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<blockquote data-quote="MoonDiskGelbvieh" data-source="post: 116347" data-attributes="member: 295"><p>Thank you all for your opinions, thoughts, and ideas. When I started with them I was unable to find any purebreds and still don't own a purebred. I have been slowly breeding up using quality semen on crossbred cows. But my luck on purebreds is about to change, a breeder near me who has never been willing to sell any is getting out of the gelbvieh business so I will pick up 2-3 heifers from him. As far as I could tell from looking through the NY Cattleman's Directory there are only about 5 farms in the state using Gelbvieh genetics. Every time I am at a show I end up spending more time explaining a glebvieh than I do anything else. That is why I just put together and informational poster and had the Gelbvieh Assoc send me some promo literature so I have it available when I am showing in Vermont next weekend. We don't so a lot of showing but we do a few local county fairs just to get our names out there and pick up some more customers for our freezer trade. We don;t make money at a show but we tend to break even so it works out as cheap advertising.</p><p></p><p>Now a little more about the calves. The heifer is a Tabasco daughter out of a Gelb X Limousin cow. In the picture she was only about seven weeks old so I am hoping she will get some more depth. Her yearling sister is a very wide and deep heifer but is standing on a very short set of legs. She is only about 3.7-3.9 frame score. That is partially because her sire is an old style hereford(only because her dam wouldn;t settle AI so she went in with the neighbor's bull.) The bull is out of a HerefordxHolstein heifer so that explains alot of his issues. He is not remaining as a bull anyways, we kept him intact to see if he was going to amount to something that one of the dairy herds in the area would be interested in using as a heifer bull. But so far no interest so after the Champlain Valley Expo he will come home and become a steer. The first show he went to with us this year the judge told me that she would like to see him longer bodied, as far as I am concerned he is planty long enough. After the show I jokingly told her that if he got any longer he would be a limousine.</p><p></p><p>In a few minutes I will put up a picture of my gelb/lim cow and see what you all think of her also.</p><p>Neal</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonDiskGelbvieh, post: 116347, member: 295"] Thank you all for your opinions, thoughts, and ideas. When I started with them I was unable to find any purebreds and still don't own a purebred. I have been slowly breeding up using quality semen on crossbred cows. But my luck on purebreds is about to change, a breeder near me who has never been willing to sell any is getting out of the gelbvieh business so I will pick up 2-3 heifers from him. As far as I could tell from looking through the NY Cattleman's Directory there are only about 5 farms in the state using Gelbvieh genetics. Every time I am at a show I end up spending more time explaining a glebvieh than I do anything else. That is why I just put together and informational poster and had the Gelbvieh Assoc send me some promo literature so I have it available when I am showing in Vermont next weekend. We don't so a lot of showing but we do a few local county fairs just to get our names out there and pick up some more customers for our freezer trade. We don;t make money at a show but we tend to break even so it works out as cheap advertising. Now a little more about the calves. The heifer is a Tabasco daughter out of a Gelb X Limousin cow. In the picture she was only about seven weeks old so I am hoping she will get some more depth. Her yearling sister is a very wide and deep heifer but is standing on a very short set of legs. She is only about 3.7-3.9 frame score. That is partially because her sire is an old style hereford(only because her dam wouldn;t settle AI so she went in with the neighbor's bull.) The bull is out of a HerefordxHolstein heifer so that explains alot of his issues. He is not remaining as a bull anyways, we kept him intact to see if he was going to amount to something that one of the dairy herds in the area would be interested in using as a heifer bull. But so far no interest so after the Champlain Valley Expo he will come home and become a steer. The first show he went to with us this year the judge told me that she would like to see him longer bodied, as far as I am concerned he is planty long enough. After the show I jokingly told her that if he got any longer he would be a limousine. In a few minutes I will put up a picture of my gelb/lim cow and see what you all think of her also. Neal [/QUOTE]
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