Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

I know!! That's awesome.... Wish mine could 

Anyone?

Pretty amazing to have that kind of inventory to sell One of these days we need to get one-But you would probably disown me for breeding some of the right oldschool Oklahoma range cattle  blood or maybe reasonable fullblood maine I thought at the time the magic blood in the nineties on them knocked one out of the park

Is JSF Hot Wire semen available?

Thanks for the picture.   If I had seen both pictures without identification,  I would not have suspected that they were the same bull.    It is a sad comment that Hot Commodity has 1528 registered calves,   889 had birth weights,  277 had weaning weights and only 98 with yearling weights.   There is a lot of chatter on here about how Shorthorn Association doesn't do enough for the breeders.   Well,   those who live in glass  houses shouldn't cast stones!    The Association can't be faulted when breeders won't do the basics for themselves!

Zero value in submitting data UNLESS you have calves sired by high accuracy reference sires WITHIN THE SAME CONTEMPORARY GROUP.  Without relevant sample sizes, much of what the ASA is trying to accomplish with EPDs is useless.  Even look at sire test.   They�re doing as much bad as they are good by having contemporary groups with such minimal sample sizes and references.  They need to limit the number of bulls to about 5 so that enough calves can be born from each to produce relevant sample sizes.  Using 1 offspring within a contemporary group as a �reference� will result in misleading results every time.  Reality is few breeders have the ability to produce relevant sample sizes.

Additionally, I�m not sure measuring terminal metrics has any benefit to those breeding shorthorns who most purposefully serve as a component of the momma cow, not the terminal sire. 

I saw HC in 2012 or so.   I don�t remember him looking too much like that mature pic posted above.  I thought he more similar design wise to JPJ- but better structured.  Haven�t seen many offspring but the ones I have appeared to have enough capacity be to be useful.  Frequently this is the common fault with the showier lines- they�re gutless and super flat sided. You can see Evolution take on more of this form.  I�d pay somebody to AI my cows to HC� I wouldn�t use Evo if it were free. There is no possible upside great enough to offset the birthweight risk inherent in the genetics seen on the bottom side of his pedigree.   A HC son that is solid that doc mentioned is Hotwire.  The calves I�ve seen from JsF and Waukaru were all nice with that extra touch of middle SHs (as a breed) so desperately need.