Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
A Bright Future?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 606272" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>I have no idea who the Spradlings are or who Flying G is and I am sure you have a very good show steer, BUT the cattlepeople who sold him to you have my sympathy. It sounds like they put out good money to get a "top notch" breeding female and wound up with a bull calf who's bw was so big they felt they had to cut him for a steer and that has got to be a real disappointment to them. It is an odd thing in the Hereford breed: We see some top notch business people come into our breed who are willing to put up some good money to buy the best they can buy and put together a top notch herd of breeding cattle and they seem to endlessly end up frustrated with how their money has not yielded the kind of breed leading cattle they originally set out to breed. More often than not, they exit the breed with their tails tucked between their legs and their pocket books much thinner than when they came in. Now it may be that a few of our breed leaders have profited greatly from these investor's misadventures, but I think it is bad for the breed in the long run when one of these good business people gets frustrated like this and abruptly exits. It has been said, 'there is a sucker born every minute', but I don't think that should be the credo of the Hereford breed in the 21st century.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 606272, member: 8677"] I have no idea who the Spradlings are or who Flying G is and I am sure you have a very good show steer, BUT the cattlepeople who sold him to you have my sympathy. It sounds like they put out good money to get a "top notch" breeding female and wound up with a bull calf who's bw was so big they felt they had to cut him for a steer and that has got to be a real disappointment to them. It is an odd thing in the Hereford breed: We see some top notch business people come into our breed who are willing to put up some good money to buy the best they can buy and put together a top notch herd of breeding cattle and they seem to endlessly end up frustrated with how their money has not yielded the kind of breed leading cattle they originally set out to breed. More often than not, they exit the breed with their tails tucked between their legs and their pocket books much thinner than when they came in. Now it may be that a few of our breed leaders have profited greatly from these investor's misadventures, but I think it is bad for the breed in the long run when one of these good business people gets frustrated like this and abruptly exits. It has been said, 'there is a sucker born every minute', but I don't think that should be the credo of the Hereford breed in the 21st century. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
A Bright Future?
Top