How Do You Judge Conformation In Cattle?
• Start by looking at pictures. You can start judging conformation of a bull, cow, steer or heifer just by looking at pictures on the Internet or in any book or magazine that has cattle in it. Your local agricultural newspaper is also a good source, as it often has advertisements for bull sales showing the “top bulls” that are going to be for sale, according to their breed (i.e., Angus, Red Angus, Hereford, Simmental, Limousin, Beefmaster, Brahman, etc.) • If you do a search on the Web and type in “bull sales” or “cattle sales” in the heading of such popular search engines as Google or Yahoo!, you will find different pictures of cattle to study from. More often than not, these kind of pictures are the best to critique from, conformationally speaking. Start by first looking at the overall condition and body of the animal, before closing in and doing a close study of the bull or cow, from head to to tail to feet. Follows is a guideline of what characteristics are faulty and what are idea
