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Hereford76

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Northern Rancher said:
Isn't there an Angus outfit over by you that kind of raises outcross Angus cattle. SaddleButte Angus I think.

Don't know them - but geyser isn't really close... maybe I just don't pay much attention to the black breeders - too many to keep track of. We have Hawks Angus as a closer neighbor, Bobcat Angus (goggins), Fritz Red Angus, Fritz Charolais, Duncan Ranch Herefords. Meissner Herefords is also just south and north and every other direction I guess.

why does that saddlebutte outfit interest you?
 

Denny

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I just purchased 30 straws of Shoshone Viking GD60 it was a long time to find it but I guess he is 31 years old..
 

Northern Rancher

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Ohh I just like to visit outfits of any breed that aren't afraid to step out and do their own thing-I'm not really that fond of some of the popular Angus bloodlines right now.
 

PureCountry

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Like the website Hereford76, it's simple and not too cluttered with crap. How big is 58K? His description calls him "massive". Good looking cattle though.
 

Hereford76

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Pure Country
How big is 58K? His description calls him "massive".

He was a stout old bull. I weighed him right before I took that picture of him and he was around 3100lbs. I remember worrying that he was going to punch a whole in the floor of my trailer. Probably bigger than most people care for - maybe an understatement. You tell a guy one of your herd bulls weigh that much and thats all they remember. 58K wasn't all frame either - he had lots of other things going for him. Most bulls that are that long lack in natural thickness and vice versa. He had them both - which is something I really look for. ANother thing about 58K is that he is a short gestation sire. I was shocked with the birth weights on the calves out of some of my bigger birth weight bloodlines. 9 and 10 year old cows that I couldn't get a BW under 100 lbs had calves that weighed between 73 and 95lbs (all gestation). But the critters behind him in his pedigree is why I used him to begin with. People will probably think I have huge cattle now, which I don't. I'd say my average cow weighs 1300lbs (which is what I would call small at a lot of purebred outfits)

The picture of the goggle eyed calf is a son of 58K I may keep.

not too cluttered with crap

yeah - I get carried away talking about these stupid cows it seems like it, but it is what I love to talk about.
 

Hereford76

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Northern Rancher said:
Ohh I just like to visit outfits of any breed that aren't afraid to step out and do their own thing-I'm not really that fond of some of the popular Angus bloodlines right now.

yeah i know what you mean. In the states my cattle aren't the mainstream. Breeders down here won't look at cattle that won't improve their epd's - and to no end it seems. I just bought semen on a straight canadian bull bred by Drew Lehr and owned by Norm Parrent that has a pure milk epd of +1 and I got laughed at down here. Little do they know that he is stacked with generations of cattle that have made some of the best hereford cattle there are - atleast in my mind. I don't know if you know some of the hereford cattle but he combines 254E, 85A, 87D, and 80S right up close.
 

PureCountry

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For 3100lbs, he sure looks like he has it all. But yes, that's far too big for me. I'd like a bull that looks just like him to weigh in the 21-2400 range. Don't be ashamed of 1300lb cows, that's where I want my ceiling for cow size, and in range conditions where cows have to actually work, it's the size that works for us.
 

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