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<blockquote data-quote="turning grass into beef" data-source="post: 765458" data-attributes="member: 5195"><p>Tamarak; your calves look good. It is tough to tell how thick they are from a side view picture, but it looks like they have a good amount of muscle.</p><p></p><p>Hereford 76; we don't weigh our cows but the last cow probably weighs around 1700 lbs and is 5 years old this spring. That is to big for my liking, but as long as she produces on the forage that our ranch grows, and nothing else, she gets to stay. The big ones that can't convert grass into beef come up open and cull themselves. Over the years we have learned that the hard way.</p><p></p><p>Knersie; I see all 3 bulls having the same purpose in our breeding program. To produce daughters that complete the yearly production of a cow, on forage alone, and to produce bulls for the commercial cattleman.</p><p>You might say that we are very narrow minded. The only reason to raise purebred cattle is to supply commercial ranchers with quality bulls. Easy fleshing, structurally sound, good tempered bulls. This our only source of income from the purebred herd (other than culls). We don't sell females for breeding purposes. We believe very strongly that the shorthorn breed is a maternal breed. The bulls we sell are bred to go out and sire cows that produce on a minimal amount of inputs. </p><p>All of our mature bulls get grass in the summer and hay in the winter. Nothing else. If a bulls can't hold his condition eating that, then his daughter's won't either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turning grass into beef, post: 765458, member: 5195"] Tamarak; your calves look good. It is tough to tell how thick they are from a side view picture, but it looks like they have a good amount of muscle. Hereford 76; we don't weigh our cows but the last cow probably weighs around 1700 lbs and is 5 years old this spring. That is to big for my liking, but as long as she produces on the forage that our ranch grows, and nothing else, she gets to stay. The big ones that can't convert grass into beef come up open and cull themselves. Over the years we have learned that the hard way. Knersie; I see all 3 bulls having the same purpose in our breeding program. To produce daughters that complete the yearly production of a cow, on forage alone, and to produce bulls for the commercial cattleman. You might say that we are very narrow minded. The only reason to raise purebred cattle is to supply commercial ranchers with quality bulls. Easy fleshing, structurally sound, good tempered bulls. This our only source of income from the purebred herd (other than culls). We don't sell females for breeding purposes. We believe very strongly that the shorthorn breed is a maternal breed. The bulls we sell are bred to go out and sire cows that produce on a minimal amount of inputs. All of our mature bulls get grass in the summer and hay in the winter. Nothing else. If a bulls can't hold his condition eating that, then his daughter's won't either. [/QUOTE]
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