yearling shorthorn horned bulls

I have a couple nice yearling shorthorn bulls (born April 2012) that have been hard to sell because they have horns.  There is a red and a roan and they are out of HHFS Amos, a Remitall Choice Mint son.  The roan has Irish behind him and sure looks like a picture I saw of Dividend on this site. The other is more classic beef type.  I hate to beef them out because the breeding is good and they could move someone forward with making moderate functional cows for grass fed.  I can't sell the genetics for show, but for beef farming, they should work.  I'm not on the computer all the time but a PM will get to me eventually, if that is an email message.

I take it this is the bull HHFS AMOS pedigree
CB382965 DNA-N KELBURN GREAT EVENT
CB401431 DNA-N REMITALL HERCULES
        C514320 DNA-N REMITALL AUGUSTA QUEEN
Sire: 3309122 DNA-N REMITALL CHOICE MINT
        C362646 DNA-N ROTHNEY IDEAL
C529527 DNA-N A-7 IDEAL RUBY 7S
        C407945 DNA-N A-7 PERFECTION RUBY 20F

        x3909543 PMSY PHA-F TH-F DNA-Y MARELLAN SUPER DAZZLER ET
      x3937624 TH-F DNA-Y HHFS LEAH'S LEGACY
        x3838109 DNA-N TS WINNING LEAH
Dam: x4007644 DNA-N HHFS ASHLEY
        x3865669 DNA-N TS BANKERS DELIGHT PO
x3902421 PD DNA-N TS EMPERESS DEE BD
        x3820059 DNA-N TS VOYEGER JEANIE
He actually has some interesting breeding. The first cattle show I attended was the Calgary Bull Sale in 1966 where Ernie Henderson made Remitall Choice Mint grand champion. He left the bull standing in line until he place the class then pulled him inot first. He kind of had the crowd wondering.
Amos has some prety good EPD's but it doesn't look like you have regeistered the calves or submitted their weights. Remitall Choice Mint would be considered a Scotch bred bull. Pictured below

Post a couple pics

I googled Amos and found this picture of him at 10 months he looks like he was a decent calf

I remember Choice Mint very well as I worked  at Remitall,for a month each summer, when I was 15 and 16. Choice Mint was considered by many in that day as being a very big bull. He actually was bigger than he appears in the picture posted here. He was very thick and when he sold in the Remitall dispersal, I think he weighed more than 2200 lbs.

As a side note, after the Remitall Shorthorn dispersal, Louis Latimer asked me if I would like to help his son Gary deliver cattle. I asked my dad, and he agreed. I think of this today and wonder if they were crazy, as Gary and I had just turned 16, and had both just got our drivers licences. We headed out with a Fargo truck with a special built 34 ft box on it. We delivered the Shorthorns and also had the first Polled Herefords that went to Louada Manor Farms at Peterborough, ON. Not only did we deliver cattle, but we also purchased bulls all the way down to Quebec and then picked them up all the way back home. We had loads both ways.  In all we travelled over 5000 miles, with no credit cards, and only some cash in our pockets. Remitall had a policy back then, that if you purchased a herd sire from them, they would buy back sons of them as yearlings, and they moved most of them to Idaho and Oregon. Lots of memories... 

If you can supply some more information on these bulls, I think there may be some interest for them. I am not afraid to use a horned bull, and I think some of my best cows have horned breeding close up in their pedigrees.

Why not dehorn them?  Or is the problem that they are dehorned but weren't born polled?

Are there any photos of these bulls on your website?

GB

This is the roan last October at 6 months

The dam of the roan is HHFS Sudden Dream and the dam of the red is HHFS Carol.  I haven't registered them because I haven't ever got around to it and I didn't know how they were going to turn out.  I am old fashioned, so I just let the horns be.

This is Amos at 4 years

This is the red in April, at 12 months.  These bulls are not flawless, they are just nice for a certain breeding redirection.

And while we are talking, does anyone know about this bull from 1910 or his breeder. 
Silver Secret, owned by J H Miller of Peru, Indiana.
When I saw a picture of Jakes's Sultan of Jazz, I thought of Silver Secret.

is that a white Galloway cow with Amos? Looks like you all have as many Eastern Red Cedars, as we do, in the Ozarks.

GB

Yes, I am crossing Amos on White Galloways, trying to make Blue Greys.  That little cow, a first calf heifer, is raising one of this years biggest calves.  I guess weaning ration was what the Scots were after.
Here is those two bulls last year at 6 months.  I will get an up to date picture tomorrow. Unfortunately, my break is over and I must go back to work.

I meant here ARE those two.  A librarian should know that.

http://puregrassbeef.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/SAM_1608.209145716_std.JPG
http://puregrassbeef.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/SAM_1637.209145611_std.JPG

I couldn't get the pictures to load, but this is where they are.

Do Y'uns have any rear-view Pics of these two? I know someone in Southeast KS that's interested.

GB