Angus Breeder said:Denny,
I get the feeling you had a bad experience with a registered animal falling apart on you, and that is unfourtanate. However remember we are raising animals in the Ozarks which means fescue. An animal that can make it on fescue can make it anywhere. Yes we do push our animals to be heavier than that of a commercial program, but have very few problems with feet and legs, udders, and cows/bulls melting in the pasture. I have to credit a lot of this to the way the cattle were fed. We are not feeding for a prolonged time just long enough to acheive the ideal marbling and ribeye growth and then ultrasound and start working those cattle off feed. It is a policy of ours that no one takes possesion of a bull or heifer until we have had time to backe them off the feed and adjust them to fescue hay where they can go into the real world and be excellent forage converters. We are truly forage producers and use the cattle to help the forage management to a certian degree.
Angus breeder is it possible for you to post a link with the picture of this 036 daughter like you did in the other Post entitled Double Bred 036 daughter? For some reason photobucket is inaccessible on this computer. BTW I have an 036 daughter that is supposed to calve in Feb. and so far I'm not too impressed with her, especially since I think she is out of one of my better cows. But it could have been a little too much of the same genetics, as this cow as well as others in my herd are granddaughters of B/R N Design 16, the full brother of 036. I still have 3 straws of 036 and am considering a flush one day. I have been told to flush him to a cow with lots of "guts" and with no N Trend 315 in their immediate pedigree
. I kind of hate to spend that money but the 036 genetics, it seems, is still some very good genetics to have in your herd, especially with respect to carcass