What Shorthorn Bloodlines do you use?

feeder duck said:

  We are probably way left of center from most.

  On the Shorthorns:  Double Stuff,Wind Star, Fat Head,Wild Side, Proud Joe..(Jazz x Double Vision).
  On the Red Angus and a few Shorthorns: Huckleberry, Stout, Hamley.

Trying to create a few good steer and some cool half blood steers and heifers for a future market.

  Jeff

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Stout on a Double Stuff could make a really cool steer IMO. Is their any better bull to make show steers in shorthorns than Double Stuff? He was the first shorthorn bull I ever heard of.  I thought his color was the neatest thing I had ever seen to that point. Red neck roans are still my favorite shade of shortie. I will have them again.

trevorgreycattleco said:

feeder duck said:

  We are probably way left of center from most.

  On the Shorthorns:  Double Stuff,Wind Star, Fat Head,Wild Side, Proud Joe..(Jazz x Double Vision).
  On the Red Angus and a few Shorthorns: Huckleberry, Stout, Hamley.

Trying to create a few good steer and some cool half blood steers and heifers for a future market.

  Jeff

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Stout on a Double Stuff could make a really cool steer IMO. Is their any better bull to make show steers in shorthorns than Double Stuff? He was the first shorthorn bull I ever heard of.   I thought his color was the neatest thing I had ever seen to that point. Red neck roans are still my favorite shade of shortie. I will have them again.

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not if you plan to stay in the red cows club..  Aaron'll kick you out so fast

I'd rather make your style, in the roan color too.... which is why I'm not on the red bandwagon-- just yet.. too dominate...  maybe try for some blue 3/4's for a few years (hopefully not black like 'rents want) and when we get around to showing again.... who knows.. we might have Simmentals??? 

We have been using Big Jake, a Trump X CF Equity Fool 88, along with RSF Eastwood, full brother to Rose T90, and will get the first results from that cross next spring.  The cattle around here aren't pumped, primed, or pushed and seem to work in our environment.  Next step?  We're using the white Proud Jazz son pictured in our July Shorthorn Country ad a little bit.  We'll see how that works.  As far as the cow herd base, I have long admired the influence of Deerpark Leader 18th on the female side.  I've got a few Leader 18th embryos and semen for a flush and think that might work down the road.  I'm also going to try Dividend and some of the other Irish cattle.  I've long admired the Trump X Rose T90 cross and have also been impressed with how Trump has clicked with Leader 13th and Leader 18th to produce, among others, Prosperity and V8's Fool 458 offspring.

oakview said:

We have been using Big Jake, a Trump X CF Equity Fool 88, along with RSF Eastwood, full brother to Rose T90, and will get the first results from that cross next spring.  The cattle around here aren't pumped, primed, or pushed and seem to work in our environment.  Next step?  We're using the white Proud Jazz son pictured in our July Shorthorn Country ad a little bit.  We'll see how that works.  As far as the cow herd base, I have long admired the influence of Deerpark Leader 18th on the female side.  I've got a few Leader 18th embryos and semen for a flush and think that might work down the road.  I'm also going to try Dividend and some of the other Irish cattle.  I've long admired the Trump X Rose T90 cross and have also been impressed with how Trump has clicked with Leader 13th and Leader 18th to produce, among others, Prosperity and V8's Fool 458 offspring.

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When Mike Dugdale first started sending some Canadian bred cows to the US they went to Huckfeldts and later Bakenhus in Nebraska to be used with CF Prosperity. (both Diamond Helena Dottie 12H and her grand dam Diamond Dottie 22x were included in this group)
CF Prosperity *x3949252 PHA-F TH-F was one of the first successful Trump sons and I think he has been one of the best.
CE      BW    WW  YW  MW  Milk
-0.4    1.7    11      23    -2    4

Here at the Homeplace JJC Wild Side is the walking bull, and we look forward to his calves this fall.  AI sires used in the last year include Touchdown, Ka'Ba Double Leader, KL Double Duty, and Sutherland Ransom 256.  Recent calves have by Phildon bulls and others to get some 4-H calves.

Cows include more than one by Waukaru Gold Mine, Mission, Gold Spear, 034, Eagle 148, & Double Duty.  Beginning in 1970 we used 2 Thieman bulls, 2 Weston bulls, Ransom 256, and then we used AI for many years.  Irish cattle are back in most of our pedigrees.

double stuff sin city and jpj are what the neighbors used

the truth said:

what are we using???  A black bull who's mama is a BLACK Angus cow on our Shorthorns this year, and expecting to generate more profit than ever...  Be different, that's my new motto...

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How is that being different? Angus has been in my program for years.

to answer the question this fall we will be purcasing semen from at least 3 shortie bulls maybe more.  Also looking into a walking bull but that will be decided after we have our first shortie calves. Below r the bulls we have decided to test the shortie waters with

HC touchdown
Diamond Prophecy
Saskvalley Bonanza

rarebirdz said:

the truth said:

what are we using???  A black bull who's mama is a BLACK Angus cow on our Shorthorns this year, and expecting to generate more profit than ever...  Be different, that's my new motto...

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How is that being different? Angus has been in my program for years.

to answer the question this fall we will be purcasing semen from at least 3 shortie bulls maybe more.  Also looking into a walking bull but that will be decided after we have our first shortie calves. Below r the bulls we have decided to test the shortie waters with

HC touchdown
Diamond Prophecy
Saskvalley Bonanza

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We have never used anything but purebred shorthorn bulls, over our career- on the pb cows, and crossbred cows alike.  About 4 years ago, we realized the black cows have been out producing the shorthorns year in and year out.  Finally, we threw the towel, and kept the best black bull calf we had born- hope for blues and blacks next year.  For us, that's way different than the norm.

The base of our cows would be Dividend and improver 57 then we used a lot of super Dazzler in the early and mid nineties.  We followed him with a Impact shaker son.  The we used another dividend son out of NPS Mirage.  We came back with an Oklahoma clubby bred bull a Navajo son out of the same cow as Ivy League.  Now we are using MM Delco a full brother to radio active.  Plus we have Elbee Throwback line bred improver; Studers Jazz Party JPJ out of party gal; and a Tm Gus Son.  We have always tried to keep our own replacement.  Until this past spring it had been almost ten years since we had purchased a female.  So we put a real value on the dam of our herd sires.  Every bull we have used is out of a cow we would love to own.  Several years ago we stared culling very hard on cows that did not breed back quickly.  I think that combined with our bull selection has improved our cows dramatically.