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Duff and Ohlde aren't really even putting EPDs in their sale books any more. SAV is pretty close to being at the same place. In fact, last couple SAV sale books have cast doubt on the entire thing. Latest Ohlde sale didn't seem to even use the "genomically enhanced" versions so there were a lot...

I’ll buy all the CC7 semen you want to sell!! For the heifer, if you have heifer sexed Bismarck semen that’s what I would use. Knowing my heifer is having a heifer as her first calf just makes all of life simpler for me. And he’s a good bull on top of that.

It's a handful of cows. Sire breeds his daughters for a year and they go in the freezer and feed some people. It’s not about a species in a desert driven to the brink of extinction extinction with only their relatives to mate with. It’s not a loaded gun point at the head of a human and it...

I'm keeping a half dozen of my own heifers myself. Though I also agree with the principle that at today's prices that makes it near madness. I should sell everything I can. It's a financial hit I'm willing to take to retain specific genetics without having to go shopping and incorporate new...

I went out to check that yesterday. I thought it was one but it actually appears to be both back feet. It does kinda look like screw claw on both back outside claws. Except that the claw that’s screwing isn’t growing it’s shrinking.

That is actually the way it kinda looks when she walks - thought I was imagining it. She seem slightly bow legged if you watch her from the back. But it could be my imagination. Too.

Got a three year old cow with an outside shrinking claw. It's not that the inside claw is growing faster and going "corkscrew", just that the outer is getting smaller and smaller and may also be starting to screw? Hard to say on that though. It's about half the size of inner claw - which again...

Back to what I think the thread is about which is dealing with a dummy calf. Shot of bo se is what all my calves get. When I get a dummy calf I don’t rearrange my mineral program or go on a culling spree. I think for the most part in this game stuff just happens and I move on. I tube twice with...

I get rid of good cows like that all the time. I’m pasture limited so I can only keep the very best of the best. That age is a good age to know if they are premium or not. Doesn’t mean they aren’t good or that there’s anything wrong with em. Maybe toe set isn’t perfect. Maybe top line is a bit...

You folks ever have bloat issues with clover like?

Genetics gets a lot of blame. Sometimes deserved. Sometimes not. Often times in this game it’s just the nature of the beast. The issues mentioned here could just as easily be freak issues. They are all different.

Given prices what they are it’s the best time ever to have that kind of bad luck.

The days of believing in research, science or data are gone.

Well that was fun :). Pics of cattle are a great challenge I find. Just no good way to capture the actual animal. Pics always seem to add or subtract some sway and some rear end. Sway also seems to be something of they can grow into or out of. I think you’ve done a good job with a tough task...

I can’t tell you how many folks think “they will just ai” and show up at my place three months later desperately looking for a bull. You do hear of people who seem to always get em all every year just like you hear of folks getting 25 MPG with their truck. For most folks it won’t happen.

The Charlo sons were always the first bulls to sell off my place and customers have been happy - at least those customers who didn’t care about EPDs :)

I tend to agree with my own charlo docility experience. They are certainly fine in the field and even in the barn are ok. They just tend to hit the head gate harder then their herd mates from other sires. It’s not a dealbreaker for me to get the look and kind he throws. That said, they...

I don’t think their program offers what you need based on EPDs and their own declarations on frame score. I’ve used Charlo. Some are snorty but are awesome looking cattle. Mediocre EPDS. To me that sums up their program - awesome looking cattle with mediocre EPDS. Kinda like SAV. But if you want...

They aren’t collecting any data. If an animal comes up sick they want to know where it came from to help control any “spread” - by tracing it back to the point of origin. That and they put a little camera in each of them so they can verify the color of underwear you choose. Theres a fear we’re...

Let’s not let logic kill the runaway conspiracy theories please.