Ann Bledsoe
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Texan":3quysfsv said:Great point, BP! That bragging seems to be more important than profit to some people.BLACKPOWER":3quysfsv said:......you can keep adding inputs but eventually yield increases will plateau to a point where all your gaining is bragging at the coffee shop.
Bragging rights do seem to outweight what I would consider more important components.
I know a fellow who brags about his high birthweights (Angus and Angus cross). He considers anything under 100 lbs to be too small.
Couple (2 or 3) years ago he pulled a 127 lb calf out of a first-calf heifer. He bragged about that calf, and how it was a great bull prospect, all summer.
At sale time the calf wasn't any better than any of his other calves and went along with the rest of them. Sad thing was (IMO) the heifer went too because she didn't breed back. Real nice heifer, but a calf that big was obviously more than she could handle. But then a lot of his heifers don't breed back.
Ann B