Roy Rutledge

[WilIow-Kreek]

When you are an antique dealer cswilson then its normal to assume you were speaking of an antique sale.As for having a pee brain...I'm not the one raising Herefords!

[whiteface]

That would make ME the one with the pea brain!!!! Raising herefords I mean! Dontcha go stealin my identity Wilson now will ya.
I can't find a good Shorthorn anymore either. Not too many good herefords around for that matter. But all cattle are only as good as the guy (or girl) making them and even in all breeders defenses as a salesperson and marketer for what feels like millions of years (just can't bring myself to tell you how old I am!) buyers are flaky and fickle on a good day and always want what they don't have or can't get even if it ain't good for them (same with houses, everything it seems). I bend over backwards (don't take that the wrong way!) to give them what they want and they want it cheaper or change their mind or abuse the bejesus out of it and then make me guarantee it (again, same with the properties). Not picking on people, I take my job very seriously, but have my days of frustration trying to give people what they ask for when a lot of times THEY don't even know what they want.
Today they want a black hide. Tommorow they may just go back to whitefaces or roan bodies....
or houses, which is where everyone seems to be right now in Central Alberta...so like a good dog, that's what I give 'em right now.
Thank you for the humor all, and thanks Willow for the info that whitefaces have a teeny place in your heart...mine too!
Have a good day all and thanks for reading! Good luck with your sale Randy!

[cswilson]

Willow-Kreek your a funny guy-now get out your crayons and go do some colouring. Colour a black cow then put a white face on her-notice how much better she just became for a commercial cow. Think hard it will slowly seep into that peabrain of yours. i'm not a purebred breeder of any breed.

[WilIow-Kreek]

Well cswilson..you are flogging a Hereford bull on the home page of your website so I think that does meke you a bit of an antique dealer.Glad to see you have other streams of income.Those Herefords are an expensive hobby!

[cswilson]

Nothing like a hobby that pays the bills sunshine-good thick baldie cows are such a good old idea that they're new again. send a potload of steers up north and we'll feed them together-see how they measure up against my baldies. Put up or shut up pea brain.

[WilIow-Kreek]

You can't get it through your thick skull that I am not knocking baldie cattle.I'll put a load of my steers up against your straight Herefords any day.

[cswilson]

Pea Brain the only straight Hereford I own is that bull you wingnut-I got a few hundred black commercial cows that I'm going to gleefully use him on. Some people's kids I tell you-not real quick on the uptake.

[cowman]

Well, I weigh in on this one with a lot of mixed feelings... but whatever!
The Hereford has become the "dog" of the cattle business over the last several years. Now why is that?
At one time if they weren't red whitefaced, no one wanted them!
They were "the cattle" to own!
When the exotic revolution came along, Herefords became "yesterdays cattle" and the qualities that made them desirable were no longer acceptable! So the Hereford breed chased the exotics...trying to become all things to all people!
The polled breeders were the worst! They bred these big tall, no gut, no milk, no hair cattle to compete! Frankly they bred very non-functional cattle...that won in the show ring...but were completely useless to the commercial cattleman?...and that is a fact!
Now somehow Angus have come from "useless runts" to become the premier breed! Amazing...and a tribute to the Angus breeders! I can remember when you could hardly give them away!
My old Dad raised those real old time heavey coated, heavy boned Herefords! He sold bulls for big money and he sold steers that rocked the market....and they were darned good cattle!
And heresey of heresy...they were horned Herefords! But they were darned good cattle and they were better than the Angus of the day....and were better than the Angus of today! And that to is a fact!
If I never had to make another dollar in my life...I would raise Horned Herefords...because they were not only good...but they weren't wild, or kick the hell out of you, and they were a joy to look at, and a pleasure to work with!

[cswilson]

Sure aren't the dog in cow country up here-just sit in at a yearling sale up here and try and buy those triaxle loads of yearlings that come through. I guess ranchers out here in the sticks never had time to follow the fads they were too busy raising beef lol.