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OH Breeder

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Just came out this year right? I think he might be interesting. Has some interesting sibs if you follow the links on him.
 

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Yes he is new this year.  Some of the buyers are not wanting to buy the little hairball left overs @ the sale barns in our area. I wish the hair fad would backoff some. It's kinda crazy to breed for hair as a trait in cattle unless you're from a colder climate. What do you PPL in the south do to keep the little hairballs comfortable? Brent
 

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I think that bull would sire some train wrecks.  They are promoting him as calving ease, I think there are better alternatives out there.
 

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I think he'll certainly downsize. I can't imagine he'll a high birth weight bull but since no calves on ground time will tell.

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Close friend of mine used a Highland bull on virgin heifers some years ago from Curtis Breeders for calving ease and that didn't work. Brent
 

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CAB said:
Close friend of mine used a Highland bull on virgin heifers some years ago from Curtis Breeders for calving ease and that didn't work. Brent

see Brent, I know squat about Highlanders. Do they usually have large calves? From his size I'd expect very small framed calves.

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CAB

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  I should have been clearer asking about the little hot hairballs. I didn't mean for the 1 - half dozen that fit in the cooler/under the fans, I meant the ones that aren't good enough to be pampered that you are stuck with, or do you not breed clubbie hairball bulls in the south to your cows? Some of the cows and calves really suffer the heat and humidity here in the midwest. Brent
 

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  I don't know if they would be so large. I think that they are more like a block coming out. The friend of mine called today and we got to talking about, wouldn't it be fun to try XYZ breeds, and he said that he had tried the Highland breed on, I believe either SM or Char heifers, but don't quote me on that. He just said that, that experiment failed the test. Brent
 

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I think it would be interesting to have some cows that were diluted down to say 1/8 or 1/16th highlander to see if they still stamped em with the shaggy hair.  A good cow that was an 1/8 or so highlander might have some value...
 

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in regaurds to weight of highlander calves when theyre born; we had a highlander cow that would throw constant 70 lb calves at birth.  calves were, of course, angus X highlander. hope this helps even a little :) not sure what the highlander bull is gonna throw as far as weights.. kinda curious... but i do like his hair O0
 

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CAB said:
  I should have been clearer asking about the little hot hairballs. I didn't mean for the 1 - half dozen that fit in the cooler/under the fans, I meant the ones that aren't good enough to be pampered that you are stuck with, or do you not breed clubbie hairball bulls in the south to your cows? Some of the cows and calves really suffer the heat and humidity here in the midwest. Brent

Brent

Me speaking for my self only; I use hairball bulls. I personally like hairy over slick. But there are a lot of slick haired steer shows around here.
 

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I would breed him to a large framed cow if i were to do it.
 

Steer Boy 101

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There was a family in our county fair who had highland cows. They won our carcass show many times with there HighlandxMainex AngusxChi crosses. They were nice calves in my opinion. i think they like stated before a cow with a tid bit highland would be nice for hair but that bull of lautners i dont think is the ticket. i know so othre ppl are my area are trying him and to say the least are expecting that super calf outta em.
 

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CAB said:
  I should have been clearer asking about the little hot hairballs. I didn't mean for the 1 - half dozen that fit in the cooler/under the fans, I meant the ones that aren't good enough to be pampered that you are stuck with, or do you not breed clubbie hairball bulls in the south to your cows? Some of the cows and calves really suffer the heat and humidity here in the midwest. Brent

We've just now started to deal with this issue on replacement females, I guess because we've just started using the super "hairy" bloodlines a few years ago.  We have two Kadabara heifers that look like woolly mammoths that just had their first babies this fall.  One of them sheds out just fine, but the other looked like heck both summers we had her.  My father-in-law would swear she was "wormy" because her hair would look so ratty.  I had made up my mind to sell them this winter but both bred right on schedule and and calved just fine - and had very good calves.  So, I'm hoping the excess hair just turns out to be an appearance issue in the summer, not a performance problem.  We'll see.

We haven't had any problems with hairy steers not doing fine after being sent to the feedlot.
 

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I have a Kadabra that I sheared twice last year, I shear all my cows in the spring just part of clubbies. 
 
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