Green Grass Red Bull

r.n.reed · May 9, 2013

I am really liking this camera!

justintime · May 9, 2013

That's a very good bull!!!! What is his genetics?

r.n.reed · May 9, 2013

Thanks JIT,He is a 4508 out of one of our Helianthus cows,# is 4166343

ALTSIMMY 79 · May 9, 2013

One word, THICK!!!! Top to bottom, end to end!

OH Breeder · May 10, 2013

Looks like he is backed by a strong cow family. super nice bull. thanks for sharing pics

r.n.reed · May 10, 2013

Thank you for your judgements,79 and OB.Wolf Ridge Frontline is indeed a thick bull and the thing that impresses me most is how smooth he is and still that thick.O.B. the Helianthus cow family is an old and interesting cow family.It took me almost 25 years to get to #10 and then they exploded and we are approaching 60 now.From my visits with Mary Bell Cooksley of the Haumont herd the originator of this family, I learned that they experienced the same thing in their herd,the family would dwindle down to almost extinction and then explode in numbers again.Frontline carries the Helianthus influence on both sides of his pedigree.Frontline has been used two rounds as our heifer bull and now we are starting to use him in the main cow herd.Bulls from the Helianthus family have always been an easy sell.
An interesting beginners luck story and my only connection to the show ring.In Sept. of 1973 I bought Helianthus 44th from the Haumonts and that fall Helianthus 41st won Grand champion at the International and I think Denver as well.The following summer I bought the foundation female of my Princess family from a small breeder in southern Illinois and 2 weeks later a kid bought her full sister and showed her to Grand champion female at the Illinois state fair.

Dale · May 11, 2013

Do you sell semen on him? That's an impressive picture. He looks a little bit like one of his ancestors, Kinnaber Leader 9th.

kiblercattle · May 12, 2013

What does he weigh and what frame score would you say he is? What has his calves 205 day weights averaged?

r.n.reed · May 13, 2013

Dale,there is no semen available but I do have some on his sire Kaper 4508.I too see some of the influences of his ancestors and like how they have come together in this animal.The most exciting thing to me is that he looks like a Kaper bred bull.
Kibler,I don't have a current weight on him but would peg him at 2200.He has always frame scored just shy of a 6.
His first crop of calves averaged 509lbs at weaning.Of course these weights are meaningless without knowing how they were raised.All but two were out of first calf heifers.All were linebred and there was no creep and they grazed drought pasture and cornstalks.I will be using a son on my heifers this year.
I have attached a picture of his dam as a first calf heifer shortly before she had Frontline.

Cattle Cards · May 13, 2013

Any color, any breed, clubby, PB producer, this bull looks like he'd throw some nice calves.

RyanChandler · May 13, 2013

Great looking bull, Gary. I was waiting to see some stats before I chimmed in. I was hoping he wasn't 1700lbs. That bull ought to be real useful. Was he at your place last summer?

kiblercattle · May 13, 2013

He looks like a real good bull.

r.n.reed · May 14, 2013

Ryan, he was the two year old in the pen farthest to the west at the barn.

r.n.reed · May 15, 2013

Here is a picture of the bull above at 1 month of age and one of his calves born this year at approximately the same age.

garybob · May 16, 2013

r.n.reed said:
Thank you for your judgements,79 and OB.Wolf Ridge Frontline is indeed a thick bull and the thing that impresses me most is how smooth he is and still that thick.O.B. the Helianthus cow family is an old and interesting cow family.It took me almost 25 years to get to #10 and then they exploded and we are approaching 60 now.From my visits with Mary Bell Cooksley of the Haumont herd the originator of this family, I learned that they experienced the same thing in their herd,the family would dwindle down to almost extinction and then explode in numbers again.Frontline carries the Helianthus influence on both sides of his pedigree.Frontline has been used two rounds as our heifer bull and now we are starting to use him in the main cow herd.Bulls from the Helianthus family have always been an easy sell.
An interesting beginners luck story and my only connection to the show ring.In Sept. of 1973 I bought Helianthus 44th from the Haumonts and that fall Helianthus 41st won Grand champion at the International and I think Denver as well.The following summer I bought the foundation female of my Princess family from a small breeder in southern Illinois and 2 weeks later a kid bought her full sister and showed her to Grand champion female at the Illinois state fair.

Does that mean the Helianthus cows in your herd dropped a lot of bull and steer calves?

GB

r.n.reed · May 16, 2013

GB,Yes there were a lot of males from that family early on.Here is a picture of him you might appreciate.

garybob · May 20, 2013

Let me know when you're done with him, if he's still sound and fertile. Serious offer.

GB

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