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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1831043" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>There are breeders that show like [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] and a Hereford breeder here fairly locally that have top end herds. </p><p>Going back 30 years ago some of the show line emphasis left a bad taste in a lot of folks mouth associated with Charolais.</p><p>A sales promoter was looking through my herd to find something for a consignment, and I told him what a certain cow was out of, I thought he might like it, he said we don't want that everybody has some of them that they are trying to get rid of, just a few years before they couldn't say enough good about them. </p><p>There was one line in particular that dominated the biggest shows for several years, those things if bred to a Holstein would sire daughters that wouldn't breed very regularly and if by chance they did have a calf they wouldn't milk at all.</p><p>I started out with a set of heifers that were granddaughters of a bull known to sire good females, but the promoters urged me to go different directions as they thought we needed more flashy name cattle. Man were they ever wrong and me stupid for listening.</p><p>Angus don't seem to put the emphasis on showing there are some herds that are known to show and I wouldn't touch them period just in the small frame cattle aspect. I don't know why Angus are trending back to small frame. I think they could maintain good fleshing and milk in upper 5 and 6 frame cattle easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1831043, member: 24816"] There are breeders that show like [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] and a Hereford breeder here fairly locally that have top end herds. Going back 30 years ago some of the show line emphasis left a bad taste in a lot of folks mouth associated with Charolais. A sales promoter was looking through my herd to find something for a consignment, and I told him what a certain cow was out of, I thought he might like it, he said we don’t want that everybody has some of them that they are trying to get rid of, just a few years before they couldn’t say enough good about them. There was one line in particular that dominated the biggest shows for several years, those things if bred to a Holstein would sire daughters that wouldn’t breed very regularly and if by chance they did have a calf they wouldn’t milk at all. I started out with a set of heifers that were granddaughters of a bull known to sire good females, but the promoters urged me to go different directions as they thought we needed more flashy name cattle. Man were they ever wrong and me stupid for listening. Angus don’t seem to put the emphasis on showing there are some herds that are known to show and I wouldn’t touch them period just in the small frame cattle aspect. I don’t know why Angus are trending back to small frame. I think they could maintain good fleshing and milk in upper 5 and 6 frame cattle easily. [/QUOTE]
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