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jehosofat said:
Branded, I'm just a small commercial guy, I have two decent bulls, and am in the market for a jam up black bull. If you offered me the best bull on your place for 1500 bucks, I probably wouldn't let you hold 1500 dollars of my money. I might have paid you 5K for a good one before reading your stuff for the last month.
You might raise good bulls, but if you're on here trying to sell bulls, I'm letting you know that you're a sheitty salesman.
All I have to say to this reply is WOW!!!
Branded, do you know Mike Keeney and his cattle...he is in KY if I'm not mistaken...beautiful females, very very maternal...directly from Larry Leonhardt stock. How about Wye Angus...you did mention you talking to Eddie Draper in another thread? These are both very good programs. Pretty much the polar opposite of what you are talking about. I don't have a dog in the fight...and am not saying you are wrong...but the way you explain things these two programs are on the wrong side of history. Even though they have been around for very much longer than you. What are your comments related to programs along these lines???
I want to cross Claymont of Wye to an SAV President daughter to see what will happen. I will probably do it too! Just not on a large scale. If that tells you what I think of those programs. As for Mike, no I have not met him.
Let me be clear on something. I don't care how you are doing your thing as long as you have some passion and drive about how you are doing it and want to improve. Who the heck wants to be in the same place and rest on laurels? That is a recipe for disaster, and it's boring!
As I have said, multiple times, last night, we had a VERY SPECIAL calf born, but instead of celebrating and saying "Well that's it, done, can't get any better than that" I'm saying "I wonder what issues she will have" or "Now I wonder if I cross her out with VAR Power Play, what will result from it" That calf last night is quickly becoming yesterdays news. Heck I don't even get excited anymore about my President and Raindance calves that are running around everywhere. My thoughts are on SAV America 8018 daughters. Oh yeah! America daughters my friends.
I know for a fact that there are really good breeders in KY, but why in the h...ll are most of their bulls being sold to out of state buyers, at least the really top bulls? I've never seen someone in my county, which is a big beef producer for a small state, I think 20k head of beef cattle here, NOT buy the #1 bull at the Boyd Sale? It's almost always an out of state buyer or Genex or something, but never a local. There is an entity here in Fleming County that buys some VERY EXPENSIVE SAV stock from SAV, literally money to burn, but they aren't buying local. Why, because most of it's not worth mentioning at best. Ask Charlie Boyd if he would choose his next sire for the 2020 sale from the "friendliest good old boy in Fleming or Mason county" and his expression would say it all. No, he's using Connealy or some other top program, and doing very well I might add by doing so.
In no way do I have superior animals, but I do breed to superior sires, and then rinse and repeat, stacking it over and over. What is the goal? Well, I can't write a check for a $750k cow or a $1.5 million dollar sire, but I can buy embryos and buy semen and make it happen via another route, called hard work. I don't get mad at Rolls Royce and drive a Hyundai in defiance, then tell myself it's the SAME vehicle at the end of the day, because you know and I know it's NOT. I say to myself, "darn it, I hope I live to see the day that I can buy a $400k Rolls Royce SUV and throw hay in the back and feed my cattle" with it" Yes, I do say that to myself! Laugh, but I know that if I plopped your azzes in a Rolls SUV and drove you around Branded looking at cattle, that many of you would not complain. C'mon! I know you are secretly agreeing with me. Hehe!
