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He looks good but you should breed him to everything from for what little my opinions worth. Find out how good he really is my best cows would have a good calf if I bred them to a goat I think! 😂

I have already flushed 2 donors to Fire Storm and am planning a few more flushes to him this spring. I am already planning to order more semen. As I said earlier, this bull is the real deal. When he showed at Agribition, I had a couple well known breeders in another popular breed tell me, that they wished they had a bull like him in their breed.

Do you have any data on his sexed semen conception rates? I am considering using him on my shorthorn cattle. His video and EPDs are impressive. Nice bull!

Great! I may give it a try then. I have purchased conventional this year so I may try it with my spring calves. Thank you for your help!

I have been impressed with Fire Storm since I first saw him and have been using his semen in our ET program since it became available. I have just ordered another 20 straws, which makes 90 straws that I have used so far. I expect I will be using more in the future.
It seems that word is getting around the world as to how good Fire Storm and his offspring are, as I can hardly keep embryos sired by him in inventory. In the past two weeks I have had emails from Argentina and Chile asking only about Fire Storm embryos. I have already sent embryos by him to Australia, the UK and Ireland. A couple months ago, I posted a note on my facebook page offering a set of Fire Storm embryos and within minutes of posting, they sold to a breeder in Australia. I got real lucky, in that I found a tank that was being shipped to Australia that had room and we were able to get them to the buyer in a few days.  I am liking the calves I have seen from him as well
I was very fortunate to have been asked to be a judge of the Supreme Champions at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto in 2017. I thought Fire Storm was easily the winner, but I did wonder if a few people would accuse me of being partial to my own breed if I voted for him. It really wasn't a concern, as when the votes were in, every judge had picked him as Supreme Champion bull. The judges came from across Canada and the US, and some of them told me he was the best Shorthorn bull they had seen in years. I have a full sister to Fire Storm here that will be entering our ET program this spring.
Matt, Dale and Bob, you should be very proud of breeding and developing a sire like Fire Storm. I think he is a real breed improver!

 What are the birthwts like. Ive heard some pretty scary reports here and there RE Waco-on US Genetics-which can be prone to calving problems

Blah blah blah  your post need to include a disclaimer that your cows are 500-800lbs bigger than most and that you regularly use the very highest birthweight genetics IN THE ENTIRE BREED.  This preface would provide some CONTEXT to your bullshit comments about birthweight.

Just the other day on Facebook, JIT was prompting a bull as a potential heifer bull option. Bayview Unique is the bulls name.  Per the bull�s home country registry, this bull is in the very bottom of the breed for both calving ease and birthweight.  With high accuracies nonetheless.   As opposed to using THE ONLY INFORMATION AVAILABLE on the bull, JIT instead injects more salesman bullshit and chooses to pass the dystopia risk on to the googly eyed unsuspecting.     Additional, immediately after this fb convo I got an email stating that the only calf born in Canada do date out of this particular bull was cranked out with a calf puller!  That�s a fact. 

Waco has huge birthweights.  That�s a fact.  This bull in this post is gonna have huge birthweights too.  How absurd is it to suggest that one specimen within a population is the exception to the entire lineage!! This bull and any other bred like him is gonna throw calves that revert to those all within the pedigree. Hello erratic birthweight city.   No one gives a **** about your anecdotes JIT.   There are literally hundreds of calves born across the country and in many times THE WORLD that dispute the opinions of a bullshit salesman like you.  I�ve talked to two people in S America who both told me MAJOR LEROY was the biggest birthweight bull they ever used. And these aren�t pissants.  I�m talking people with hundreds of cows.  Myself and another guy in Texas used 2 different Major Leroy sons, and just like the S Americans experience with his sire,, these bulls had the largest bw calves either of us had as well.   The dishonesty of those LIKE YOU are the exact reason EPDS were created: to dilute your word and your reportings in favor of reportings from those who prefer HONESTY.