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<blockquote data-quote="Wind and Sage" data-source="post: 784190" data-attributes="member: 14693"><p>Hi, and thanks for the encouraging words. Yes, I am a first time person on the discussion board. I kind of diverted from the original topic of Difference in Breeds. I have been fortunate enough to run many types of cattle. I grew up with Herefords (as did most people) in Colorado as a kid. For several years we had a rainbow herd (not to be confused with rainbow coalition) of all kinds of cows. Through the eighties there you could see Semintal, Baldies, Reds, and red cross cows, a few charlois cross cows, and even some Pinzgaur. This was in combination with commercial Angus cows. My cousin ran limousin cows and I took 85 head of Saler cross cows in on shares once. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. It gave me exposure to pluses and minuses of most breeds. We had a Semintal bull battery at one time, a charlois battery, always a few angus bulls, and one real good hereford bull. Additionally we would buy about 300 calves and run to yearlings. That was educational in the sense that for yearlings we wanted a bigger boned, higher capacity animal. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't have to calve some of the ones we bought. (Keep the pullers in the back of your pickup.)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I have raised registered Angus for almost 20 years. The reason (duck your head) is that I felt they are the best maternal and calving ease of those breeds mentioned. Rarely did I have the problems with the cows that I had with some of the other breeds. However, I always tend to make a few Angus purebred breeders mad. In my estimation, there were certain traits, such as growth or carcass that other breeds did better than Angus. I would tell other Angus breeders to quit trying to turn an Angus cow into something she's not, and let them shine where they shine. The single trait carcass breeding (due to the then, new toy of ultrasound carcass) led to a lot of single trait breeding that affected other aspects (negatively, I feel) of the Angus breed. (For a great little reference, read Temple Grandin's Animal's in Translation, the chapter on Single Trait.) </p><p></p><p>Anyway,there really is no breed that will do it all, and there is no breed that works in every environment. I think an all breeds EPD would just be confusing, and probably inaccurate.</p><p>Thanks...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wind and Sage, post: 784190, member: 14693"] Hi, and thanks for the encouraging words. Yes, I am a first time person on the discussion board. I kind of diverted from the original topic of Difference in Breeds. I have been fortunate enough to run many types of cattle. I grew up with Herefords (as did most people) in Colorado as a kid. For several years we had a rainbow herd (not to be confused with rainbow coalition) of all kinds of cows. Through the eighties there you could see Semintal, Baldies, Reds, and red cross cows, a few charlois cross cows, and even some Pinzgaur. This was in combination with commercial Angus cows. My cousin ran limousin cows and I took 85 head of Saler cross cows in on shares once. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. It gave me exposure to pluses and minuses of most breeds. We had a Semintal bull battery at one time, a charlois battery, always a few angus bulls, and one real good hereford bull. Additionally we would buy about 300 calves and run to yearlings. That was educational in the sense that for yearlings we wanted a bigger boned, higher capacity animal. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't have to calve some of the ones we bought. (Keep the pullers in the back of your pickup.) Anyway, I have raised registered Angus for almost 20 years. The reason (duck your head) is that I felt they are the best maternal and calving ease of those breeds mentioned. Rarely did I have the problems with the cows that I had with some of the other breeds. However, I always tend to make a few Angus purebred breeders mad. In my estimation, there were certain traits, such as growth or carcass that other breeds did better than Angus. I would tell other Angus breeders to quit trying to turn an Angus cow into something she's not, and let them shine where they shine. The single trait carcass breeding (due to the then, new toy of ultrasound carcass) led to a lot of single trait breeding that affected other aspects (negatively, I feel) of the Angus breed. (For a great little reference, read Temple Grandin's Animal's in Translation, the chapter on Single Trait.) Anyway,there really is no breed that will do it all, and there is no breed that works in every environment. I think an all breeds EPD would just be confusing, and probably inaccurate. Thanks... [/QUOTE]
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