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VIKING GD60

Faster horses

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Comments from the same paper as Royal Rito. (1999)

"Viking is one of the greatest female sires in the Angus Breed.
One of 11 bulls proven free of all genetic defects. The Midland
Sale topper at $50,000."

Who bought him at Midland? Does anyone know?
 
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Anonymous

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This is the old ABS Viking bull- and ABS owned him:

Betzold Viking B12 Reg: 10192191

http://www.angus.org/common/epd_ped_dtl.html?A=0E061F55555E45425B58425858435F55405C4F465C4F465F520F&B=44425D4C405D4C43


There was also a Shoshone Viking GD 60 that Larry Leonhardt raised- was the grandfather of the ABS Viking bull...
This shows Ben Lawson, Lusk Wyo as the owner of Shoshone Viking...

http://www.angus.org/common/epd_ped_dtl.html?A=0E061F55555E45425B58425858435F55405D4F42554F4655520F&B=4D4A5C404B5544
 

Faster horses

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We AI'd to Betzvold Viking back in 1988. Those calves were born
in that horrible Alberta Clipper that came into western Montana in
late February when those calves dropped. We had a wooden
barn and never froze an ear on those calves.

I had seen some Betzvold Viking calves at Bill Ohrmann's place
in the Flint Creek Valley and had to use that bull. Those were
the best looking Angus calves I had ever seen. We kept all the
heifers for replacements.

I'm telling you, those cows got BIG. REALLY BIG. And hard
doing...and the ones that got older all got stifled. I think it was
because their requirements were so high and we weren't on a
good mineral program when they were young...their bones just didn't hold up.

Anyway, now I know Betzvold Viking was a performance bull.
He topped some big "on test" sale in Iowa. I wouldn't use that
bull for anything now.

And to think, we bought some cows that were AI'd to Nichols Landmark.
It was dry that year and we didn't keep those heifers. I always
wondered how they would have turned out.

Talking about old bulls, remember AAR Maverick? He got such a
bad rap for milk, but I saw some of his daughters in later years and
they were magnificent cows.
 

rainie

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FH: We got into a similar situation a few years ago.Never noticed any particular problems until these cows started to calve and raising calves.We made the mistake of keeping back a bunch of heifers from every calf crop before we knew what we had.Everything was good except that they were hardkeeping son of a guns. Remember sitting at the auction ring and hearing other producers saying goooood angus calves.They sold really well and would usually top the market for that day. I guess some feedlots were eventually starting to remember these cattle and would bid accordingly. Should have just used him as a terminal cross only bull. Moderate framed and easykeeping is all I want now. The calves don't sell as well but we're making more overall profit with these smaller cattle.
 

Denny

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Viking GD60 was purchased by Ben Lawson at Midland.

We bought a GD 60 son in 1998 and have around 40 daughters of him 10 of them are registered they are all moderate framed big gutted cows they weigh between 1050 and 1400# depending on the cow they are from.I have a Grandson now of GD60 he has been used as cleanup on my heifers the last 2 years we collected semen on him 3 weeks ago he had a 43 cm. scrotal and generated 225 straws in one jump.I am not going to do as much AI'ing to the bull stud bull's this year. The calves from this bull are pretty good cattle and I will be Breeding 40 cows naturally to him includeing all the Older 1/2 sisters from my old Viking bull.I also bought 3 1/2 sisters to my new bull.

This area is pretty full of Older Viking genetics Wiese's who Bred Marriot are 30 miles away and had used quite a bit of Ben Lawson's genetics.They had also bought the old Midas bull when he was pretty old.
 

Badlands

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Did Lawson buy Viking in '77, or did the guys in CO buy him first, later selling their interest to Lawson?

Interesting what happened to him. "Disappeared."

Had a Midas son we really liked at one time. Probably was my favorite Angus bull we ever used.

Badlands
 
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