Diamond Captain Mark 27C is a bull that in my opinion, has been overlooked by many people. Part of the reason being that he was never promoted much, and it is just in the last few years, that some of his offspring are starting to get some people's attention. 27C is now gone, and I am not sure how much semen is left on him. Here in Canada, some breeders felt that his daughters did not milk good enough. That is very true on some of them. I have only had one daughter that I would say did not supply her calf with enough milk. Both Elsie's Jade and Sparkle are what I would call moderate milking females. By that I mean, they don't produce so much milk that they blow their udders apart or look like an Indian dog at weaning, but they have enough milk to wean a good calf and come in at weaning time in good condition. Last year we had 4 ET calves born that are full sibs to Elsies Jade. We lost one shortly after birth, and have a horned full brother, a horned full sister and a polled full sister. The full brother is selling in our bull sale April 19th. The polled full sister is, in my opinion even better than Elsie's Jade. The horned full sister had a recip mom that got sick on pasture and as a result this calf came in greener than the others. It is doing well now, and is going to make a good cow as well. The polled full sister is definitely going into our donor herd.
27C is a bull that adds thickness and body mass to his calves. They are sound structured. and they have good udders, but may be marginal in milk if used on a female line that is also low in milk production. I would say he is a great choice if you have a cow that has too much milk ( I know this is a concept that some of you who raise other breeds may have trouble to comprehend.. haha). Unfortunately, 27C is also not the greatest polling bull. if used on females with horned genetics close in the pedigree, you may get some horned offspring. His offspring are moderate in frame but weigh lots. The Sparkle cow, shown beside this message, weighed 1740 lb last fall at weaning yet she is what I would call a moderate framed cow.
I could use another 25 cows like these two cows. We usually have so many requests for embryos from both of these cows that we don't have many embryos to put in ourselves. Sparkle is also the dam of Wolf Willow Major Leroy, who is one of our herdsires. We sold the world semen rights in him to Semex and he is now being marketed in over 100 countries. Sparkle just calved a couple days ago with a beautiful heifer calf by Saskvalley Pioneer 126P and we already have all the embryos she will produce from this May to November sold to breeders in Scotland, USA and New Zealand. The same goes for Elsie's Jade. We flushed her in November and all embryos went to Ireland. The flush in January, sold to Illinois. We are keeping all the embryos from the flush in March for ourselves, and if we decide to flush her in May, we already have a buyer for any embryos we get.
In my opinion, 27C is a bull that you should consider if you like thick deep easy fleshing cows. They may not all be show winners in today's shows, but they are correct and functional. When used on real big framed cows he will moderate frame some but maybe not as much as you may have wanted.