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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 686202" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>Beautiful Simmi's .</p><p></p><p>Thanks for sharing your bull pics too. I think temperament is a huge part of the make up of a good animal. Especially since the old days of ranching and having farm hands are pretty much gone. Who can afford to have hands anymore and still make a profit so we are left to handle the herd usually by ourselves.</p><p></p><p>There are great tempered animals in all breeds, the key is to cull the whack jobs and stop passing those genetics on. Calm cattle also gain and maintain better as well. Also the cattle that are thrown out to the back forty and never see a human except when pulled back in are more than likely a little more wilder that the cows that are checked on and "walked/rode" through often. </p><p></p><p>I know in dairy, calm cattle are a must. You get one freak in the parlor and she disrupts the whole group. We culled hard for those idiots, you would not beleive how fast your milk production will drop when you get a nuisance cow in the group. As soon as one starts kicking the machine off it is like a domino effect and they all come off, even your most calmest, gentlest cow will kick her machine off. The new crazies got an education right away and if they didn't tow the line they were gone. Certain people can also make a cow a real whack job too. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 686202, member: 5106"] Beautiful Simmi's . Thanks for sharing your bull pics too. I think temperament is a huge part of the make up of a good animal. Especially since the old days of ranching and having farm hands are pretty much gone. Who can afford to have hands anymore and still make a profit so we are left to handle the herd usually by ourselves. There are great tempered animals in all breeds, the key is to cull the whack jobs and stop passing those genetics on. Calm cattle also gain and maintain better as well. Also the cattle that are thrown out to the back forty and never see a human except when pulled back in are more than likely a little more wilder that the cows that are checked on and "walked/rode" through often. I know in dairy, calm cattle are a must. You get one freak in the parlor and she disrupts the whole group. We culled hard for those idiots, you would not beleive how fast your milk production will drop when you get a nuisance cow in the group. As soon as one starts kicking the machine off it is like a domino effect and they all come off, even your most calmest, gentlest cow will kick her machine off. The new crazies got an education right away and if they didn't tow the line they were gone. Certain people can also make a cow a real whack job too. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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