Any Experience with Conneally Freightliner??

We decided about a year ago to get involved with showing some purebred Angus heifers.  The breeder we are dealing with is local to us and has been in the Angus business a very long time.  Due to the drought this year, he was looking to unload his entire heifer calf crop and we bought them all.  We are showing a couple, but the primary purpose of this deal is get my sons in the registered Angus business. 

He is very interested in helping my sons out and has offerred us a very good deal on some embryos he's had banked - sire is Conneally Freightliner and dam is a really good EXT daughter. 

Does anyone have any experience with Freightliner that could tell me the good and bad about him?  I've heard the name but that's it.  We've already bought the embryos, I'm just curious what to expect.

As a side note, this is one of those deals that 4-H is all about, and one of the reasons you should try to deal with local breeders when possible.  He's getting older and just not able to mess with as much "stuff" as he used to.  This man doesn't have children and frankly is wanting to impart his knowledge on someone.  He watched my boys show at the county fair for a couple of years and watched them doing their own work and decided he liked them.  He approached us to come look at his cattle.  We did and bought a show heifer last year and did pretty well at Texas majors (4th at FW and 6th at Houston in big 30+ head classes).  This isn't "daddy's" deal, he deals directly with my young sons and they work their own deals with him and learn a lot in the process.  He questions them extensively about their project and comes to see them every couple of weeks. It's a lot of fun watching them learn from someone besides family.

Should make some awesome females freightliner and ext both make beautiful udders. Some of the best angus cows i have seen have come out of those bulls should be breed average for birthweight with above average growth and muscle. Females should be pretty showy as  they should have extended fronts with a lot of middle. Sounds like the person u are getting these from know's good angus cattle.  Good Luck!!

I'd 2nd that. At work we run 125 commercial cows on pretty rough pasture and little to no love. Every year we have 3-4  bulls go down. But not the 2  Freightliner sons. I think the are a  4 and a 5  year old. They just go to work and never miss a beat and are easy to work with and look great year round. Daughters are same way out of them 2 bulls.

My brother always had good things to say about Freightliner- one of his favorite bulls.  Nice production cattle.  Females showed up to work and as previously noted, above average growth. 

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Looks to be a well rounded bull, avg. on CED, good on CEM, good b.w., good growth, real good E.N., good milk, moderate in size, scrotal king +2.22 wow (fertility), looks like his biggest weakness and it's not that big of one, is his docility epd -7, breed avg. is +8, -7 isn't terrible but it's not a plus 30 either, I'm sure he's got a lot of good calm calves out there (just something to pay attention to).  We've got  a couple bulls with -8 on docility and one gets a little excited sometimes and the other is about the calmest bull we've ever had.  They come up with the docility epd by producers running animals through a chute and working them and gauging how agressive they act.  Sounds like your sons got a good deal going.  (clapping)

Lot of people use him for females, great producers, when we used him his bulls were very popular an they have great testicle development...Some cows on the hard keeping order ,but if they breed back an raise a good calf they don't need to llook like a picture cow .....

Thanks for all of the info folks.  This breeder focuses purely on maternal quality and doesn't use bulls until they are well proven.  Lots of 6807, EXT, and various Sitz bulls throughout the pedgress of the girls we bought.

chambero said:

Thanks for all of the info folks.  This breeder focuses purely on maternal quality and doesn't use bulls until they are well proven.  Lots of 6807, EXT, and various Sitz bulls throughout the pedgress of the girls we bought.

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Sounds like a darn fine foundation.  Don't screw it up.   ;D Just kidding.

Freightliners were/are nice productive cows.

BadgerFan said:

Sounds like a darn fine foundation.  Don't screw it up.   ;D Just kidding.

Freightliners were/are nice productive cows.

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That's the truth though.  Got a lot to learn so we don't screw it up.  Different ballgame than show steers.