I concur.  Quite a few of our cows are short eared.  Just because they're not pretty doesn't mean they are not good mamas.  The only drawback is there is no place to put the ear tag.  One baby calf is packing around an ear tag that reads, "NENT".  This means his mother has "no ears, no tail".  We all know which cow it is. :wink:

We've also never had bad feet show up later.  They either bother right off the bat, when the frozen ears fall off, or they don't ever bother at all.  Another good place for calves with these frozen deficiencies is the Sandhills Cattle Association carcass contest.  I always figure that the lack of ears and tail gives the calf a better yield percentage.