Recent content by carl

I'm wondering what you would want to change about this bull in order to use him in your herd? It seems you aren't happy with his individual performance at weaning and yearling. Is this correct? You got me curious enough to look up the bulls epds. It looks like he is well above breed average for...

That's why I'm always hesitant to comment on other people's cattle here. You are correct,  your environment is probably a lot different than ours. I just know that type doesn't work for us. And we've culled more than a few like this.

You're not wrong about the head shape and size. I'm not sure I'd call them the worst headed Shorthorns I've seen, because this has been a fairly common problem in our breed. I think we are making progress in eliminating the trait, but we still cull the odd one because of head shape, and we have...

I am wondering why Shorthorn breeders are wanting to increase milk production in their herds? I have seen very few Shorthorn cows in my lifetime that don't milk well enough to wean a live, healthy calf. I've seen a whole bunch of them that milk themselves into a bag of bones, or blow out their...

Haven't seen him in person yet but that lot 14 bull looks awful good in his picture and he meets your specs. Pretty impressive performance for that frame size. He must be pretty wide and deep. Sure looks like it in the picture. Got a good head on him too.

Just wanted to voice my opinion on the birth weight issue. We are the breeders of Wiseguys bull so maybe I am a little biased. I don't think you can compare the birth weights of a bull born in Saskatchewan and one born in Kansas. Everything else being equal the one in Kansas will alway weigh...

Just read this thread and couldn't agree more about using your own herd bulls. I think a lot of purebred breeders are missing the boat on this. I see a lot of people looking for a new out cross bull every year. Even worse is the indiscriminate use of AI bulls with everyone rushing to try the...

Sizzler 14 you make some good points. I think fleshing ability is one of the most important things to have in a maternal breed and I believe there are shorthorn bloodlines out there that offer it. However when I look at your two pictures I don't see a lot of difference in type between the two...

In my opinion the cow is not donor material. She's got that long headed, hard doing look. I know that there are a lot of cows out there that look similar but she is a type that we try and stay away from. Having said that I have no idea what kind of production record she has but it has been my...

Ramrod weighed 2600 lbs when we shipped him. He would have measured right around a frame 6. He has proven to be a very good cow maker, as some of the best cows in our herd are daughters, however his biggest accomplishment has been producing large groups of very thick,  meaty bulls that are very...

Maybe I missed something but I don't know how the infusion of Maine blood saved the Shorthorn breed in Canada. Maines were NOT entered in our herdbook at 3/4 percentage so any Maine blood would be pretty diluted by the time it was bred up to purebred status.

I may be a little biased but we believe he is the most consistent herd bull we have used so far. He will certainly add body mass to almost any shorthorn bloodline. He is a very deep sided, long, thick bull and he passes that on to his calves. I had one breeder tell me that his Ramrod calves...

I think it was a pretty steady sale, it sure helps to be selling bulls into a strong cattle market. The most important thing that has happened in the last ten years is that we now have lots of quality shorthorn bulls selling at public auction in Western Canada. I think this gives the commercial...

We had 12 calve sired by Yesterday in 2013, all out of first calf heifers. 11 were unassisted and 1 we had to pull. I realize that this is a small sample size and only 1 herd but based on this I would consider him heifer safe. It is also worth noting that he has 3 generations of easy calving...

I believe he was a 4.5 frame when we measured him for our sale last year but that is a pretty primitive measurement. I also think that frame scores can change as the animals age changes. He did breed very well for us and we have a maternal brother in our sale this year sired by Ramrod that looks...