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Picures of bulls you have used and who worked for you.

Red Robin

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Lets start another thread posting links or pictures to bulls you have used and did like. I think it is easier to find faults with bulls than it is to find bulls that worked for you.
Here's one I liked .
http://www.bovine-elite.com/angredepd.asp?ID=59
 

Badlands

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Badlands
 

lazy ace

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Hey RR do you want just pictures or pictures, pedigrees and EPD's?


going to a wedding supper tonight. this might be a sunday project.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

lazy ace

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Here you go RR. This is a 97 model we raised. He is proven calving ease bull and throws outstanding females with excellent udders. He is high in marbling and throws easy keeping cattle. We still use him in our AI program.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Jake

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OCC Legend 616L got 2 calves on the ground by him and one is one heck of a little bull calf.
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WK Dateline 7270 used on heifers one year and really liked the calves, have one bull that we saved that is a red bull and a solid critter
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we have many, many more that have worked well for us but I'm short on patience to get the pictures loaded up right
 

AX-

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Hey Ollie or Red Robin - That is the Lazy Ace bull I was telling you about that I liked. BHR Logan. I really like his look. His EPD's aren't super, but I've used similar EPD bulls and had great look. He looks like he would have super daughters to me!!!
 

Red Robin

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That's kind of what I thought Badlands. I wonder why? I've used a few bulls I like alot. As a matter of fact I like most bulls I use.
 

IL Rancher

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I had some bulls I liked.. Sold them before I took any pictures of them :oops: But they didn't do anything real special, just nice growing, thick calves that were born unassisted... Why the heck did I sell them?

I had pretty much all new bulls this year except two holdover Tarentaise bulls that were my insurance policy... Good thing I kept them around as I had 2 bulls come up lame and 3 injury their money maker... Now, most are healed up but one is still limping and one is on the next truck to town. Probably the two that came up lame will be on that truck too unless I change my mind for some unforseable purpose... Hard to say you really liked a bull if you haven't had calves out of it yet.


Used a bull from a Montana Angus studl on AI that had some great feeder steers produced. Females were awfull pretty but I sold all of them as they just had one problem.. They kept growing, and growing and growing, lol.. Little larger than I prefered..
 

Jinglebob

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Badlands said:
Wow!

Almost 4 days and not very many replies.

Not very many folks are too happy, are they?

Badlands

I've had lots of bulls I liked. I just ain't got no pictures of them and if I did, I wouldn't be able to post them on here, very handy.

'Sides, some of us have other things to do. :p :p :p

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Jinglebob

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IL Rancher said:
I had some bulls I liked.. Sold them before I took any pictures of them :oops: But they didn't do anything real special, just nice growing, thick calves that were born unassisted... Why the heck did I sell them?

I had pretty much all new bulls this year except two holdover Tarentaise bulls that were my insurance policy... Good thing I kept them around as I had 2 bulls come up lame and 3 injury their money maker... Now, most are healed up but one is still limping and one is on the next truck to town. Probably the two that came up lame will be on that truck too unless I change my mind for some unforseable purpose... Hard to say you really liked a bull if you haven't had calves out of it yet.


Used a bull from a Montana Angus studl on AI that had some great feeder steers produced. Females were awfull pretty but I sold all of them as they just had one problem.. They kept growing, and growing and growing, lol.. Little larger than I prefered..

You should have sold them to Jason. Thats the kind he likes. :wink:
 

passin thru

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This got me to thinking. I went back and looked at pics and no's. Sometimes the bull that took the prettiest pic isn't the one that put the dollars in the pocket. What more is there to say.

I guess it's kinda like the cheerleader in high school........man she was something to look at..................but you didn't take her home to meet your mama.
 
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Anonymous

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Don't know much about all those red bulls- but the black bull that probably has done the most postive influence on my cows has been QAS Traveler 23-4 - which was originally bred and raised in Canada- and sold for $60,000 (which was a pretty penny back then) ...Over the years I have probably got more of his breeding influence than any other bull- having used sons, grandsons etc......And for the last couple years have one double bred 6807 bull (son of 23-4) I have been using which so far I'm pleased with.....

http://www.stevensonbasin.com/foundation.html

While looking for a picture of old traveler 23-4 I found an interesting story on how he came to be....
http://www.bar15simm.com/traveler.htm

The one bull that I wish I would have used more of was Homestead Blockbuster...I used some sons of his that turned out some real nice heifers and now I wish I had kept many more...Another place where low accuracy EPD's scared me as he was like a +.8 MH EPD bull while alive- that I was afraid would throw too framey of cows-- but after being used for a few years and progeny checked turned out to be a -.5....Was almost a sure deal calving ease bull...
http://sale_catalog.tripod.com/sires/id6.html
 

farmerD44

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here is a black simmy that worked great for us
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and here is a sitz alliance son we are hoping will work well for us when his calves come next spring.
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Northern Rancher

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Quentin and Anne had a great set of cattle for sure. I doubt that any bull in any breed has had as much impact as 23-4-I heard he died and bought up all the semen I could find on him up here. I did all right on it. I'm pretty sure descendants of the old bull must number in the millions by now-nopt many Angus cattle don't have him in the pedigree. That is a pretty good story about how he came to be.
 

Faster horses

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OT, I never did like the 598 part of Homestead Blockbusters pedigree.
From what I've seen of those cattle they just get longer, taller and
more narrow.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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FH I haven't made it to bed yet.

OT Traveler was a North Dakota bull not Canada. Quentin just came to Canada to find a wife and liked it so much he stayed.
I remember Ann from my college days. We just partyed abit back then.

That Homestaed bull, Was he Canadian? I knew of a Homestead Angus up here.
 

S.S.A.P.

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So Northern rancher - no wonder we couldn't find any 23-4 semen .. :!:


Here's a Pine Drive son we use:
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He's a wounded man right now - don't think he'll get over it.

He has a maternal sister sired by a home-raised Traveler son - this is her
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Her 2004, 7078 son, South Shadow Dateline 18P is also used here;
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She also raised the high seller in our 06 bull sale (which happened to be a "heifer" bull) out of South Shadow Rain Man 2M, pictured below
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2M and the following bull South Shadow Macho 25L (Elixir sired) are out of half-sisters.
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The Jay En Dee prefix you'll see, is my in-laws.


The other bulls we currently use (mainly registered herd but natural sires also work the commercial herd) are on these pages:
http://www.southshadow.homestead.com/Black_Angus_Reference_Sires.html
There's a link to more detail for each bull listed there in either the natural or AI sire pages.
http://www.southshadow.homestead.com/Angus_Herd_Sires.html
http://www.southshadow.homestead.com/A_I__Service_Sires.html

Reference sires for the commercial herd are here:
http://www.southshadow.homestead.com/Natural_Service_Herd_Sires.html
With 'past' sires here;
http://www.southshadow.homestead.com/More_Herd_Sires.html

With the help of our future daughter in law, I took a mess of cow pictures through the last month or so. There are daughters of the above bulls in there - just haven't had time to get them all online - to many irons in the fire right now!
 
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