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at Northern Ranchers request

Northern Rancher said:
You don't deal with poachers so I'll have to pass on this one but thanks for the offer.
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actually, you'd be suprised.... my best friend was busted for poaching a deer this winter, and a neighbor is being watched very closely....

did not know you had family in Kansas.
 
Northern Rancher said:
The whole premise of the A'I company Dylan and I started is to market semen on bulls that are proven in traits we feel are important to the commercial rancher. The industry is full of companies pushing the latest and greatest for their customers to find the flaws in. The young bull shows some potential but until there are some daughters calved out and bred back-till his feet have stayed good for a few years etc then we'll look to marketing him harder. One thing that differs from selling semen to purebred breeders is that commercial outfits will use a bull in volume year after year if he does whats needed at their place. Purebred breeders for a variety of reasons don't often do that.
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Most people I know prefer to prove their own. What ever suits you though suits me.
 
I should have some semen on my F-R 552 Lad 20P bull also-just negotiating with Genex to buy the inventory back on him. Red Robin I'm a commercial rancher I don't have any of my own to prove lol.
 
it wasn't long ago we could go 30 miles north and $650 US spent like $1000 canadian....

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i thought i'd thank you publicly.... thanks for the interest - i appreciate it!
 
Did you track down my wayward neighbor yet? Some of the hunters I guided couldn't believe it-they bought 100 bucks worth of grocerioes paid with a $100 U'S and got a bunch of change.
 
Northern Rancher said:
I should have some semen on my F-R 552 Lad 20P bull also-just negotiating with Genex to buy the inventory back on him. Red Robin I'm a commercial rancher I don't have any of my own to prove lol.
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I don't understand what you're saying but I'm from Arkansas so that's not surprising..
My point is that proving that the bull suits you in your environment and under your management doesn't mean that he will work for someone else. Sometimes the only way to know if a bull will work in the Florida everglades or Arkansas fescue or in the high elevations of Colorado is to sample a bull. Just because you sample him and say he works doesn't mean anything to me. Likewise if I sample him and say he works, that shouldn't mean much to you. Put the bull up for sale and let some folks try him. If he works then great you can sell some volume and if he doesn't then he can go down like the majority of young bulls. JMO. Likely he'll have too much wool for us below the mason-dixon.
 
I mainly like to see how bulls pan out for soundness etc in their offspring-it's more important to see how the bull works for me and the herds we'll sample him in before I worry much about the outer reaches. There isn't a bull born that will work for everybody everywhere I'll be the first to admit that. Once the semen is put up it doesn't really matter when the bull gets used. Some traits truly are timeless.

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Here is Lad as a four year old wintering on hay

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My favorite picture of him-he'd just bred two cows and was on the hunt after a third

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Udder on a Lad two year old

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The baldies he makes
 
I have some LAD baldie daughters calving now. I really like they way they look. Good teat and udders and good pigment around the eyes.
 
I still think of him as our bull Ace-can't wait to get out to visit. We just semen tested at the Waldorf this A'M and took out six out of sixteen black bulls might lose some more after the slides are read. To be fair I culled a woofy bugger and a faint heart before the vet got at them so might need a few more Hereford bulls or oil up my A'I arm. I met a neighbor of yours Darrold Tomshek at Leachman's -I bought one of his mares that jimbo had stole so I sold her back to him. look forward to a picture of the calf.
 
Beautiful animals, NR. I will always have a soft spot for horned Herefords, but because of ca eye and other bad things, we changed to red angus some years ago. Now, my husband and I have stepped back and our son is now the BOSS and he is changing our herd to look like his black angus. He has some polled hereford bulls to get the hybrid advantages and because we hate to dehorn anything.
My Dad sold Hereford Bulls way back in the 1950s as did my husband in the 1960s. So interesting to see how they have changed!
 
Were replacing a bunch of black bulls with Hereford bulls at the Waldorf so will be making some baldys. I culled 8 out of 16 of the former bull battery yesterday for everything from miniscule nuts to bad attitude-unbelievable what some 'name' outfits will peddle. Then another six showed up that the a deal had been made on earlier-not real bad bulls but about 300 pounds too fat. The breeder had taken the liberty of replacing two semen flunk outs with out running it by the boss. It wasn't my deal or they'd of been hopping their overfed little butts back on the trailer. Hopefully we get one season out of them but I'm not betting on it.
 

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