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Any of you fellow ranchers need a bull or do you know of someone who does?
I've got a neighbor that I've been friends with for years. He has a small herd of registered Angus cows and produces excellent, and I mean excellent bulls. He travels the country looking through cow herds and bull batteries and puts together genetic packages that are just superb.
His average bull is a combination of bigger, deeper, soggy, powerful northern genetics blended with wider, easy keeping, well muscled, just a little smaller framed genetics. He feels that some people put too much emphasis on huge, power cattle and some place too much emphasis on smaller framed, easy keeping cattle. He tries really hard to find a perfect mixture of both. The goal is to have powerful soggy cattle with real depth and width whose calves will perform in the feedyard and who don't take a tremendous amount of upkeep.
I realize that is a lofty goal, but I feel as though he is making huge strides towards it.
Please understand that there is nothing in this for me. He has just gotten real depressed lately about being a small breeder whose bulls go unrecognized because he doesn't have a name. I told him I would try to help market them, and I'm starting here!
$2,500-$3,000 would buy any bull he's got and I promise you, if he had a prominent name, these bulls would sell for much, much more than that.
Anybody looking for 1407, 878 or any of the other "popular" bulls out there will not be interested in these. These are not flat-muscled, pencil-gutted, dairy looking bulls but rather, quite the opposite.
If anybody is interested, let me know and I will gladly post pictures of his cows, his bulls, his heifers and my calf crop from last year out of my commercial herd. I have been using his bulls now for about eight years and I think it's the best desicion I ever made. I fear that if he would get real publicity, it might be harder for me to get the bulls I want, but that's better than him getting frustrated and quitting over the deal.
Let me know what you folks think. Thanks.
I've got a neighbor that I've been friends with for years. He has a small herd of registered Angus cows and produces excellent, and I mean excellent bulls. He travels the country looking through cow herds and bull batteries and puts together genetic packages that are just superb.
His average bull is a combination of bigger, deeper, soggy, powerful northern genetics blended with wider, easy keeping, well muscled, just a little smaller framed genetics. He feels that some people put too much emphasis on huge, power cattle and some place too much emphasis on smaller framed, easy keeping cattle. He tries really hard to find a perfect mixture of both. The goal is to have powerful soggy cattle with real depth and width whose calves will perform in the feedyard and who don't take a tremendous amount of upkeep.
I realize that is a lofty goal, but I feel as though he is making huge strides towards it.
Please understand that there is nothing in this for me. He has just gotten real depressed lately about being a small breeder whose bulls go unrecognized because he doesn't have a name. I told him I would try to help market them, and I'm starting here!
$2,500-$3,000 would buy any bull he's got and I promise you, if he had a prominent name, these bulls would sell for much, much more than that.
Anybody looking for 1407, 878 or any of the other "popular" bulls out there will not be interested in these. These are not flat-muscled, pencil-gutted, dairy looking bulls but rather, quite the opposite.
If anybody is interested, let me know and I will gladly post pictures of his cows, his bulls, his heifers and my calf crop from last year out of my commercial herd. I have been using his bulls now for about eight years and I think it's the best desicion I ever made. I fear that if he would get real publicity, it might be harder for me to get the bulls I want, but that's better than him getting frustrated and quitting over the deal.
Let me know what you folks think. Thanks.