Recent content by justintime

I have had several great visits with Gary over the years via the phone and email, and tried to buy a bull from him a few years ago. He wanted to keep the bull to use himself so he wouldn't even price him to me.  I have drove past his farm several times over the years when delivering cattle...

Glamis Benefactor was imported from Scotland and he not only had a black nose, but he had black pigment all over is body. His hair was mainly red but a lot of his skin was black and some of his hair was as well. There was many black nosed animals in the Scottish cattle. One of the last bulls I...

I remember having to meet a truck that was delivering a load of imported European cattle through Western Canada. There was several MRI cattle on that load including 3 that a neighbour had imported. He got a bull and two heifers that day and quite frankly they were pretty horrible creatures. My...

I have seen excellent beef genetics from both bulls. If I had to pick one, I would chose Ultra 8C mainly because his calves have a bit more natural thickness and rib shape as compared to the Gus 80C's. Gus 80C calves are very correct but some seemed to be just a bit more flat sided. I saw some...

Yes Canada has statues that are being damaged or destroyed by these idiots. They are the same idiots you have in the US and some are members of Antifa. The RCMP aren't doing much to stop this from happening. We are having the same Defund the Police marches and rallies as the major American...

Thanks frosty!  I am certainly going to try!  We finally got more rain in the night so my level of anxiety of drought has dropped, at least for a few days. Hope you have a great Canada Day as well!

Yes Ready Go was homozygous polled. And Yes Gus Lippert bought him from us. I always remember Gus telling me that he had never purchased a bull privately before. He said he always just went to the state sale and bought the Champion bull. That way he had someone else's opinion before he bought...

Unfortunately, there is no Ready Go semen in the US and only a few vials left in Canada. I recently pulled his semen off the market as I plan to use what is remaining myself. i bought Ready Go in 1973 at the Polled Congress in Louisville at $5300 which was a record price at that sale at that...

I really liked the Gold Count 22P calves and he seemed to work on most any type of cows. I was just talking with another Canadian breeder a couple days ago. who found some Gold Count semen and he bought it all ( it was a sizeable amount of doses). He said he plans to use him again as he really...

I wouldn't call his hooves white,but they are a lighter brown that I would like. This said, his sire has hooves that are a similar color and they have never been touched and probably never will need to be, Cruiser has an excellent hoof structure. As for testicle size, he definitely is adequate...

I don't consider any bull a heifer bull until I have had calves from them. I used his sire on a set of heifers, as a yearling after the bull I had planned to use, was killed by lightning. I was concerned but knew that he had been born unassisted from a first calf heifer. The heifers calved good...

The BW on my sign at Agribition was a mistake. When I looked up his birth information in my calf book, I read the BW of the calf below him in it. Of course, I was filling out my stall cards in a hurry just before I left for the show. I came home after dropping the cattle off at the show and...

Congratulations to Nancy!  I am positive that she will do an excellent job in this position. This appears to be a trend lately, with the President of the Shorthorn societies in the US, Canada and the UK all being women. All three are very capable and I think it is about time this happened. The...

This is a son of HC Cruiser 59C that we showed at Agribition last week. He is HC Gasper 55G and he was born March 23rd,2019. He had an actual BW of 73 lbs and he was the second lowest BW of all our calves this year. He was weaned in late October and did not have any creep feed through the...