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<blockquote data-quote="Anguscollegekid" data-source="post: 509528" data-attributes="member: 6088"><p>Angus-Good milking, fleshing ability, capacity, marbling, easy to feed and grade, fertility, easy calving. They are very salable, heifers bred to Angus bulls are an easy sell as they should be easy calving, carcass program seek the black hides, right, wrong, or indifferent, because typically there's Angus there which will marble.</p><p></p><p>Disadvantages-Wasty, not excessively but not usually a yield grade 1 either. Lack muscle-far too many 10-12 inch ribeyes out there and slab sided feedlot steers, also too large of mature size-obviously depends where you're at, what you breed for, etc. but there are a lot of big Angus cattle out there that aren't nearly as efficient as the 1200 pound cow we'd like to think we have. </p><p></p><p>I think one thing that speaks for Angus is how they are promoted by the other breeds, Hereford for baldy, Char for smokey, Lim-Angus, Sim-Angus, etc. I think the bottom line is though every breed has its strengths and weaknesses and Angus happens to be one that makes a cross, if running straightbred Angus, you may be leaving some longevity, better traits, and money on the table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anguscollegekid, post: 509528, member: 6088"] Angus-Good milking, fleshing ability, capacity, marbling, easy to feed and grade, fertility, easy calving. They are very salable, heifers bred to Angus bulls are an easy sell as they should be easy calving, carcass program seek the black hides, right, wrong, or indifferent, because typically there's Angus there which will marble. Disadvantages-Wasty, not excessively but not usually a yield grade 1 either. Lack muscle-far too many 10-12 inch ribeyes out there and slab sided feedlot steers, also too large of mature size-obviously depends where you're at, what you breed for, etc. but there are a lot of big Angus cattle out there that aren't nearly as efficient as the 1200 pound cow we'd like to think we have. I think one thing that speaks for Angus is how they are promoted by the other breeds, Hereford for baldy, Char for smokey, Lim-Angus, Sim-Angus, etc. I think the bottom line is though every breed has its strengths and weaknesses and Angus happens to be one that makes a cross, if running straightbred Angus, you may be leaving some longevity, better traits, and money on the table. [/QUOTE]
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