ideas on what to flush her too

I'd stay away from walks alone unless you want crip calves.

DCC show cattle said:

I would stay away from eye candy or monopoly if you want any of the flushes or calves comin down south the monopolys are not stout enough to slick and the eye candys i have seen down here arent stout or big enough to be champions they are good cattle for sure but i think there are way better bulls to breed to other than follow the trends of everyone else. If everyone breeds to a bull and there are twenty calves out of the same bull in a class then the odds are for that bull. To keep her for heifers i think I-80 or mercedes would be a good click. I would agree with irish whiskey or heatwave though. Just my opinion.

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I agree with Eye Candy and Monopoly not throwing calves that will slick well, but when it comes to what you said about keeping females She's a Dr. Who X Alii/ meyer, Mercedes Benz is an Ali X Dr. Who and I-80 is An Ali out of a cow that goes back to Dr. Who, That's pushing it past linebreeding and into inbreeding in my opinion. Plus neither of those Bulls are really old enough to know how their daughters will perform.

with the pedigree she has a very reliable bull to use would be maverick or somthing like sooner an older genetics maine bull

I understand what your saying about pushing the line but that kinda goes to the conversation of breeding dirty and within cow families its either going to work or its not but when it works you can dang near predict to the T how that cow will breed and they are usually reliable. Predator or sooner might be a better option for high percentage maines. I sure wouldnt be scared to try heatwave, walks alone, or milkman if your flushing her to put in large recip cows! All of our walks alones have been sound enough possibly a tick straight up front but a lot of bulls are that way i think that female with the way she is bred and such shall have plenty of structure in her make up to be fine with walks alone.

Not worried about slick shows since there's none up here. But completely understand where u guys are coming from. Nice thing about this donor is she is 3rd generation calving ease.

if you arent worried about sending one down here then i would definately go heatwave or walks alone. JMO

If you want to go outside the box a little I think that White Chocolate would make both powerfuls Heifers and steers out of her. Good luck on whatever you choose!!

that would be a different mating not sure if it would work but if it clicked you would probably get a good show calf

Eye Candy for sure!

Anybody think any simmy genetics would work on her? For maternal of course, steel force maybe?

I would think steel force would work really well to give you a 50% sim. He has proven himself to produce the best Simmental show heifers. I haven't heard how they are in production.


Zak

theobald and star power work great in maine influenced cows i can post pics of calves out of both of these bulls out of a maine cow

Wyatt,  think those two would be good to make good replacements but not sure their gunna with the show ring......maybe though?