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I like the sire and the dam... The calf looks too feminine to me.

Yeah... and those shills have no concern about the damage they do... eh?

If he's smart he will be keeping his cards close to his vest... But from what you've said already it sounds like he will be selling his ideas, cultivating a following, and working the room to impress.

I think you're right. I had a bunch of apple butts in the early to mid 80's and they brought good money but then people got scared of them because people with crappy cattle had some poor calving results and the fear took hold and the double muscled calves started to be discounted. Personally, I...

There was a particular bull that was very popular back in the early 80's and his offspring were very docile... but for some reason the next generation was nuts. I've never heard of aggression skipping a generation like that before, and maybe it had to do with his offspring being bred back to him...

Yeah, I've had some crazy there. It's kind of amazing how Brimmer crosses are either gentle or nuts and there never seems to be a middle ground.

And I've had the opposite experience.

Limousine are great to cross on Herefords, especially if you get a homozygous black one. It never hurts to be prepared for a change in plans and it never seemed that my own plans were ever set in concrete from year to year. Having a profitable set of calves is always better than the alternative...

In my experience there are several good things about Longhorns... but none of them translate into more profit at the point of sale... especially when this country is overly fascinated by the Certified Angus Beef (black hides) craziness. All breeds have their trade-offs, and the longhorn...

I have generally allowed calves to come home on their own. It's amazing how young ones with get through a fence, and of course it's easy to worry about them... but they eventually find their way back if you give them enough time to get hungry.

I like Beefmaster cows, but I'd never own a BM bull. Their calves are just too inconsistent looking.

Well I've had big cows that raised average calves, and sometimes less than average... and I've had small cows that outperformed the bigger ones. I had a neighbor that had a runty Holstein that looked like it had been sick or starved, a cow with a full sized head but the body was stunted to the...

Yeah, 650 as a yearling is pretty small. But you have to look at the cow they came out of too. How heavy were the calves from that big yellow dun cow you had? Did she produce one from Big Sexy before she went to the sale?

While I support climate scientists in their field of expertise... this article says, "Climate scientists agree that people need to consume less beef, the largest agricultural source of greenhouse gasses and a driver of Amazon deforestation." Which is outside of their field of expertise. In...

I like your Hereford a lot better. He has better conformation and he actually looks like a bull.

That's a very pretty calf. And it looks growthy. I'd like to see her next to her dam at seven months old.

Well... he looks healthy and fertile. Other than that, what in the hell are your neighbors thinking?

So even though it "doesn't have a lot to do with that" (black hides)... you just said pretty much the same thing in more words. LOL... it's okay. I get it. Sometimes I think Europeans must be a lot smarter than us.

When you put Lim and BB together it always seems to get some great musculature.

That's because they don't breed for black hides over there... they breed for quality.