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It stays in a Ziploc bag, and the pages are kind of brittle. When I pulled it out to remember the title, a few tiny pieces of the spine fell off. The pages are slightly yellowed, but all in great shape. I have read most of it. I bought it on eBay a few years ago for under $100. It was...

My oldest similar book is "Cattle; Breeds, Management, and Diseases," published in 1834 in London. It has 2-page descriptions and pictures of more than 50 breeds, including Herefords, Angus(horned and polled although most were horned and the polled ones are referred to as beginning about 60...

I jsut ran the bid from $82 to $127. Didn't do me any good, but I'm glad to help the seller get better value for the catalogs.

I mentioned 7558 in the prior post. I agree that he'd be worth experimenting with. I'd suggest an ancestor of Online 122L - FHF Beau Rollo 33. Semen is cheap through Jim Reed, and I like the few calves I've had thus far...

I believe Huth has recently used some 107H on his cattle. I am not a fan of the early 1970's bulls. The genetic changes that occured from 1968-1974 were astounding. I have AI'd to some 1970's bulls, and the results are amazingly inconsistent. I believe that breeders in the last 30-35 years...

If you know where I can locate any semen on FOUR SQ LEONARD 25L (P27523214), I'll use it and let you know how it compares to other bulls that were widly used in the same era. I'll cross it with modern Remitall's, Feltons, or whatever modern cross you'd like to see. Personally, I like the...

Unfortunately, I am not very good at taking pictures. I also will have to work on learning how to upload the ones I have. I do own a son of Adv Modest Lamp 57 (born 1952) along with Gene Henkel. I also own a daughter of the 57th and have calves that are the result of the mating of the two. I...

Do you know the steer’s pedigree? I think the posters are right that the steer could have used more finishing even though he weighed 1235. Additionally, his ribeye is too small. Four and five years ago, some of the kids that showed my polled Hereford steers had weights of 1500-1600 when the...

Last Fall, CG Thornhill exported bred registered Hereford heifers from my farm and from Alton Willingham's to Turkey. They had to be quarantined in PA for a while and tested for Blue Toungue. Thorhill told me that the order he had was for 50 Herefords and 150 Angus. The price was decent, and...

I have owned over 700 Hereford dams over the past eight years. I have had many cases of pinkeye, although it has been dependent on my management. I have some farms that have not had pinkeye in years. Of the 700+ dams, one got cancer eye. She was a 1997 model and got cancer eye in 2006. I...

The dams don’t have much milk, but I don’t think that is the major issue. I suspect that prior selection criteria, combined with inbreeding depression, cause the results. I think this because when I cross with high-milking dams, growth is still quite sub-par about half the time. The other...

I wasn't suggesting using the Lamplighter lines. I was merely posting how they perform in order that someone would not have unrealistic expectations. I also noted the Henkel’s L1-influenced cattle perform much better. Henkel was a TPR breeder from the programs inception in the 60’s or 70’s...

Gene Henkel's phone number is 402-729-5866. Henkel has been pursuing two different major lines since the mid-1950's. His Lamplighter cattle are not high performance cattle, at least not during the first year. They are 2-4 frame and they average about 350 pounds at weaning. Then again, they...

I believe there is a negative correlation between growth and IMF. I also believe there is a negative correlation between tenderness and growth. Further, in some lower growth cattle, there is less of a correlation between IMF and BF. In other words, there once were some slow-growing, marbled...

In terms of old lines, Nelson is using the same genetics that I am. We both bought our Lamplighters fro Eugene Henkel in Fairbury, NE. Henkel still has semen on Adv Mod Lamp 57, the bull born in 1952. Last year, I bought a half interest in Henkel’s herd bull, EEH Lamplighter 21...

My guess is that HCJ Beau Rollo 60 will not add to most modern programs. I'm guessing, becasue all of my calves by him are only 90 days old. His last published EPD's in 2001 had BW -5.8 WW -17, YW -31 MG -7. For those of you not used to old numbers, all of the EPD's are negative. I am...

Most of my experience with 774 is second-hand. I've been to several Knoll Crest sales, and 774 sons selling there seem to average over 6 frame. I bought one a few years ago, KCF Bennett 774 L153. He's a maternal brother to H142. H142 is a good bull, but he seems to subtract from frame on my...

Honestly, my direction continues to evolve. Currently, my goal is to produce consistent tender grass-fed beef that can grade high-choice or better in roughly 30 months. Further, I’d like long-lived, low input cattle that can weather tough times. I believe that it is necessary for feeder...

This year, approximately 25% of my breeding was to bulls with semen stored in ampules, such as HCJ Beau Rollo 60 and W Beau Rollo 10. One of my herd sires is out of Adv Modest Lamp 57, who was born in 1952. I also bred to 15G (straws) and a couple of exceptional performance but relatively...

I’d almost have to borrow Doc’s “Don’t get me started. . . “ on this one. There are many important pieces of data that would be of tremendous use to breeders if the AHA would open up their database. 1. I’d like to be able to query a list of all active descendants of a given sire or dam (along...