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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1525528" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Black hide on Simmental is not NEW. My very first half blood Simmentals were black back in 1971. Black gene is dominant. We had commercial cows, black, bwf, angus x shorthorn - quite a mixture. We could not get away from black calves. My herd developed into about 1/2 blacks, and I never bred to a black Simmental bull until I used my Simme Valley Macho As U (my avatar picture) in 2003. He was a purchased embryo - homozygous black and homozygous polled.</p><p>I love the chrome. I have to be careful and watch how much chrome my buyers are willing to pay for. A few here and there will always sell, but not sure there is a BIG demand for heavy chromed cattle. Blaze, star, snip - any face white attracts buyers. </p><p></p><p>The name of the game is to make money. I sell fairly expensive breeding stock, so I pay attention to what my market wants.</p><p></p><p>Consistancy??? just get yourself a homozygous black bull or a red bull (which has to be homo red). Not too difficult to get consistent color. I was at the Angus show today in NYSF. There were numerous females with white udders almost all the way to their naval. I know that is the "allowed" amount of white to register Angus, but it was quite colorful. Thought there were some Simmies in the ring. LOL</p><p></p><p>Black hide premium? That does NOT belong to the Angus (premium that is). They developed a PROGRAM that promoted black hided cattle, but did not protect their "Angus" involvement in the steers. They helped ALL beef breeds that wanted to jump on the band wagon to make more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1525528, member: 968"] Black hide on Simmental is not NEW. My very first half blood Simmentals were black back in 1971. Black gene is dominant. We had commercial cows, black, bwf, angus x shorthorn - quite a mixture. We could not get away from black calves. My herd developed into about 1/2 blacks, and I never bred to a black Simmental bull until I used my Simme Valley Macho As U (my avatar picture) in 2003. He was a purchased embryo - homozygous black and homozygous polled. I love the chrome. I have to be careful and watch how much chrome my buyers are willing to pay for. A few here and there will always sell, but not sure there is a BIG demand for heavy chromed cattle. Blaze, star, snip - any face white attracts buyers. The name of the game is to make money. I sell fairly expensive breeding stock, so I pay attention to what my market wants. Consistancy??? just get yourself a homozygous black bull or a red bull (which has to be homo red). Not too difficult to get consistent color. I was at the Angus show today in NYSF. There were numerous females with white udders almost all the way to their naval. I know that is the "allowed" amount of white to register Angus, but it was quite colorful. Thought there were some Simmies in the ring. LOL Black hide premium? That does NOT belong to the Angus (premium that is). They developed a PROGRAM that promoted black hided cattle, but did not protect their "Angus" involvement in the steers. They helped ALL beef breeds that wanted to jump on the band wagon to make more money. [/QUOTE]
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