Denny said:
Oldtimer said:
gcreekrch said:
Those scrubs didn't do all that well on your washy old grass Denny, you should have had a creep feeder out for them so they could show their true growth potential. :wink:
There are some thick rascals in there.
Yep-- shows that all those creepfeeder folk that say those old bloodlines and the Shoshone and Wye breeding are pudmakers really know what they are talking about :wink: :roll:

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And the added benefit from these cattle are the heifers will make you some real momma cows....
You should see the heifers calves of GD60
I gave some of that semen to a good friend of mine. Someone asked him if we were'nt going backwards with our genetics. He gave fall shots yesterday anf if I remember his Viking son weighed 640#s heaviest of all the bull calves sired by modern genetics.With 40 days left until weaning.
As far as creap feeders go I have enough expense the way it is without masking a cows poor genetics. We've still got dink calves but those cows are being sold or rolling into the commercial herd.
I'd love to see pictures of those daughters-- and any info you have on any you have to sell later this fall/spring...Those are the type cattle that I have found really work in this area and are switching the herd over to...
Cattle like Shoshone, Diamond D, Whitney Creek, Cole Creek, Indreland, Cedar Hills, Gary Funk, Ohlde- old Dale Davis breeding and a few others in this state have run for years.... And now I see so many out of state folks running too...
Thats what I've been trying to do- is put some more old Dale Davis Rito 707- Shoshone- and Juanada breeding into my herd...Looking at keeping a Whitney Creek Rito Legacy 726T (traces back 16 times to 707-3 times to Shoshone Viking) son out of a little Cole Creek Goldmere 31N daughter- and an OCC Magnitude son out of a Cole Creek Juanada Lad 81T daughter as potential herd sire prospects to join the old Whitney Creek Bannon of Wye 730T bull...
Pounds in the fall- easy keeping- well dispositioned cows- that have longevity-and take care of themselves--- which is a h*ll of a lot better than the "bigger, better, fasters" I battled with for several years...I'm getting too old to be a babysitter or a rodeo cowboy...
Besides- I like looking at pictures of good cattle better than arguing :wink: