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Mohnen Brushpopper 295

Have not used him, but I am planning to use him on some cows this year. He caught my eye last spring in the Angus journal, so I have tried to keep an eye on him. Mainly using him as an outcross. I have only seen calves by him that are pictured in sale catalogs and advertisements.

I visited with a guy a few weeks ago that has been through the Mohnen herd and he said they were a pretty good set of calves. He thought they had a little more rib shape and muscle than some of the other calves, and by other calves he mentioned Aberdeen. He thought both groups were pretty good, but was partial to the 295 calves.

The only thing I am not real fond of is the 1407 on the dam's side, but then again he has 598 on the sire's side. I think he will be a good bull to try this year though.
 
I was looking at Thunderstruck but Brushpopper has got my attention now.
Thanks for the infomation.
 
Brushpopper 295 is one of our most consistent sires we have used on heifers. The sire of Brushpopper 295 was in the Genex catalog he still is one of our best all around sires we have used to date. Brushpopper 353 makes outstanding bulls and females that are easy fleshing and excellent udders with outstanding dispositions. We have used the Brushpopper line in our bull sales for five years now and our customers can not get enough of them. They turn them out use the heck out of them and come in and flesh right up. I feel that 295 with our top cow family the Jilts will only be better with more extention with loads of capacity and muscling. 295 is a half brother to the $18,000 Mohnen Crown Royal 316 who's epd's also get better with each calf crop also a half brother to this years top selling bull Mohnen Bingo 149 for $22,000. For having the EPD's he has there not real big cattle just cattle that have alot to them. At one time we did a sire search and used EPD's of BW WW MM YW SC REA MARB and $B and he was the only bull that came up.
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Thank you for adding your input on the actual knowledge of your bull and bloodlines.

I think that 295 is a good bull to use.
 
I wasn't hiding my brother in-law is ag banker in town and he reads alot of these posts and called me and said that a few breeders wanted some info on our bull. So I replyed. Never new this was on the site I always used it just for the markets.
 
Mohnen said:
I wasn't hiding my brother in-law is ag banker in town and he reads alot of these posts and called me and said that a few breeders wanted some info on our bull. So I replyed. Never new this was on the site I always used it just for the markets.
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Your brother in law isn't Sandhusker is he? :shock: :lol: :lol:
 
Sic-em reds, Why don't you like 1407?


sic 'em reds said:
Have not used him, but I am planning to use him on some cows this year. He caught my eye last spring in the Angus journal, so I have tried to keep an eye on him. Mainly using him as an outcross. I have only seen calves by him that are pictured in sale catalogs and advertisements.

I visited with a guy a few weeks ago that has been through the Mohnen herd and he said they were a pretty good set of calves. He thought they had a little more rib shape and muscle than some of the other calves, and by other calves he mentioned Aberdeen. He thought both groups were pretty good, but was partial to the 295 calves.

The only thing I am not real fond of is the 1407 on the dam's side, but then again he has 598 on the sire's side. I think he will be a good bull to try this year though.
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BlackCattleRancher said:
Sic-em reds, Why don't you like 1407?


sic 'em reds said:
Have not used him, but I am planning to use him on some cows this year. He caught my eye last spring in the Angus journal, so I have tried to keep an eye on him. Mainly using him as an outcross. I have only seen calves by him that are pictured in sale catalogs and advertisements.

I visited with a guy a few weeks ago that has been through the Mohnen herd and he said they were a pretty good set of calves. He thought they had a little more rib shape and muscle than some of the other calves, and by other calves he mentioned Aberdeen. He thought both groups were pretty good, but was partial to the 295 calves.

The only thing I am not real fond of is the 1407 on the dam's side, but then again he has 598 on the sire's side. I think he will be a good bull to try this year though.
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i'm not trying to speak for sic em reds, but wasn't there some udder issues with 1407 daughters? i haven't been around any, but thought i heard that at one time.
 
I am just not a fan of the 1407 cows that I have seen. Most of them were pretty framy and lacked capacity. I have heard that there can be some udder issues with them. The udder thing can have alot to do with the dam's side also though. None of the cows I have personally seen by 1407 had bad udders, although there were a few that had longer teats than I would prefer, but it's hard to say if 1407 was the cause of that. I have also thought that 1407 and most of the sons I have seen never really had good shape in the stifle and bottom quarter, pretty flat muscle pattern.
 
We got along real well with 1407. Brushpopper 353 dam is a beautiful udderd female at 9 years of age so no trouble there. The grandam is still in the herd at 13 years of age and is as sound as could be has a few more years in her. People said our 1407 females look like freeks complared to some other breeders. But dad has built a solid foundation from the Bon View cow herd as he was heardsman for Howard for six years. When we purchased cows from his sale it was the 7 year old and older cows that paved there way at Bon View. Not the young cows that were leaveing for a reason. His goal was to get at least one daughter out of these older higher producing cows to start his herd.
 
Appreciate your input on all of this Mohnen. Beyond my opinion on 1407, I think the 295 bull will be a good sire to try to get some different bloodlines into my herd. Just going by the numbers and pictures I have seen, it looks like he has some pretty powerful offspring.

I am suprised that his ww and yw epds are so high for his pedigree and performance data? Any thoughts of what has his ww epd so high, at 68? My thoughts are that the calves must really pop to have put his epd up there.

Also, I noticed you only had the two sons in your sale this year, but overall, how do the calves do for ultrasound?
 
The lot 32 bull in our sale was retained in our herd. His new name is Mohnen Long Distance he scaned real well. He is at Genex in Mitchell were dad recieves a phone call a day about what is this bull and tell me more about him. Mohnen Brushpopper 295 and Mohnen Dynamite 1356 Genex are age going to be used by far the hardest on our farm. We sold 295 to Bruns Angus were he was used for two years before we used him. They have dominated there bull sale for three years now and dad just talked to them and said the customers can't get enough of them. We only had two bulls because the rest were heifers. We didn't have a whole lot of them as to just sample them and they did everything we wanted them to do as I believe the other son sold for $5,000 to a local commercial man. Any more questions feel free to call.
 

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