Cowboy
Well-known member
I hate being a spoiler most of the time, I like to be a fixer. In the case of Monkey mouth and SP, I have personal knowledge of one of today's seemingly popular bulls that may surpise many of you out there -- it kind of does me!
I was involved with a hard of cows down in NW Kansas a few years ago, they didn't do any ET, but had me do thier A-I work as we were close by.
They had a bout 15 head of 3/8 to 5/8 percentage Maines, sired by or grand-daughters of Executive. It was about the time that the first crop of Money Man calves had sold thru Major's sale, and they were impressed by the hfrs. They used him on all 15 head ofcows -- 13 calves resulted.
Here is the bad part -- of those 13 -- "5" were really bad SP with one of those also beinga Monkey Mouth bull calf.
The other 8 -- all but 1 or possibly 2, can't remember -- we mildly to severely Monkey Mouth. One was put down due to his absolute inability to nurse or eat. His tongue was showing clear up to where his first molar would be on top. Had almost no nose, only one nostril! He also was pretty bad on his wheels.
Keep in mind, these cows were all sound young cows, had raised good calves from Angus based sires. I hadn't thought of this ordeal until just recently --
That same year the owner passed away from cancer, and his son-in-law took over. Low and behold he had no idea about pedigrees, and had the cows A-I again -- not by me as we had already moved up here, but thru the vet. Less calves were born, but the same result -- all but one I was told were not saleable and some were fed out for home use!
Just thought you all might like that tid-bit of info. I haven't seen a single Money Man bull being promoted around the country either, but I haven't paid close attention, I find that kind of strange. Meybe I missed one or two -- any one know of any??
Every one have a great day -- Terry
I was involved with a hard of cows down in NW Kansas a few years ago, they didn't do any ET, but had me do thier A-I work as we were close by.
They had a bout 15 head of 3/8 to 5/8 percentage Maines, sired by or grand-daughters of Executive. It was about the time that the first crop of Money Man calves had sold thru Major's sale, and they were impressed by the hfrs. They used him on all 15 head ofcows -- 13 calves resulted.
Here is the bad part -- of those 13 -- "5" were really bad SP with one of those also beinga Monkey Mouth bull calf.
The other 8 -- all but 1 or possibly 2, can't remember -- we mildly to severely Monkey Mouth. One was put down due to his absolute inability to nurse or eat. His tongue was showing clear up to where his first molar would be on top. Had almost no nose, only one nostril! He also was pretty bad on his wheels.
Keep in mind, these cows were all sound young cows, had raised good calves from Angus based sires. I hadn't thought of this ordeal until just recently --
That same year the owner passed away from cancer, and his son-in-law took over. Low and behold he had no idea about pedigrees, and had the cows A-I again -- not by me as we had already moved up here, but thru the vet. Less calves were born, but the same result -- all but one I was told were not saleable and some were fed out for home use!
Just thought you all might like that tid-bit of info. I haven't seen a single Money Man bull being promoted around the country either, but I haven't paid close attention, I find that kind of strange. Meybe I missed one or two -- any one know of any??
Every one have a great day -- Terry