Dirty Hairy Bull

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Bjk cattle

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Looking for advise on using Diry Hairy on a heifer.  She is a massive heifer, but needs to be cleaned up in the front end.  Not interested in cutting a calf out of her, and I heard this bull has a good BW.  Any help would be appreciated.
 

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This may not help much. But we bought our first Dirty Harry heifer this year. We are really happy with her. She is out of a Heatseeker cow and is long bodied and growthy for a HS. Hairy is okay not too shaggy and her temperment is great considering what some of the heat seekers can be like.
I know there are folks on here that have used him in calving ease situations. Maybe bumping this top willl get you a reply or two.
 

kane1598

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he worked great for us, our show heifer from last year won our state fair as a calf. She was the first calf that we ever raised and gained alot of friends in the show ring and is now a promising young donor. He definately worked on our cow, a moderate framed stout but slightly chubby necked heatwave. Ive attached a pic of our heatwave cow with her dirty harry calf, and then the pic of the same heifer calf as a two year old at her last show
 

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Bjk cattle

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My heifer is the same way.  Moderate framed, but very thick.  Front end is too bulky in my opinion. I was hoping he could clean her up.  I look forward to what other people think.  I'm always looking for suggestions.  Thanks for the comments.
 

NSF

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in most cases he will put a good front in them, and everyone that we have dealt with has a super attitude. calving ease has been good for us as well
 

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we used him last year (spring 09 calves).... cleaned up the front ends on everything he was used on........all calves came unasssited roughly 70-80 #'s(one easy pull more or less jsut so we didnt have to stay up in the night and wait for her to calve)................. clean fronted, good sided,  O0HAIRY O0 , could use more bone but no complaints for a heifer bull... keeping 2 heifers as cows sold one as a market heifer. sold 2 steers by him..... we'd use him again. any other questions feel free to pm me
Andrew
 

TMJ Show Cattle

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We raised 4 Dirty Harry calves this year. All came in 80-85lb. range. Tremendous hair on all [mothers have good hair] really good attitudes [puppy dog type]. All of the calves sold as show calves 2500 and up. Will keep using him. Heifers grow to moderate frame and appear to be making good mothers.
 

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kane1598 said:
he worked great for us, our show heifer from last year won our state fair as a calf. She was the first calf that we ever raised and gained alot of friends in the show ring and is now a promising young donor. He definately worked on our cow, a moderate framed stout but slightly chubby necked heatwave.

this.
 

clonefan

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Raised several and seen alot of Dirty Hairys calved real easy all became too straight, wouldn't touch one of them
 

Steer4Caddy

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I would agree.  Have had 20 or so and the good stout ones are all too straight.  Again I wonder why we continue to do this because most of the bulls out there are the same deal. 
 

herefordfootball

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Had a dirty harry out of a heifer, 90lbs unassisted. Cow need more extension up front and he put that in the calf. He added thickness and an awesome front to the calf.
 
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