Highliner

[RSL Cattle Co.]

What are peoples opinions on the 2009 bull named Highliner?
Also what kind of cows (breed/ body type) has clicked with?

 

[cdncowboy]

Breed him to a good cow you'll get a good calf.  My experience don't expect him to improve anything, bred him to two cows that needed their legs shorted a little and a little more muscle neither goal accomplished.  Bred him to another smaller framed flatter muscled cow got a smaller, flatter muscled calf.  For all the butt end he shows in a pic he sure doesn't seem to throw it much to his calves the ones I've seen were for the most part all on the flatter muscled end. 
That said my high selling steer was also a Highliner - I don't give that much credit there though, pretty sure I could breed that cow to a goat and get a quality calf. 
Upside does seem to throw good structure, add a shot of bone and hair.

 

[kfacres]

buddy of mine is breeding the snot out of him, I just found out...  must be something good there.

 

[nck21]

I've always wanted to use this bull since seeing his video at Denver. I might consider flushing my Heatseeker cow to him this spring.

 

[acattle]

Really good bull. We have really liked the calves we have gotten out of him. We just showed a heifer in denver out of high liner that did really well. He will make nice steers  but even better heifers.

 

[kjd farms]

Used him last year on a couple of purebred angus cows, both were a little taller than most and the calves were the same.  Nothing special about them.

Had a couple calves out of him in November/December.  Both calves are out of medium framed cows, one calf is in our A group and the other is a B group calf, but could be in the A group by sale time.  I'll repeat breeding to him to the same to cows as well as any of our small and medium framed cows.

 

[RSL Cattle Co.]

Thanks for all the advice it is much appreciated!

 

[RSL Cattle Co.]

What kind of color has he been throwing??

 

[kjd farms]

Always black with us, but we always bred them to black cows.  Never have had any white show up either.  I am pretty sure all the Highliner calves I saw at Agribition this year were black as well.

I've got a picture of a Highliner calf from this year on our blog, www.duncanlivestock.blogspot.com

 

[wpenrod]

The calf in my picture is a highliner. Out of a black cow, I was surprised when the calf came out red

 

[simba]

http://www.steerplanet.com/bb/index.php?topic=36000.0

There's a picture of a Highliner steer in this thread.

 

[Freerider]

I have a red/white highliner steer, the white runs right across his back. His dam is PB Maine, that has lots of red/white in her bloodline.