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I would look at Senepol in your area for heat resistance and no ear. Have used them in KY and they work well.

Noticed a lot of sage grass in back ground - Indicator of poor soil ph - when did you lime last? Had any soil test pulled lately? Could be why they are eatting so much mineral. What did you pour on ground to get the cows to come to that one spot, I did not see any feed- but they sure were...

I would have very little idea But, I would say you can find out by starting your linebreeding program. You will be better than most of the show jocks that are chasing the fad cattle since you are at least selecting for a type and not blindly looking for EPD numbers.

One more thought on your F1 use. Remember Secretariat - the great race horse. He never did sire anything worth talking about. The perfect example of heterosis! He did have a few daughters that made decent mares - but not big $ winners. Most of this came from his decent pedigree. Using...

Jim can be reached at [email protected] The last I heard, he has new books on order - last ones are sold out Very sharp man - with a very good book. The basic deal for you now is to select the best sons of the best cows that show all the traits you want and start breeding those half...

I wish I knew where there were consistant bred herds of cattle with the same phenotype.... Ollie - the place you look for that is with linebred cattle - the master of that is a hereford breeder Jim Lents. His "Lamplighter" newletter is great reading and his book - "The basis of Linebreeding "...

Good summary - seems somebody just bred to the "hot bull of the month club" for several generations. Now we have a hard doing bull with a fancy pedigree and his daughters will be hard doing, if they get bred.

Pedigree and epd is a start - but remember it is an Average of Expected results. Phenotype is real. The epd guys just have a hard time explaining the wide variation, except with accuracies - just look at me and my great looks and my ugly sister:) even my kids are perfect, and hers are really...

Any cattle will perform on grain - not all will perform on grass. They will perform for you - as they did back in the 60's and 70's when Wye was the operation everyone went to for growth and performance as they had the 1800 - 2100 lb bulls. Fabron was a 2065 lb mature bull. They were fed...

I use a son of the old Fabron of Wye - yes he was born in1957, but Wye had the "big cattle" back before big was popular, ton bulls, etc. Just had our bull Genetested - 4 stars out of 4 stars for Tenderness. Exactly what I want for my direct marketed, grass finished beef. If interested in Wye...

Have no Idea - I have not read that advertisement now for years - sold the 2 Romagnola bulls in 2001. The article was written on me from a phone interview as the calves were just being weaned - I had no experience except to see some very well muscled calves weaning at good weights.

Guess I'm going to have to tell them one more time to forget my name on those cattle. I was in the early deals - several years ago - but now I just throw that advertisement away when it comes in. One thing about that group - they can promote, but you cannot believe anything they say.

We finally agree on something. I tried the romagnola several years ago on angus - they were starting a rom-angus association within the breed. BAD MISTAKE. They will put a muscle on even a Jersey, I know- I bred one of the bulls to a jersey. The calving ease is a lie - even got the cherokee...

Knock the props out from those big cows - simmi etc and big ww / yw Angus and watch the troubles begin. That extra weight is not free - you MUST feed to get it, and feed cost $. Creep feed, extra feed and hay for the cow are cost. They will eat the same % of their body weight if they are 1200...

The bull is Terminal - why worry about milk, etc. You would Not want to keep heifers by him, if you do - you are on your own! Look at $EN etc on heifer replacement sires. They need to hit 20+ on $ EN (most of the high growth bulls are negative or single digit $EN) to even consider keeping...

Better to make bean hay if you have that poor of a crop. Bez is correct - you can feed a small % beans ( 20 or less) and get some gain on the high fat content - sepecially good pre-breeding on cows/heifers.

Fancy EPD's but did you miss that negative $EN??? If you use him - better sell Every calf - the heifers will break you with that $EN. Being in TN - like most KY breeders - you are probably more cow calf than cattle finisher - so do not forget that extra growth does not come free - it takes...

watch for rat tails - esp a problem with Sim & angus

Might be nice people - and I know they blow big $ on ads with cattle today - but their cattle are not what is promoted. Calving ease is hardly 100+ in my book. They will put a muscle on anything, but extremely slow maturing and hard to breed as heifers. My angus were all bred and only half of...

Several years ago I bred some Reg Angus Cows to the Reg. Rom bulls as the Romagnola Association was starting to promote the Romangus. Big Mistake- Very calm cows with very calm calves for years, bred to what appeared to be very calm Rom bulls - resulted in the wildest fence jumpers I have ever...