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My own beef with showing actually started in childhood. I exhibited poultry, all I could raise in town. Two things amazed me at shows. First, there were fowl that looked exactly like the beautiful breed paintings in The American Standard of Perfection. Second, their unthrifty shaky faced aspect...

Very interesting thread since I just did a fairly deep dive into Angus epds trying to see how many breeders have been trying to balance their cattle. I was surprised how many big, famous Angus breeders have awful estimates for such qualities as heifer pregnancy, calving ease, and feet (claw and...

REDHILL T189 MEDAL 176A RAAA #: 1670037 Birth Date: 9-8-2013 Aug 2023 EPDs Heifer Pregnancy – Top 1% Calving Ease Maternal – Top 34% Herd Builder – Top 1% Stayability Top 8% Energy – 30% Marbling – Top 15% Carcass Weight – 51% "176A was our choice of the T189 sons produced at Red Hill. He...

When I was raising livestock, the genetics advisor for our association gave us advice on picking maternal sires that is exactly the opposite of what's usually said. He had a lot of experience as a farm boy who got a PhD, had done much research in the lab and field, and became head of Ohio...

Lee, could explain the The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative?

I believe this was long before most southern breeding stock Hereford herds existed. The Adams started in what were pioneer days in Florida, with cracker cattle. They first upgraded them to brahman trying to add meat. Then they got Hereford bulls, probably from folks they knew up north or those...

Sounds like a recipe for complete disaster. Always buy from people who are raising animals how you want to and, ideally, from the same or comparable region. In the US, I found that critical for such factors as adaptation to forages (especially toxic fescue) and humidity. When Adams Ranch in...

Yep, that's the key, in my experience selecting a sheep flock for lambing on pasture. The ability to mother is made up of many abilities and behaviors. It is cumulative and complex. Mothering is impaired in sheep flocks very quickly when they barn lamb. Maybe after 3 years. The owners have no...

His CEM stinks, 85th percentile. So he doesn't have it all, from a maternal standpoint. And his YW is only +43. I want growth up to +75 before I start worrying at all about cows getting too large.

Well. He is nice to look at . . . But I'd look right quick at his heifer pregnancy and maternal calving ease EPDs. I have been really disappointed in how many Angus, even reds, don't line up there. Maybe hp does not matter so much if you are crossbreeding. I don't know. But I want to stack...

I understand the management problem of a home-raised bull out of your best cow breeding his sisters. You kept all her heifers! But remember, they are HALF sisters. That is not very close inbreeding and to a minority of the herd.

Amen, brother. Your best old cow is adapted to your environment. I'd keep her bull calf, from natural service or a carefully selected AI bull. As for bugs, the saying in SE Ohio when I was farming there was that when you mix healthy livestock, you get some dead stock. We don't see all the...

I agree with your efforts! You surely own a few great cows. If you have more than a few commercial cows and take weaning weights and adjusted weights, you already know them. They have succeeded in your environment and weaned a high percentage of their own weight. They are probably better doers...

Bud Adams writes in his book A Florida Cattle Ranch about his Braford cow that produced calves for "over 26 years" and died on the range. He ran her picture too, a scrawny, horned beast. He writes that she was also blind, having lost her eyes "shortly after birth." She was never vaccinated or...

I like his plan, Dave. He probably breeds the best commercial females to Angus for replacements. Best being those that wean the greatest percentage of their body weight. All heifers go to Angus too, for calving ease and because they are out of the best cows. The rest of the commercial females go...

Was she a black baldie?

Well, Beefmasters can come in black without Angus being added, if you believe the grandson of the breed's founder. Which I do. I also believe others have added Angus. Anyway, the fellow who wrote wants a red, polled bull.

I read a story online recenlty about Lorenzo Lasater of Isa Beefmasters, TX, sold a half a dozen or so blacks that had arisen in his herd to a guy breeding black Beefmasters. Not sure if it was on his web site or not— http://www.isacattleco.com/ —but here is what he writes there in an article...

You might also consider going just down the road to Florida and getting one of the Adams Ranch Abeef bulls. Red and polled: 1/2 Adams Ranch Braford, 1/4 Red Angus, 1/4 Gelbvieh. This bull on an Angus base would give you cows to retain that are 5/8 Angus, 1/4 Braford, 1/8 Gelbvieh. Pretty...

For terminal or club calves, his numbers look fine. I'd sure be worried about keeping replacements if maternal females were my goal, which it is. He's forecast as poor on calving ease and stayability.