Thank you! 🙂👍

Awesome! That should be a very nice cross. I'm sure you'll be pretty happy.

@@ohrmundtsimmentals my Dad has always had a sweet spot for the Simmental/Simangus bulls for the growth of calves, and I think Simmentals are an “aggressive” looking animal with the flesh flap below their head going down their brisket

Your are most welcome Mike! 😊

Thanks Butch! Glad you liked it.

Thanks! Best of luck to you as well. 🙂

No problem. Hope you find some nice ones. 😊👍

Definitely don't disagree with that. That's why I don't like really big frame. Plus our cows need to do well on grass hay over the winter without much else. I have always been annoyed by the " we want black hide" at the sale barn. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good the calves are either. We sometimes see a bunch of Angus/Holstein cross calves around here and you can tell they're more Holstein than Angus but they have a black hide. 🙄 The only thing good about the high demand right now. It's that colors don't seem to matter.

@@ohrmundtsimmentals Completly agree on the black. But we have to do what pays best!

@@e.a.bfarms yes you do. That's what I like about selling beef locally. The average person don't care what the hide color is. 😉

@@ohrmundtsimmentals The direct marketing is an awesome addition, just very hard to scale!

@@e.a.bfarms oh yes. Around here we have to book butcher dates 14 months in advance. We only do like 5 or 6 steers a year. It took us a couple years to build up to where we are now. We just book the dates and not worry about selling the beef. We never have a problem selling it.

We usually have kept 4 or 5 bulls. Then selling all the steers but 1 for us. Now we keep all the steers and finish them ourselves. That's why we don't mind adding the color of the full bloods. We do really like the blaze faces from the full blood bulls on our black cows. This also why I want to keep the data up on our full bloods to help the epds be a little more represented.

That's one reason I like the full blood and Simmentals with chrome. You never know what you're gonna get. 😊

I would agree and not that it's a bad thing either. Good animals are good animals as long as you can make them profitable. 👍

Thank you so much. I know there's so much more I could have talked about and missed but I also thought I rambled way too much. 😆 I might be learning Ai pretty so too. It's hard to find a good tech that's flexible with our work schedule.

@@ohrmundtsimmentals I agree, mine has been great to work with and is very accommodating. Trying to time everything so breading is done over a weekend. Last year was a real pain to get them bred though.

@@dustinadams9136 so far ours haven't too bad too get Ai'd but we know our tech will fully retire in next couple years.

@@ohrmundtsimmentals mines been great at teaching me and explaining everything along the way. I’m just not confident enough to try yet. He told me to try practicing on some cull cows.

@@dustinadams9136 our tech has told me that he'd teach me how to do it too. I'm a little nervous to try it but most likely will.