Angus bulls were popular with cattle breeders for their first cow because the calves would be small, and easy to deliver for the new cows.
A couple of fences away, Angus bulls waited placidly for the coming weeks, when their call will come.
In May 2001 a Red Angus bull from Bolivia was sold for an Australian record price of $17,500.
Smade merely glared silently back at him like an angry Black Angus bull.
Or a black Angus bull.
The ranch uses Angus bulls to increase the production of the Hereford heifers.
Angus bulls are also used on Hereford heifers in an attempt to produce smaller calves and reduce dystocia.
When crossed with Black Angus bulls, these cows produced offspring with a speckled pattern.
(A full-grown Angus bull might weigh more than a ton.)
Having held on to his two Angus bulls, he says he can "go back to messing with cattle again" when he returns.