Hoover Dam or Frontman??? or other...

[HavinABlast]

Opinions please!
Have a very stylish but fine boned Eagle Eye heifer.  Was considering breeding her to Hoover Dam or Frontman.  Looking for some muscle, power, bone and milk #s.  Dam is a long bodied easy fleshing female.  Would like something with high milk epd as dam seemed to be lacking a little.  Will give this heifer a chance before shipping her!  Wondering what the best bull might be for her.

 

[GoWyo]

Haven't used him myself but conidering it next spring .-- Werner War Party.

 

[parkerqb7]

Out of the two you had I would go with Hoover Dam, but another good one is TC Total. We love his heifers and have kept herd sires out of him.

 

[kiblercattle]

Haven't used frontman but my uncle raised him so I've seen quite a bit of his bloodlines. Frontmans have great muscling and calving ease. It doesn't seem to matter what you breed him to they will be about a 6 frame. I believe you need to protect him on length of body some. I really like the cattle I be seen by him but I believe his milk to be to high for my kind of program. What I've seen feet and legs are good and they have great depth of rib.

 

[lightnin4]

I've been really pleased with my Hoover Dam calves.  They've all had good bone and plenty of muscle.  Probably the best bull I sold last Fall was a Hoover Dam.  I've got one Frontman cow in my herd.  She's a second calver and did a good job with this year's calf (lost the first one to a freak injury).  I haven't had any Frontman calves born here yet.  I sold a heifer bred to him last year...the buyer said he was a nice calf, but I haven't seen it.

 

[cowboy_nyk]

I've seen plenty of good Hoover Dam calves but I wouldn't recommend him to add bone.  He will add muscle for sure though.

 

[HavinABlast]

Thanks for all the words of wisdom folks!  I appreciate your comments.  I get a real good vibe on Hoover Dam and have a number of females here that would cross well with him.  He's on the short list!

 

[CAB]

When you look at these 2 bulls EPD profiles along with everything else, Hoover Dam is a pretty easy choice between the 2 IMO.

 

[ploughshare]

Sounds like you will use ABS.  You can't go wrong with Hoover Dam.  You may also want to consider SAV Brilliance.