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Ultrasound

Northern Rancher

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Just talked to a friend about his bulls that he got ultrasounded yesterday-the tech hadn't crunched the hard numbers yet but he said bf was negligible. Anyway he commented he'd ultrasounded a set of Angus yearling bulls last week that AVERAGED 15MM of backfat-Yikes. I guess they all had their feet trimmed too. What's up with some people's kids. Heading to my buddies sale on Monday to bid on some athletes not those 'children of the corn'.
 

SMN Herf

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Around here it appears the growing trend is to not even list the BF numbers. Apparently they are embarrased by how much $4 corn they fed them!

Brian
 

TSR

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Northern Rancher said:
Just talked to a friend about his bulls that he got ultrasounded yesterday-the tech hadn't crunched the hard numbers yet but he said bf was negligible. Anyway he commented he'd ultrasounded a set of Angus yearling bulls last week that AVERAGED 15MM of backfat-Yikes. I guess they all had their feet trimmed too. What's up with some people's kids. Heading to my buddies sale on Monday to bid on some athletes not those 'children of the corn'.

I just recently had some calves ultrasounded but they hadn't had any grain and were smaller naturally. I had one bull that weighed 850 with a 12.5 sq. in. ribeye. I also had a heifer that scanned 6.21 imf with .06 back fat. BTW NR the bull was out of one of those EXT daughters. Anyway I thought those were some pretty good numbers for the calves on grass. The calves were reg. angus.
 

Northern Rancher

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Well I'm sure there's the odd good one lol. That bull might not be all bad-he's getting back in the pedigree a bit. I had one EXT grandson that was quiet as a dead pig. There are some real master feeders out there for sure.
 

Jason

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Just bumped into a couple that raises Polled Herfs and they attended a small local bull feed test sale.

Lots of well fed rollies, some as high as 1600 pounds for yearlings. They had Black and red Angus, and some solid red Simms. Heaviest bulls were the Angus but the 1600 pounder sold for $2000. The Herf breeder said he wasn't a bad looking bull, just overfat. Lots of the bulls no saled.
 
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