First off, I'm new here. Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm not sure where this topic fit in, so I put it in the beginners board. Anyway, I have recently been developed a website for my cattle operation. We have about 300 head and sell both commercial and purebred bulls and heifers. This year, we have decided to run more of an ad campaign in some local papers (such as the Midwest Messenger for those who are familiar with it) and list the website as a place to see more information and pictures of the bulls we will be selling this spring. We sell bulls through a, for lack of better word, 'broker', but in recent years have been having more bulls to sell than he can place, so we have decided to do some advertising.
My question for you all is this: Which do you prefer, looking at bull pictures as is or with them somewhat clipped? With the winter we had our bulls look like wooly mammoths and we were debating whether or not to trim them up. We wouldn't clip them to look like they were headed to a show, but just take off the long hairs on the neck and back. Some of them look heavy fronted and weak in the back end with all the hair. I plan to use a few pictures in the ad and also put all the pictures of available bulls on the website with the EPDs. Thanks for your input in advance!
My question for you all is this: Which do you prefer, looking at bull pictures as is or with them somewhat clipped? With the winter we had our bulls look like wooly mammoths and we were debating whether or not to trim them up. We wouldn't clip them to look like they were headed to a show, but just take off the long hairs on the neck and back. Some of them look heavy fronted and weak in the back end with all the hair. I plan to use a few pictures in the ad and also put all the pictures of available bulls on the website with the EPDs. Thanks for your input in advance!