Our Monopoly x Built Right bull calf

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firesweepranch

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We brought our Monopoly x Built Right in today and gave him the first bath and clip job...
420 pounds today, on just milk and hay
What do you think? We need to decide if we should cut him or leave a bull...
 

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firesweepranch

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He has not been tested, but the only thing he might be carrying is th, from Monopoly. He should be clean of anything else, since the dam is clean.
 

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I would think that if you decide to keep him a bull and intend to sell him that you will need to get him tested for TH status. Anyone that has been breeding clubbie will have to know.
  Very nice calf BTW. Great growth.

 

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Oh heck, just list him as "TH Pending" for the next 2 years if you leave him a bull.  The big boys do it all the time.
 

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He certainly looks like he'll make a bull to me.  Someone ought to really like the combination of Built Right and Monopoly.  I'd leave them in....performance is certainly good enough also.
 

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As long as there were no calving issues and he wasn't a monster bw I would leave him a bull. He looks sound and if he keeps growing well you might even talk a couple of commercial folks into using him to pretty up and power up some cows. Nice Bull.
 

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I would think his best chance would be as a clean up bull for a club calf operation.

Is he a half blood Simmental?  If so, he might make some low % Simmental steers or heifers.
 

firesweepranch

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LLBUX said:
I would think his best chance would be as a clean up bull for a club calf operation.

Is he a half blood Simmental?  If so, he might make some low % Simmental steers or heifers.

Yes, he is half blood and already registered. We are THE (Total Herd Enrollment) so everything gets papered regardless. I would have him tested, or advise that, if sold as a bull. But I do not want to pay for a TH if he is steered, because it would not matter.
I was thinking clean up for a club calf operation also, just not sure how to hit that market since we are seedstock and provide bulls for the commercial market and PB breeders. Thus, why I asked... since I am not used to marketing a clubby bull.
 

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This is his dam. She is a 2007 Built Right cow that won a ton. We had her in Iowa at the last nationals there (2010, I think), where Brandon Callis was the judge. He placed her third overall as Cow Calf pair, and there was a bunch there. She is ultra feminine, with a perfect udder, super tight neck and clean shoulder. Every female but one she has produced we have kept, and every granddaughter of hers we have kept (all in our herd still).
 

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