Bad attitude bulls

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flyintale

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What are some AI bulls that sire calves with bad attitudes?  I'm curious if others hAve had some of the same bad experiences as I have. Also, have you noticed a specific breed being more cranky than another.

I will start the bad attitude bulls list off with a bull that I was excited to use and I have yet to have a docile, easy to work with calf from.

Eye Candy
 

JDP

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I have only raised one Eye Candy heifer. I was combing her in pasture at 1 mo old and had a halter on her. Sold her to a little girl they are best friends.
 

shortyjock89

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Every animal we have had from our Leveldale sire. They're fine in the pasture or lot,  but they're certainly not meant to be show cattle. I'm not sure if they're mean,  but I know for a fact they're dumb.
 

sizzler14

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We have one eye candy cow. We keep her in our calving lot from the time she calves to the day her blood test comes back positive because we know if we turn her out it will be 6 months to get her back in.
 

mbigelow

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Angus - 3000c an EXT son, most of the older limo Bulls, charloais- hoo doo,  Wyoming wind, shorthorn CF Fortune and Nps Durango, club Calf sugar ray.
 

cowboy_nyk

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mark tenenbaum said:
KAXX said:
Angus- EXT////
  (clapping) (clapping) (clapping) <party> RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE WORST LIMOUSINS-EVERY ONE IVE EBER SEEN HAS BEEN FLAT DANGEROUS O0
Yes EXT calves are goofy.  Most are halter breakable and they are certainly manageable as cows.  I'd take a 100 of them in a heartbeat.

Easy on the limos there guys!  The older and fullblood bulls were certainly not good but I'd stack most current limo bulls up against any of the other breeds' best as far as docility goes.  The Docility EPD has helped that breed immensely.
 

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  The Limi bull that set the breed back 2 to 3 decades was Atlantic 747 or was it 757? One of the 2 numbers. It's crazy how much damage the bull did!!
 

Shorthorn-Fed

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cowboy_nyk said:
Yes EXT calves are goofy.  Most are halter breakable and they are certainly manageable as cows.  I'd take a 100 of them in a heartbeat.

Easy on the limos there guys!  The older and fullblood bulls were certainly not good but I'd stack most current limo bulls up against any of the other breeds' best as far as docility goes.  The Docility EPD has helped that breed immensely.

I fully agree with you NYK , the last of the limo bull sales I worked I was very happy with the docility.
 

flyintale

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So maybe my Eye Candy problem goes back to my cows bloodlines. The cow herself, awesome! She was easy to break and easy to show. However, she has some Wyoming wind in her.  Give me time, she's bred back to Eye Candy again, so I guess we'll see.
The others EC were just stubborn to break and show.

I'm really enjoying this thread! It is very helpful!
 

oakview

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Years ago I had a few Heat Seeker calves that were downright nuts.  I bought a Shorthorn cow bred to Red Hot and her heifer calf was goofy, too.  I kept the cow for many years and all the other calves were fine.  The only "purebred" Shorthorn calf I ever had real problems with was sired by Dreamboat.  I use the word "purebred" very loosely here.
 

Dale

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We had a Salers X RA bull from Leachman and he and his daughters from our commercial Shorthorn cows were just fine, attitude-wise.  We used some of the early red Salers bulls AI and several of the offspring were definitely hunters and jumpers.  Memories of tracking them to a distant neighbor's woods, looking for escaped feeder cattle is not something I want to repeat.  Eventually we purged the herd of Salers blood, although they were extremely useful, real world cattle in other ways.  Probably the disposition has been improved with selection since then.  One memory that sticks is that at the bull test station (with many of the European breeds as well as British), the only breed that rattled the chute constantly was Salers....

A wise great-uncle used to say "not to be the first to try a new idea or the last to change."
 
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