keep or cull

[sw]

OK, since everyone likes to pick apart bull/heifers/steers, here is an exercise for today. This bull is a New Design 9150 X Sherman Tank daughter so he is 1/2 Angus, 1/2 Gelbvieh, non registered so no EPDs, but should have calving ease and marbling from sire, growth potential from mother and great disposition. Moderate frame, grown out slow not for high performance. I have not weighed him. He is smooth polled, could be homozygous black. Keep or cull? I also have an order for virgin bull beef.

[Mrs.Greg]

Hes black...cull him

[jigs]

[cert]

He is pinched in the heart and needs more muscle in the lower quarter.
I voted to cull him.

[PureCountry]

[Shorthornguy]

Hamburger and soup bones. Winters not over yet,take him to Walmart and trade him for some long underwear.

[kolanuraven]

I raise black cattle....cull him.

[Manitoba_Rancher]

sw,

Has this fella had any grain? I am getting very sick of seeing this yearling bulls that people have for sale that have been on hardcore barley then after you get them home and use them for a bit they turn into a wreck. I like to develop our bulls on real good grass hay. They develop a bit slower but turn out to have a good long life ahead of them. Some people are just to quick to jump on a young bull if he isnt as fat as a pear.

[sw]

Hate to tell you this Manitoba but I will not feed the bulls anything to speak of, at the most they get 5 pounds of cake with all of the hay they want. I grew up with the show string, that is why I could care less about weaning weights, yearling weights, and those manipulated numbers. I kept this bull for his pedigree, thought he was a cull, got a call for some "virgin bull beef" so we started feeding him and I looked at him yesterday and thought maybe I was being too harsh so I thought that I would let the know it alls from Ranchers decide his fate. In reality, all of the higher ups on this site could prove me wrong so I thought it would be fun to see what others thought, he is thicker than depicted, he is more correct than it looks, and in the end I could care less what anyone on here thinks, I was having fun, waiting to see. I am in the cattle business to make money on meat, not looks and perception. Stupid me

[Work Hard and Study Hard]

That's a poor calf. You can buy much better and cheaper than you can feeding him to mediocridy.

[sw]

Lets see some pictures of anything you have raised, get a clue jackass

[angus guy]

I would cull this bull for 2 reasons. First and this is just my point of veiw but I don't keep or use crossbreds for bulls. Crossbred cows bred to straight-bred bulls. The second reason is from the pictures he looks to common. This meaning he would look good in the feedlot just not breeding cows.