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<blockquote data-quote="somn" data-source="post: 268584" data-attributes="member: 3721"><p>You must have missed the reason the first time I will copy and paste it for you.</p><p></p><p>That reason being someone thought it would be intelligent to have a scottish highland cow bred by an angus bull. Now we the feedlot owners are the proud owners of a poor gaining black hided yak looking animals. These people somehow thought it was a good idea to cross breed these animals because it might be a cute calf. That is one reason for poor grading poor gaining animals. </p><p></p><p>It is tough to feed a black yak to 1500 pounds in a year. Some of this inbed, cross bred, junk will never have the potential of 1500 pounds. If I need to hold the steer longer than a year to finish it who will buy your next years calf crop not me I'm still trying to finish out the yak. I'm not trying to single out yaks here as there are many different colors and cross breeds of junk cattle. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I never said corn was free I said it is cheaper than cattle. It costs me the same amount of money to feed the steer I have compared to the one I would need to buy. So think about it why do I want to spend a pile of money to buy another steer and start putting pounds on it instead of putting more pounds on the one I already have.</p><p></p><p>I will say it again in case some missed it. It starts at conception and ends in the feedlot. We the feedlot can't undo what you people crossbreeding junk to junk have done with feed alone. There is an old saying stain glass windows on an outhouse don't make it a church it is still an outhouse. Same goes with cattle using a good bull on a junk cow gets you a junk calf.</p><p></p><p>Brandonm2 if you are a yak farmer and I offended you I apologize. Yaks may have there place somewhere in the cattle business but a feedlot is not it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somn, post: 268584, member: 3721"] You must have missed the reason the first time I will copy and paste it for you. That reason being someone thought it would be intelligent to have a scottish highland cow bred by an angus bull. Now we the feedlot owners are the proud owners of a poor gaining black hided yak looking animals. These people somehow thought it was a good idea to cross breed these animals because it might be a cute calf. That is one reason for poor grading poor gaining animals. It is tough to feed a black yak to 1500 pounds in a year. Some of this inbed, cross bred, junk will never have the potential of 1500 pounds. If I need to hold the steer longer than a year to finish it who will buy your next years calf crop not me I'm still trying to finish out the yak. I'm not trying to single out yaks here as there are many different colors and cross breeds of junk cattle. I never said corn was free I said it is cheaper than cattle. It costs me the same amount of money to feed the steer I have compared to the one I would need to buy. So think about it why do I want to spend a pile of money to buy another steer and start putting pounds on it instead of putting more pounds on the one I already have. I will say it again in case some missed it. It starts at conception and ends in the feedlot. We the feedlot can't undo what you people crossbreeding junk to junk have done with feed alone. There is an old saying stain glass windows on an outhouse don't make it a church it is still an outhouse. Same goes with cattle using a good bull on a junk cow gets you a junk calf. Brandonm2 if you are a yak farmer and I offended you I apologize. Yaks may have there place somewhere in the cattle business but a feedlot is not it. [/QUOTE]
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