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Here is a link to a couple of books about Ferry, including Confessions of a Maverick. http://www.offthebeatenpath.booksense.c ... age=260707 Confessions is a wonderful read through the first 2/3rds of the book, but it seems to trail off at the end. It may have been a reflection of Ferry...

For those of you who never knew Ferry Carpenter, he was probably one of the more interesting and influential people in the cattle business of the last 100 years. Born in the eastern United States, he attended Princeton University under Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the university at the...

Weise's website is: http://www.wieseandsons.com/kingten.htm They're good people with an excellent reputation. Best, aubracusa http://www.aubracusa.com

I believe Gene Weise and Sons of Iowa are also using King Ten genetics as well. I think they had some King Ten sons at the National Western Stock Show this year. What are you looking for? Best, aubracusa http://www.aubracusa.com

Thanks for all the interest in Aubracs. You can view a couple of short videos @ http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CvBc6P2c44 Our second-annual national sale is on April 7, 2008, if you're interested, in Pleasant Dale, Neb. We should have between 50 and 60 lots of cattle for sale on that day, plus it...

The free semen will ship to you tomorrow, Mike. We will cover the costs of the shipping, and the 15 straws are free of charge. Drop me a note when you receive it later in the week. Thanks again for your interest in the cattle, Best regards, Aubracusa

Hi, Mike -- The answer is simple: Because European meat cutters want carcasses that are as muscular as they can get them, so the quickest way for Aubrac breeders -- who concentrate on a balance of muscle, maternal efficiency and structural soundness -- is to breed some of their animals to...

I'm glad you point that out, Mike. Even with the use of French Charolais bulls (I'm sure you've seen photos of these extremely muscled animals), the French Aubracs still achieve the highest level of calving ease of all French beef breeds. Virtually all of these Aubrac X Charolais progeny are...

This is information from our brochure: French government research confirms that the Aubrac breed ranks first in calving ease, first in age at first calving, first in calving interval, first in longevity of all the French breeds. It is common to see 20-year-old Aubrac cows still producing a...

You can read background information on Bovigen's feed efficiency test by clicking here: http://www.bovigen.com/netFeedEfficiency.html Thanks again, aubracusa

Hello, everyone -- Aubracs are not a derivative of Brown Swiss or Jerseys; the information on the Oklahoma State website is incorrect. We've asked them to correct that information on a couple of occasions, but they haven't made the change yet. Aubracs come from a mountainous region of...

Here are some suggestions for lenses: Use a 50 mm or higher. In fact, I shoot a lot of cattle photos with a 400 mm lens. A good range for shooting cattle is 100 mm to 125 mm. Stay away from anything that's 35 mm or smaller. They're nice for taking scenics or even portraits, but they distort...

Nope. Aero is much more technically savvy than I am, and would have a nicer-looking website than this. Aero and I met this spring, and after his "journey" to find a breed of cattle that he liked (I believe he visited a dozen or so different breeds during the last year) he decided to go with...

Hello -- I've started updating the Aubrac website and as of this afternoon it contains some new photos and information. Please click: http://www.aubracusa.com Thanks again for your interest, Aubracusa

Hello -- Below are links to two Aubrac X Angus 11-month-old bulls. These are all I've got at this point, but I'll do some checking around. It was cold that day -- the wind was blowing at about 40 miles an hour -- and the ground was frozen hard. All the calves were a little "hunched up." The...

Thanks, Doc. Yes. The bull pictured is a frame 3.7. He weighed 1900 pounds in early February, so I'd bet he weighs right at 2,100 this summer. His six sons at the national Aubrac sale averaged 5.1 for frame score and had an averaged adjusted yearling weight of 1,126. So they combine moderate...

These are two halfblood daughters of Maximus: http://cattletoday.com/photos/showphoto ... puser=3755 http://cattletoday.com/photos/showphoto ... mit=recent

Hello, everyone-- Aubracs aren't "small" cattle, in the classic sense (Maximus is a ton-plus bull right now). In my environment, we get about 300-plus inches of snowfall each winter, so we're snowed up from about Thanksgiving to Easter. Temperatures this winter were 10 to 25 below each night on...

Thanks for the responses. Aubracs are easy-calving cattle. We've used Maximus for four years, and never had to touch one of his calves at birth. He bred a dozen first-calf heifers the first year we used him, and they calved on the desert west of Delta, Colo., with no assistance at all. They...

Hello, everyone -- This is Maximus, a fullblood Aubrac bull. He's a frame 3.7 and weighs right at a ton. He's in Colorado this summer with about 25 cows and yearling heifers. I don't know if these photos appear on the page (I guess I'm too dumb to figure this out), so if they're not here...