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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 777467" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>You have exactly right. There is no better way to enhance the value of the cattle you sell than having uniformity in color, size, and type.</p><p></p><p>When we first moved to Canada we consistenty topped the best feeder sale because of one thing. Uniform truckload lots. Were they the best cattle in the sale, no, but they were very certainly the most uniform. Also they were all sired by bulls that were 15/16ths brothers.</p><p></p><p>Today with the black hided thing selling so well we had to transition to all black hided offerings. We felt we weren't getting enough of a premium with the black and red color. So now we have completed the transition and the premium has returned.</p><p></p><p>For the breeder it is absolutely imperative to breed uniformity. If you use a lot of different bulls you will eventually have a lot of different problems that you need to fix by selective breeding. It is almost impossible to address all those inevitable problems. But if you use sires bred more alike and get more uniformity then you will still have some problems but at least you may have to select to improve one or two things instead of the fifty you get the other way. Want to breed a low value mess? Just ignore breeding uniformity and then take them to the sale barn and complain about how they were sorted. You'll get absolutely no sympathy here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 777467, member: 14119"] You have exactly right. There is no better way to enhance the value of the cattle you sell than having uniformity in color, size, and type. When we first moved to Canada we consistenty topped the best feeder sale because of one thing. Uniform truckload lots. Were they the best cattle in the sale, no, but they were very certainly the most uniform. Also they were all sired by bulls that were 15/16ths brothers. Today with the black hided thing selling so well we had to transition to all black hided offerings. We felt we weren't getting enough of a premium with the black and red color. So now we have completed the transition and the premium has returned. For the breeder it is absolutely imperative to breed uniformity. If you use a lot of different bulls you will eventually have a lot of different problems that you need to fix by selective breeding. It is almost impossible to address all those inevitable problems. But if you use sires bred more alike and get more uniformity then you will still have some problems but at least you may have to select to improve one or two things instead of the fifty you get the other way. Want to breed a low value mess? Just ignore breeding uniformity and then take them to the sale barn and complain about how they were sorted. You'll get absolutely no sympathy here. [/QUOTE]
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