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Why does every breed of cattle cross so well with Angus?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1469918" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If you do some looking, the angus that were winning awards and in the show ring in the 50's were short, stout, round as a barrel, on 4 posts that stood on the four corners of the animal. Like the "lowlines"; which are angus too..... Then they went in the opposite direction and in the 80's they looked like black Chianina's. I used to have to stand on a stump or milk crate to breed some when I was doing AI for Select. So there is still a diversity there that may have a few " $%^#@% in the woodpile" from back in the old days. </p><p></p><p>Yes, black is what sells in a large part of the country. One thing was due to the angus assoc doing the "selling" of the breed and it's attributes. And the fact that there was alot of Japanese ownership of plants and such and they were "sold" on the angus breed to where they were paying premiums for the " black angus " cattle to kill. So everything became "black angus" that had a black hide. Flavor, tenderness, and ability to flesh and finish faster was a selling point and the angus assoc did one he// of a job promoting it. </p><p></p><p>Did you know that the Hereford assoc actually had a "branded beef" promotion first? They just didn't have the organization and probably not the dollars, to get it going like the angus did. We might all be chasing pretty red white faced cattle if they had done things differently.... and I like herefords too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1469918, member: 25884"] If you do some looking, the angus that were winning awards and in the show ring in the 50's were short, stout, round as a barrel, on 4 posts that stood on the four corners of the animal. Like the "lowlines"; which are angus too..... Then they went in the opposite direction and in the 80's they looked like black Chianina's. I used to have to stand on a stump or milk crate to breed some when I was doing AI for Select. So there is still a diversity there that may have a few " $%^#@% in the woodpile" from back in the old days. Yes, black is what sells in a large part of the country. One thing was due to the angus assoc doing the "selling" of the breed and it's attributes. And the fact that there was alot of Japanese ownership of plants and such and they were "sold" on the angus breed to where they were paying premiums for the " black angus " cattle to kill. So everything became "black angus" that had a black hide. Flavor, tenderness, and ability to flesh and finish faster was a selling point and the angus assoc did one he// of a job promoting it. Did you know that the Hereford assoc actually had a "branded beef" promotion first? They just didn't have the organization and probably not the dollars, to get it going like the angus did. We might all be chasing pretty red white faced cattle if they had done things differently.... and I like herefords too. [/QUOTE]
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