cypressfarms
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As Brandon has suggested, I have done my research. The calves that brought the most this year so far at the stockyards I go to are black baldy steers and heifers and yellow steers. A char would give me yellow calves on the beefmasters, and should throw a bigger calf than when I used a Angus plus on the beefmasters. I was also looking for a hereford to cross with the brangus girls, but that search hasn't yielded any good prospects yet. I still have time, won't need the bulls to work until about Feb 1st.
It's happened more than once on the board - I've posted pics of a young bull and he was tore up. Posted pics of the same bull when he was 2 or 3 years old and everyone raved about him - this happened most recently with a brangus bull I have. We all have different environments and things that affect our cattle. A mature bull will obviously look better than a long yearling who's still growing. I would rather buy a muscular thin bull than one that is butterball fat. I'd have to worry about the butterball melting becuase he was fed out of a sack to get that build. Is this a show looking charolais, NO!, but you can't judge a yearling the same as you would a mature bull. I think too many people have an image in their head of what a bull should look like, and that's a nice shiny butterball looking mature bull. There are not many butterball shiny bulls around here when the heat index has been over 100 every day for over a month and we've had one of the driest couple months on record. It aint gonna happen.
It's happened more than once on the board - I've posted pics of a young bull and he was tore up. Posted pics of the same bull when he was 2 or 3 years old and everyone raved about him - this happened most recently with a brangus bull I have. We all have different environments and things that affect our cattle. A mature bull will obviously look better than a long yearling who's still growing. I would rather buy a muscular thin bull than one that is butterball fat. I'd have to worry about the butterball melting becuase he was fed out of a sack to get that build. Is this a show looking charolais, NO!, but you can't judge a yearling the same as you would a mature bull. I think too many people have an image in their head of what a bull should look like, and that's a nice shiny butterball looking mature bull. There are not many butterball shiny bulls around here when the heat index has been over 100 every day for over a month and we've had one of the driest couple months on record. It aint gonna happen.