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Our commercial cattle that are born in November are turned out on the desert in April, trailed up to the mountain and weaned around September 15. They are put on feet targeted to hit the April boards. I guess that's 17 months. I'd think pasture or confined cattle could get there much sooner...

In the latest catalog he's listed as now deceased with limited semen available. I've used him to the point I have a few daughters & I have sons to sell & use so I didn't buy this year but he's a proven sire with not many holes. Watch his video & you will see he's closer to lazy than flighty &...

Used him for a few years now. Docility is fine. He’s a nice all around bull. My first sunbeam daughters will calve this spring.

keep an eye on her. Doesn’t sound like she was really in heat to me. Palpate her next time before wasting a straw and verify you have tone. The uterus should be firmer and stand the cervix up.

This depends on your time available. I’d never do it because I just can’t catch them all. I breed on natural heats when I see them but after that I utilize TAI & I feel I get good results. My clean up bulls on the other hand get dam near perfect results after that so I like that combo. That’s...

On my first use I got 3 out of 5 to have an ai calf. One really nice bull out of a mentor daughter and one really nice heifer out of an intensity daughter. The other was a bull calf out of a 6i6 daughter that generally has the too tall too narrow type and she did it again so that was...

I like what I’ve seen of them but I will have a better idea when I get them off the mountain. I only have a few. I’ll respond again in a month or so.

People are going to need to know what you are trying to achieve to answer that. I’m confused about the eggs & your Bull breeding.

https://selectsiresbeef.com/bull/angus/mcr-horizon-081/ I’d use this bull from select. You should get some hybrid vigor but you need better carcass qualities if you want buyers to go after your calves. If you just want big go with Fortress. Both are $20 I think.

Your all in on her right now so let her do her thing. Might work out...might be educational. I’d cull her based on that description you gave of her anyway “ Very tall. Very oddly tall. Stands by far the tallest I’ve ever had. And narrow”. Not sure why you gave that one a second chance but...

Select Sires bulls: E W A Peyton. Sampling on a few smaller frame cows Deer Valley Unique on most cows Sure Fire on Heifers I want to pick up some High Prime and Fortitude if I get an opportunity to. Cleanup bulls are by Fortress and Uptown. My best heifers are out of one of my Fortress...

Prophet is a proven Bull so I’d actually trust the numbers here & this is what they tell me. No real foot issues, tons of marbling & a lot of growth. He has good calving ease but shouldn’t throw the little dinks some super low birthweight calving ease bulls do. To me, a different phenotype & I...

Just calves so nothing to go on other than higher birthweight than the epds represent. Not sure anyone but the owners of the Bull could have breeding age females yet.

I was able to talk with Brian House at Select on Unique & a few other bulls. He seems pretty high on the Bull because of the dam and his base width & structure. He hadn’t seen a lot of calving data but did point out that the pedigree wasn’t in line with the calving ease epd so between that and...

Nice Bull. Would like to see more marbling in a Bull used for that purpose & that milk is lower than I’d want in my high desert environment. To me he’s designed to put lbs on calves & not to make replacements but he looks good.