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Well track job in the A'M-Ty put a 125 grain Montec through a big Chocolate tonite-he said there was bubbly blood on the arrow shaft so hopefully we don't have to track too hard. Thought we'd leave it be overnight-sometimes if you push them they go a long ways. Bears don't leave much of a blood trail either.
 
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You asked "Are you suggesting that bears have EPD's???"

Any Biological Species which is capable of reproducing, possesses EPD's of a form. EPD's are contained in the Genes of both Male and Female of the species - Humans included. They may not be labed as "Expected Progeny Differences", but the reaction of the combination of male spermatazoa and female ova uniting with each other and producing a viable offspring (progeny) of that mating results in an individual containing the dominant and recessive characterics and traits of the two individuals mated. ALL traits, ALL characteristics - with the exception of those produced and created by environmental factors. Call it what you will, (or won't, as the case may be at times), the biological phenomena which occurs precludes the denial of predetermination - like it or not! Believe it or not!

In short - EVERY Beef Animal possesses EPD's! It is incumbent upon the successful beef breeder to accept that fact if he/she is concerned or interested in utilizing EVERY tool available in the interest of being successful and making as much PROFIT as is available to them.

The "Kicker" in this scenario is for ALL producers to be Honest, Genuine and Virtuous in their dealings with EPD's!

It is that simple.

Done Deal!

DOC HARRIS
 
You Canadians don't have anything over on Nebraskans. :wink: :-) This is off the www.chadrad.com webpage today.

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CHADRON - A young black bear had to be euthanized Monday afternoon near Harrison.

According to Nebraska Game and Parks District One Wildlife Manager Todd Nordeen, the bear was between 18 months and two-years-old and had probably come out of Colorado, Wyoming or South Dakota. He said at the age the bear was it might have been chased off by its mother or something could have happened to the mother, so it has been wandering.

He said the bear was in and around Harrison yesterday afternoon and then ventured north to the Bill Grote Ranch where it was trapped in the barn.

Nordeen said prior to making the decision to euthanize the bear there was a lot of discussion with the law enforcement division and wildlife division about what course of action to take. Once at the ranch they also had to evaluate what the situation was.

He said Game and Parks did not have a lot of options available to them to deal with the bear. There are no facilities, such as zoos, in Nebraska that will take bears. Also, there is not enough public land in the state to move the bear to because bears have such a large home territory.

Because the bear seemed acclimated to people and unafraid of people, Nordeen said, that also was a factor they had to consider in dealing with the animal.

He noted that any large predator, like black bears, can be a risk to livestock, people and pets, but when the predator is used to and unafraid of humans that risk increases.

Nordeen said euthanizing the bear was not an easy decision.

"Our job is to manage wildlife and we have to see these situations come about because there is usually no good answer and no good solution," he explained. "Unfortunately, that's the way it works sometimes. It's something that we sometimes have to do, but we don't like to do."

Historically, in the 1800s, there was a bear population in the state, but they do not live here now and Nordeen noted that it is rare that they end up bears in the state. He said there have only been two bears that Game and Parks is aware of that have wandered through the western part of the state in the last five to ten years. He noted that those two just wandered through and kept going.

(Copyright Stereo AM 610 KCSR, www.chadrad.com)
 
You big tough cornhuskers got in a dither and offed a poor little yearling cub with milk on his muzzle that was just missing his mommy. We chase that size of bear off the backstep with a broom lol.
 
Northern Rancher said:
You big tough cornhuskers got in a dither and offed a poor little yearling cub with milk on his muzzle that was just missing his mommy. We chase that size of bear off the backstep with a broom lol.
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It does seem like someone could have used it for a pet. :-)
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Doc is there any truth to the rumor that in your younger day you did Breeding Soundness Evaluation examines on grizzly bears? :D :D
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BM rancher-

I am "bearly" able to understand how that rumor got started! I "bear" no ill will, nor do I "bear" a grudge against the person or persons who perpetrated that narrative, but I have to "bear up" to the 'grizzled' fact that, in truth, :shock: :???: :wink: , in my somewhat "grisly" and care-free youth - 'barely" tall enough to do the rectal examination of the Seminal Vesicles of Ursus arctos horribilis, and, performing such duties as were required in actively participating in Breeding Soundness Evaluation Examinations, I, being "barely" lucid and conscious, and with "grizzled" determination, did, in fact, survey, appraise, measure, gauge, quantify, estimate, assess, rate, evaluate, weigh :shock: , qualify and quantify the -until then - unknown details of the effectiveness of UTSA's (Ursus Testicular Scrotal Analyses)(!) The rather delicate and sensitive technics which had to be incorporated in the performance of those bimanual probings and scrutinizations in order to verify and guarantee absolute precisional perfection were necessary for the engendering of the Eugenics movement, or the improving species through the control of hereditary factors in mating - vis-a'vis EPD's! :roll: :nod: In other words - I was somewhat instrumental in the original concept of the perfection of Beef Genetics via developing Expected Progeny Differences through perseverance and tenacity by "bearing up" to the difficulties of mathematically calculating the anatomical differences and collations between Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus americanus, and Ursus "Teddy" - and to differentiate the incongruities of the three species is almost "UNBEARABLE!"

And I have the scars to prove it! :oops: :wink:

DOC HARRIS

DON'T GET ME STARTED!
 
DOC HARRIS said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Doc is there any truth to the rumor that in your younger day you did Breeding Soundness Evaluation examines on grizzly bears? :D :D
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BM rancher-

I am "bearly" able to understand how that rumor got started! I "bear" no ill will, nor do I "bear" a grudge against the person or persons who perpetrated that narrative, but I have to "bear up" to the 'grizzled' fact that, in truth, :shock: :???: :wink: , in my somewhat "grisly" and care-free youth - 'barely" tall enough to do the rectal examination of the Seminal Vesicles of Ursus arctos horribilis, and, performing such duties as were required in actively participating in Breeding Soundness Evaluation Examinations, I, being "barely" lucid and conscious, and with "grizzled" determination, did, in fact, survey, appraise, measure, gauge, quantify, estimate, assess, rate, evaluate, weigh :shock: , qualify and quantify the -until then - unknown details of the effectiveness of UTSA's (Ursus Testicular Scrotal Analyses)(!) The rather delicate and sensitive technics which had to be incorporated in the performance of those bimanual probings and scrutinizations in order to verify and guarantee absolute precisional perfection were necessary for the engendering of the Eugenics movement, or the improving species through the control of hereditary factors in mating - vis-a'vis EPD's! :roll: :nod: In other words - I was somewhat instrumental in the original concept of the perfection of Beef Genetics via developing Expected Progeny Differences through perseverance and tenacity by "bearing up" to the difficulties of mathematically calculating the anatomical differences and collations between Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus americanus, and Ursus "Teddy" - and to differentiate the incongruities of the three species is almost "UNBEARABLE!"

And I have the scars to prove it! :oops: :wink:

DOC HARRIS

DON'T GET ME STARTED!
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