Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

What part of the country are you from?  There are some cattle out there that should fit what you are looking for.

Don Holliman from Mcdonald Ks. I don't think they paper the Shorthorn cattle any more since Bolze got canned.

No problem glad to help-Thats a pretty diverse cross section-JMO-If you sre going to sell any type of show calves-they can be maternal but they have to be thick-and there are cattle like that in no nonsense commercial conditions-Straight performance cattle are very tough to show anywhere-but can do ok with a mix of thick butted breeding in there-So you go to herds that have spent alot of money in certain instances but arent in the advertising-promotional flow-If they were still around-Id say Backenhus ot Schombergs In Nebraska for examples of type-or where those cattle went-Ive got a few suggestions

If you are ever in the Des Moines area we are about 25 minutes south.  We have built up our shorthorn herd over the past 25 years to about 50+ cows.  Our goal is to raise a few steers/heifers for the show ring and then feed out the rest for our locker beef market.   We have AI'd a lot to build up our quality but most recently used a lot of  Farrer's bull like Starburst, Near Perfect and Hear Me Now, & King Of Men.  We kept a couple of son's last year for in herd use only.    The majority of our herd bulls have come from the Strope's , O'Neil, NE.   Our current herd bull is a Red Reward son that came from Sullivans originally but we purchased from Stropes.  .  You can look at our web site www.amosherefordfarm.com to see pictures of winners/sires.  Herefords are our main herd.

We will be selling the majority of our 2019 heifer crop starting this fall .   We need to cut back on numbers.  AI heifers are out of Red Sensation and Kane Captain but the majority  sired by Sull Red Bounty. 

You are welcome to look anytime. 

i wish i could help. maybe try looking on Facebook? or asking if any of the OG's on steer planet if they know anyone.
best of luck

ska

THANK You for compliment Mark. We keep working at it.   I am not sure how to private message on here but my email is cdamos@msn.com.  I hope to start taking pasture pictures now that the cow/calves are in a better pasture and the bull is out. 

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Unfortunately I can't get the other cow's picture to save in a small enough format,  but here's the only commercial cow we have left. She's been so productive I couldn't let her go and I'm working on breeding up her progeny to purebred status.