Our Junior nationals trip

[Will]

1338 miles later we end a great week. The kids worked very hard and were rewarded with a lot of success. Lexi was 2nd high individual in the judging contest and 3rd high in team sales. Ryan was 4th high in team fitting. Then in the show we had a class winner, one second, three thirds, one sixth and Champion Bull.

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Thats a good calf-What is he? O0

 

[Will]

Mark I was hoping we would be close enough you could have made it to the Jr Nationals.  It would have been nice to meet you.  He is a Throwback out of a first calf heifer Kolt Foxxy (Final Solution x Kkim foxxy).  His reg number is x4206741. He had an actual birth weight of 63 pounds (with the pedigree on the cow side I would not think he would make a heifer safe bull).  I think he weighed eight something at the Junior Nationals.  I wanted to cut him and sell him as a steer last spring but my son insisted we leave him to see how he turned out.  We had one breeder come by a day or two after he was born and laugh at him as he was so small he had to stretch to nurse. His mother is a big cow that we showed right up till the month before he was born. 

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Hes gonna have a BW-Weaning -Yearling spread thats hard to find-IN ANY BREED-I think hed be a good alternative for introducing the "popular" KABA-Trump based genetics to outcross cattle (if there are any left)-without the ineveitable hard calving that certainly is in the background-JMO-He'd be near IDEAL-on some of those good Canadian and clubby Shorthorns-and Simm and Maines,and Char XS which cross better on Shorthorns than anyone wants to admit. O0

 

[OKshorthorn]

Sounds like a good trip Will. Congrats on a job well done!!