I can't argue with what you said above about creating a registry to register half and half cattle. . To create a credible registry or association., youd have to establish breed standards for the animal to be included, and use those criteria to approve registration.,.not just say that a "Charimmental", for example, is half Charolais and half Simmental. But I cant help but feel some of your negative comments and digs, were directed at the cattle that Clayu and I have talked about on here. The Chi-angus x black Simms. No where at any time did either of uis claim these to be registered cattle, nor does the breeder. The man bought a herd of 30 registered Chi-Angus cows, and a herd of registered black Simm cows. All6o were homozygous polled and homozygous black. When he bought the ChI-ANg, he eared tagged them 001 - 030. The Simms he tagged 031-060. he creaatyed a folder under Dopccuments on his computer, and scanned the cow;s papers in to it. And made a manilla folder that he put the actual [papers in. He does the same thing for eachj bull he uses to AI. Most people does this anyhow for their commercial cattle. When say, 030 is bred, he creates another computer file and a manilla folder, for 130 . If 130 is a heifer, he copies the cow's papers into both files, and the bull's papers into both files. He also has a WORD paper with the cows name and the bull's name,. the date it was born, birth weight, weaning weight, weaning date, and its vaccination, worming and any other medical records. a copy goes in both 130's and 030's files and folders. If it is a heifer that he hasn't sold by 16 mos old, he will breed it, record that date, anmd put a copy of the bull's papers he bred her to. You are talking just a few minutes each year. When he sells these heifers, he gives the buyer a copy of the sire and dam papers, her record sheet, and if bred, that bull's papers. This may take 5 minutes total to print. And I am sorry, but this DOES make a difference to a buyer of replacement heifers. Next year, 030's heifer calf will be called 230, and will have its file/foler as well. Steer calves, he just puts the information paper in 030's file and folder. WHen 030 ages out, he wil breed her to a bull of the same breed, using sexed semen to get her replacement. If this her tenth calf, it will be tagged 1030, and she will go into the 30 cow herd for her breed. He will never have over 60 cows....30 Sim and 30 Chi-Ang. and any replacements will be a daughter of one of the original 60. It took a lot longer for me to type this, than it would have to print the "{apers" on the 30 or so heifers he will sell each year. If having this information on 30 heifers, made them bring just $50 more instead of $5600, thaty would be $1500 more money he makes. Well worth the few minutes it takes to create those records.
I agree with you about the BM bull. He used him the last few years because he was a dang good black one that he picked up for a few hundred dollars. He only breeds a few each year if he hasn;t sold them by 16 mos old, and he sold that bull in July to someone who bought his heifers. He said the only time his cattle do not win at a fair, is when a client who buys his heifers, breeds them to a Hereford and shows those black baldies against him His plan is to use Herford bulls (semen) going forward when he has any to breed. Clay and I are talking about buying 8-10 of them next year, and raise them to breed with the Sexed polled Brahma semen we used on those Brown Swiss/Braunvieh cows I got last winter and those two dairy heifers I bought for Zeke. I said I MIGHT, because I am supposed to be retired from the cattle business. Those heifers will be weaned July 2024, bred Nov of 2025, and it would be August 2026 before those 1/2 Brahma calves would be born. And 2008 before I could see what kind of cows they made. If I make it that long I would be 71, and in a lot worse shape than I am now!
