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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1204516" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>Nice cattle and their calves bring a better price at the sale barn.. My herd isn't perfect, but I'm starting to get some uniformity, and for the most part they're decent animals, have a good frame with meat over the boney bits. That is my motivation for improving the look of my cows and thus the calves they produce. I'm not anal about many traits that are not directly related to function, and even some that are.. Up until this year I was below capacity, so I could let some things slide.. I had a cow that never made big calves, at 8 years old she still doesn't.. Now her time is up, I have better (hopefully) animals to take her place.. Since I considered her substandard, I never kept a heifer from her. </p><p>My cattle are paddock cows too, so they don't need to do too much walking.. to me the angle the hoof meets the ground (and thus properly wearing it) is more critical to me than if they're cowhocked. I have paid a lot of attention to udders (guy thing right?), and I think my herd is certainly in the top 75% of commercial cow average.. To me that's balanced quarters and square set teats the size of MY thumb that hang right around the height of the cows navel when the udder is full.</p><p>I'd be quite happy if my entire herd looked and performed like Mega</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Rx7man/media/Moo/20140521_123042_zps7f8c28fc.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/20140521_123042_zps7f8c28fc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1204516, member: 9096"] Nice cattle and their calves bring a better price at the sale barn.. My herd isn't perfect, but I'm starting to get some uniformity, and for the most part they're decent animals, have a good frame with meat over the boney bits. That is my motivation for improving the look of my cows and thus the calves they produce. I'm not anal about many traits that are not directly related to function, and even some that are.. Up until this year I was below capacity, so I could let some things slide.. I had a cow that never made big calves, at 8 years old she still doesn't.. Now her time is up, I have better (hopefully) animals to take her place.. Since I considered her substandard, I never kept a heifer from her. My cattle are paddock cows too, so they don't need to do too much walking.. to me the angle the hoof meets the ground (and thus properly wearing it) is more critical to me than if they're cowhocked. I have paid a lot of attention to udders (guy thing right?), and I think my herd is certainly in the top 75% of commercial cow average.. To me that's balanced quarters and square set teats the size of MY thumb that hang right around the height of the cows navel when the udder is full. I'd be quite happy if my entire herd looked and performed like Mega [url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Rx7man/media/Moo/20140521_123042_zps7f8c28fc.jpg.html][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/20140521_123042_zps7f8c28fc.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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