The Red Angus History

" "Seven innovative families chose to use Red Angus in 1954 to establish the industry’s first performance registry. Throughout its history, the Red Angus Association of America has maintained this objective focus and has earned a well deserved reputation for leadership and innovation. By making the right choices over time, and ignoring the short term pressures of industry fads, demand for Red Angus genetics by the beef industry is at an all time high."

RED HIDE COLOR HAS THREE DISTINCT ADVANTAGES:

RED HIDE COLOR HAS THREE DISTINCT ADVANTAGES:
"1)Red is the most populous color of cattle breeds world wide. Red Angus provides a continuity and uniformity of color to any crossbreeding system. 2) Red is more heat tolerant than black and the bronze pigmentation gives great resistance to cancer eye and sun burned udders. The majority of the world’s cattle are in areas that need heat tolerance, so the red color is a definite advantage. 3) Being crossed red always breeds true. Red Angus carry no diluter genes and thus avoid the grays that result when crossbreeding with blacks." Follow this link and click History Brochure to read complete history.

Life On The Farm As The Years Fly Bye

Some Call me the Cattle Girl I am the next generation of Red Angus breeders. My Jounery begins

cattlegirl16's Story

Thursday, November 1, 2012

BJR JR 107 SON - CCI JR Cherokee Classic

This is my Cow ASV Vilari Reg# 1409839; I call her Lady. I got Lady as a six month old heifer and she was my 4-H breeding project. In this picture Lady is just about to give birth to her first Calf.

My Mom told me that I will always remember my first boyfriend, my first car, my first heifer and the first calf. I think that is most likely true about any first that happens in a persons life.

Because this is Lady first calf I set and waited for hours just in case Lady needed help; I am happy to say she did great; Lady said moo and her calf was there. I was lucky to be given straws to BJR JR 107 and  all I was hoping for was a healthy calf to hit the ground. 
On April 7 2012 Lady gave birth to bouncing baby boy (a healthy Bull calf)  I call him Junior (CCI JR Cherokee Classic Reg# 1524773).   

As with all babies all Junior did was eat,



Sleep, and poop!
But before to long he was up and checking out to new big world around him, and growing like a weed.







Here are just a few pictures; the days turned into weeks and the weeks to months.






















June 2nd 2012 Lady and Juniors first show Reserve Champion Cow/Calf

Aug. 16th 2012 Grand Champion Cow/ Calf Pair - Junior was Grand Champion Bull








































I will post new picture of Junior later. Check back and see how he has grown Junior is now almost 7 months and I need to take some new pictures Junior was weaned at 6months and weighed 640 pounds not bad for a 70 pound baby.


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