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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 33726" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Some people have a real snobbery about cattle breeds. I personally think the junk are those that are made up of half a dozen breeds with no consideration given to what each contributes to the mix. The operative term is "contributes to the mix". Buying a cheap bull from the sale barn (pound bull) and crossing him on multiple generations of cattle sired by all of the previous pound bulls isn't considering the mixture, just generating calves.</p><p>We saw the results of this happening with our neighbor. He had a herd of junk, no two cows alike, no two calves alike, every year he went to the salebarn and bought his new herd bull. When we sold out and moved he hauled all of his cattle to the sale barn. We cut the fence and ran our herd over to his place. After 5-6 years I happened to stop by to see how he was doing. Most of the cows he had from us were still there and were throwing fairly consistant calves. All of the replacements from his various bulls had created a mixture of calves that were getting to be as bad as the ones he had sold off.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 33726, member: 34"] Some people have a real snobbery about cattle breeds. I personally think the junk are those that are made up of half a dozen breeds with no consideration given to what each contributes to the mix. The operative term is "contributes to the mix". Buying a cheap bull from the sale barn (pound bull) and crossing him on multiple generations of cattle sired by all of the previous pound bulls isn't considering the mixture, just generating calves. We saw the results of this happening with our neighbor. He had a herd of junk, no two cows alike, no two calves alike, every year he went to the salebarn and bought his new herd bull. When we sold out and moved he hauled all of his cattle to the sale barn. We cut the fence and ran our herd over to his place. After 5-6 years I happened to stop by to see how he was doing. Most of the cows he had from us were still there and were throwing fairly consistant calves. All of the replacements from his various bulls had created a mixture of calves that were getting to be as bad as the ones he had sold off. dun [/QUOTE]
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