Favorite Maine Anjou Bull

Muddy Creek Show Cattle said:

I have a cow that is 43.75% Maine, so I would not mind breeder her to a PB or high % Maine Anjou bull. She is out of BK Power Plus so he is not an option, also there is a chance she is a PHA carrier, so it would need to be a PHAF bull. Lets hear your favorites!

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few favorite oldies
FR Magic 179X - if you can find it
Majors Money Man
Calberta Black Impact

Neither Cigar nor Payoff would be a bad choice, and the Witch Doctor still makes a pretty nice calf - I am also very fond of the old bull Topper - makes great females

Ali or one of his sons. Hes been around a long time and I consistently see good calves out of him. You cant really go wrong with him

A bunch of good choices from everyone.

I'm  prejudice with the Tyson bull or a good son. Really like their structural integrity. Calving ease and design would be ZNT Montego Bay (a Tyson son and maybe Homozygous solid and polled) as one of my favorites. He is also linebred to Hardcore's mother and her full sister which makes him unique as they were both very productive cows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8ZuUpH5fI

to be a maintainer you only need 25% so you could breed a bull with 25% or even a little less and get a maintainer .. but i would try chill factor ,m-benz  or even doctor who

I was hoping to get a calf I could register Maine, not maintainer

ok tyson is great,he is the most impresive calving ease sire ive seen. he is really thick and sound, hes a little bit big but wont make the calf leggy

Muddy Creek Show Cattle said:

I was hoping to get a calf I could register Maine, not maintainer

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I would have to check the percentage upgrade sheets again but unfortunately I don't believe you can get Maine Anjou papers out of a 3/8. I think it would end up being 5/8 bred to a purebred and you would have mainetainer papers. Not sure on that though. I think 3/4 is Maine papers and anything below would be maintainer? Somebody can set me straight on that.

yes i think 75% is for hiefers but someone told me you need 80% or somthin for a bull

Muddy Creek Show Cattle said:

I was hoping to get a calf I could register Maine, not maintainer

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I am not sure how you got your percentage - it is btwn 3/8 and 4/8 which are the % the AMAA uses in its upgrade chart but it doesn't really matter as the results are the same. If your cow is 3/8 breeding her to a purebred or fullbood will give you a 3/4 (75%) calf which is a high percentage Maine and registered as a Maine, not a Maintainer. It doesn't matter at this level what the offspring is ie female or male - it is 75%

I have not registered the cow yet so that is where I got the percentage, I was only going to register her if there was a for sure way I could get a Maine calf out of her...

Muddy Creek Show Cattle said:

I have a cow that is 43.75% Maine, so I would not mind breeder her to a PB or high % Maine Anjou bull. She is out of BK Power Plus so he is not an option, also there is a chance she is a PHA carrier, so it would need to be a PHAF bull. Lets hear your favorites!

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I think you meant to say that your heifer is sired by BK Power Plus.  Since we know nothing about the Dam, and have no pictures of your heifer, we must make our Sire suggestions based on genetics alone.  I have spent quite a bit of time digging through the PB Maine-Anjou gene pool.  From my findings, my choice to breed this heifer to produce the best possible registerable high % Maine-Anjou calf is-------------------    BFW MITTEN MAN Q35P.

Yes the cow is sired by BK Power Plus, and I have no info on the Dam....thank you for suggestion, I will look into the bull.

I'd look @ predator & Rumor Mill.  Seen Rumor Mill in person, a real good bull. Rumor Mill is a Mercedes Benz son out of an Irish Whiskey Dam, THF and PHAF.