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I guess it depends on your confidence in the bred heifer market. If it matches early last fall and good early bred heifers are going over 3000 and even february/march bred heifers are in the 2500-2800 range I would say summering and breeding an animal for $1000 should be pretty profitable. You...

When I have had bulls collected it has been on farm, cost is between 2 and 3 dollars and I have always got between 100 and 200 straws on yearling bulls, the older bulls I took have been more consistent in the upper end or a little above that 200 mark, probably 180 to 230

I think it is good to have a hard copy but you need to limit your numbers. When we started 7 years ago we took the entire list from the angusntour plus everyone in the montanabangus association plus a bunch of local people who would actually be customers. Our list was like 600 people to try to...

Using again this year: CAR Hobson, mostly on heifers, have a lot of calves on the ground, on first calf heifers his come easy and hot the ground running. Just called his first daughter's this year and am really happy with them. Baldrige Versatile, like most of his calves we have on the...

We make zucchini bread with the overgrown ones but I would guess there are a lot of baking/dessert applications where they would keep the pastries moist and add cheap filler

I bred most of my heifers this past year with 2XL Bronc 8153 and CAR Hobson G733. I have used both before with good results

As a short term answer give the cow 1/4 cc of rompun, let her sit alone for 30 minutes, when she gets drowsy let the calf suck. If she is really high headed may take a little more than a quarter cc but not much. As a long term answer mark the cow somehow and make sure she isn't there the next year

Bred heifer and cow prices seem to be way up at this point here in central Montana. We had been in a significant drought the past 2 years leading to a lot of herds selling off some numbers and though this year was below average late in the year we had some good rain bringing optimism. That and...

I just give a quarter cc of Rompun to the cow and let the calf get her sucked out if the calf is aggressive enough this alone does the trick in one shot sometimes takes a 2nd shot and have had a couple cows on rare occasion take more than the 2 times

My oldest cows are 9 and 10 years old, my herd started with bred heifers from when basin abgus dispersed and they were all defect carriers that have been shuffled out of the herd so these oldest cows have been here from our start. The 4 best among them have milk epds of 36, 36, 32, and 28...

With the start of my herd coming through basin's dispersion and marketing bulls through them my first few years back from 2012 through 2016 i have quite a bit of payweight influence in my herd.. I dont have a lot of daughters of 1682, have a few 107s daughters and one son around but have a lot...

When we have a bull fail a test we generally wait 2 or 3 weeks and try again, especially coming off a hard winter. A lot of times on retest they are fine, with a 2md failed test we send them down the road. 25% is pretty low though

Not using any right now, have quite a bit of pay weight influence in my herd though

I have used some 4404 in the past along with other rainmaker bulls, had a couple sons of his that sold in our sale a couple years ago that I may have pictures and videos of. I didnt keep any daughters out of him but have several out of another p175 son

Up here in Montana Angus production sales have been going pretty well, several have had averages up from last year at this time. Of the 3 I have attended 1 seemed to be carried by online and order buyers and had a crowd considerably smaller than previous years but the other 2 had pretty decent...

Right, but the question wasnt "why can't an animal have the most marbling and most muscle of any breed out there?" It seemed to be more along the line of "why does it seem in herds that select for for marbling muscle mass is sacrificed?" What I gave as an example was not intended to answer...

I agree that this is somewhat true in the same way that birthweight and weaning weight are antagonistic. It is often the case and if you look entirely at one you will lose the other but you can find animals with both. One we have used quite a bit is that excels in both of those areas is exar...

From what I can tell is the one refers to a post weaning feedlot weight gain situation whereas the other looks at consumption during lactation and calf raising activities. I would expect the two to align closer, as you suggested, but I can see where the correlation wouldn't be all that direct

Yeah, I was there, went out just to watch those first two sell and take a look at them in person for he most part. Pretty exciting in the sale barn when it happened and I thought all 3 looked like good bulls. The scrotal EPD scares me a little, especially on the top one, but other than that...