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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1556934" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>The original question was do your steers make the grade? I had an interesting conversation with my neighbor the other day. Some cattle drug dealer was trying to sell him something, saying it would improve how his calves graded. His reply was that his steers had won the local carcass contest 5 out of the last 8 years. Now some might say big deal you won that at the county fair. The thing is there are some of the big boys locally. Thomas Angus and Harrell Herefords come to mind. They support the 4H and FFA. And you know they would like one of their calves to win. Thomas runs over 1,000 register cows. And Harrell has something like 700. My neighbor runs good bulls on assorted range cows. But apparently they work. I helped sort through 350 of his calves. We sorted off replacement heifers, dink steers to be held over, and fair steers. The first sort we had 8 fair steers. He needed 5 out of this bunch. The only black hided steer that made the first cut didn't make the second cut. All 5 that he kept were Char cross steers. Three looked like they were out of black cows, one probably a Red Angus, and one I wouldn't bet on his linage. Would they make CAB? No, wrong color. But other than color I would be willing to bet they meet every other requirement to be CAB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1556934, member: 498"] The original question was do your steers make the grade? I had an interesting conversation with my neighbor the other day. Some cattle drug dealer was trying to sell him something, saying it would improve how his calves graded. His reply was that his steers had won the local carcass contest 5 out of the last 8 years. Now some might say big deal you won that at the county fair. The thing is there are some of the big boys locally. Thomas Angus and Harrell Herefords come to mind. They support the 4H and FFA. And you know they would like one of their calves to win. Thomas runs over 1,000 register cows. And Harrell has something like 700. My neighbor runs good bulls on assorted range cows. But apparently they work. I helped sort through 350 of his calves. We sorted off replacement heifers, dink steers to be held over, and fair steers. The first sort we had 8 fair steers. He needed 5 out of this bunch. The only black hided steer that made the first cut didn't make the second cut. All 5 that he kept were Char cross steers. Three looked like they were out of black cows, one probably a Red Angus, and one I wouldn't bet on his linage. Would they make CAB? No, wrong color. But other than color I would be willing to bet they meet every other requirement to be CAB. [/QUOTE]
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