Recent content by paul swisher

He is a good looking Pinzgauer bull calf. A little shorter than I would like but good depth and width. In my opinion, two of the finest Pinzgauer bulls from the west coast, Stryker and Handly, were purebred. Both of them had great length and showed well. If I remember right both were National...

I cannot believe no one has mentioned Pinzgauer. It is highly regarded both as a milk and beef in its native Austria. Because of its size and frame when it was imported into the US is was classed as beef. The MARC thought so much of it that approx 70% of it research cow heard are MARC III...

I have one. Have had it for four or five years and would never buy a metal one again. They are made by Centry Livestock Feeders in Okla. I believe they have a 7 year warranty. Since I bought the first one in our area our feed/supply store has sold 15 to 20 per year locally. They have...

A few years ago we had 5 sets of twins. Felt they are more trouble than they are worth. End up bottle feeding one of 3 sets only had 2 where moma took both. Because of this I did some research on twins. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) has a twinning herd. It is passed on sire to...

Amazing you should ask this today. The Bovigen rep for my area visited here this morning and I asked "Could they tell the breed by DNA" and was told NO. They would love to find and are looking for the specific markers identifying breed but haven't found them/it yet. I doubt certain breeds...

No charge. Just cost me the shipping to them.

I just had the exact same problem. Sent it with a letter explaining the problem to Gallagher Power Fence, 130 W. 23rd Ave, North Kansas City, Mo 64116 ATTN: Repair Department. I took them less than 2 weeks to get it back to me working fine. Can't ask for better than that.

The Meat Animal Research Center has done quite a bit of reseach on twinning. They even had some in their annual reduction sale last Jan. My understanding is maybe. The bull determinds if the daughter will have a high probabilty of twinning but I don't know the probabilty of a twin having...

We have tested both Bovigen GeneSTAR and Igenity TenderGENE. Our initial testing a few years ago when 2 Stars was the highest, included 10 of the original Austrian imported bulls. 9 of the 10 were 2 Stars I doubt any breed could do that. As a breed we have averaged 84.4% two Stars or better...

The Tenderness test you described was developed in 1997 and written up in Agriculture Research Nov 1999. It even had a picture of Steven Shackelford with the equipment. It estimated a high volume operation could run up to 400 carcasses per hour without interfering with standard processing...

I don't want to clutter up the forum with a picture but you may want to go to my web page here at CattleToday Circle Red S and see the two pinzgauer bulls that were in the Florida Bull Test. I am pleased with how they did.

Cost of a registered pair will depend on the animal just like other breeds but somewhere around 1500 to 2000. You can learn more about the breed at my web page here at cattle today http://www.cattletoday.com/circlereds or http://www.pinzgauers.org. The discount varies but is there, I don't know...

We had two bulls there in 2003-04 and were very pleased, both with the bulls performance and the staff. I also attended a couple of workshops conducted there which were excellant. I cannot understand why more breeders dont take advantage of bull test. If you sell them you get a good price and...

I think I gave the wrong address for Florida bull test. try http://flbulltest.ifas.ufl.edu Sorry. mine are the Pinzgauers.

That is the only bulls that do not have a sire shown. You can get the complete report including owner at htpp://nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/bulltest