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Since you are productio oriented i would look at Hooks Beacon for a calving ease Simmental:http://origenbeef.org/semen_detail.php?bull=544 For an angus if your heifers own performance reflectes her EDPD you may wan to consider HF Tiget 5T: http://hamiltonfarms.ca/our-herdsires/

re dispersing your purebred cows and herd sires?  If so when you get your catalogue put together post the link here. I hope that you do not have heart damge requiring openheart surgery. That can knock the wind out of your sails.

Let me correct myself.  I thought you were breeding heifers only.  Since you are breeding second calvers you can use much higher performing bulls with excellent calving ease.  All the bulls are I am going to name have excellent growth and maternal traits. LT Ranch has an excellent outcross bull...

The bull that fits the bill most closely is LT Rushmore 8060.  He has a birth weight EPD of -5.7 and has been in active use by Wright Charolais and LT ranches for years.  He is related to LT Blue grass the the sire of WC Big Ben.  Here he is...

Roy Berg was one of my professors and he had a profound effect n my thinking on cattle breeding and the cattle business in general.  He has made pioneering contributions to beef breeding and bovine development ( carcass traits).  Back in the 1950's he started the synthetic (composite) cattle...

xxcc, I am not going to get in a name calling match with you, just suffice to say everything I said is my lived experience and pretty much is in agreement with other posters opinions of these bulls.  I am around 15 years older than you so I know you did likely did not see these bulls or their...

If you want to know what works on Broker daughters has Harmans thye own Broker.  Right now the go to bull for the Hartmans is CCF Vision on broker females.  Another bull I would look at is  LFE The Riddler.  If you want to stack power then 3D BLK Full Trottle is worth a look;  he would not lower...

Gary was part of a group that went to France to select the first Maines to come to Canada.  On this web site he has a picture of himself posing with Buret. He made regular importations over the years and studied the French bloodlines extensively.  He also has used some of the  new Rouge des Pres...

Shaver Buret is from Shaver farms out of the first import Maine bull registered in Canada Buret.  Gary Graham owned Buret and selected him in France as a calf.  If anyone knows about this bull it would be Gary Graham.  Here is his website: http://www.manitoumaineanjou.ca/ I saw Dollar 2nd in...

That steer is not a true rat tail. He still hair you can work.  Most of the ones I worked with had tight curley hair that was so short it looked like some did a close clip job on them.  But this raises a question: Do THC carriers show some rat tail traits?

I have had a few rat tails.  The source of the genetics from what we could tell were Holstein, Pie Rouge Simmental, and Chianina. All calves came from Angus cows.  Full French Charolais bulls never through a rat tail that I know of. The Holstein came in via percentage Charolais graded up on...

I think you have a good understanding of how Xcaliber and Believe work.  Believe is an easier calving version of Xcaliber with plenty of improvements on the maternal side.Believe may give up some muscle expression.  If you can tolerate the birth weight I would try Xcaliber on a few cows that put...

HA Cowboy Up 5405 is a spread/performance bull with some power bull characteristics.  He looks like an excellent prospect that fits in the mold of the big Birth Weight Yearling Weight EPD spread bulls. That said he is one of the most well promoted bulls of any breed today and his sale price was...

The first thing to remember when selling bulls is that customer service sells many more bulls than do show ribbons.  Your ability to keep your customers happy is very important in this business.  So much so that I would buy back any bulls at the same price the customer paid for it within...

When a purebred breeder sends in the papers on his cows  to the association or does not keep up the registrations on the calves then it is an admission of defeat.  The purebred business is a tough business and you have to have everything in place to make it work, the cattle, the customer...

Any idea of a bull that would work on black Simmy or Angus heifers to create black baldies that can show?

So you used Montbeliarde?  I thought I was one of the few to use that breed to create pature milk cows.  Even then they where the best French Dairy cow around.  Bulls with much Montbeliarde in them would be a very tough sell.

The big problem with using older bloodlines as outcross is that the successful bloodlines in North America are already well represented in the herd book if you go back far enough in pedigrees today.  This means they actually aren't outcross.  Some of he later imports from France and Switzerland...

How do you feel about using bulls from even further back like King Arthur or Sir Arnold.  I liked the Paymaster bull back in the day and wonder if you would ever use any of the other Bar 5 Fleck bulls.  Also what will you do for calving ease?  All the bulls you mention are not calving ease. ...

I this bull you are loking at a natural service sire you are looking at buying? What functional traits do you consider lacking in your cows forcing you to cull them in favor of unproven heifers? I would use a purebred Simmy instead of the simangus because I want the calves to be half simmey.  i...