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I was snooping through some pics and I found this I took with a 12X zoom lens are there any cattlemen astute enough to pick out the EXt in this pic-a pic really is worth a thousand words some times.
 
that picture made me laugh. I have some Bar EXT heifers that have that very same pose when they see a human inside their 1 mile comfort zone. :shock:
 
Reminds you of a brochure for an African hunting safari :D . Have you ever bagged an EXT??? The stockcontractor I worked for had the hunters shoot his water buffalo/brahma crosses when the time came to get rid of them. They enjoyed the hunt :D :wink: .
 
while I will agree that a lot of EXT's are and can be high headed...they aren't all like that....an EXT direct daughter below


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yup, but she's one of our quietest cows, would have no qualms what soever about walking up to her anytime, snotty doesn't fly at this place!!
 
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

And to just think how I took life in my hands while ago while walking in amongst my EXT pedigree cows and feeding them range cubes/cake by hand.


Silly me!!!!

I live on the edge every day!! :wink:
 
My cousin bought some cows at the salebarn a few years ago that had come off the Arizona strip which is some wild country. Your picture reminded me of those ol' strip cows. They looked at ya like ya owed them money! :shock: They ALWAYS brought home a top end calf and they ALWAYS saw ya coming either on foot or a horseback. They all ended up culled before their time too! :wink:
 
kolanuraven said:
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

And to just think how I took life in my hands while ago while walking in amongst my EXT pedigree cows and feeding them range cubes/cake by hand.


Silly me!!!!

I live on the edge every day!! :wink:
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I have quite a few Bar EXT daughters and I'll say this, the good ones are good, and the bad ones are bad. Seems to be none of them in the middle. And they will let you know right off the bat, which side they are going to be on. The bad ones will soon get a free ride to town. But they all raise really nice calves and all have beautiful udders, at least I think they do, haven't got close enough to half of them to see for sure. :?
 
Northern Rancher said:
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I was snooping through some pics and I found this I took with a 12X zoom lens are there any cattlemen astute enough to pick out the EXt in this pic-a pic really is worth a thousand words some times.
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Hey, NR maybe if your grass was longer they wouldn't see you coming from quite so far away and wouldn't get so spooked :wink:
 
Maybe EXT's don't like horses or something. Ours have usually been pretty decent. Sure do like their udders.
 
Cal said:
Maybe EXT's don't like horses or something. Ours have usually been pretty decent. Sure do like their udders.
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Cal we use horses and dogs on our cows, when it comes down to EXT's, I just think there are the wild ash ones and the calm ones. If we have a cow who has the head set of the cow in NR's picture? 9 out 10 times its a baldy that acts that way :?
 
We have a customer that AI'd to EXT and had a lot of cows out of him.
He got rid of them all because he had to carry a baseball bat at calving time. He says they were terrible.

The only EXT's we had were out of a bull called Spectrum (who was a son of EXT, so these bulls we had were grandson.). The bulls we had were gentle enough, but I was curious how the offfspring would be. The first calf crop, when we sorted the steers from the heifers in the fall, we found something interesting. Mr. FH doesn't pay much attention to ear tags, but I do. He didn't know what he was sorting, but the heifers that acted wild--heads up; trying to crawl over or under a gate, etc.--he put in one pen. The other heifers he put in another pen.
When he got done, I showed him that he had all the Spectrum heifers in the wild pen. :shock: They just eliminated themselves...it was easy...

If a cow or heifer is wild here, she's had every opportunity not to be.
Mr. FH is the local 'cow whisperer'... :wink:
 
Yanuck said:
Cal said:
Maybe EXT's don't like horses or something. Ours have usually been pretty decent. Sure do like their udders.
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Cal we use horses and dogs on our cows, when it comes down to EXT's, I just think there are the wild ash ones and the calm ones. If we have a cow who has the head set of the cow in NR's picture? 9 out 10 times its a baldy that acts that way :?
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I think you're right. We probably have around 300 cows at least with EXT in their bloodlines, don't keep anything that's high headed or excessively protective. You're right on about the baldies, IMO. Some love 'em. I don't. Got chased by one in the barn just today that I needed to pull a backwards calf from, no idea what she was out of.
 
I have never used any direct EXT sons or himself but from my point of view it really makes a difference what he is used on. If he is used on really quiet cows it will show up just every once in a while. If he is used on cows that are marginal they will defintely have more than the occasional wild one. I don't have any use for the wild ones but I sure appreciate a cow that takes care of her calf.

Just my personal opinion here: The best place for EXT in the pedigree is on the maternal side thatway you kind of know what you are going to get. He improves udders too much just to throw away the whole pedigree is unecessary. I actually think a little EXT in the maternal side is part of the recipe for making good females.
 

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