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BC: So it doesn;t matter if the cow is registered or commercail if it isn;t gert? The reason I ask, the people that bought this farm raise purebred gerts. Harold is here now and I really like him and his calves. Since we won;t ever own another bull (100% AI if I can handle) and the season he...

I've read on here about gert crosses being registered (or equivilent) for crossbred calves. The only registered Red Angus we have left are both 1B, 90+ percent Red Angus. Do thir offspring from a reg gert bull count for the registered/equivilent program

The angus association has cab but most of the feeders also recognize sterling silver. Premium used to be the same for wither program. Don;' know if it is now

I guess I should have read it instead of just throwing it in the trash like I always do.

We get our semen from the regular studs. ABS, Genex, Accelerated, Select Sires

Through the years we've used a number of their RA bulls. The calves have always lived, sold or slaughtered to our expectation. But like all large breeders, you have to balance the bull to the cow. Do that long enough and it gets to be less critical.

A collar with bentonite packed around it works best

We used leach line pipe for the riser in the pond to serve the tank we installed. I capped it so that I could later if needed later pull it and run a snake down it. The bottom couple of feet of the riser is solid sewerline pipe. The hardest part is getting the pipe from the pond to below the...

Color and horns are the easiest genes for dominant recessive. Black is always dominant as is polled. Spotting/face genes gets kind of screwy. The offspring from red and black will be black. But they will be heterozygous red, 1 red gene 1 black gene. If bred to a homozygous black(2 black...

50:50 chance they will be black. Depending on how the genes line up the could be baldies or brockle faced.

I bought a really nice calm heifer at the salebarn some years ago. By the time we unloaded her she was a little spunky. Turned her into a pen with the other cows and she literally climbed the fence to get out (6 foot pipe corral). She disappeared for a couple of weeks and nver saw hide nor...

That's pretty much what I was tihnking. Selling bulls and calling them high headed as a sales gimmick. The can really cover some ground, usually away from people.

There is a difference between high headed and carrying their head up. You can tell by the angle of the head which it is. I can;t describe the difference but once you've seen it you know it.

High headed cattle are that way because they are always on the alert. Never have seen one that wasn't fairly wild/goofy. Their fight or flight reflex was hardwired to FLIGHT.

Too many variables to have a hard and fast answer. Talk to your extension office or NRCS.

In the 60s we ran cattle S and SE of san diego. Back then we used generic angus hereford crosses and Santa Gertrudis bulls. The offspring were bred back to gerts and did much better then their mothers had. The resulting (roughly 3/4) gert cows were bred back to either angus or hereford.

I thought "thal" was valley

Am I the only one that remembers when the "h" was in the name? I still refer to them as Simmenthal.

For the most heterosis number 1

Maybe it's the black angus that benefit from being crossed! I know other breeds benefit from crossing with RED ANGUS