First Tender Ten Calf

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I got my first B3R Tender Ten daughter/calf...

Her mother is L B B Pidge 125-AAA 17049643 (Whitney Creek Bannon X SAF Strategy 9015) daughter... She's a real nice quiet heifer so this calf may get to stick around- with Tender Tens +45 Docility EPD she has a great chance of being very quiet... Definitely low BW- calf weighed 65 lbs..
The other heifer has looked like she would pop for the last week so I threw her in the pen with them...
Shes another very quiet heifer L B B Floret 124- AAA 17049645 (Whitney Creek Bannon X Cole Creek Juanada Lad 81T)...

It was about 12 degrees with a wind chill below 0 when I found the calf while feeding- so she spent a couple of hours in the calf warmer... Here my 4 year old granddaughter Chezney is checking her out just before we put her back out with her momma...

 

[redrobin]

B3R.... isn't that one of those small texas outfits?

 

[Anonymous]

B3R.... isn't that one of those small texas outfits?

I don't know how it would be considered under Texas standards-- but I do know they are in Texas and sell several hundred bulls a year- and have a long time program focusing on maternal qualities and not pampering their cattle... I've been watching this bull for years just to see if he proved out....To me he is a way of adding a little more N-Bar breeding (double bred 5522) to my herd - hopefully without that nasty Emulation 31/EXT disposition...

The Tender Ten bull was the last one Northern Rancher and I agreed on as a possible bull to use for heifers- so I tried him... High CED- low BW and one of the highest Docility EPD's in the breed (+45)...
If I heard the story right - when they first came out with genetic marker evaluations- he was the first bull to score 10 on the testing -hence his name...

http://www.bradley3ranch.com/herdsires/B3RTenderTenR065.html

 

[HAY MAKER]

Good lookin calf OT, we get some rain around here i may look at that blood line.
good luck

 

[Anonymous]

Good lookin calf OT, we get some rain around here i may look at that blood line.
good luck

Thanks Haymaker-- if you go look at their cattle old Minnie Lou Bradley might be chasing you as new husband material... :wink: :lol: From all I've been told and read- she is quite a go-getter....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Lou_Bradley

 

[HAY MAKER]

She is an colorful ole hen, but the only grandma Im interested in is SSAP, she aint got much sense but sure has some nice paint horses
good luck

 

[mrj]

Minnie Lou Bradley is one of the finest women a person could be privileged to know, IMO. She is quiet and unassuming, yet is the type of woman who can quiet a classroom of ten year olds with 'that look' from snappy brown eyes. She has been innovative in breeding of cattle, range management, and even (rumor has it) gone toe to toe with tough eastern city meat marketing 'managers' and gotten her beef sold where denial of access was attempted.

We have seen a bit of her ranch and some of her cattle, and believe she is improving several facets of cattle and beef production.

mrj

PS, she also has a wonderful sense of humor!

mrj

 

[PATB]

she was interviewed for I am angus show and it was good.