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Vintage Angus Semen Auction

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