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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 5285"><p>> Yep! They sell for about $35-50</p><p>> each (preserved). Go to this site</p><p>> which is a subsidiary of Dickinson</p><p>> Cattle Co., in Ohio:</p><p>> <A HREF="http://www.head2tail.com" TARGET="_blank">www.head2tail.com</A> That is their</p><p>> "store" of all sorts of</p><p>> Longhorn serious, novelty, and</p><p>> tourista items. Bill I have been listening to all the comments and arguements about what is best, one brought up the dairy cattle, a few years ago I was at our state purebred counsil meeting and a representive (who was also a beef purchasing agent of a major supermarket chain)of a beef alliance was telling what they wanted as the type of cattle and performance criteria for there branded product. What they wanted was of course black hided and holstien beef . I said that I other beef breeders have been raising and breeding for beef production and feed companies come along with a super feed program that helps allow a holstein finish faster when the holstein breed has only bred for milk production not beef. He said and I quote " we picked the holstein breed because of its purity it never bastardized the breed to get what they wanted be it milk, butterfat, protein,etc. " he also said that we have been "screwing up our gentics by cheeting and mongrulizing our purebred herds " I was totaly mad untill I realized he was right then I started to look at my breed, Hereford. more closely and find ad after ad and from top breeders also more and more brockle faced cattle calling themselves Herefords and calling it eye pigmation this to me is a far bigger problem than the old line backs. You Angus breeders don't get too cocky how many of your cattle have white on there bellies, we have really screwed up our cattle.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:bancroft@cattle-today.com">bancroft@cattle-today.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 5285"] > Yep! They sell for about $35-50 > each (preserved). Go to this site > which is a subsidiary of Dickinson > Cattle Co., in Ohio: > <A HREF="http://www.head2tail.com" TARGET="_blank">www.head2tail.com</A> That is their > "store" of all sorts of > Longhorn serious, novelty, and > tourista items. Bill I have been listening to all the comments and arguements about what is best, one brought up the dairy cattle, a few years ago I was at our state purebred counsil meeting and a representive (who was also a beef purchasing agent of a major supermarket chain)of a beef alliance was telling what they wanted as the type of cattle and performance criteria for there branded product. What they wanted was of course black hided and holstien beef . I said that I other beef breeders have been raising and breeding for beef production and feed companies come along with a super feed program that helps allow a holstein finish faster when the holstein breed has only bred for milk production not beef. He said and I quote " we picked the holstein breed because of its purity it never bastardized the breed to get what they wanted be it milk, butterfat, protein,etc. " he also said that we have been "screwing up our gentics by cheeting and mongrulizing our purebred herds " I was totaly mad untill I realized he was right then I started to look at my breed, Hereford. more closely and find ad after ad and from top breeders also more and more brockle faced cattle calling themselves Herefords and calling it eye pigmation this to me is a far bigger problem than the old line backs. You Angus breeders don't get too cocky how many of your cattle have white on there bellies, we have really screwed up our cattle. [email=bancroft@cattle-today.com]bancroft@cattle-today.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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