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Longhorns: Skinny or Full-Bodied?
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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 17700"><p>I agree with much of what has been said and offer this: we have been breeding for continued improvement, but at the same time I feel that we have left the age of "old time ranchers" and have come into the age where we now understand nutrition on the same plane that non-longhorn people have been on for years. I feel the larger bodied animals are a direct result of :#1 cattle people own the majority of longhorns, they are not a place to hide income from the irs like they were in the 80's #2 cattle people will feed there animals for profitability, by actually providing adequate nutrition what we are seeing in bodies and horn is simply the expression of what was there all along,#3 there is very little use for the typical "old style" longhorn, the ropers don't want them the packers don't want them and the progressive breeders don't want them. It was said several years ago by a then prominant showman at a seminar that it doesn't cost anymore to raise good ones. Right now with the high beef prices it doesn't matter what breed you have there is no sense(cents) in keeping inferior cattle.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:dlcovert@dreamscape.com">dlcovert@dreamscape.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 17700"] I agree with much of what has been said and offer this: we have been breeding for continued improvement, but at the same time I feel that we have left the age of "old time ranchers" and have come into the age where we now understand nutrition on the same plane that non-longhorn people have been on for years. I feel the larger bodied animals are a direct result of :#1 cattle people own the majority of longhorns, they are not a place to hide income from the irs like they were in the 80's #2 cattle people will feed there animals for profitability, by actually providing adequate nutrition what we are seeing in bodies and horn is simply the expression of what was there all along,#3 there is very little use for the typical "old style" longhorn, the ropers don't want them the packers don't want them and the progressive breeders don't want them. It was said several years ago by a then prominant showman at a seminar that it doesn't cost anymore to raise good ones. Right now with the high beef prices it doesn't matter what breed you have there is no sense(cents) in keeping inferior cattle. [email=dlcovert@dreamscape.com]dlcovert@dreamscape.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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