Char X Shorthorn

Has anybody tried any Char X Shorthorn, or char appearing (Milkman, Yellow Jacket, etc.)?  Curious to see pictures.  Thinking of trying this on a few of our reg. shorthorn cows and wandering what the results would be?  Mostly trying to simplify the semen ordering, with only 15 cows would like to keep the different sires to a minimum.

I used Troubadour on 2 last year. One heifer that we kept for a replacemnent and one steer that I sold for a county fair steer. Sorry no photos. I love that cross, done it a for a few years. I would love to try Firewater on some, maybe this year...

The picture is a Char bull on a Shorthorn cow. People I got her from had another one exactly like her just opposite pedigree wise. Also have used Firewater on a White shorthorn cow and got a calf simalar to this heifer.

The ultimate feedlot animal.  <beer>

The Charolais Shorthorn cross works well. In fact in Australia their is a market for half Charolais half Shorthorn bulls.  Generally I find that  Charolais power bulls that put a butt end on a strong top  on the calf work best. Here is a couple of good examples of such  Charolais bulls: http://www.semex.com/beef/i?lang=en&beef=view&breed=CH&av=U&view=91 or http://www.semex.com/beef/i?lang=en&beef=view&breed=CH&av=U&view=100.

I saw a really good CharXRAXSH at Lakeside a few years ago.  he was a troubidor I think.  My friend will have 5 coming this year out of char cows any my Doc Clark bull.  They should be really neat.

Here in southern Brazil a classic cross were SHO x CHAR. This was used for many years to add meat quality, fat and precocity on fast weight gain Charolais cows.
On early this year I sold 500 straws of my roan bull for some breedrs that wish do again this cross. Together Charolais cows, they also used on half blood Brahman/Aberdeen Angus cows.
Photos attached.
The yellowish calf is a half blood Charolais cow x Shorthorn bull. The black one is 50% Shorthorn, 25% Angus, 25% Brahman.

Craig Steck had a heifer out of a Shorthorn cow and the bull Tinman. A blue roan, lot 12. I thought she was pretty cool.

http://www.djsshorthorns.com/salecattle.html

Davis Shorthorns said:

I saw a really good CharXRAXSH at Lakeside a few years ago.  he was a troubidor I think.  My friend will have 5 coming this year out of char cows any my Doc Clark bull.  They should be really neat.

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Yes- I used Troubadour on a Sh x RA female . Here is a calf video. "Bucky's" calves are due in a couple of months- he was used on clubby type first calf heifers....

  Again this bull video is a 3 way cross

Sorry

http://youtu.be/QxHRjKeOWKs

Oost pictures of the Bucky calves when the time comes-he looks like hed work on clubbys O0

mark tenenbaum said:

Oost pictures of the Bucky calves when the time comes-he looks like hed work on clubbys O0

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Mark, I will send em when I see em! 

  Ohio Breeder  please post the pic you have of a char x short hfr ... 

Props to my photographer Quinton Keeran!

Heifer is a June 2012 model. sire is Jake's Unbelievabull shorthorn. ( Jake's Proud Jazz x Poly Cumberland Cow) and she is out of a Charolais cow that goes back to Gregory Farms Snowflake Donor.