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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1684950" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>It takes a lot of knowledge to show cattle and be successful at it. It takes even more knowledge and experience to be able to do that and have animals that will be successful in the pasture too. [USER=18809]@Fire Sweep Ranch[/USER], [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] are no doubt on that level. The heifer that [USER=694]@Caustic Burno[/USER] pictured is a good example also. Those are cattle from folks that know how the cattle will likely do in the field.</p><p>The other side of the equation is very real too, in that some cattle are bred to show and not much emphasis is placed on actual real world do abilities.</p><p>A few years ago, I bought a Santa Gertrudis heifer that was shown. She looked good, but didn't have enough milk to raise a calf, and didn't show much interest in her calf. Have had very similar situations with Charolais from the hot show ring bloodlines of the day. Their milking ability was nonexistent, and just tall long legged things that you couldn't even feed thickness into them. The Charolais that I had that did not have those certain bloodlines in them were all satisfactory to excellent milkers. In more recent years using Angus bulls, I have steered clear of anything associated with show ring as far as breeding stock. I just don't care at all for the cattle that are advertised as having the "show look". I've tried to be careful too when using Polled Hereford genetics too as it seems they rely real heavy on show ring influence and alit of those are just too small framed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1684950, member: 24816"] It takes a lot of knowledge to show cattle and be successful at it. It takes even more knowledge and experience to be able to do that and have animals that will be successful in the pasture too. [USER=18809]@Fire Sweep Ranch[/USER], [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] are no doubt on that level. The heifer that [USER=694]@Caustic Burno[/USER] pictured is a good example also. Those are cattle from folks that know how the cattle will likely do in the field. The other side of the equation is very real too, in that some cattle are bred to show and not much emphasis is placed on actual real world do abilities. A few years ago, I bought a Santa Gertrudis heifer that was shown. She looked good, but didn’t have enough milk to raise a calf, and didn’t show much interest in her calf. Have had very similar situations with Charolais from the hot show ring bloodlines of the day. Their milking ability was nonexistent, and just tall long legged things that you couldn’t even feed thickness into them. The Charolais that I had that did not have those certain bloodlines in them were all satisfactory to excellent milkers. In more recent years using Angus bulls, I have steered clear of anything associated with show ring as far as breeding stock. I just don’t care at all for the cattle that are advertised as having the “show look”. I’ve tried to be careful too when using Polled Hereford genetics too as it seems they rely real heavy on show ring influence and alit of those are just too small framed. [/QUOTE]
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