Touchdown sons

We just started picturing our bulls and heifers for the Sun Country sale which will be held on March 27th. It has been a nasty job when the temps are close to -40 with wind chill. I am really pleased with how our Touchdown bulls and heifers have done. They are all very thick, moderate and have lots of style. There is not a poor one in the bunch. Some of our best heifers are sired by Touchdown as well. Here are two bulls pictured so far:

1) HC Almanac 41A - BW 88 lbs unassisted from a first calf Major Leroy heifer. Born March 13/13. He weighed 993 lbs on Jan 30th with a gain of 4.39 lb/day since December 28th.

2) HC Annuity 34A -BW 95 lbs unassisted from a Major Leroy cow. Born March 8/13. He weighed 995 lbs on Jan 30th with a gain of 5.87 lbs/ day since December 28th.

I am super impressed with how these bulls are gaining on a 13% pelleted growing ration. This was a real cold month with lots of days at -40 or more with wind chills. A couple days it was equivalent to -58. It was a pleasant surprise when I weighed the pen and found out that 37 bulls averaged 4.17 lb/ day during this period. We will have more pictures as we get them taken on our website and FB page.

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Both look very good, Almanac is especially impressive to me.  The Timeline calves I have seen have been exceptional. 

I like the Almanac bull's shape myself.  I've got a heifer that's built how I can imagine his daughters will look

One of the very good things I love about this business, is that you usually know the real good ones when they are born. I found Almanac standing beside his mom, who was a first calf heifer, and when I looked at him, I thought," he may have as much potential as anything I have ever raised". I have never doubted him and he has continued to impress me. At 1 day one, I told my wife that he may be the most complete bull we have ever produced and I still feel this way. Many animals go through stages.. some where you like them, some where you wonder why you liked them and eventually they come together to be a pretty good critter. Some others just continue to impress. Almanac is one of these.

Here are a few more Touchdown sons we pictured today. We are picturing them in random order as they come out of the pen. Like I said, I am pretty pumped about the calf crop Touchdown gave us last year. Both sexes are some of our best. 

1) HC Acclaim 27A - a March 5/13 son of Touchdown and his dam is a 3 year old daughter of Star P Matrix 4N and Prairie Lane Sparkle 1K. 82 lb BW unassisted.  This guy could work in most any program!
2) HC Apollo 54A - a Mar 24/13 son of Touchdown and out of Shamrock Lucy 68L by RB Eagle 172nd. He had a BW of 92 lbs unassisted. His dam is getting older but she has been a super producer here and she is still an absolute tank

I really like acclaim he looks great might be nice to have a little more length but that's splitting hairs

kiblercattle said:

I really like acclaim he looks great might be nice to have a little more length but that's splitting hairs

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I have wondered the same thing about Acclaim, however, I think he is as long bodied as any other bull but he also has more depth which takes away from his length somewhat. I think he is really structurally sound and has rib shape, thickness through his lower quarter, good thickness through his rump and good testicles. We will ultrasound the bulls on March 2nd and it is going to be interesting to see what it shows on this bull.

IMO, from the pictures, the reds look even better than the roans!