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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.
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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?
 
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..
 
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.
 
Pure Country
How big is 58K? His description calls him "massive".
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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
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yeah - I get carried away talking about these stupid cows it seems like it, but it is what I love to talk about.
 
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.
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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.
 
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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