TYSON VS. DIRTY HAIRY

[GONEWEST]

Which of these Maine bulls do you like and why? Has Tyson been a good calving bull?

 

[chambero]

Tyson has some potential.  We bred around 10 hd to him last year.  We wound up selling most of those females and only had one calf born out of him on our place this year.  But he's in our top end of steer calves.

We used Dirty Harry real heavy this year on the recommendation of a friend that had seen a bunch of calves up north out of him that were born last spring.  I wanted a good combo heifer/steer bull.  We'll see.

 

[beefy]

used dirty harry and just sold the calves, easy calvin nice cattle, dont breed to an average cow expectin to get somthing clubby.  breed him to some angus x herford cows and just got good commercial calves. bred to some maine and chimaine heifers and got some thick hairy good fronted calves. have not used tyson but plannin on usin him on my high % maine heifers this spring

 

[cpubarn]

First, I have yet to calve one from either bull.... I probably should be quiet, but here it goes anyway....I have seen Tyson @ Cores and Hawkeye Breeders a few times.  Good bull, moderate in size, very sound in my opinion.  The calves I have seen have the clubby shape, nice calves especially heifers.  I have seen Dirty Hairy @ Nichols and really liked the bull, he also looked sound but maybe slightly taller than  Tyson (They were 20 miles apart so take that with a grain of salt).  I haven't seen too many calves, but he seems VERY  popular and there are lots of pictured calves on the internet.  I hopefully with have a calf or two by each this year....

Mark

 

[lcattleco.]

I used dirty hairy to cleanup for a couple of years.  should have breed all of my cows to him.  he'll make them whistle necked fairly stout and hairy. I wouldn't recommend using him on a real tight bellied one, but there arent to many maine bulls i would use on one like that.  breed all 20 of my heifers to him this year.