Steadfast Blax

[Julian]

This is the first of our "Steadfast Blax,"another "black" Angus developing gene pool but not registered with the AAA. 8)
He's actually closebred to the Red Angus sire Beckton Julian GG B571 and will be registered with the RAAA as a Category II, 100% Red Angus that carries the gene for the black hide. He has B571 twice on the top side of he pedigree and 3 times on the bottom. All between 4th and 6th generations. Same gene pool as our Reds except this one comes in a black wrapper. Was rreally hoping he would have been Red, but we have people interested in the black wrapper as well.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

This is the first of our "Steadfast Blax,"another "black" Angus developing gene pool but not registered with the AAA. 8)
He's actually closebred to the Red Angus sire Beckton Julian GG B571 and will be registered with the RAAA as a Category II, 100% Red Angus that carries the gene for the black hide. He has B571 twice on the top side of he pedigree and 3 times on the bottom. All between 4th and 6th generations. Same gene pool as our Reds except this one comes in a black wrapper. Was rreally hoping he would have been Red, but we have people interested in the black wrapper as well.

seems like you run across those folks from time to time :P nice calf

 

[Julian]

seems like you run across those folks from time to time :P nice calf

Thank you.
Should he keep coming along we may offer choice between him and an August 2011 bull calf. The one not selected first will be retained as a sire in our developing genepool. The dams of both bulls are two of our most important three cows. That "third" cow is the granddam of the black calf and the great granddam of the August 2011 bull calf. These three cows are our most important females because if we had to sell all of our females except three, these are the three females we would keep. By using preferred sons of these three females we are able to extend their genetics through our cowherd quicker than by retaining their heifers. We retain the heifers of our most important cows as well.

 

[djinwa]

Interesting that a black can be registered as a red.

Which made me think maybe the reds could be registered as blacks, and you can get all that CAB money. Since they are the same gene pool, just got the wrong color gene.

You would think the red angus association would consider black to be a defect, and not allow it, especially since the blacks consider red to be unacceptable. That's why they had to split up the breed, right?

 

[Massey135]

The RAAA doesn't accept it, that's why he'll be recorded as a Category II.

I think he's a great lookin prospect, really appreciate his length.

 

[Julian]

Interesting that a black can be registered as a red.

Which made me think maybe the reds could be registered as blacks, and you can get all that CAB money. Since they are the same gene pool, just got the wrong color gene.

You would think the red angus association would consider black to be a defect, and not allow it, especially since the blacks consider red to be unacceptable. That's why they had to split up the breed, right?

The American Angus Association decided in the early 1900's that Angus should only be one color. Since there were more black than red Angus it was decided that the red Angus could no longer be registere
.
In the early 1950's a group of cattle breeders wanted to start an association of performance oriented cattle centered around practical beef production. Many Angus breeders would still have an occasional red calf and many of those calves were despised because they were not registrable with the AAA. These calves were of the same genetics as their black her mates and were sold at a discounted prices. These cattle were focused on by this new group of practical performance oriented breeders and the Red Angus Association of America was born.

The red breeders didn't separate from the black breeders. The black breeders decided the reds were non-registerable for no other reason than their red hide. A few decades later what was one group's trash became another group's treasure. The RAAA was the first breed association to require whole herd data reporting and that was from its start in 1954.

Like Paul Harvey used to say, "And now you know the rest of the story."

 

[Julian]

For those that are curious, here's the link to the above, black calf's online pedigree:
http://search.redangus.org/animal/1507696

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Interesting that a black can be registered as a red.

Which made me think maybe the reds could be registered as blacks, and you can get all that CAB money. Since they are the same gene pool, just got the wrong color gene.

You would think the red angus association would consider black to be a defect, and not allow it, especially since the blacks consider red to be unacceptable. That's why they had to split up the breed, right?

The American Angus Association decided in the early 1900's that Angus should only be one color. Since there were more black than red Angus it was decided that the red Angus could no longer be registere
.
In the early 1950's a group of cattle breeders wanted to start an association of performance oriented cattle centered around practical beef production. Many Angus breeders would still have an occasional red calf and many of those calves were despised because they were not registrable with the AAA. These calves were of the same genetics as their black her mates and were sold at a discounted prices. These cattle were focused on by this new group of practical performance oriented breeders and the Red Angus Association of America was born.

The red breeders didn't separate from the black breeders. The black breeders decided the reds were non-registerable for no other reason than their red hide. A few decades later what was one group's trash became another group's treasure. The RAAA was the first breed association to require whole herd data reporting and that was from its start in 1954.

Like Paul Harvey used to say, "And now you know the rest of the story."

i think ya'll are the better for it though....