Sorry, I didn’t realize I was keeping you all in suspense, had to get chores done before I could come in and play. Here is a picture of him, he doesn’t stand still very long, he likes to play so it’s really hard to get a good one, he’s a little stretched, but it was the best one.
First of all, he is a bull, his BW was 102 and he was born on Sunday, but no, he has some in him, but he’s not a Heat Wave.
He has a really different breeding combo; we raised both the sire and dam:
Dam is a Goldette (Maine) X Heat Wave
Sire is our Black Dice donor X to Anchor
The Black Dice donor is the dam of the champion 2002 Belt Buckle, OKC and the National Jr. Maine Steer Show both shows, also the 2005 Reserve Champion National Jr. Maine Steer Show and Champion Bred and Owned, we decided to flush her to Anchor trying to get some really maternal heifers to keep back in herd, what we got was a bull and decided to keep him for limited use in herd for the lines that aren’t out of her, honest to goodness he looks like an Angus bull. We only bred him to 2 cows last year so I guess we really won’t get a good test on him till next year, can’t wait to see what the other one looks like.
SD- to answer your walking question, we really haven’t ever had a cripple here so being able to walk isn’t a really big concern for us, he does have some swelling down in the front pastern area, but I think that is just from the chains, time will tell.
Gidget- lol, Earl said last night it was going to look odd to have a post that reads Big
Butt Jill, but if you’d like, I can sure dig up some!