what do quality cattle look like?

[TCRanch]

a quality animal for a beef operation is one that reliably makes a good calf year after year.. it doesn't matter what they look like. Seedstock is a totally different story.. length, depth, topline, udder, shoulders, head, etc are all important.

Couldn't agree more! Irma was butt ugly with a nappy coat & stubby ears but that girl calved like clockwork, always one of the first & a great bag, produced strong, healthy calves & her heifers (amazingly/thankfully good looking) have all followed suit.

 

[Brute 23]

Those are some good looking animals. Can I get a few from ya?

 

[JMJ Farms]

Those are some good looking animals. Can I get a few from ya?

I wish I could tell you those are mine Brute. But they ain't. Although I've got a crop coming in March that I hope look real close to that when they are 15-18 months old. My luck they will be 98% steers :lol2:

 

[Brute 23]

Yep.. been there

 

[ez14]

I'm curious what you guys think of this one:

Thanks for the pic

 

[fenceman]

Here's one of my heifers I've selectively bred them to be easy to catch

 

[ez14]

Here's one of my heifers I've selectively bred them to be easy to catch

that's how I like mine easy to work with :lol: . thanks for the post :tiphat:

 

[fenceman]

Replacement heifers
I guess the whitefaced one might be a little small :cboy:

 

[fenceman]

Here you go ez

Again out of my pasture, not the net.
some of my favorites and it has nothing to do with looks..what I like about these girls is their productive, calves within 12 months. They keep their calves under them. I don't like cows that hide their calves, too hard to check em in brush. They do the job by their selves.. I can leave em and not worry about em.
Probably the best I've ever had , I keep every hiefer she has. True boss cow. Will take charge of any herd and looks after everybody.


Good mama here raises a good calf. In this pic she just had a big 7.5 month calf pulled
A few weeks back. And coming off a very bad summer. Still in good condition. Don't turn your back on her if she's got a calf.



Photo bucket butchered this photo. Haven't had these two long but I bought em from my uncle across the fence, so I know em calves off his char bull.



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Raised her brangus type cow and brangus bull


Chatting up the heifers.
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If nobody else post we will have to assume they got nothing better.

 

[randiliana]

Here's some of what I consider our best cows, as in they raise a good to great calf every 365 days or so.

Raised DD's 4H steer for this year

DD's first calf heifer, raise a 700 lb calf AND bred back in the first cycle

10 years old in the picture, bred back for the first cycle. I think the photo says it all...

This is possibly the best producing cow in the herd. Pictured as a 2 year old, she's 7 years old now

 

[Caustic Burno]

I have posted this girl before hard cow to bet in my neck of the woods.
Both are 1/4 Brimmer.
She currently has a 2 week old bull calf.


As well as this girl she has a 3 day old bull calf currently

 

[JMJ Farms]

CB, I'd take 6 trailer loads of some that look like that black one. Fine animals IMO.

 

[Caustic Burno]

CB, I'd take 6 trailer loads of some that look like that black one. Fine animals IMO.

Thanks this was a journey I didn't get there overnight.
I figured out it was a lot more profitable to run a good cow

Again I have posted this girl earlier and nothing on this place puts pounds on a calf like her.
I don't like retaining heifers, I am keeping hers.

 

[JMJ Farms]

CB, I'd take 6 trailer loads of some that look like that black one. Fine animals IMO.

Thanks this was a journey I didn't get there overnight.
I figured out it was a lot more profitable to run a good cow

Again I have posted this girl earlier and nothing on this place puts pounds on a calf like her.
I don't like retaining heifers, I am keeping hers.

Other than the 1/4 brimmer, what's the rest of her "makeup"? (The black one)

 

[Caustic Burno]

Angus bull over a F-1 tiger
Angus 1/2 Hereford 1/4 Brimmer 1/4

 

[ez14]

Thank you cb fm and randi for the pics

 

[JMJ Farms]

To me this is about as good as you can grow them in the hotter parts of the southern US

 

[Supa Dexta]

Still workin on improving em each year though.

 

[Caustic Burno]

To me this is about as good as you can grow them in the hotter parts of the southern US

Those are FINE IMO problem is I aged for the tiger.
Still have a few Certified F-1's that for the most part are cool been
working to get the girls to 1/4 as they are replaced.

But I keeping some Brimmer in them all.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Still workin on improving em each year though.

He looks as long as a school bus. Show us some of his calves. Fine bull :tiphat: