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Thinking out loud

Musings, Terminology, and Cowboy Wisdom

Does form follow function or function follow form?

(If a cow raises a good calf, is trouble free, breeds back, stays in herd for 10 or more years.........her function is perfect! At Noahs Angus Ranch, form follows function.)

"My Cow"

(You could breed her to a fence post and she would have a good calf.)

Steeper than a cows face

Maternal traits are what made the Angus breed great!

(Too much growth and frame are antagonistic to maternal traits.)

The most expensive thing you'll ever buy is a cheap bull.

Genotype

(Genetic package of a critter........what you may not see inside the black hide. Size of pelvic, how much milk, gain, and marbling.)

Phenotype

(The form you see with your eyes........ length of body, frame, muscling, how sheathy the bull is........it's the outside of the package.)

Extremes eliminate themselves in nature.

(Larry Leonhardt, Shoshone Angus)

Repeatable

(good teats & udder, longevity, raising a salable calf, good disposition & structural soundness.)

 Bigger is Better?

Brown bag cattle

Swing Bag

Wine and cheese cattle 

Pretty is as pretty does.

(John Davis)

 Be good to those old cows they are our life.

Olive Purcell, Seid Ranch

 Look Small, Miss Small

 Rust Never Sleeps

The only constant is change