Rate My Calf

When I was in college at Texas A&M, I had the privilege of working as a dispatcher for the bus system.  One night while surfing the Internet at work and generally just messing around waiting for the last shift to end, me and some co-workers visited "Hotornot.com" (don't waste your time).  As a joke, we put another co-workers official Bus Operations picture up and sent the link to the rest of the trainers and dispatchers.  He came storming into dispatch for revenge no more than 10-minutes later and it turns out that based on our scores he was "hotter" than me.

Backfiring pranks aside, as always when visiting a non-ag website I thought, "You know I wish they had something like this for cattle".  Well....

We're launched a new section of Cattle.com that allows you to get anonymous reviews of calves, cows, bulls, etc.  It's called "Rate My Calf" and can be found from the link at the top of the site or by CLICKING HERE.  You don't need an account on the site to upload pictures or leave reviews.  It's all completely anonymous (yeah, I know, we'll see how that works) so don't be afraid to be honest.

As with most things Web 2.0, this will be a complete failure unless people use it so if you know anybody who would be interested in using it, please let them know.  I threw a few of our earlier calves up to get it started.

Some questions I got from the group of Showcattle.com users I showed it to...

What's the point, I can do that on so-and-so forum?

I know I tend to either bite my tongue or sugar coat the truth when I see a calf on one of those sites that has some faults.  I made the mistake of being honest one time and regardless of what people say, they don't really want to hear extremely frank feedback.  More importantly, I'm afraid that other users will do the same when I try to get feedback on a calf.

This system allows you to leave feedback anonymously and get feedback on calves you want to know where you stand with.

Is this a contest?

No, not at all.

How do I upload a picture?

CLICK HERE for the page to submit a picture, it takes less than a minute.  You can leave a brief comment and/or the sire of the calf if you wish.  If not, just upload the picture.