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Have not used Shear Force directly... I fooled around until he was off the market without buying semen... I'm sure semen can still be had, but there are good sons/grandsons out there, readily available from most of the AI studs.  WW/YW for Shear Force himself is not all that tremendous, but he...

Commercial outfit; no Dream On daughters, but have used a number of Hooks Shear Force 38K sons/grandsons. Used Bettis for 2-3 seasons as the primary AI sire on heifers.  Had really poor conception rate with at least two different batches of semen purchased.  Bettis calves came small and easy...

Have not seen or heard anything about Hot Beef calves - but... I'm a commercial producer... with no connection or inclination toward the showring... so I'm not concerned about big hair, freaky neck extension, or anything like that.  I've got no idea if there's a single animal in my herd that...

I've been trying to work Hot Beef into the breeding program here for a couple of years... but the boss is on a blaze/white-face Simmental kick, so buying a solid-color bull to sit in the tank is not really an option. I'm a fan of BeefMaker and Shear Force... and Hot Beef sure brings...

I'm just a commercial producer, so this may not be up your alley, but I've used Waukaru Gold Mine 2109 enough, and for enough years, that I'm comfortable putting him in almost ANY heifer of any breed.  Certainly, if they're reasonably well grown-out, he's no riskier than most Angus sires we've...

Always had an interest in them - found the breed combo behind them to be interesting - but never saw any, or knew anyone here in the US who produced any. Similarly, the RX3 cattle (composite developed by the Pioneer seedstock division, that was essentially 1/2 Red Angus, 1/4 Hereford, 1/4 Red...

Had a 17-yr old SimAngus cow, daughter of Generation III, that took a ride to town when she aborted her last calf at about 5 months.

Huh.  Would have loved to have seen $1.25 on calves i sold this week. Group of 9 black steers 550-600#, weaned, bunk broke, 2 rounds of mlv respiratory vaccines... $109.50/cwt Group of 4 black steers 475-535, weaned bunk broke, 2 rounds of mlv resp. vaccs ... $108/cwt. Red steer (SM sired, out...

As a commercial producer breeding for performance and carcass traits (though I don't know that I'll ever be compensated adequately for them), I'd be interested in seeing ASA &/or Shorthorn breeders individually pursue genomic testing for traits beyond those we currently have epds for, like...

Medium Rare, I have nothing but rave reviews for the results I've gotten using Shorthorn sires in our herd - and I tout them to anyone who'll listen... but there are few Shorthorn breeders in this area...closest I'm aware of is Martindell SH, over at Hardyville... and not that many commercial...

We're kinda/sorta moving slowly in that direction with a few cow families... only up to 3/4 SH right now - and, being a commercial outfit, don't even intend to register them as Shorthorn Plus... but may, within a few years, reach the point that I've got a homebred black 'purebred' (albeit hetero...

COMMERCIAL outfit here, so my weigh-in here will have no relevance to what you're doing, but I'll offer it up just in the event that someone who's production-oriented might read this thread.  We have used only solid red bulls, and mostly Waukaru sires, initially and principally because they...

I'm a veterinarian.  Have not given a vaccine/bacterin of any sort IM to cattle in nearly 40 years... all subcutaneous.  Probably has been 20+ years since I gave any injectible product (antibiotic, dewormer, etc.) IM, except for Estrumate/Lutalyse and cystorelin.  Subcutaneous is the way to...

You can still wash them - but don't use soap.  One of my theriogenologist friends indicated that soap will remove progesterone.  We just scrub 'em with a brush to get most material off - and since I have access to an autoclave, we autoclave them to cut down on vaginitis on that second use. ...

Ditto what librarian said. EXT was a result of a half-sib mating (Emulation 31 was grandsire, top and bottom). As stated, unless there are lethal genetic defects in the mix, a resulting calf will likely be just fine.  No need to insert human mores into the situation...cattle don't care... and...

I know nothing of the bull XBar posted just above, but shear off all that fluffy hair and put him out to pasture to breed 50 cows...then pull him in, take a photo and let's see what he looks like - mud, manure, and all.  May still not have the 'perfect' wedge that's being discussed... but I'll...

librarian, Waukaru Coppertop 464 and JSF Navigator T2 both have the Australian sire Dunbeacon Venture as MGS - and both bring substantial growth (WW epd) to the table.  While I've not (yet) used Navigator, the Coppertop daughters here are fabulous females.

Commercial herd here; SimAngus base, dating back to 1980s genetics, with more recent infusion of Angus sires over that old linebred Fleckvieh-influenced SimAngus herd.  We went to Shorthorn sires for 'maternal' traits, but the steer contemporaries of those halfblood Shorthorn heifers we were...

Hot Beef had been on my short list to use this year, but SVF Allegiance got the nod from the boss for all the high% SM and baldy cows in the spring herd - she's on a white face/baldy kick - and I'll admit that I do appreciate something other than solid black cows.  Have some partial canes of...

Would be hard to beat Hooks Shear Force 38K.  We've been using several Shear Force sons & grandsons over SimAngus and ANxSH cows.  Like what I've been getting, and docilities are good. Last year's calf crop was mostly by PRS Blazin' Hot W192... heifers are nice, and he put white faces back in...