Duramax

DakotaCow · Apr 14, 2010

Last may I was looking at the sale page of Topsires and noticed Duramax semen for 9 bucks a unit, I bought 20 units just for gits and shiggles because I had liked the bull and thought he would be good to breed to those your just not sure about. Turns out the semen quality was awesome, I got 9 out of 10 stuck and that's with second calf heifers. What even better is the calves I have so far. Out of the Golden Child, Warrant, Waznt Me, Hairy, Alias, Paddy O' Malley, duramax, and Womanizer calves I have so far the Duramax calves are the most uniform in terms of birth weight, and vigor at birth. He seems to make them pretty black with no paint, he will make smokies though and I have one calf that is a little too straight, but that's also the cows fault. Granted they are only a couple weeks old I am impressed with him and will go back to him this year, and even use him on some of my better cows! I will post some pictures if you would like as they grow. I'm just putting this out there that underused bulls can still be of value come breeding time and at a pretty nice price! (thumbsup)

cotullaguy · Apr 14, 2010

glad to hear this. I am too thinking there are bulls out there that will work but due to no marketing or poor marketing, they are not talked about.

afhm · Apr 14, 2010

A lot of the featured breds in McKay's sales have been Duramax's.

shufly · Apr 29, 2010

Any pictures of your Duramax calves that you could share with us???? I got one calf out of him when he was a newbie but I thought he was just ok and haven't used him since. What types of cows did you use him on?

DakotaCow · Apr 29, 2010

You name it i used him on them, I do not have pictures since my camera is MIA currently but I will work on getting some and post them.

Bone2011 · Apr 29, 2010

I think this is one of the problems with trying to get a bull promoted and get people to use him in his first year in the club calf industry, because a pretty good bull can slide under the radar with alot of people if he is not promoted well in his first year, and if he doesn't hit a big homerun in his first year he really doesn't get used much again.

OH Breeder · Apr 29, 2010

DakotaCow said:
Last may I was looking at the sale page of Topsires and noticed Duramax semen for 9 bucks a unit, I bought 20 units just for gits and shiggles because I had liked the bull and thought he would be good to breed to those your just not sure about. Turns out the semen quality was awesome, I got 9 out of 10 stuck and that's with second calf heifers. What even better is the calves I have so far. Out of the Golden Child, Warrant, Waznt Me, Hairy, Alias, Paddy O' Malley, duramax, and Womanizer calves I have so far the Duramax calves are the most uniform in terms of birth weight, and vigor at birth. He seems to make them pretty black with no paint, he will make smokies though and I have one calf that is a little too straight, but that's also the cows fault. Granted they are only a couple weeks old I am impressed with him and will go back to him this year, and even use him on some of my better cows! I will post some pictures if you would like as they grow. I'm just putting this out there that underused bulls can still be of value come breeding time and at a pretty nice price! (thumbsup)

The only downer for me is he is a PHC. I have thought about using him but we dont have any PHC not sure I want any.

DakotaCow · Apr 29, 2010

That is the downside to Duramax being a carrier but we use clubby bulls primarily as a terminal sire set and to market a few as show calves, only the clean and very good get kept as replacement females.

OH Breeder · Apr 29, 2010

DakotaCow said:
That is the downside to Duramax being a carrier but we use clubby bulls primarily as a terminal sire set and to market a few as show calves, only the clean and very good get kept as replacement females.

I see the breeding on Duramax but am wondering what types of cows did you use him on. I have a variety of cows and do breed some for terminal only. I see the clubby sires but wonder if the cows were alot like the CHarlois cow you posted? If you could post some calves that would be great.

DakotaCow · Apr 29, 2010

I used him on anything from red angus cows, char crosses, and simmy influenced cows as i posted earlier in the thread. I will post pictures when i can find my camera and some pictures of the dams.

DakotaCow · Apr 30, 2010

I was able to take a picture of one of the durmax calves before the light was all gone, the cow in the background is his mother. As you can see she is not an impressive cow by any means pretty shallow and plain.

cotullaguy · May 1, 2010

DakotaCow said:
I was able to take a picture of one of the durmax calves before the light was all gone, the cow in the background is his mother. As you can see she is not an impressive cow by any means pretty shallow and plain.

can you get a side profile shot of the calves...? I am interested in seeing them...

DakotaCow · May 1, 2010

I will try to get some profile pictures but this was just with a cellphone when I got home. I never have had luck with getting a calf to stand broadside.

cotullaguy · May 1, 2010

DakotaCow said:
I will try to get some profile pictures but this was just with a cellphone when I got home. I never have had luck with getting a calf to stand broadside.

gotcha....sometimes it takes 2 people to get them to not face you....

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