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He is an interesting bull.  From the side he is flat good.  Awesome design sound big legged square and awesome front.  He also has some added frame and scale.  My biggest knock on him and its getting really picky to be quite honest is he gets just a bit flat about his rib shape.  For me he is...

We had one like this 2 years ago.  Calf wasnt a structure wreck but we had pulled him and thought that mayybe we had done something wrong when pulling him.  We gave him a small dose of banamine every now and then, and also wrapped his legs in athletic wrap to make it harder for him to buck all...

I like the firewater suggestion or if your looking for simmi upgrade may do the things you are looking for better than something like chopper

There are several others to consider. As far as which one though i think depends on your cow and what you want. Here are a couple i know that are out there for around the $50 to $250 price range. Upgrade Combustible make It Rain Gunslinger Uproar and others these are the notably ones i can...

Ill second that about the Kroupa catalogs they were good as well.

Was looking through the catalog this evening and was extremely entertained by some of the lot descriptions. Definitely worth thumbing through just to get a laugh. http://d3s7yb5qtsmwow.cloudfront.net/dvauction.com/catalogs/_Spring_2014/Roche%20Cattle%20Co%201-4-14/HTML/index.html Go tigers!

Nice one! Looks stout and shapely yet extremely  soft and tons of rib.  Looks to be a bit small footed and could use a touch of bone but still looks to have a good set of angles.  He ought to make you some of those nice easy doing beltie daughters.  Like seeing a good dun as well!

We will have a couple coming next year but haven't actually seen any, cant wait!

If there is any out there I would sure like to have it.

When we use bleach we just put a splash in, like 1 cup per 100 gallons

Along with some things mentioned earlier, we treat our water at home with a small bit of bleach prior to shows so that calves get used to the smell.  Remeber its not the water tasting different its simply the smell.

I would deffinitly worry about milk, heifers just naturally dont milk even in comparison to "sale barn" cows.  Other concern i would have is conception rates, i know our conception rates are SIGNIFICANTLY lower in heifers compared to cows this would be similar for embryos id guess.  Some people...

Hard Whiskey is a Hard Drive X Irish Whiskey Built Right is a Dream on son who makes some awesome simmi influenced and PB simmi females we absolutely love him on our cross bred and maine influenced cattle Kadabra is an older bull not sure he is heifer safe but makes some awesome females.  He...

I kinda like the Kadabra idea.  Be interesting to see how the hard whiskeys look this spring.  Id go with built right though if she were mine.  BTW ill take her off your hands if you want.

Not a fan of Hannibal at all.  Yes you can make a decent looking female out of him on a short dumpy big bodied cow.  That being said we have found our hannibals are not only hard doing and high maitnance but also dont breed very well whats so ever.  On the other hand we love Dr. Who got a ton...