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This is how NOT to sell your high dollar "potential" donor cow.... "Reg. Black Angus cow 1200#+, w/10 wks old reg. bull, 1st calf being rebred to same bull, best offer over $65,000 firm, serious inquiries only." (and I left out his name, phone and address) This was a free classified ad in the...

From the LA Times.... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... ome-center

Their catalog says this is a dispersal of the Alabama cattle herd, even though the sale is in Franklin, Texas. The Camp Cooley in Alabama thing is just 3 years old. IS this a total crash and burn the likes of which we almost never see??? http://campcooley.com/Files/BelleCatalo ... log1-5.pdf...

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/i ... xml&coll=2 "FAYETTE - Lance Whitehead knelt in the parched dirt Thursday and examined one of the small stalks on his 150-acre cornfield. Where vibrant green plants with a couple of young ears of corn should've stood, yellow twisted stalks burned in...

http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?id ... =0&lang=en "MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9...

I like EPDs. I like having lots of EPDs; but this one sounds a little strange. Angus is about to release a heifer preganacy EPD. I don't deny that there is a genetic effect cause too how often heifers will settle in a breeding season; BUT the biggest largest cause is NUTRITION. I have...

There was an article recently in the 'Shorthorn Country' Online about Shorthorn Association plans too push Shorthorn hybrids or 'Appendix Shorthorns' though they are planning a name change. Is this just a cheap gimic too sell more registrations or are registered hybrids like Balancers...

I just got this from the Angus email list...... "FDA May Approve Meat From Cloned Animals Meatingplace.com reports the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ready to approve the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals by year-end. The report notes that a front-page story in the Washington...

There is not much here that Cattletoday readers don't already know; but it is always interesting to see how the industry is treated in the main street media..... http://www.windstream.net/news/story.ph ... d=20060719 I was pleasantly surprised to see that they did not round up some PETA...

http://cattletoday.com/archive/2006/March/CT445.shtml I knew we could ultrasound cows for pregnancy, I did not know though that they could distinguish between living and dead fetuses and detect pregnancy at 20 days. Maybe I am missing something, but IF you could conclusively identify the open...

According to this article in the Mobile Register 20,000+ cows perished in Hurricanes' Katrina and Rita and it is going to be a hard winter. http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/i ... thispage=1

Nice herd.

I linked on to the catalog for the Alabama grassfed bull sale tonight http://www.albcia.org/wiregrassbulltest.html and was surprised by a few of the bulls in there. The Charolais bulls avged a frame score of 5.86 and 1179 adjusted yearling wt., the Simmentals avged 5.85 and 1161 adj yearling...