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I was wondering if Foreplay is consider a calving ease bull.  I was told he was and wanted to hear from some other people that may have used him at some time. Thanks! Also, what type of calf does he producer?  I am learning and he is an older bull so it doesn't hurt to ask right?  thanks ahead of time.

He's homozygous black

We had several red calves out of him.  We checked the straws before and after breeding cows and there was no clean up bull used.  Our a.i. pasture is surrounded by a county road or a state highway on all 4 sides so there is no chance of a neighbor bull accident.

We have a Foreplay heifer that had her first calf in the middle of January.  She had no problems calving and takes good care of her calf.  However, she has very little milk compared to the other mamas.  Sorry to hijack the post but when I saw Foreplay mentioned I thought someone might have some insight about his females. 

I showed a Foreplay steers over a decade ago.

I had one inparticular that was very competitive and pretty darn good.

he did get a little big in the end and fiished out 1400#+ (shrunk him a LOT to get a decent show weight on him)

He stayed super sound, had pretty darn good hair, his mother was an older large framed high percentage Maine cow.

We used foreplay years ago on first calf heifers and that was a mistake.  Like JBH said he is not a pure calving ease bull.  Remember one of them came out the side on a simi angus first calf heifer. 

The absolute BEST two cows Ihave ever bred and owned -- you guessed it -- the cow in my Avatar and her full suister 3 years younger.

If I can remember how -- I will insert a fairly decent pic of her at about 6 years old or so, and then the one at 10. She is now 13 and bred to Full Moon. Wish I had 50 of em just like her --

Change her??   HAIR , that's all she is a little lacking on her -- catch a glimpse of her foot size -- if she needs a bigger foot -- I'd hate to see the outcome!

Caution on using Foreplay is fairly simple -- He will pass on the Monkey Mouth gene, and due to Powerplant as his sire -- he WILL pass on Spastic Paresis to his offspring , this cow had a Spastic Heat Wave calf, and a Monkey Mouth by Chill Factor -- so it is my fault -- I pushed the envelope too hard.

She had a Heet Seeker a few years ago that won every thing he went to --

That's my take on Foreplay -- and if Ihad some good sim-angus cows as F-1's, and not too big, he'd be the bull I'd go to even today. Nthard calving, but not for puny hfrs either!

Take care all -- Terry
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she looks like she should work well with Foreplay, but you could consider newer bulls to.

They make the best mama's!  We never had any trouble calving heifers out of them, but we watched what was on her side carefully.