HeiferShower14
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Tell me all you know about totally tuned. Does his calves have alot of hair? i may get a granddaugter
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afhm
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The Totally Tunes are very hairy, easy calving and also make pretty decent cows as well. He has sired many winners and is a outcross to a majority of the cattle being used today.
HeiferShower14
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do they come on once threre on feed? thanks for the help
Lautner Farms has a heat wave x totally tuned bull in there arsenal that looks pretty cool. Here is a link to a picture of him.
http://lautnerfarms.com/bullpages/untouchable.html
http://lautnerfarms.com/bullpages/untouchable.html
afhm
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The ones I've been around fed out really well.
cotullaguy
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will totally tuned help or hurt on the front ends? I have some meyer granddaughters I am considering trying him on?
cotullaguy said:
He is sired by a Sim Bull called Dynamite, from what I remember they were not bad fronted but 2x the Simm influence may add a coarser front end and lose some look. They are exceptionally sound on the front end, all toes point forward. He was a bull that we would use if we thought there was any chance of getting a cripple and he made them sound. I always had a difficult time getting a steer that was stout enough, although they had good hair and bone, and are just good functional cattle.
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Ask Mark Copus about Totally Tuned steers. He won as much or more with them as anything he ever led into a ring[not mark himself].With the club calf cow changing as it has these past few years,he should work pretty good. Alot of bulls seem to be forgotten at times,that still work today.If DNA was pulled on a lot of calves,the sires might suprise alot of people.Example of bulls that still sire really good calves: Home Brew, Donnie, Shake n Bake, just to name a few.Ole Donnie probably would have been used way more than he was,but being a double carrier hurt him.I know he still is being used though,albeit on a limited basis.Ask Phil lautner and Bruce Glover how good his calves were/are.Shake n Bake works great on some of the smaller chunky females of today also.
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TMJ Show Cattle said:
now this thread is getting somewhere. i believe there are old bulls out there being used still and calves being called something else for marketing reasons...on a limited basis probably but still it is being done...
totally tuned, donnie, shake and bake, home brew....
what other bulls are still being used that most have forgotten and still work?
WFCC said:
I couldn't agree more with Totally Tuned's making great cows. A lot of cows have came and gone on our farm. But the only Totally Tuned cow we have ever owned has been the best, bar none. She is now 12 years old, and just delivered another(what I think is) real nice calf. You can see a picture of it on our site at hammsshowcattle.com. This particular cow is a Totally Tuned/Witch Dr. I really agree with the Heatwave Working on them as well.
Honestly, in my opinion Totally Tuned is really underrated in terms of producing good club calf females. Of those I have seen over the years, the females are better than the steers/bulls. Males had a tendency to be deep but not quit thick enough in my opinion.
