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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 791284" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>OK here is what I am saying so you don't have to guess or read between the lines.</p><p></p><p>I have never seen a Lents bull in the flesh, however I have been involved in more than one where I mentored the herd where I have followed the bull from the time it left OK till the day he was sold at the salebarn.</p><p></p><p>I have been following Jim's program for a number of years, have exchanged many e-mails in the past with him, learnt from him, etc. I still receive the Lamplighter and find it an amusing read, very much like the Adventures of Tin-Tin, its little more than fiction and escapism and unfortunately not always factual or scientific. I have seen numerous Lents bulls fall to pieces and never recover, I am not prepared to name all the owners. They may do a lot right, but doing ability is their biggest shortcoming and in my opinion that can be fixed by selecting for more girth and guts, unfortunately a "hideous hay belly" is one of Jim's pet hates.</p><p></p><p>They may be prepotent, but its not only good traits that are passed on as can be seen in the pics you've posted. There is no program in the world where they "all are the same" and just about every bull born are sold as a herdsire "because they are so tightly linebred they are all the same".</p><p></p><p>Believe what you want, but be openminded enough to see that there are other lines, some linebred some not that are better grazers than the Lents cattle and try and see the common denominator in these herds.</p><p></p><p>As soon as I see someone writing and claiming one thing and practising the other it gets filed under "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshite" in my biased opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 791284, member: 4353"] OK here is what I am saying so you don't have to guess or read between the lines. I have never seen a Lents bull in the flesh, however I have been involved in more than one where I mentored the herd where I have followed the bull from the time it left OK till the day he was sold at the salebarn. I have been following Jim's program for a number of years, have exchanged many e-mails in the past with him, learnt from him, etc. I still receive the Lamplighter and find it an amusing read, very much like the Adventures of Tin-Tin, its little more than fiction and escapism and unfortunately not always factual or scientific. I have seen numerous Lents bulls fall to pieces and never recover, I am not prepared to name all the owners. They may do a lot right, but doing ability is their biggest shortcoming and in my opinion that can be fixed by selecting for more girth and guts, unfortunately a "hideous hay belly" is one of Jim's pet hates. They may be prepotent, but its not only good traits that are passed on as can be seen in the pics you've posted. There is no program in the world where they "all are the same" and just about every bull born are sold as a herdsire "because they are so tightly linebred they are all the same". Believe what you want, but be openminded enough to see that there are other lines, some linebred some not that are better grazers than the Lents cattle and try and see the common denominator in these herds. As soon as I see someone writing and claiming one thing and practising the other it gets filed under "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshite" in my biased opinion. [/QUOTE]
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