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<blockquote data-quote="jdg" data-source="post: 1568937" data-attributes="member: 13350"><p>YoungAngusCattle-</p><p>I'm firmly in Ebenezer's camp on this one. This is primarily because i'm interested in the long term goals, and not the short term. I get 30-40 bull sale catalogues from various programs in the mail every year. I always open them and look at the pedigrees. All but one or two have names from all the programs you'd recognize mix and matched, attached to tremendous numbers. Many of them have very glossy photos of very well fed animals. Those expensive catalogues make it into my trashcan in short order. If you want to make it in this world, hire a tremendous marketing team and be prepared to spend a lot of money, and choose something besides Black Angus. </p><p>There are a handful of breeders (some of who's names are not known to many) who have actually fixed traits through line breeding that have strengthened the economic traits of the mama cow for the rancher. I would name these as fertility, longevity, efficiency, and convenience. (Convenience means not having to help her in any way...ie. issues with feet, udder, structure, etc. )These would translate into a cow that works in her environment and weans a good calf year after year. If you take the long road, you still have to market, but you will find a demand for your heifers, perhaps more so than your bulls. I have. My belief is that many ranchers/farmer/cattle folks would be more profitable by using a true terminal bull, with those gawdy numbers, and then buying replacement females from folks breeding maternal in a similar environment. Unless they have the size to create their own maternal lines and breed those separate. Burke Techiert talks about this often. Line breeding will not bring you quick money or prestige, but the folks i most respect in the industry were the ones who made a contribution. Larry Leonhardt, Jim Lents, Gavin Falloon, Neil Trask, Roy Beeby, Ed Oliver, Jim Lingle....just to name a few. No matter how you choose to go about this industry, choose something you love. It will make your daily chores seem less like toil, and more like an enjoyable life. Sounds like you're off to a good start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdg, post: 1568937, member: 13350"] YoungAngusCattle- I'm firmly in Ebenezer's camp on this one. This is primarily because i'm interested in the long term goals, and not the short term. I get 30-40 bull sale catalogues from various programs in the mail every year. I always open them and look at the pedigrees. All but one or two have names from all the programs you'd recognize mix and matched, attached to tremendous numbers. Many of them have very glossy photos of very well fed animals. Those expensive catalogues make it into my trashcan in short order. If you want to make it in this world, hire a tremendous marketing team and be prepared to spend a lot of money, and choose something besides Black Angus. There are a handful of breeders (some of who's names are not known to many) who have actually fixed traits through line breeding that have strengthened the economic traits of the mama cow for the rancher. I would name these as fertility, longevity, efficiency, and convenience. (Convenience means not having to help her in any way...ie. issues with feet, udder, structure, etc. )These would translate into a cow that works in her environment and weans a good calf year after year. If you take the long road, you still have to market, but you will find a demand for your heifers, perhaps more so than your bulls. I have. My belief is that many ranchers/farmer/cattle folks would be more profitable by using a true terminal bull, with those gawdy numbers, and then buying replacement females from folks breeding maternal in a similar environment. Unless they have the size to create their own maternal lines and breed those separate. Burke Techiert talks about this often. Line breeding will not bring you quick money or prestige, but the folks i most respect in the industry were the ones who made a contribution. Larry Leonhardt, Jim Lents, Gavin Falloon, Neil Trask, Roy Beeby, Ed Oliver, Jim Lingle....just to name a few. No matter how you choose to go about this industry, choose something you love. It will make your daily chores seem less like toil, and more like an enjoyable life. Sounds like you're off to a good start. [/QUOTE]
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