His chest is too shallow, he is beer gutted which is not good for covering cows. Also well muscled animals should have better gut retention. He is sway backed, and his hip looks short. Lots of red flags for trying to make cows. The best cow makers are flat topped deep chested, and have a long hip. I'm not saying you couldn't use this bull for trait introgression, but I believe you will have a heavy sort.
The only problem with yours is they are black and catering to the CBA crap. Which of course applies to the original post too.
CAB is a real premium. Packers will bid more, or the grid will pay more. Most black animals will be sold as angus at the counter regardless of thier quality, they don't even have to fulfill CAB requirements for packers to put an angus label on them, it just won't be a CAB label.
Yeah, the whole CAB program is a cluster-f**k and has damaged the entire industry. CAB means nothing at the point of sale for packaged retail beef... and the stress on color has damaged genetic diversity until many breeds are becoming increasingly inbred. A great marketing idea with dire real world consequences.
I actually prefer red cows. The buyers here prefer black calves, though, so I choose to dance to the song that's playing.
Yeah, it's tough to go against buyers that KNOW they are paying less for stock that is just as high quality just based on hair color.
Were any of these bulls raised in the same way you raise calves to sell? If bulls (or cows) were fed anything other than grass or hay at any point, there is no use in me looking at them.
I agree with Aero on that one,,
I feed calves from 60-90 days post weaning.
My logic says I should find someone who is doing what I am and evaluate those animals at the age I plan to market the calves. And they need to be better at exactly what I am doing than I am to get my business.
