Mike - Hey, I knew that you weren't really serious. It's just that I had been dealing with :roll: someone :roll: on another post and was on a roll! I'm cool! 8)MikeC":3u5br59h said:I'm just pulling your leg, Doc. It just so happened your post was directly under the bull picture. Just funnin! ;-)DOC HARRIS":3u5br59h said:MikeC Cut me some slack, Mike! :roll: :roll: If you had READ the entire post, you would have realized that I was talking about a COW and not a 700# Bull. :lol: :lol: I really DO know the difference, Mike. My post was entered on the Board after several others had been entered \. I should have made a "quote" instead of just a "Post reply". The COW Mike - the COW is estimated at 1540#. You are funny, though! :lol: :lol:MikeC":3u5br59h said:DOC HARRIS":3u5br59h said:Okay - - My eye may be a little off - but I say this very MAGNIFICENT Icon of a Momma Beef Cow - one you should call home about - will weigh in (without a belly full of water :shock: ;-) ) at 1540 lbs. Weigh ticket proof - not that I don't trust you understand - I just want to be able to say, "YES". Of course, if I miss her by 200 lbs, I'll be
This cow is the kind which makes the owner feel very self-satisfied and gives him the confidence to buy others just like her. Could you give us her EPD's - just for grins?? DOC
Het Doc! I hate to be the one to tell you, but your eyes are a LOT off! That's a bull! Not a Momma Cow! ;-)
==========jscunn":195vdf9v said:About 25 miles north of Pensacola, FL
Two more just for you guys two heifers out of the fall weaned calves (720# and 680# Oct heifers) and one Feb steer that I know caustic will like.
To my way of thinking, this is justification for the trend toward 1200#-1300# mature Mama cows in our breeding herds - whatever breed we have under consideration. $Profit is the bottom line of the BUSINESS.Brandonm2":35449y3u said:"Bigger is not always better but to me me smaller is never better."
I agree with most of that; but I am old enough to remember the last days of the 600-720 pound frame score 2 commercial cow. I am not eager to go back there; but they were really easy keeping cattle and they were always fat. I knew one ranch up the road that ran 220 Angus cows on 220 acres of ground AND produced all of it's own hay and NOT all of it was open. My grandfather ran 100 little Herefords (bred up from Jersey dairy cattle) on Kentucky 31 fescue, Johnsongrass, kudzu, and caley peas and he weaned a 90% calf crop and all his heifers calved at 24 months with very little supplemental feed and he almost always made money at the end of the year and when he culled it was for losing a calf almost NEVER for skipping a calf. Granted weaning weights WERE laughable; but a 630 pound mama cow weaning a 375 pound calf is a whole lot more efficient than a 1600 pound cow weaning a 600 pound calf and you could butcher that little calf at weaning age and have much more tender eating than today's big framed calf. AND those little calves did win plenty of shows back in their day. I realize that we now no longer grass fatten (which is what the 1950s-60s cattle were bred for) and there is no more premiun for veal or the super tender "baby beef" so I don't expect those "belt buckle" cattle to return; but the smaller framed cattle did have some advantages.