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@kindasmallcoos ·
Jeffrey Brown listed Heidi’s Angus for sale at $2,000.
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Elliott Garber ·
Great to see this come through! Sorry again about the issues with the photo uploads.
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Jeffrey Brown ·
Your users should post all photos/videos they want to use on the animal’s main profile, then select the ones they want for the sales listing from the main profile…. If that makes sense.
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@kindasmallcoos ·
I have a question(s) for Creatures users. A lot of cattle folks around here are afraid of horned cattle. I raise Highlands and Dexters so horns aren’t an issue for me, but I am trying to breed a small, shaggy, and hornless bovine for those afraid of horns. My goal is to breed some 87.5%Highland/12.5%Dexter calves that are hornless, shaggy, and smaller in size. Do you think this High-Dex cross would appeal to Creatures.com customers?
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Elliott Garber ·
Great question, Jeffrey Brown! Since Creatures is still just getting off the ground, I think the even more important question is whether these types of cattle would be appealing to the broader hobby farmer market. Although I think more buyers are looking for horned cattle, there are quite a few breeders in the community who have some polled individuals for exactly this reason.

You might be even more successful if you did the crossing with white dexters, white parks, or white galloways, to get the "Highpark" look which is very popular.
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Elliott Garber ·
Would love to know what Yvonnda Agent and Rickee Miller think since they also have a variety of crosses!
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Rickee Miller ·
We have had a fair number of people asking for polled cattle. We have two highpark cows that are heterozygous polled. Our heifer calf is polled. The other one had a bull calf - we have to pull hairs on him yet, but I think he may be polled😌
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Yvonnda Agent ·
Your solid color first generation HiDex is not going to have a big appeal. Your white dexter crosses will at least have color that will be interesting to some buyers but like 1st generation highparks there is still work to do to get “the look”. It takes several generations and years to achieve the hair and smaller stature. If it’s something you’re passionate about you should do it knowing it’ll take you 3 generations to get to 87.5% and get some decent hair. Breeding white Galloway and highland together will achieve the desired hair quicker. My friend Brooke Cunningham - Ancient Oaks Farm LLC specializes in polled high % highparks. She would be excellent to talk to as well. We have our first 87.5% highpark calf this year and looking forward to seeing her hair development. We have 2 first generation girls and a 2nd generation horned girl. I personally don’t know how to continue to breed more and more highland into anything and still stay polled but Brooke will. I hope that helps. Long story short, you’ll need to be 3 generations in to achieve an animal that’s appealing to the better breeding programs.
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Rickee Miller ·
Very well said Yvonnda Agent. The solid color highparks that we have had sell much better when polled- they are 75% highland- next year we will be breeding our F2 polled highpark to our black highland bull next summer and I am excited to see what we get! We are loving seeing what pops out- I love the genetics end of things☺️
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Jeffrey Brown ·
Thanks everyone for your input. I posted this response earlier and got a bit ahead of myself thinking Petunia is an 87.5/12.5 High-Dex when her offspring will be.