Discussions on different breeds?

[greybeard]

Dylan's post reminded me of a Big M sale we went to about that time. We went to buy F1 heifers and did get a few herf x tar but weren't long noticing you could buy an AI bred full blood for less money. We finished the load off with purebred. That was one of my many lessons that the market is rarely wrong. The f1 cows stayed till they got old and left some good daughters, but the purebreds disappeared fairly quick. The other lesson was the one about supplying what the buyers want.
The old fellow that ran the place told me he didn't have any oil wells but some of his neighbors did. He said they seemed to be a lot smarter than he was, almost like the brains came in the envelope with the cheque.
I get some high performance simm calves from my BIL's bulls as we were running a pasture together. Some of those full blood calves will lay there all day before sucking. That risks the whole herds health, as they are the first to scour if you get a storm. My BIL says he doesn't realy like the little wee black calves but when he goes out to check an a bad day he hopes they are all black.