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This was decades ago but BW and prolapse were issues. I always liked the look and wanted some but never got there.

I'd agree with you if the heifer's full background is unknown. But if you have the cow family or know that the prior females functioned well then I have no issue. Same with heifers. I knew a guy who would not keep a heifer calf out of a first calf heifer. He never figured out that the folks who...

Looks good. I never understand the dis on a heifer's calf.

I prefer the type in the first calf. That's all.

No, mine's a Chevy!:p

Sounds like a national political election: vote early and vote often!

I do not really need to know which calf is which. But when the CorX calf tops out at 1100 pounds or less in the feedlot - that guy will want to know who set him up to lose money.

What do we win if we get it right? Free dentures? :oops:

Do that here and some yahoo would try to steal it for scrap metal. We've lost some "metal dealers" when the tried to scrap copper wire that was still charged. The oddest one - some guys went to a substation because they knew there was a lot of wire there. One climbed up on a transformer and when...

I find the pricing discussion to be a bit odd. Go to a sale for anything and there are some folks willing to sit on their hands, all want to start the bidding low and only two bidders matter - the "winner" and the contender. Anything beyond a beef bound critter is going to get different prices...

And you could have done similar with any breed or cross.

Enough off-type to not do so well here in the barn.

Thread seems like a waste. If the Corrientes are a hot commodity, why not raise roping steers and replacement heifers? Bring an oddball in the barns here and you likely sell for less than $40/CWT. I'm not interested. Tried a LH for calving ease decades ago. Same thing. Fool me once, shame on...

Good hair and hide. Ribs have a slight backwards slope which is a plus to me. Bone is adequate. Plenty of capacity. I like the package. If you want my questions on the unknowns: is she bred low BW as the bones are as small as I would desire when "designing" one? And milk level and mature weight...

Gerts used to prolapse as much or more than any breed I remember. Herefords were a 2nd. I'd go Beefmaster and be sure they can bring in good rear muscling in your pick.

Does he have eye pigment? That would be a high priority if I were dealing with the white hair mix.

Legs look to be too straight. It's a guess until you see him walk. Can he fill his tracks? Then you know that either the legs are too straight or a quest for extra height or extra length has skewed the whole skeleton. Dr. Bob Long had some good info on this decades ago. A classis + frame height...

I do not prefer the rear leg set.

Mashona cattle I have been around were nuts.

Maternal Weaned Calf Value ($M) , an index, expressed in dollars per head, predicts profitability differences from conception to weaning with the underlying breeding objective assuming that individuals retain their own replacement females within herd and sell the rest of the cull female and all...