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One interesting little note, six-times as many people spell it "GAR" than "G A R".
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My New Favorite Red Angus Bull
I finally got off my tail and got a group together to finish off the R.A. Brown videos and there's one bull that most certainly deserves his own post here, Brown CH Assurance 3567S. You can find his video below and video of about two-dozen more RAB bulls at http://www.rabrownranch.com.
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Deiter Brothers Dispersal
Deiter Brothers uploaded their catalog and a majority of their videos to their site on Tuesday. They don't offer sex information on pregnancies like they have in their past sales. While it was a luxury that most sales didn't offer, it did make a big difference for Fall calving herds who had not use for a Spring bull calf. Perhaps they'll have that information on a supplement.
Take a look if you have some time...
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Recent Sire Updates
I hope to get links indexed to all of the excellent bull discussion going on right now in various forums (check out Steerplanet for a TON of it if you're breeding clubbies) but here are the very limited comments left on Cattle.com since September 11th...
Cattle.com Visitor Reviews
- Carrousel 8 Meyer
will stretch out shorter bodied cows without sacrificing width - Sun Seeker
hard to beat a good one - LaGrand ReLoad 80P
reload is the sire to my bull calf rowdy, and rowdy is a pretty good lookin calf to. - Sydgen 1407 Corona 2016
Producing excellent feet, muscling, disposition; very happy with calves; bull calf 750+ wean
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The Good Ones Die Young
We're just now starting to dabble our feet in embryo transfer. We purchased a flush of a cow bred to Heat Wave from Romshek Show Cattle last Fall and we're getting the calves now. Despite some snags, the results have sold the idea on my dad who required a solid two-years of convincing to let me AI his commercial herd.
Not to say I told you so, but I told my dad it was time to get the last of the recipients into the working pens last Friday. Unfortunately there was just one that was too far away to bring in until Monday.
So fast forward to Sunday morning when I'm taking a shower after working all night at the hurricane shelter and my phone rings. "Your dad just called and said one those high dollar calves is coming backward", "which one?", "he said it was the one you were mad about".
After the ensuing 50-minute, bat out of hell, half dressed, and soaking wet drive to the "old" pens we were able to pull a 116-lb breached heifer calf. Those of you who know anything about calving (or if you read the title of this post) likely know what happened next...
She ended up dying 26-hours later after never really getting her breathing right. Unfortunately, we were over confident in our skills at pulling breached calves and likely should have taken this one to the vet for a C-section. The vet says pulling a calf that large backward just puts too much stress on the diaphragm and there was likely heart damage. She said death at 24-hours later in that situation isn't uncommon.
It's become a cliche after the amount of times I've heard people say they lost their best calf at birth but that little girl was the best newborn calf I've ever seen on our place.
On the bright side, we do have another heifer and bull calf from the flush on the ground right now (both 75-85lbs, going to weigh them today) and both are healthy as can be. There are also two, possibly three, more recips we have left to calve out so all in all, it could have been worse.
On a side note, if anybody knows why a flushmate that came from a recipient that wasn't fed as well as the other recips from the flush would have a substantially larger calf (it's not TH/PHA) I'm all ears.
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1680 and Google
What happens when an 18-year-old bull is at the center of a huge genetic disorder story in by far and away the most popular breed of cattle in the United States? People go to Google...
That graph is a display of how many referals Cattle.com has gotten from the search engines for the search phrase "GAR Precision 1680".
We've been #1 in Google for GAR Precision 1680 for quite some time now. However, we received more referals from that search term on on Monday than we had the entire year before this story broke.
If you look closely at that graph, you can see the day that rumors started to swirl about 1680, around September 6th. Then the day the official announcement was made, the searches went from 1-3 per day to 15 overnight.
(and yes, I know I included some information that most people would keep confidential in that report)
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GAR Precision 1680? Really?
This is not an "I told you so" thing at all but I remember sitting around shooting the bull with some friends a few years ago wondering how big a pickle the Angus Association would be in if a bull like Traveler, 1407, 036, EXT, 5321, Integrity, or......1680 showed up with a genetic mutation like TH/PHA.
At the time I was developing the sire price index that compares the prices of offspring at public auction much like EPDs compare relevant statistics amongst contemporary groups. It seemed like every Angus sale out there traced their lineage back to a small handful of bulls.
Well, long story short, the AAA announced last week that it appears GAR Precision 1680 is responsible for curly calf syndrome. Here's the announcement from them...
Important Update on the Status of Curly Calf Syndrome
As the update recommends, read the ENTIRE article to get up to speed.
Not only is 1680 an insanely popular sire amongst the Angus breed, his sons and daughters are as well. Just try finding semen from his highly popular son CA Future Direction 5321. GAR Integrity is no slouch either. Just take a look at our profile of GAR Precision 1680 to see just how many AI sires he has sired and even more impressively how many AI sires his daughters have mothered.
All of these things seem like they're bigger than they really are at this point but there really aren't too many Angus bulls in existence with more impact than 1680 has had on the breed.
I must say though that something simply doesn't sound right about the entire situation. If the source of the mutation is GAR Precision 1680, why hasn't this come up A LOT sooner? 1680 was born in 1990 and I'd dare say he is the foundation of Gardiner, the biggest name in the Angus business, is built on. It's just hard to accept that as much as 1680 has been used in that program and programs based heavily on GAR genetics that this issue wasn't a lot bigger long ago.
In a side note, I've been living under a rock for the past week due to a combination of hurricane shelter volunteering and the start of our heifer and recipient calving season. I hadn't read the AAA announcement yet but I could tell something was most definitely up this morning by the sudden skyrocket 1680 to #20 in our bull buzz index. That's due entirely to the amount of people searching for information on him right now.
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Recent Sire Updates
Internet Forum Buzz
- Ace Of Diamonds, Steer Planet
Link - Saw three ripping good ones - Ace Of Diamonds, Steer Planet
Link - Impressed with him - Ace Of Diamonds, Steer Planet
Link - Heard he is a hard calver - Ace Of Diamonds, Steer Planet
Link - Excellent calves - Ace Of Diamonds, Steer Planet
Link - Works well on Sonny daughters - Doctor Who, Steer Planet
Link - Picture of a Dr. Who heifer - Doctor Who, Steer Planet
Link - Picture of a February 08 Dr. Who daugther - Heat Wave, Steer Planet
Link - Picture of a Heat Wave daughter - Heat Wave, Steer Planet
Link - Picture of a Heat Wave bull calf - JEK Friday Nite Lights, Steer Planet
Link - Mentioned as a bull that looked great but never turned out - Moody Blues, Steer Planet
Link - Mentioned as a bull that looked great but never turned out - O C C Anchor 771A, Steer Planet
Link - Picture of an Anchor son - Ranch Hand, Breeders World
Link - Plenty of bone, thick, and growthy - Ranch Hand, Breeders World
Link - Growthy but not sharp enough for show ring - Rocky Balboa, Steer Planet
Link - Had a nice 80lb calf from him - Sonny, Steer Planet
Link - Ace of Diamonds works well on his daugthers
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September Cattle Site Market Share Report
- CattleNetwork.com 24.49% (2)
- Cattletoday.com 23.70% (1)
- Showsteers.com 8.62%
- Cattlerange.com 7.91% (6)
- Cattle.com 5.38% (4)
- EDJECattle.com 5.21% (5)
- Showcattle.com 5.18%
- Beefmagazine.com 4.59%
- Cattlepages.com 3.37% (10)
- Clubcalves.com 3.34% (9)
There's a better than even chance we are going to drop Cattlenetwork.com from the rankings. There's some indication that the ranking for that site is being influenced by the addition of certain tools to the site.
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Agnihotra
I don't even know what to say...
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It's been flagged for removal but was posted on Craigslist earlier last night...
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/grd/834471233.html
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Hurricane Gustav
The lack of posts in the past week is due partly to some new tools I'm working on for Cattle.com, partly due to volunteer work at a local evacuee shelter, and in even more so due to my own laziness.
Everyone knows the obvious impacts of hurricanes but the other impacts are sometimes missed. For example, growing up in South Texas I thought everyone knew that there's a wet and a dry side to hurricanes. We always prayed for hurricanes to hit the King Ranch because it meant tons of rain for us further up the Gulf. However, hurricanes such as Rita, Katrina, and Gustav dry South Central Texas out like a bone due to the dry side of the hurricane.
Another impact was on the Nixon replacement female sale over the weekend. Due to Gustav, the Southeast buyers weren't able to make it to Texas and wouldn't have been able to get cattle back East even if they did. There were plenty of deals to be found as most cattle were down $200-$300 per head and quality Brahman heifers went as low as $1,100. The last time the sale was that bad was three years ago.....during Rita.
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