomic testing. The main people that were excited were large scale dairies that didnt want to take the time to consider phenotype and actually looking at...

If only we could hold you to that "only." :lol:

I'm small potatoes but yes, I have a good amount of WYE influence close up in my herd and will have much more from extenisvely using this bull, Barrage of Wye. He has an old school pedigree packed with sires and cows that had a big impact on WYE and should produce moderate, maternal, long...

Not every Angus breeder is falling for it. There will still be plenty of us trying to breed functional, maternal Angus cattle that will help the commercial cattlemen make good mommas.

Scrotum looks really odd in that picture but I didnt notice that at all in person. Couldnt tell much about his mobility. I have to imagine that pushing them hard enough to get to 1107 @205 days is gonna hurt that free and easy stride a bit.

I saw America when I was picking up a bull from NAB this weekend. He is what I would expect from that program, phenotypically correct and HUGE. Yes, they must feed them like my cows can only dream but it's still fun to see. Not something for me and my goals but I can definitely appreciate him...