LIFELINE Maine Bull

[mk407]

Is Lifeline considered safe for heifers and an easy calver? Anyone have any previous history?

 

[CAB]

Definitely not for heifer use.

 

[kndcattle]

Did he make better steers or heifers.  I don't hear much about him since he is an older bull.

 

[Bradenh]

Made some of the good original slick shear steers on Charolais cows

 

[hntwhitetail]

Yep, clicks w/ Charolais.  His son is yellow jacket.

 

[bryan6807]

Not calving ease. One of the more underrated maine bulls in my opinion. daughters make good cows and steers are pretty good too

 

[HGC]

I agree, not a heifer bull.  We cleaned out our semen tank last year and bred 3 cows.  I think there are better bulls than him to use today. I was disappointed in the ones we got this year compared to some of the more current genetics.  We kept a daughter in 2009.  She milks average and has raised a couple of nice calves.

He needs to be bred to a cow with a lot of guts.  He will frame them up and make them longer bodied than what they are picking today for show cattle.

 

[PFSC]

We used him several times on heifers without issues. Calves were all small (<70#) with loads of vigor. He was a structure changer. Calves always came out real sound with ties pointing the right direction. He did consistently throw a high flank. He is older and we used him on a lot of our Take Charge cows that had questionable front legs.

I have a daughter and granddaughter in the pasture now. Our top steer prospect is out of the full daughter.

 

[hamburgman]

I don't know what your situation is but he can make them a bit too long bodied and lacking some capacity.  Not what most show rings are going for.