Oldtimer
Well-known member
I can't take credit for these as I stole them off another site...
The rules for being an Elite Registered Angus breeder.
1. You are not a real registered breeder unless you have several donor cows.
2. EPD's are more important than anything else.
3. You must feed the maximum amount possible, even if it wrecks a few head.
4. You use politically correct terms like moderate, optimum, and high roughage ration, but you aim for the absolute most weaning weight, the highest gains and the biggest fattest cows that a corn bucket can achieve.
5. All cows are continually referred to as foundation cows.
6. All cows are said to weight 1200# and be moderate framed, even if you can't see over the top of them and they weigh 1900#.
7. After you have arrived as a famous Angus breeder, you start using bulls that you never would have considered before back when you were broke and just trying to create a good set of cows.
8. Once you have sold a cow for $20,000 you are not happy unless your high selling cow brings $50,000.
9. Instead of worrying about creating cattle that achieve the numbers of 1.0 30 20 50, you strive for 900 4000 15 85. 900# weaning weights, $4000 bull sale average, an average of 15 No. 1 eggs per flush and any calf that indexes above 85 is in the bull sale.
10. You quit breeding for longevity, fertility, good udders, disposition or efficiency.
11. All cows that are open in the fall, sell open and ready to flush.
12. Your cows spend less time grazing and more time being fed than ever before.
13. You use lick tubs because they help prevent foot rot. NOT
14. The phone numbers of the regional manager, sales managers, feed companies, ET centers and your nutritionist are all on speed dial.
15. You would rather be told that your wife is cheating on you, than have someone say your cattle's EPD's are low or that your weaning weights are just average.
16. Most of your catalog footnotes refer to how much money some ancestor in the pedigree brought at a sale.
17. You use words to describe your cattle that have nothing to do with beef production. Words like: astounding, phenomenal, record setting, and my favorite one - unbelievable.
18. Your cattle all eat out of cement feed bunks.
19. You leave out any numbers or measures that are bad or below average.
20. You don't list how many calves a cow has had or what the average weaning ratio is unless it is really good.
21. Once you are an elite breeder, you only purchase cattle, semen and embryos from other elite breeders who also dothe previously mentioned things.
