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Flying P Cattle Company Introduces shorties to their lineup!

Angus Cattle Shower said:
I have it planned out that if I can get a good calf out of each cow, (5 this year), and assuming half are heifers, so that gives me three steers (hopefully), I will keep one intact, because someone asked for a simmie angus bull, that gives me two show steers. I can sell them at fall fair foe 1200, IF everything work out. keep this up each year. I keep addind one animal to my breeding herd each year. I retain most of the heifers. Im not planning on having enough for all of my tuition with this, but it will sure help. BTW, a feeder steer at 800 lbs right now is 700 I think, its what the neighbour got for his steers at the beginning of september.

I know that it is a different opinion each time, thats why I goback again and again, for some honest criticism, and see what other people look for in a good calf, then I can try to compose all of it and make an ideal breeding animal.
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Just keep wearing those rose colored glasses and your super dooper invisibile cloak and nothing bad will ever happen and everything will work out. I project within two years you will either be selling more bulls than Remmitals or own them outright.
 
Yeah right, like Im gong to be bigger than remitalls, I onl;y have 9 head of my own, do the math.

I dont wear glasses, I have 20/20 vision, Bet the farm and dont look back :D

Within two years I hope to own 15 head of my own, and own a truck :P

Haven't you ever had a dream? I said if everythign worked out like I planned, but if you now anything about the industry, paper doesnt always work out.
 
Workhard, you truly are a jackass of the worst kind. Look at what this young man has accomplished by the age of 14 and how much he has learned by hard work. And his goals of raising good cattle and getting a university education...that he has earned in more ways than one. You should be ashamed and apologize. You are a jerk.
 
Angus, have a dream that is fine and I have a few words of, if nothing else, some encouragment when I was in college right out of highschool I meet a kid from Pendleton Oregon. Smartest kid I knew and a kid who knew how to work. Man, was he deligent, most of the real smart kids were slackers in they didn't have to work very hard in life to get to that point. Well, as I got to know him i learned a couple things about him. When he was about your age he started working commecial pea harvest in eastern Oregon. Did it until it was time to go away to school. Hi initial plan wa to save enough money to uy a new corvette and than go to Corvallis to get an education. Somewhere during his senior year in highschool he changed his mind and applied to a few out of state schools,one being Northwestern University outside of Chicago where I met him. He paid his own way through two years of school with the money he had saved up with no aid (Finally got aid to finish off his education. This was a school that if you budgeted real tight after living expenses and such would run you 22-25k a year.... He ended up going to grad school at Cal Tech I thiink (I have lost contact with him) and last I heard he had one heck of a job right out of school.

His one piece of advice that he generally said was don't waste your money on stupid things and it will build up very fast. Truely, He was one of the most impressive people I have ever been privleaged to meet and a heck of a good friend to have when you needed one.
 
IL Rancher said:
Angus, have a dream that is fine and I have a few words of, if nothing else, some encouragment when I was in college right out of highschool I meet a kid from Pendleton Oregon. Smartest kid I knew and a kid who knew how to work. Man, was he deligent, most of the real smart kids were slackers in they didn't have to work very hard in life to get to that point. Well, as I got to know him i learned a couple things about him. When he was about your age he started working commecial pea harvest in eastern Oregon. Did it until it was time to go away to school. Hi initial plan wa to save enough money to uy a new corvette and than go to Corvallis to get an education. Somewhere during his senior year in highschool he changed his mind and applied to a few out of state schools,one being Northwestern University outside of Chicago where I met him. He paid his own way through two years of school with the money he had saved up with no aid (Finally got aid to finish off his education. This was a school that if you budgeted real tight after living expenses and such would run you 22-25k a year.... He ended up going to grad school at Cal Tech I thiink (I have lost contact with him) and last I heard he had one heck of a job right out of school.

His one piece of advice that he generally said was don't waste your money on stupid things and it will build up very fast. Truely, He was one of the most impressive people I have ever been privleaged to meet and a heck of a good friend to have when you needed one.
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Eastern Oregon Kids used to learn to work hard from an early age...I overheard some kids I hired say as I was outworking them "He grew up when kids had to work if they wanted money"...I took that as a compliment...

PPRM
 
ACS,

you say you look forward to constructive criticism....

Well, not all criticism has to be negative.....

Shorthorn angus cross are some of my top momma cows, so you could have a good start there.....Keep an eye on udder conformation and make sure they have some hip and thickness....

On the Dreams...Keep at it and keep at the working part...Success at your age should not be measured by if you hit the numbers, more bydid you do your best and did you learn anything.....I had almost nothing as a kid and worked. I failed plenty, but learned. I dind't have a lot of anything but try.....I now have a pretty good job and run some cows and feed some calves....Still working hard, but also working smart.....

Finally, the ideal cattle.......I sort my own fats to go to Tyson.....I have learned that the first premium is wieght, and a lot of carcass weight comes from thickness and yield.....Thick in the right places.....I evaluate calves by how I think they will grade.....CAB, Choice, Prime and Yiled Grade 1 are all important and all determine the bottom line......It is interesting that a lot of the showring calves I see will likely grade select....Select is a $16.00/cwt discount right now I believe..that is a huge hit....

I say this not to knock the showring judges..I say it to show the importnce of learnig from a lot of places....Education is expensive, no matter where you get it.....


Good luck and keep your head level and emotons in check...I kinda think you will do ok, but that is just my opinion.....The only one that will determine that is you,


PPRM
 
TY y'all!!!!

My english teacger read this and figured out it was me :P.

Not all criticism is good, not all is bad, not always the way you want to hear it either lol. Ill type alil more tonight, last two daysd of hunting seaosn. later
 
shorthorn said:
congrats on the new cow. Don't know the canadian genetics to well but am sure she will be fine. ONCE YOU GO SHORTHORN U NEVER GO BACK. LOL
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8) See told yu kid some day you would see the light?Love it when I am right-cause missus almost had me convinced I never am?
 

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