To address some of the comments made about American Pride. Here is my opinion for what it is worth. He is not the answer to all of the problems in the Simmental breed and is not going to fix every cow, no bull can do that. American Pride is very different and he will either be what you have been looking for or he won't, he is very, very different. If you are looking for a huge butted terminal type sire, he is not the bull for you. He has plenty of muscle, but it is in a different shape than most Simmental bulls. American Pride's strong points are his depth and balance, he is extremely good through his lower third. I get to see a lot of different bulls, of all breeds, but I have never seen a Simmental bull with this kind of depth of flank and heart ever. When you combine that with the soundness and extension through his front, he is really unique. For those of you that said he was downheaded, he is just the opposite. The video of him I did not want to use, but Janssen's did because it shows his soundness. There is a big difference between a down headed bull, and a bull with his head down. The video was shot about 5:30 in the afternoon, he had not ate since seven that morning and he simply wanted to eat anything he could get to, he also had been in the barn with nothing to drink and you can see the depth of body he has in the video extremely well. He just had his head down wanting to eat, he is anything but downheaded, meaning he walks around moping all of the time. His semen is ultra high quality with noone reporting less than over 90 percent conception on flushs using the semen so far. Embryos out of him have topped every sale they have been in so far also, and there is simply a great deal of interest in him. Anyone wanting to see him is more than welcome to go look at him at Strafford Mo. Strafford is known for pulling the bulls back really hard to collect them, so he is probalby 250 lbs lighter than when the pics were taken in March actually, but that is also how they get big quantities of high quality semen, so to say this bull is fat, I just don't understand that either. I did photo his mother yesterday and that picture will be posted here and on Janssen's web site as soon as I get stopped on the road.
Thanks
Mark Sneed