Who should I breed my PB Angus HEIFER to (pic)

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LindseysMaine_Angus

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Looking for a couple opinions on who I should breed my angus heifer to...I really like O'Reilly, But I would love to breed her to a bull with hair!

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Soo Line Motive if you want to stay purebred Angus.  We actually had some hair on a heifer by BC Lookout too.
 

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Nice looking heifer.  Motive would be a good choice.  Some of the top show cattle up here in Canada are sons/daughters of Motive.  The hair is generally quite good, but it's cooler up here too.  Attached is a pic of a motive son from our place.  Lots of depth, thickness, hair.  Super quiet as well.

O'Reilly Factor looks pretty awesome as well.  I considered using him but ended up using Bismarck again because I absolutely love the females. We've used Pioneer a lot and him and O'Reilly are brothers (Final Answer) so we chose another route.

What is the breeding of your heifer?
 

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ty378

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What is she sired by? That would help I personally would stay away from motive she looks to have a straight enough hind leg and motive will put a straight leg in them, I would look at style his calves are really small at birth but really hairy and deep and pretty fronted the other bull I would consider would be brilliance.
 

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If I can get one to look just like her with a cleaner front and maybe a touch more bone keeping the baby sound that would be great..I want a healthy calf and I want her to stay safe, I want the calf to not break down as it ages and finish at a YW of about 1250-1350 if at all possible  ;D
 

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I personally adhere to the philosophy that a person should just get a live calf on the ground for the first calf and shouldnt try to get that "barn burner" out of a first calf heifer. The cow will make you more money in her lifetime if she gets that first calf out easy and breeds back and if that first calf can be marketable its a plus. With that being said I would say SAV Bismarck. Semen is still cheap on him and his heifers are super fancy and extremely marketable. He is also an extremely proven calving ease sire with his accuracy for CED and BW are above 95%. Thats my opinion you can take it for what its worth.
 

Mark H

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I prefer to use the easiest calving bull that will give mea decent calf.  That said their are plenty of calving ease angus bulls enough that distinction can be made beteen them.  I want light birthweight with some growth.  I also am trying to avoid slick haired bulls.
Check out Conneally Confidence and Sedgewicks Outlook.  Both have great birth weight numbers, not bad geowth and aren't slick haired.  Both bulls have more style than the average spread calving ease bull.
 

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Mark H -- you mean Sedgwicks Lookout 538W?  He has been on my radar screen too.
 

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To whoever said use big softy. I was at Nichols before Denver and loved big softie. I'm no angus man but if I was it would be in the tank
 

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Anyone have any input or ideas about using Tejas?  He looks pretty good to me, and we have him on our "short list" to use on our heifers this year.
 

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LindseysMaine_Angus said:
Here is her pedigree, her stride is fine but is she to straight legged?

Bigger issue is what kind of flex she has in her pastern.  If she sets down on a nice soft pastern, that will help compensate for less than ideal set to her hock.  Can't see it with her standing in the straw.
 
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