Thoughts on a couple of Shorthorn bulls

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lightnin4

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I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on Ace of Diamonds and DRM Mickey.  What are your experiences with these bulls.  Strengths?  Weaknesses?  What type of cows they have clicked with and what type they have not worked well with.
 

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lightnin4 said:
I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on Ace of Diamonds and DRM Mickey.  What are your experiences with these bulls.  Strengths?  Weaknesses?  What type of cows they have clicked with and what type they have not worked well with.

mickey's owner is on here, and MT has stated many times Mickey to be the best breeding son of Sonny...

I think mickey is a bull often very overlooked, and although my lack of desire for a trump bred animal... i made the plunge and purchased mickey semen to use after extensive contact with his owners and breeder. 

AoD, was perhaps the hottest new young shorthorn sire on the market about 2 years ago, but has slacked some on that... wonder though how his showing at the jr nationals was this summer, or last?? when he whipped ass and took names on his daughters.  breed him to something with guts though...
 

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I will be able to let you know about Mickey in February. We flushed a PB shorthorn cow to him and implanted 7 embryos. Before we owned the donor, she had a real nice natural Mickey calf of her own. We will see how consistent the mating proves to be next year.
 

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I am familary with both bulls.  We raised Mickey and have been around the breeder of AOD a lot.  Go to our web site www.MitchellFamilyShorthorns  There is a pix of a Mickey Heifer who won her class at the NAILE last year" Sweet Beauty"   Maloney is a bull sired by Mickey.  DRM Ames who is sired by DF Waco, has a Mickey sired cow on his bottom side.  
Also take a look at DRM Phineas , he is a AOD out of the same Dam as Sweet Beauty.  Our thinking is that AOD will work on Mickey females.
Time will tell as we have AOD embryos out of Sweet Beauty.
 

shortii

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I have three Ace of Diamonds heifers and am very happy with them. I have used him on both larger and moderate sized cows, he works well on Trump and Sonny daughters. The one Ace of Diamonds that I have been showing has done pretty well in the ring, at nationals the judge said she was the power cow of the class but he would liked to have seen a little smoother in her shoulder.


Hope that helps.
 

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Looks like Stangl's are selling some breds sired by Ace of Diamonds . Go to schrags web page to see the consignments in the up coming sale. Dec 3rd
 

lightnin4

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Thanks for the info.  Just looking into a few breeding options.  I really like the looks of the Mickey bull and have seen alot of nice AOD calves in sales lately.  The people that use the bulls are the best source of information though.
 
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