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Vintage Angus Semen Auction

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Anonymous

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Anyone looking for some old (70's-80's) angus semen-- ABS has apparently found some in their tanks they are auctioning off....

http://www.absglobal.com/vintage-semen-auction
 

Faster horses

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Wow, some good stuff there...Rito 707!!! and others.

Vance Top Dawg was probably one of the most overlooked bulls in
the Angus world. He was a good one. IMO

I'll have to make some phone calls. Thanks for posting this!
 

littlejoe

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Faster horses said:
Wow, some good stuff there...Rito 707!!! and others.

Vance Top Dawg was probably one of the most overlooked bulls in
the Angus world. He was a good one. IMO

I'll have to make some phone calls. Thanks for posting this!

hmmm.....think down in the fog of my tank, might have some rito 2100 and rainmaker---in ampules--and maybe few straws of ext---be interesting to see what it brings. several yrs ago---probably many---my buddy was cussing emulation 31? disposition and threw a buncha straws in the dirt----think it turned out to be expensive tank cleaning eventually...
 

katrina

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I have some 8180, 23-4..... And tossed my Vance Top Dog.... I have tried to sell semen and it's worse than horse tradin....
 

Jake

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definately going to be an interesting one to watch. Wouldn't mind having some of it but can't really afford to try it on commercial cows.
 
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Anonymous

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One of the bulls I used several years ago that I haven't seen any semen on was Homestead Blockbuster... Great calving ease- and never pulled a calf bred sired by him or one of his sons-- but did have a little disposition problems with a couple of daughters/sons- and one was plumb nasty...

Been looking for some semen of C H Quantum 6247 "Cedar" 12687606 -- but told by all that should have any left, that none exists anymore...But all of a suddent Cole Creek had 3 sons in last springs sale... :wink:

Now that he is dead he sure is being shown to be a momma cow maker- a pathfinder sire-- and with great sleep all night calving ease.... And as is being shown with Cole Creek Cedar Ridge 16134394 - he seems to linebreed quite well too...
 

PATB

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I would be a little careful on calling cedar ridge a non worry calving ease bull. I had a calf that weighed 100 pounds this fall by him. I am also planning on keeping a son back for next years herd sire.
 
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Anonymous

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PATB said:
I would be a little careful on calling cedar ridge a non worry calving ease bull. I had a calf that weighed 100 pounds this fall by him. I am also planning on keeping a son back for next years herd sire.

Are you saying those magical EPD numbers lied to us again? :wink: :lol:
 

WVGenetics

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Oldtimer said:
PATB said:
I would be a little careful on calling cedar ridge a non worry calving ease bull. I had a calf that weighed 100 pounds this fall by him. I am also planning on keeping a son back for next years herd sire.

Are you saying those magical EPD numbers lied to us again? :wink: :lol:

Just because his EPD would indicate that he is calving ease does not mean he can not throw some larger calves. The phenotypic standard deviation in birthweight is 7 lbs. meaning that the majority (68%) of a bulls calves will be within + or - 7 lbs of the average or 1 standard deviation(14 pound range). Since 3 standard deviations accounts for around 98% of the calf crop (3*7 = 21) the calves will be within a range of plus or minus 21 pounds of the average. Ultimately any given sire can sire a 40 pound range in birthweights in a given calf crop if enough progeny are produced. However this only accounts for sire genetic effects and not maternal genetics or maternal environment.
 

Hay Feeder

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Glad to see this semen at a auction,
I had to dump semen our family had kept on storage for over 30 years of a non popular beef bred . I stopped counting the storage bill on it when it got to five figures.. Three years after I told a AI company to dump it , all of a sudden some of reps thought that was a pretty good breed and started handling that breed. When I had it all I heard it was worthless.
Recently I had worked at a very low level selling beef semen . I really learned a lot . The word gets out quick among the employees when semen is being let go . Interesting that semen gets sold somewhere. In sales people have to make money everyday somehow.
 

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