Char colored bull?

[Warrior10]

I have a little brother is crazy about char colored calves and bulls. So I thought I would ask your opinions on the best char/white bull out there to produce char colored calves?  Needs to be a bull that will throw em char a high % of the time out of black cows. The female he would be used on would be a black maine x angus cross heifer. Thanks for input.

 

[dimebag]

Troubadour will work !

 

[Freddy]

The Char bull should through smoke calves out of black cows all the time unless you have a red gene in cows and then you could get the cream colored calves ....

 

[flacowman]

On a heifer I would recommend Oakdale duke or there is a gridmaker son that really impressed me, I'll have to dig out my semen catalogs and see what his name is.  Final Sort and Doc Silver have also really clicked well on Maine/Angus heifers for us

 

[Freddy]

When I mentioned the colors on my other post ,there is some exceptions ,a purebred Charolais bull will do like I said above , I think Troubador will but he is XED ;HIS MOTHER HAD SOME mAIN ... Bulls like MUDDY WATER or MILKMAN wil throw all black OR smokey with a chance of cream if cow has red gene .....

 

[flacowman]

Freddy maybe you can answer about the gridmaker son, I would have sworn selectsires carries him but couldn't find him on the website, he is even a little better on carcass numbers than his sire and they have sexed semen available...I can't lay hands on my catalog that I have him marked in since I'm on the road for the week

 

[Freddy]

I looked in SELECT and didn't see anything in here ...GOOD STUFF -FREE LUNCH-REVELANT AND big money ....LT BLUEGRASS would be my next calving ease sire to try , right at present I think I have some just as good as most of the studs have ....What they call calving ease sires and try to sell don't always work... LT BLUEGRASS IS PRETTY PROVEN ...

 

[Warrior10]

Hmm maybe I will just wait till next year when she already had one calf.

 

[flacowman]

Doc Silver is a no miss, the calf will fall out when she sneezes unless your brother's heifer has a pelvis the size of a walnut, if you look at charolais bulls pretty much anything with a neg BW and an accuracy above .75 should be safe for sure and will be a lot safer than the clubby bulls that are marketed as heifer bulls