Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

What are you wanting the offspring of your cows to do? I assume you are trying to raise show stock. Without having pictures or much to go on from the cows pedigrees it's kind of tough to say. What is your end goal? What are you ideally wanting to raise? A little more context may be helpful in suggesting bull decisions.

What are you wanting the offspring of your cows to do? I assume you are trying to raise show stock. Without having pictures or much to go on from the cows pedigrees it's kind of tough to say. What is your end goal? What are you ideally wanting to raise? A little more context may be helpful in suggesting bull decisions.

I am primarily looking to breed sound and functional foundation females that can raise a good calf. Most of my cows were bought locally and are just a hodgepodge with no real pedigrees. The few that I've bred who are out of registered sires are out of Simmentals (HF Double D (HF Double Down x HF Mac's Girl) or Golden Dawn Mudface (Crossroad Radium x Golden Dawn Julie)). And I've got two Shorthorn X heifers that are out of Shorthorn + sires (stated at bottom of the original post). The end goal overall is to breed some show stock, but I would like to breed good foundation females first that can produce functional animals that will do decent in the ring.

Trying to attach a few of my cows for some idea of what types.

You might want to peek at the thread right close to you OKC DENVER Bulls theres a Triple clean 84 pound BW 1220 at 11 months 1.0 BW epd White Shorthorn bull who IS the widest made sound caf Ive seen anywhere at that age in a growth stage HE will make two of any clubbys ive seen lately hes still growing and looks it. Unlike some of the fat turtles I observed He  was not presented hogfat HE WAS BY FAR the thickest hiest performing Shorthorn at the show period Cow families  You may not be familiar however some of the Breeders on here will- Augusta pride back to 3127  Cumberlands (sonny) Margies, Desert Rose AR SULU MEG  Rocker Bros Ruby the Cates Queen family all on the pedigree *4305735 Comptons Justified  Hes horned but just like breeds such as the  herefords that makes him stouter and like the Irish Cattle more of a preponent changer  Since most of his entire pedigree is polled I wouldnt be surprised if alot of his calves may be too-bred to polled females

As of yesturday I could have sent you the show video dont know if I can now He was also reserve division at the American royal "national show" in another fiasco Although GO FIGURE NO PICTURE OF HIM WAS POSTED IN THE COUNTRY THIS WAS versus a frail rolling pins to hooks no butt huge sheathed cow killing genetics political deal who weighed close to 500 pounds less than him  and was named "reserve national champion" LOL  That phenominal piece of bovine substance (POS) didnt show up  at this National Show Even though the breeder? had a bunch of other cattle there  The way this calf moves out is his strongest suit There are several pretty well known people who can verify that including Gargan on here and the lady who developed the TJH bull the national champ shorthorn bull 2 years ago Both are going to use this young bull along with me and maybe 10 people from the aisle at Okie City who saw him I took a bunch of stills from the show I can post a couple or email them You gotta see him We were texting back and forth about the judge who was just a doofuss and swapping pictures that totally defied the reality of the script he had been given LOL Jim jumped him a week before OKC There should be semen in a couple weeks or so knock wood If you are serious PM me-And Ill update you Thurs Friday when they get back Jim Compton owns him and hes very meticulous about his cattle MEANING-you will not get bad semen or even close PS the semen will not be big $ Thanks 

Thanks Weezie-Incidentally the white bull is sired by Evolution and Outsider has really done the job for moderate thick ones-Lotta winners too Jim Compton started him out as well  As things gained momentum Laughtner bought him Will Lane on here now has a full brother to Outsider that is Triple Clean

Thanks Weezie for letting me know about DS. Wasn't quite sure how big of a concern it was, but knew that PHA is an issue. I've looked at the Outsider quite a bit, have a Loaded 4 Bear x Front & Center heifer that will be bred this spring. She just was pelvic checked (can't remember dimensions off the top of my head) and was cleared to breed. Keep going back and forth with what to breed her with, though from what I've seen I really like The Outsider, just worried about calving complications (on any bull) since I won't be around as much when the calf is born. I've seen some of Stacey's bulls, can't say I've looked at them too much. May have to look through them a little better. Thanks

mbigelow, I will take a look at him again, I looked at him yesterday quite a bit and liked what I saw. Haha I like lots of options but it definitely makes deciding harder. I would actually be really interested in the Muridale Jaxson bull, he sounds like he breeds what I need, not to mention the fact that I really like the cattle that I've been looking through that belong to them. Do you know much about him/had any experience with him?