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Those are nice-looking simmental cows, out here the Simmy's look nothing like that. They are all shotgunned bodied and terribly leggy. If you brought your deep-bodied cattle out here they would put most of the Simmental breeders to shame. Thanks for the pics.

And then we will appeal to 90% of those on this forum!

A bucket of feed surely would not hurt this animal.

NDAngus, I wouldn't let evryone's opinion here get to you too much. I have browsed this board for quite some time but have commented very little. In my opinion most on this board wouldn't know good cattle if they jumped up and bit them in the a**. But the reality of it is that its a public board...

Not trying to be an a-hole or anything, but in my opinion that bull looks terrible. I have far better looking bulls in my bull pasture and I'm only a commercial man. Maybe it's a bad picture but I'd probably say this bull made the lineup on numbers and numbers only. Phenotypically this bull has...

Even though I raise black hided cattle I believe Trey L's post holds as much truth as any post I have ever read on this site. Well done.

I believe I would contribute the increases in new members and registrations due to the fact that I believe the Angus breed has and still is becoming the "trendy breed" of cattle in certain parts of the country. Just pick up a copy of the Angus Journal in February or March. Those copies must be...

I believe that this is an equal comparison. I never said that the 2 original angus bulls were younger, all I said was the spare bull I put in was younger the the three reamianing bulls. The point I was trying to make is that on my operation the hereford bulls usually settle more cows since they...

In my case if I have a 100 head in one pasture I'll put in 2 black bulls and 2 hereford bulls. Most years I get more baldie calves since I usually have a black bull get beat up not even a heat cycle in. I usually replace that black bull with either a yearling black or hereford. Regardless they...

In 1996 I calved out 72 heifers. Right now in 2007 those cows are coming 12's and I still have either 57 or 58 of them left, I'm not sure. I would call these straight bred commercial angus cows. The thing about these cows is they come from the older angus genetics that tended to have quite a bit...

Interesting discussion. I can relate as I run straight black cows and run black bulls along with hereford bulls also. I sell all the steer calves right off the cow and my baldies are usually 40 pounds heavier. I have heard of the difference being as much as 80 pounds but that is an extreme case...

Dont confuse potbellied with capacity. That first bull has capacity, not a pot belly. The cattle industry as a whole could use a little more capacity.

Actually there will be less guesswork with the red bull. All of your calves will be red baldies. Now with a black bull there is a chance that you will get a few red baldies to go along with the overwhelming majority of black baldies. Technically speaking you should get all black baldies with the...

I just bought two yearling hereford bulls from Beery's about a week ago. I use them on black cows. Eddy and Matt have a good program and a great guarantee.

Oldtimer, What do you think of the Horse Butte bulls? I bought two last year and to make a long story short they are the hardest fleshing bulls I've got. My polled hereford bulls and higher performing angus bulls are in much, much better shape under basicaaly the same conditions. But maybe my...

I agree with you horseless, the only way to get the females you want is to save your own. Then the only person you can cuss at is yourself or at least that is what I found out. I had a closed herd until two years ago when I decided I could turn a dollar faster on selling $650 heifer calves and...

Badlands, You dont have to tell me who the breeder in question is but I know of a guy fitting that description that I buy bulls from. He is from Northern Montana and that is all I'm gonna say.

I recently purchased a few bulls from a breeder that has never waivered from using the older bloodlines. These bulls are chalk full of red meat and moderate in frame. I figure these bulls will sire some very functional cattle that add weight in the form of red meat rather than frame. The thing...

HCF, I generally dont want milk epd over 20. In the northern plains where I am it is much more profitable running beef cows versus dairy cows which is what is starting to happen with some bulls having milk epds in the high 20's and low 30's. To be truthful I have gone back to some of the older...

When I get a salebook in the mail I look through the book and eliminate the bulls with radical epd's such as a high birth epd, high milk epd and high weaning epd. Say I eliminate 20 out of 100 bulls. When I go to the sale I look through the other 80 bulls and pick out the bulls I prefer...