Terminal cross bulls. Any clean bulls. Which breed, and/or which bull?

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I am looking to use some terminal bulls next year as I have enough cattle to raise both maternal and terminal traits. I wanted to know which of these three breeds work best for you on Angus and Angus X maternal cows. Also, if you could give me some names of bulls, it would be helpful.
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Try Troubadour.  http://www.collinscattleservices.com/Christy_Collins/Troubadour_low.pdf
 

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Off topic, that reminds me of the George Straight song.  :D Nice bull. Any EPD's or actual data on him?
 

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There are a lot of Simmental bulls that would fit what you want.  The calves will grow, most of them make good cows if you choose.  If you go with a black bull, they'll still go as CAB. 
 

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I love love love my SimAngus cows. How do you market calves out of terminal sires?
 

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how about Cooleys Original 6810-P-10
or a grau bull, or http://brokenboxranch.com/charolais/
 

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MYT Farms said:
I am looking to use some terminal bulls next year as I have enough cattle to raise both maternal and terminal traits. I wanted to know which of these three breeds work best for you on Angus and Angus X maternal cows. Also, if you could give me some names of bulls, it would be helpful.
Thanks,
Cade

Why not have your cake & eat it too?  My dad weans 600-800 lb. calves every year without any creep feed, on KY Fescue.  And he uses black purebred Tarentaise bulls on purebred Tarentaise cows, so he doesn't get the advantage of heterosis to accomplish that.  Our neighbor crosses Tarentaise with Angus & has similar results.  Tarentaise cross extremely well with Angus & Angus cross cows.  Pharo Cattle Company, Oregon Country Beef, Padlock Ranch, Hat Ranch, Leachman's, Hole in the Wall Ranch, are just a few off the top of my head, along with a bunch of commercial producers, who have used that cross.  Actually, we've sold Tarentaise genetics to all of them except for Leachman's & Oregon Country Beef.  Anyway, you could get some heavy steers & sell the F1 females as replacements.  We had the 2nd highest gainning steer overall at the Great Western Beef Expo out of 150 head, as well as, a top 10 pen (out of all breeds) for feed effciency, back in the mid 1990's, so these Tarentaise cattle do extremely well in the feedlot.  If you would be interested in semen, I can get one or 2 of my dad's bulls collected & I'd sell it pretty reasonable.  Or if you want a bull or 2, he has those also.  All of my dad's bulls are black & most are at least double polled.  If you go to Pharo's website & check out Bluegrass Energizer... my dad raised that bull & almost everything in my dad's herd has several common ancestors with Energizer.  I don't know if Achilles is still listed on Pharo's site, and although we didn't raise Achilles, he sold Kit the Achilles bull also.  Anyway, my dad has some bulls with more performance than those 2 bulls, if more performance is that's what you are looking for.  His bulls will sire CAB also.  Now you might not get "barn burning" show calves, but I took a Tarentaise X Lowline (Doc Holliday) heifer to Louisville & even though we didn't fit her at all (just clipped her & blew her), she beat the recent 2008 American Royal Reserve Grand Champion Percentage heifer in her division in the Lowline Show, so you might actually end up with something that you could show.  Although you don't necessarily want to produce momma's... I'd put a Tarentaise X Angus cow up against anything.  3 years in a row, that cross was the high selling pen of females at the NWSS in Denver (commercial guys love them!), including winnning 2 Grands & 1 Reserve Champion Commercial Pen of heifers during those 3 years.  If interested, reply or send me a PM.  If not interested, sorry to waste your time.  

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Here is my own 1st Tarentaise sired calf.  Picture taken in "I think" 1993.  Is this enough performance?  ;) 

 

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TJ said:
Here is my own 1st Tarentaise sired calf.  Picture taken in "I think" 1993.  Is this enough performance?   ;) 

i can't see, the calf is too big. ;D  what's that ratio?  120%?
 

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Gee, I just can't make up my mind.  :D Someone suggested taking a Hereford bull and making some baldies, then putting a terminal bull on the F1's. Do any of you second this idea?
 

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MYT Farms said:
Gee, I just can't make up my mind.  :D Someone suggested taking a Hereford bull and making some baldies, then putting a terminal bull on the F1's. Do any of you second this idea?

isn't this what people have been doing for generations?
 

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MYT Farms said:
Gee, I just can't make up my mind.  :D Someone suggested taking a Hereford bull and making some baldies, then putting a terminal bull on the F1's. Do any of you second this idea?
Not a bad choice, but I think a simmy angus cow would be a better choice for raising Show calves. I like our simmy angus cows better then the hereford x angus
 

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MYT Farms said:
Gee, I just can't make up my mind.  :D Someone suggested taking a Hereford bull and making some baldies, then putting a terminal bull on the F1's. Do any of you second this idea?

I'd take a Tarentaise X Angus over a blady cow any day of the week.  Waaaaay better udders, more milk, richer milk, way fewer prolapses, more weaning weight, larger pelvic area, harder hooves, less eye problems, etc., etc., etc.  If you want to use a Hereford bull to make Bladies, bred a Hereford bull to Tarentaise X Angus females.   ;)    
 

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knabe said:
TJ said:
Here is my own 1st Tarentaise sired calf.  Picture taken in "I think" 1993.  Is this enough performance?   ;) 

i can't see, the calf is too big. ;D  what's that ratio?  120%?

I can't remember exactly, but I am sure that it was somewhere around 75%.   

FWIW, I've had Tarentaise females wean off 600+ lb. Lowline sired bull calves (1/2 Lowline X 1/2 Tarentaise).  My Red Angus females calves that are sired by Lowline bulls aren't nearly that big.  Tarentaise have rich milk & early growth, which means more weaning weight.   
 

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I guess it would depend on whether you're talking clubby terminal or feedlot terminal.
 
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