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<blockquote data-quote="ollie&#039;" data-source="post: 134985" data-attributes="member: 2432"><p>Fancy cows aren't a marketing tool to me. The fanciest cow I know of is a red angus pair that I think Jake has a picture of. I absolutely think she is beautiful but if I can't own her. My environment is too harsh for that type cow. They can be fancy and still not work for everyone. If they are broody , meaty , and somewhat fancy...I can use them. Maybe you havn't trained your eye to see differences in cattle types. Some peoples operation doesn't require noticing phenotype differences or because of something else in their training or experience they have failed to notice. To say there isn't such a thing as a fancy cow is true only if there isn't fancy women or fancy cars. </p><p>Within the circle of friends I run with there are several of us who can "see" cows the same. I don't have to go look if one of these men has seen them. They know what fancy means to me and if they say she is fancy I know they mean long extended neck coming out of the top of her shoulder with a pretty cow type head . They will have a spine that appears to be a rib longer . She will have a nice sloping shoulder and 4 pretty legs out on the corners. It wouldn't necessairly include how much depth or meat she would have. It wouldn't describe her feet . Several of the cows I have thought alot of have not been fancy. Their necks were usually a little too short . Sometimes they weren't long enough or they had too much set to their legs but when it come to toughing out a scorching summer and weaning a heavy chunk of beef for a calf they did it every year. Maybe some of the good years their calves weren't the prettiest but they were as predictable as the sun. Every year they made money. I would rather have a fancy cow with the meat and muscle that these cows had. I would also rather have a fancy cow that could be at the top on those bad years. I am still hunting the perfect cow. She is there , I just havn't owned her ....yet. BTW , just because a cow is ugly doesn't make her easy keeping or drought resistant or good someother way. It only makes her ugly. To me good and fancy aren't always the same . Good means profitable, managable, consistant etc. Fancy means pretty. They can and should be fancy and good. Maybe someday I'll get there.</p><p>One more thought. In sale barn lingo talking about a set of cows fancy usually means uniform and of at least fairly good quality. I am speaking more of an individual cow being called fancy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie', post: 134985, member: 2432"] Fancy cows aren't a marketing tool to me. The fanciest cow I know of is a red angus pair that I think Jake has a picture of. I absolutely think she is beautiful but if I can't own her. My environment is too harsh for that type cow. They can be fancy and still not work for everyone. If they are broody , meaty , and somewhat fancy...I can use them. Maybe you havn't trained your eye to see differences in cattle types. Some peoples operation doesn't require noticing phenotype differences or because of something else in their training or experience they have failed to notice. To say there isn't such a thing as a fancy cow is true only if there isn't fancy women or fancy cars. Within the circle of friends I run with there are several of us who can "see" cows the same. I don't have to go look if one of these men has seen them. They know what fancy means to me and if they say she is fancy I know they mean long extended neck coming out of the top of her shoulder with a pretty cow type head . They will have a spine that appears to be a rib longer . She will have a nice sloping shoulder and 4 pretty legs out on the corners. It wouldn't necessairly include how much depth or meat she would have. It wouldn't describe her feet . Several of the cows I have thought alot of have not been fancy. Their necks were usually a little too short . Sometimes they weren't long enough or they had too much set to their legs but when it come to toughing out a scorching summer and weaning a heavy chunk of beef for a calf they did it every year. Maybe some of the good years their calves weren't the prettiest but they were as predictable as the sun. Every year they made money. I would rather have a fancy cow with the meat and muscle that these cows had. I would also rather have a fancy cow that could be at the top on those bad years. I am still hunting the perfect cow. She is there , I just havn't owned her ....yet. BTW , just because a cow is ugly doesn't make her easy keeping or drought resistant or good someother way. It only makes her ugly. To me good and fancy aren't always the same . Good means profitable, managable, consistant etc. Fancy means pretty. They can and should be fancy and good. Maybe someday I'll get there. One more thought. In sale barn lingo talking about a set of cows fancy usually means uniform and of at least fairly good quality. I am speaking more of an individual cow being called fancy. [/QUOTE]
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