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I'm intrigued by both Worldwide and Masterpiece... They used Worldwide some, but ended up selling everything they had bred to him, so they haven't had any calves by him. Have you seen any calves by either of those bulls? I think they'd both make mama cows...I'm not sure if they'll make heifers...

If you're interested in red & white Simmental cattle, I'm afraid you'll have a hard time finding a good bull, whether you're looking for a bull to buy OR a bull to AI to. The serious breeders will always evolve with the market, and when the flowered cattle got impossible to sell, most breeders...

Rat tails will be smoke colored and are usually Simmental cross, although there may be other breeds that carry the rat tail gene. It ONLY shows up in diluted black cattle, and the cattle often have wiry or almost curly hair on their body, but it isn't as thick as normal. They aren't "hairless"...

They have both a few heifers and as well as mature cows. At least one of the heifers is a Revolution daughter, and some of the others may be as well. I know they've used some 719T but I don't think they're still using him. They also have an Excel daughter to breed later this fall that their mom...

Thanks, y'all. I'm not sure it really matters on the horned vs polled deal. Their mom grew up with Polled cattle and I think they would prefer to keep the cattle without horns, but I don't think she would be opposed to using a horned bull to get a little more muscle. I don't think they have many...

What Hereford bulls are people excited about? My girls have been showing Herefords, and they have a few to breed this fall. They've used some Revolution and About Time...not sure what some of the others are by. They want to add muscle and mass without extreme birth weights, and we like em to...

I agree...on mature Hereford cows, I'm not sure a calving ease bull with below average growth is the direction I would go, but I've heard people like those calves all right. I haven't used him, and he's not on my radar at all. He's heterozygous black, so you should expect about half the calves...

I would think about highways, major roadways, or interstates in your area. Highway __ can work, or there are probably roads or streets near you that have a workable name. If the name has I- or "Highway" or "Road" in the name, that helps to relay the theme. You could also make up a fictional road...

I'm looking for two photos of older red Simmental bulls--Red Brother and Red Alert. I've searched online and can't find anything for either bull...even contacted Accelerated Genetics about Red Brother and they can't seem to find a photo of him either! I'm wondering if anybody might have a...

Maybe somebody can help me out here... I'm looking for a photo of a red Simmental bull from 1990-something...the bull's name is GW-CPL Red Alert. I've searched for him online and can't come up with anything. Does anybody happen to have that in his or her stash of Simmie memorabilia?

I've had one Stetson that weighed about 40 pounds and she never caught up with the other calves. I've seen a few yearlings that weren't terrible but more that were just too plain for me. I personally don't want any more of em.

Broker is heterozygous black, so the odds of getting a red calf out of a mating to a heterozygous black cow are 25%. The spot gene is altogether separate from the color gene that determines whether the calf is black or red, and my experience tells me and my personal theory is that most (if not...

Meyer 734 semen could be worth several hundred dollars a straw... 734 was a homozygous black, horned purebred Simmie bull that clicked great with Angus cows and made really attractive half bloods. He was a baldy with stocking legs and a white belly and tail...he made a lot of baldies before...

Thanks, guys! I kept digging and finally came across the bull you've all described. For some reason, I was thinking the bull I was thinking about was a Cunia son... I guess not! I actually have a photo... He IS red and white...very typical, old school fullblood Maine markings.

I'm looking for some information on an old Maine bull called Stinger...he was a red & white bull that was around in the early 90s...I thought he was a Cunia son, but I'm not sure about that. I need to know ANYTHING anybody knows about him... Pedigree, availability and retail value of semen, any...

Calves look good. It's my experience there's no way to tell whether one is homozygous black or not based on how black or "brown" the hair is. Even the non-diluted red cattle will vary a lot in shades of red, and the darker red ones aren't always the non-dilutors. Obviously, the dilution gene is...

I completely agree with the advice to vaccinate for pinkeye. It costs next to nothing, and it will cut out practically all cases of having to treat.

Yeah...I recently had a conversation with another cattleman who backgrounds several calves, and he was talking about an outbreak of IBR he had a few years ago. He thought they all had pink eye and was treating several calves a day. Since IBR is viral, the symptoms kinda have to run their coarse...

We've had several sets of twins over the years, and the first we ever knew to NOT be a freemartin was born about three years ago. She just weaned her first calf, and she's a nice little cow. The probability that a heifer born twin to a bull will be a freemartin and therefore sterile is closer to...

Corgis are neat, neat dogs. We ended up with one several years ago, and my girls and their mom still raise some pups occasionally. I don't think many people know much about em, but they're really cool dogs. I love that they rarely bark, and they're like a big dog demeanor in a smaller, shorter...