I visited the North American today, and there is a solid white shorthorn bull here. Phenotypically speaking, this bull is as impressive as I have ever seen. Not sure what roll they play in the industry, but he's easy to look at and watch move.
Bright Raven":2ee00jo1 said:Genotypically, is he from a clubby pedigree like so many of the shothorns at shows are?
His color will get him killed in the real world....Bigfoot":1t3uhhwf said:Bright Raven":1t3uhhwf said:Genotypically, is he from a clubby pedigree like so many of the shothorns at shows are?
That'd be a good guess. I picked him to win today. He won his class, and lost at the final. I figured his color or his age wasn't right though. I think he was 14 months old. They usually pick one of the older bulls to win.
I believe his feet and legs would hold up walking around our Ky hills though.
Bigfoot":1rpuixnb said:I visited the North American today, and there is a solid white shorthorn bull here. Phenotypically speaking, this bull is as impressive as I have ever seen. Not sure what roll they play in the industry, but he's easy to look at and watch move.
:lol2: you know more than me.Lucky_P":iu7jfw47 said:We've been using some solid red Shorthorn sires over some of our higher-% Angus cows for the past 7-8 yrs.
No whites or roans...I get smacked hard enough on the occasional red or RWM steer...
but I'm a 'red cow' guy at heart and like the red/rwm heifers when I get 'em.
I know just about enough about SH to be dangerous...
Son of Butch":17ccr7ib said::lol2: you know more than me.Lucky_P":17ccr7ib said:We've been using some solid red Shorthorn sires over some of our higher-% Angus cows for the past 7-8 yrs.
No whites or roans...I get smacked hard enough on the occasional red or RWM steer...
but I'm a 'red cow' guy at heart and like the red/rwm heifers when I get 'em.
I know just about enough about SH to be dangerous...
Bought a few cheap shorthorn cows a few years back, the white 1 was the one I had the lowest expectations for,
now she's the only one left of the group. She turned out to be the best one and I love her... a real Fertile Myrtle.
I have decided that life is too short to not have a few cows I like to look at, which is why I have a few blondes and red & white Simmis along with my more modern lines. Get some Northern Legend 3N semen, use it on a few of your milkier homo black cows, and give yourself something to smile at.Jeanne - Simme Valley":2hcy1uvj said:I have to admit that I LOVE the Blue Roan coloring. Always have.
I'm surprised that with all the years possible to upgrade in the Simmental breed, someone could have come up with a PB blue roan bull!! I wouldn't breed to him just for the color, but if he was also really good, I would love to get some blues. It wouldn't ever hurt me on the steer end, because I sell direct to a feedlot, and he wouldn't care what color it was. Just so it performed like all my others.