We decided about a year ago to get involved with showing some purebred Angus heifers. The breeder we are dealing with is local to us and has been in the Angus business a very long time. Due to the drought this year, he was looking to unload his entire heifer calf crop and we bought them all. We are showing a couple, but the primary purpose of this deal is get my sons in the registered Angus business.
He is very interested in helping my sons out and has offerred us a very good deal on some embryos he's had banked - sire is Conneally Freightliner and dam is a really good EXT daughter.
Does anyone have any experience with Freightliner that could tell me the good and bad about him? I've heard the name but that's it. We've already bought the embryos, I'm just curious what to expect.
As a side note, this is one of those deals that 4-H is all about, and one of the reasons you should try to deal with local breeders when possible. He's getting older and just not able to mess with as much "stuff" as he used to. This man doesn't have children and frankly is wanting to impart his knowledge on someone. He watched my boys show at the county fair for a couple of years and watched them doing their own work and decided he liked them. He approached us to come look at his cattle. We did and bought a show heifer last year and did pretty well at Texas majors (4th at FW and 6th at Houston in big 30+ head classes). This isn't "daddy's" deal, he deals directly with my young sons and they work their own deals with him and learn a lot in the process. He questions them extensively about their project and comes to see them every couple of weeks. It's a lot of fun watching them learn from someone besides family.
He is very interested in helping my sons out and has offerred us a very good deal on some embryos he's had banked - sire is Conneally Freightliner and dam is a really good EXT daughter.
Does anyone have any experience with Freightliner that could tell me the good and bad about him? I've heard the name but that's it. We've already bought the embryos, I'm just curious what to expect.
As a side note, this is one of those deals that 4-H is all about, and one of the reasons you should try to deal with local breeders when possible. He's getting older and just not able to mess with as much "stuff" as he used to. This man doesn't have children and frankly is wanting to impart his knowledge on someone. He watched my boys show at the county fair for a couple of years and watched them doing their own work and decided he liked them. He approached us to come look at his cattle. We did and bought a show heifer last year and did pretty well at Texas majors (4th at FW and 6th at Houston in big 30+ head classes). This isn't "daddy's" deal, he deals directly with my young sons and they work their own deals with him and learn a lot in the process. He questions them extensively about their project and comes to see them every couple of weeks. It's a lot of fun watching them learn from someone besides family.