JWsPOV

  A recent post on social media showed a picture of only a show steer. The caption read, “This is not a Simmental”. That person was exactly right. It was not, it was a crossbred steer. A lot of animals are crossbred animals. Especially in the stock show world.  Growing up in the Polled Hereford world. I have seen a fair number of cattle that were most likely not pure. There was a heifer that ran all across Texas years ago winning everything in sight. One look from any breeder and we all knew she wasn’t purebred. A family finally had enough and protested that heifer and she was kicked out. Papers not matching the calf and bloodlines were not pure.  A good friend of mine calls some of the cattle these days, dirty blooded cattle. These are cattle that have so many crosses in their genetic backgrounds, they are actually genetic mutations if you will. Cattle that once had heat tolerance are losing that trait. Birth weights are so high and so unpredictable, pulling ...