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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1729753" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>I hope I'm not hijacking this thread with this post. It is not my intent, only to provide some food for thought.</p><p></p><p>This is an interesting article, back from 1995. It's not about cross breeding but has a lot of good information in it. We bought bulls from Larry Leonhardt for several years and got some striking females from using his bulls. You didn't need to go look at the bulls either, because they looked exactly alike. He had different colored ear tags in the bulls which identified their history. He didn't have EPD's on them either. He only sold 2 year old bulls because he didn't want to compete with fed-up yearling bulls from other producers. Like the story says, everyone wanted to buy his cows, but no one wanted to buy his bulls. His bulls were cheap. I think we paid $1500 to $2000 for his 2-year old bulls. They sure left a mark in our herd. Larry has passed away now, but he knew more about Angus genetics than anyone in the USA and was well-respected. He told us "I'm just a dirty little beet farmer" but he was more than that. Much more. A genius.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/0495_theroadtoconsistency.pdf[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1729753, member: 17524"] I hope I'm not hijacking this thread with this post. It is not my intent, only to provide some food for thought. This is an interesting article, back from 1995. It's not about cross breeding but has a lot of good information in it. We bought bulls from Larry Leonhardt for several years and got some striking females from using his bulls. You didn't need to go look at the bulls either, because they looked exactly alike. He had different colored ear tags in the bulls which identified their history. He didn't have EPD's on them either. He only sold 2 year old bulls because he didn't want to compete with fed-up yearling bulls from other producers. Like the story says, everyone wanted to buy his cows, but no one wanted to buy his bulls. His bulls were cheap. I think we paid $1500 to $2000 for his 2-year old bulls. They sure left a mark in our herd. Larry has passed away now, but he knew more about Angus genetics than anyone in the USA and was well-respected. He told us "I'm just a dirty little beet farmer" but he was more than that. Much more. A genius. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.angusjournal.com/articlepdf/0495_theroadtoconsistency.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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