Hardwood 209 ----breeding

Not familar with this bull and wanted some imput on him ....

Harwood 209- is a bull I saw last summer. I am not a breeder of sim/angus but love moderate, sound structured beef bulls and 209  is just that. He had just served 60 and looked a million bucks.
Very reputable family with many bull customers.

I would agree, very good family and farm who does sell a lot of bulls.  However, I doubt he had just serviced 60 cows since he hasn't been able to produce any semen for well over a year.  I am not saying he isn't a good bull, but he is only getting cows bred through AI.

Whatt is his pedigree ..........

Harwood is out of the classic bull which is a grandson of meyer.  The cow that he is out of goes back to 6807, powerplant, and black max.  We bred to him last year and have all of them on the ground now.  The look pretty good I think.  We used him on bigger cows that were longer necked and we got along really good on those type of cows.  Most of them were angus cows but we got a really nice hfr calf out of him and a paddy o malley cow.  The calves start out really tall and gangly but really fill out and turn around in the first ten days two weeks.  I personally really like the calves (the hfrs anyway) and will for sure use again.  He is probably something we will use on our second calvers before we start breedin them clubby.

Sparty-- I find it interesting that he hasnt been producing for well over a year because the semen we got last year had a early to mid april collection date on it if i remember right.  Im not sayin your wrong, just was sayin thats when ours was collected and we bred seven units and got seven pregnancies so it must be pretty good stuff. 

Freddy-- if you want to see an add for him got the theshowcircuit.com and go under the ai sires link.  His add is listed under there.

We have used this bull for the past 4 years and love our 209 daughters. We have had the best luck using him on smaller framed Angus cows (Ohlde type)   

I planned on using Jeffs 209 bull on some of our DJ Salution X Maine/Angus daughters, trying to create replacement females with a strong simmi base.  I know of others making the same cross this year?

I've seen alot of his daughters sell at the foundation female sale. From what i've seen down there if you want excellent brood cows who have the potential to sire competitive show prospects, use him. I tip my hat to Harwoods on the job they have done with this bull  (clapping)

Revisit to this post =  when used on red females and chance of red calves?