One Down

[RSL]

One bull purchase down (would have been two if it snowed or rained).


Now we just have to finish off shopping for an Angus bull and order our semen and we are shopped out and our bull battery is recharged.

[Rancher3!]

Nice looking bull. Is he a 2 year old? Not much white stuff left there.

[leanin' H]

I like him! What ya gonna order semen wise? I have half a million semen catalogs spread out and am truing to make up my mind.

[RSL]

He's a 5 year old Simmental. He was actually an anchor herdsire of a commercially focused seedstock operation. We already have two of his sons working for us.
We think we are going to try working with sexed semen this summer on our young cows. We are still sorting through the possibilities on that one. We have used BC Lookout the last couple of years and are pretty happy so far. There are a couple of other possibilities that we will go around before the end of July.
The Angus bull has been a search this spring, as we won't buy a bull that isn't scanned and/or up to our quality standards. In Canada that trims down the pickings pretty quick.

[miocene]

he's a good lookin bull.what's his background. i have found the simmental to be like Timex watches they take a lickin and keep on tickin.the simmental stand up better under our range conditions .i raise simmental purebreds,and have used my own bulls in the commercial herdover the years and have come to expect at least 4years out of my home raised bulls.usually selling them after the 4th. year of use in perfect working condition weighing around 2000 #

[RSL]

If I tell you I'll be labelled good or bad.
He's a Right time x 600U on the top side and a TNT Shocker x Zima on the bottom.
You can guess where I got him from...

[Grassfarmer]

[RSL]

[Grassfarmer]

A "commercially focused seedstock operation" west of Airdrie by chance?

[RSL]

That wasn't a very fun game...
It sure is.

[Grassfarmer]

I hope you have more luck buying from that program than we did. I bought a "maternal genetics" yearling there once - gave him 20 cows to breed and 4 were open. My other yearling bull also got 20 that year and they were all bred. Used him lightly the second year because I didn't trust him and didn't like the way he was growing (made a frame score 7 bull as 3 year old) Before breeding in year 3 he stifled himself and was worthless because it was the first year of BSE and no market. A replacement (charolais) they loaned me that summer never left me a calf either. The few daughters I got off the maternal bull are the biggest, highest maintenance cows I have and they can't live on our system.
Maybe just bad luck but with luck like that you're not inclined to go back. Nice enough folks to deal with though. Your bull looks very good - hope he performs well for you.

[RSL]

We will see the first calves this spring, but so far have been very impressed with the breeding capacity of the bulls, and the customer service and support have been second to none. We had a bull get injured last summer and a spare was there on a trailer in no time.
I am pretty excited to see the F1s off our cows this spring and fall.