More heifers and some cows

[movin' on]

I made a trip with the neighbor to take some donor cows to the transfer station. I got a few pictures before we took off. I tried several different things to eliminate some of the "harsh" look. Some are still a little that way, though.

A bred heifer

Another bred heifer

Here's one of his donor cows

And another

Deep and Wide

How's that for wide-topped?

I gave him a little ribbing that this cow sure wasn't as "broody" as the other ones. He said that she raised an 850 bull calf last year so he thinks he'll keep her!

It'll probably be a week or so before I can get the bulls posted on here. I'll sure keep posting cow/heifers/offspring if anyones interested, though. Just let me know

Jeremy

 

[Faster horses]

They are nice and as our old neighbor used to say, " fat is a pretty color!!"

What are the bloodlines of these cattle?

 

[DOC HARRIS]

I would imagine that some of these babies trace back to "Wye" breeding. It is an amazement to me that breeders can see great phenotype of cattle such as these, and then wonder why their slab-sided, thin fronted, narrow-backed, shallow-bodied, "funnel-butted", high-headed and wild-eyed idiots don't present them with money-making calves that were sired by ol' Jim Bob's $1500 bull from "down the road a piece"! One can talk and explain the "Facts of Breeding" until one is, literally, "black" in the face, and it seems to go in one ear and get lost somewhere in the grey matter that is supposed to be the brain. But one keeps plugging, anyway.

DON'T GET ME STARTED!

These are great females, and I would be interested in the basic genetics.

DOC HARRIS

 

[High Plains]

I'd say let's not get Doc started! Oh wait, he's already started :!: :shock: :!: :shock:

:lol: :lol:

 

[movin' on]

Yes, please Doc, get started!

You're speaking the truth! These cows are deep, wide, big-topped, full-flanked, well muscled gals that are wide coming at you and going away. They have been on dormant bermuda grass with protien tubs for about three months. The last couple of weeks they have been on wheat pasture that is froze down and about one inch tall. The man's worried that they won't even flush right they are in such good shape. I guess that means they're fairly easy keeping too.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Darren is trying to take big, soggy, powerful northern genetics and mix them with efficient, wide-based, somewhat smaller framed cattle. He believes that there can be a marriage of big/powerful and thick/efficient. The cattle should be easy-keeping fertile powerhouses that don't require a tremendous amount of input and produce calves that explode and perform great in the feedyard. That's quite a lofty goal and I feel he is making great strides towards it.

Some of the bloodlines in his cowherd are TC Stockman365, Oscar 711, Leachman Right Time, Hoff Limited Edition, Renegade and Fullback.

Some of the bulls he uses are DCC New Look, DCC New Edition, DCC Trailblazer, BC Lookout, and BC Marathon.

Please ask me any questions any of you have, and, though I probably won't have the answer, I will contact Darren and get it right away.