One of the better unknown herds of Shorthorns I know of

[mark tenenbaum]

I saw these as calves-and again the day after a 15 below zero 45 mph winds in Iowas Dec 22nd 2016. They are at Brad Davis mediaplois Iowa-and have been on concrete for 6 months but still look very sound.- along with lotsa good springs from what Ive heard- I'm only Doing this unadulterated unabashed self agrandized plug because some of them are out of daughters by  a bull I bred called Topfuel. Wanna know what commercial guys like them to look like? Heres a couple examples-Hes got some good ones-even sent some heifers to Maxico a while back. O0

 

[beebe]

They seem useful.  Hard to tell just by pictures.

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Having seen alot of Shorthorns-very few of them thick enough JMO I have no trouble telling what they are and I havent seen very many around that stout that are not Short Plusses and that can walk-and all of them are sound-just on frozen mud and concrete O0 O0

 

[RandS]

Mark,
I'm curious about the Topfuel pedigree.  Also what are your thoughts on the Meat Packer bull from Australia.  And last, in your experience how do Shorthorns cross with Simmentals ?

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Hes a Free For All out of a Cumberland cow named Stacy-She was 3rd top selling female of the breed  as a 7 month old ca;f in 1999@ 15600. -sired by Studley- Louisville Nat Champ bull.First picture is  Topfuel as a calf in the pen at DMCC Kansas. Mark Mueller also raised a couple nice daughters of her  the best was an NLC Upgrade out of Stacy-Brad Davis said the best new caf on the farm is a Top Fuel x Char.Top Fuel been run hard in a number of herds-and would produce real nice females out of simms-one of the bull calves pictured is out of a simm cow.Might be out of another bull-but the deal works.NLC 21 on here  has a real nice female out of a simm cow and JITS Touchdown bull-CE from a first calf heifer.The young heifers are daughters from a few years ago not long after weaning, on concrete and not real shiny, but real showy-make very good cows.they were all milling around but at least 15 of the hiefers in that pen were out of Top Fuel-he sent a group of them to a guy who exprorted them to Mexico.A couple of the bulls above are out of some of that gtoup of heifers Meatpacker just doesnt do it for me at all:from what Ive seen out there-Austrailian breeding can be very hit or miss. O0