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He was actually about 10 and a half months in the picture, as he was a January born. He weighed 1123 when it was taken, with a 3.58 WPDA. He does look younger than that in the picture though, he was still pretty fresh at that show. We showed him on his dam during the summer, and she has so much...

The only one I've got is this one, SRU. Its is from Agribition when he was a calf...

I think Sonny would have to be one of my favorites as well. This Sonny son who we raised is another of my favorites, on a more personal note, as he was probably the one that broke the ice for us in the show ring, and was never beaten, even as a bull calf...so I'm a bit of a softy for him. Some...

NICE CALVES, Frostback! That first Hannibal steer looks pretty special.

Thanks BRdoc, I'm going to try to keep our website updated with pictures of the calves as they grow this year (we'll see how I do!). Feel free to get in touch later to see how they're coming along if I don't quite live up to my promise! There are some very nice calves on the board this spring -...

Thanks showgirl 2010! I treated myself to a long zoom lens last fall before sale cattle pictures and that was probably the best idea I've had!  :D You can get a good shot from a ways a way without having to sneak up on them and can get them when they're 'posing.' It took me all afternoon to get...

Finally got out to take a few pictures! Here are some of our calves this year!

We normally try to shoot for 15 hours after the onset of standing heat - we have a few cows that must be A.I'ed at 12 hours to catch them - but this depends also on when the cow went out of standing heat. If she has an extra-long standing heat, then 12 hours will be too early to breed her. If...

Both our cows and heifers are done by natural heat detection only. It is lots of time spent with the cows for that month, but we generally get over 90% conception (I think we got 95% last year). If the cow needs to be bred at 2am though, we do get up and breed her, so careful timing has a lot to...

I might be wrong, but I don't believe they started promoting him until their spring private treaty sale...so they probably wouldn't have sold much semen before then. His big first crop of calves will probably arrive this fall, but there might not have been too many in the spring because not many...

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We AI everything or hand-breed to the bulls for the first cycle as they come around (no heat synching). The bulls go out for the second cycle so we can check back out AI'ing and stay out for the third cycle so we can check back anything that missed AI and got bred to the bulls in the second...

Rocky Hill, in theory, your calves should be pretty close to the same. There are always variations, but if you get a bull to work on certain cow families, breeding that bull to others of the same cow family should greatly increase the chances of having more 'successes' in your calf crop versus...

RMRW, Love your bull! It is pretty cool and interesting to see everyone's herdsires in their working clothes. Here are a few of ours... The Shorthorn is KMS Grandmaster QM 44N, a Stone Springs Quartermaster son out of our Lilian 69J donor cow. He is four in this picture and out loafing in the...

As JoeBnTN said, its is pretty likely the most prolific commercially-oriented producers in the breed do not get all the press. They are quiety making a herd bull every year that sells to a commercial cattleman. They are certainly out there but the number of cattle in the breed is incredibly...

I am still waiting to find the perfect cow of any breed...but this mother/daughter pair are two of my favorite cows in the breed (phenotypically).

Unfortunately, promoting a bull has taken some cues from the 'outside advertising industry' in alot of cases. Like everywhere else, we are being sold not on the animal having some good parts which we may be able to use to fix faults in our own cattle, but that using this bull will make us the...

Pretty cowy heifer, Gilbert07. She might make a real nice smoky momma. If you can find a bull to drop her flank and take away a bit of the Charolais dewlap, you could really have something. Of your list, I would vote Who Made Who. He calves out nicely on heifers, will lengthen out her neck a...

LOVE HER!!! And I am continually astounded by the quality of cattle this little community has to offer!  :)

We have had both good and bad luck flushing Shorties. We've heard from other breeders and the ET vets that they are harder to flush and in our experience, I believe them. The donor that gives us the best quality calves consistently is of those ones that doesn't flush alot of eggs each time, but...