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A few photos of my favorite young bull.

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Whitewing

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I'd actually "sold" this fellow to another rancher in exchange for work he'd done at my place. When I bought the guy's herd a year later, the bull came back to me. I really like him and he's not going anywhere now.

He's been very busy servicing the young "criollo" ladies at the ranch.

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Faster horses said:
That bull doesn't look anything like the bulls around here.
Neat brand. How'd you get that so perfect?
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Hmmmm, how's he look different? He's a bit short in the leg but his rear end looks as wide as a box car which is one of the reasons I like him.

My brand is not really "perfect" yet. I'm going to have to have one made in the States in all likelihood to get it just the way I want it. But for now, it'll do. :D
 
Mike said:
Comparatively, he almost has a "Feminine" look.

Bull buyers here don't like bulls without a thick neck...........
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To be fair to him, he's still developing. I left for the states for a couple of months around Christmas and when I returned I was amazed at how much he'd changed.
 
Faster horses said:
That bull doesn't look anything like the bulls around here.
Neat brand. How'd you get that so perfect?
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Have you wormed him?


Nice photoshop job on that brand :wink: :wink:
 
jingo2 said:
Faster horses said:
That bull doesn't look anything like the bulls around here.
Neat brand. How'd you get that so perfect?
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Have you wormed him?


Nice photoshop job on that brand :wink: :wink:
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He was wormed in January but he and his buddies are due now for another round of vaccinations.

And like I said, I'm still not pleased with the brand....it's the second I've had made here. I want it to look exactly like my avatar but it's hard to make the average Venezuelan understand that "close" isn't good enough.
 
How old is he,bulls got length some depth,staight back,and looks like he has width hard to tell with the angle,definetly got his work clothes on,not bad for a young bull.
Sprayed black I would use him. :wink:
good luck
 
HAY MAKER said:
How old is he,bulls got length some depth,staight back,and looks like he has width hard to tell with the angle,definetly got his work clothes on,not bad for a young bull.
Sprayed black I would use him. :wink:
good luck
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He's 2 years and 3 months. Width? I should have gotten a rear end shot of him standing next to some of his 1/2 brothers.....he's really wide and square in the rear, huge hind quarters compared to everything other than his dad.

Thanks for the kind words btw. :D
 
You guys are too brutal. :D

Honestly, he is still developing and I'm confident he's going to end up a fine animal. Does a grass-only diet makes a difference in their development?
 
Faster horses said:
Whitewing, remember the old commercial:
"where's the beef? :wink:
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That's a good question. :)

And it brings up an interesting story. I recently butchered a young, skiny Charolais bull. "Al gancho", or on the hook, his carcass weighed in at 100 kilos. I didn't have a live weight on him but I'd guess something on the order of 160 kilos.

My ranch foreman, who sells beef from a small market located next to his home, bought a criollo bull over the weekend. The thing was huge....looked to me like he had to weigh well over 400 kilos on the hoof. His "hook weight"? 202 kilos. :shock:
 
Nice looking bull Whitewing. He looks a little different than our bull up here though. I would imagine that has a lot to do with environment. The climate you live in is a whole lot different than what we have. Anyhow, I enjoy your pictures and stories from down there. Keep'em coming
 
BAR BAR 2 said:
Nice looking bull Whitewing. He looks a little different than our bull up here though. I would imagine that has a lot to do with environment. The climate you live in is a whole lot different than what we have. Anyhow, I enjoy your pictures and stories from down there. Keep'em coming
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Thank you BB2. While I don't mind my bull getting hammered here on the forum, I do suspect most posters don't appreciate the impact a tropical climate can have on an animal that otherwise was designed for much more temperate environments.

The summers here (about 6 months in length) are just brutal and I'm amazed that these animals have held up as well as they have.

The quality of the meat, rate of growth, carcass yield, etc have impressed me with these animals. This particular "line" started in the US, was exported to Cuba, and later brought here to Venezuela. I can see that the gene pool is now limited to the point where I'll either need to import semen or start doing some cross-breeding......the latter I'm already doing.
 
I would imagine that if I or someone else from these northern climes were to send one of our fat angus bulls down there, within a month or two it would look like a split rail fence. When we pull'em out after they've been with the girls they look pretty bedraggled. I can only imagine if they had to deal with the heat. There was a reason the longhorns did so well in warmer climates. They were the basis of the cattle industry in the US. Raising cattle in a hot tropical climate is a completely different deal than what most are used to. I sure as heck wouldn't want to do it. How many acres does it take for a pair down there? Your operation is pretty interesting.
 

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