Resource ve Cowboy Up
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T & B farms
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I have no experience with cowboy up, and I plan for it to stay that way.
On the other hand, I love my resource and renown calves. They are favorites of everyone that see's them
On the other hand, I love my resource and renown calves. They are favorites of everyone that see's them
I love our Resource calves I have been a fan since he first came available. I saw Cowboy Up at stud he looks great but I expect his docility numbers will go down, if you get my drift. I haven't used him nor will I in the future, I am far to old to deal with bad attitude.
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We can't handle Cowboy Up's lack of milk. We have seen him used heavily to correct herds that chased $B to the detriment of the milk epd.
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I have never seen calf one with my own eyes but have buddies with terminal herds and they love him.
hornedfrogbbq said:
I actually think his daughters will be really good. I guess we'll see. They are easy fleshing here and have good feet and structure. I don't really think that sacrificing 10 lbs at weaning on his daughters vs a +20 Milk is that big of a deal. I guess time will tell.
LCBulls said:
Once he has a couple hundred daughters in production wean calves then we will know where his milk epd is. Until then he is just an unproven bull. He has been used a bunch so it will shake out in a couple of years.
I come from a Hereford background so i remember plenty of no milk cows. Their old epd formula accounted for milk in a way that lowered the milk epd automatically for the extra growth. I haven't seen any Cowboy daughters so I won't pass judgement on them. I have seen some Upward daughters that I would best describe as steery fronted through their head and neck. I don't necessarily think that every female that lacks femininty is automatically a poor cow or every female that has ideal type is a good cow but I do think there is a correlation.
Hornefrog
Cowboy sure stamps his look on his progeny I like the look for sure. They should do well at the sale.
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Cowboy sure stamps his look on his progeny I like the look for sure. They should do well at the sale.
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jscunn
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Without seeing a bunch of resources next to a bunch of cowboy ups, I would have bet the resources have more muscle shape to them. Saw a few cowboy ups in a sale pen and they weren't the thickest in the pen by far. I sure didnt look hard at them because I was looking for a marbling bull but the cowboy ups didnt stick out in terms of phenotype at all.
I really like Resource and Cowboy Up. We have used both and the Cowboy Ups are the closest we've had to matching the muscle and performance of Resource. I think both are really nice bulls. Slight nod to Resource since we still don't know how the Cowboy Up Daughters will be yet. But if The breeder of the bull is correct that they are good Milkers, then he will be around for many years to come.
I just don't quite trust the numbers anymore. The changes over the past couple of years just don't read true, at least not in my herd. I admit some hit it just right but just as many leaving me scratching my head especially milk EPD.
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Lrj505 said:
I saw that today also. Anyone know a price?
True Grit Farms
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Lrj505 said:
That doesn't sound like a good selling point to me.
