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Connealy Dry Valley- Using on roughly 2/3 of our cows. Had a small group this fall and every single one is a standout. Plan to flush to him either this Spring or next. S A V Rainfall & Woodhill Blueprint- Using mostly on heifers out of lighter milking cows. Also will put some embryos in out of...

One of the owners posted this on FB in October 2020 "He was injured breeding cows last fall. We took him to CSU to have surgery to fix a blown hock. He is currently at Rocky Mountain sire services being collected. The vets gave strict no-mount orders after the surgery so they are having to probe...

If not black angus, I would go with Tarentaise or a Tarentaise cross. Real moderate cattle that raise a nice big calf, extremely fertile and hardy. They seem to last forever and never have issues.

We target 3.00 to 3.25 ADG on our bulls and that is what we feed for. We want them to grow and express their potential without getting fat or causing foot issues. Wherever you get your feed from should have a nutritionist or someone that can recommend a feed for developing bull(s) and how much...

We have a couple Powerballs and are really pleased, albeit, they are still young. Should know more this spring when we wean.

Not sure if he is available in Canada, but I would check out Connealy Dry Valley. They are big stout calves.

Great looking cattle and beautiful scenery.

Good looking bulls! Looks like you used both Raindance and Rainfall. What did you think of them and which one did you like best?

Thank you for all the insight. Love a lot of what Shape does from a pedigree/performance/phenotype standpoint. He is getting bred to about 30% of our herd (some will be heifers) this fall. Hopefully I can report good news next fall.

Makes sense. I assume you have gotten along good with all three of them? Any favorite?

Thanks for sharing that story. He would have been an awesome bull to pick up! He wasn't on our radar but we ended up getting a credit with Krebs and didn't need a bull at the time. So we ended up using it on semen instead and split it between Synergy and Shape. Since you were interested in...

Black Angus. The only new bull this fall is SydGen Shape. Everything else we have been using. Connealy Dry Valley SydGen Shape KM Broken Bow 002 S A V Rainfall 6846

We usually fence line wean and let the cows have access into the pen next to the calves for a couple of days. Then after those couple of days we close the pen so the cows can see the calves but can't get next to them. We usually take the cull cows about a week or two after we wean their...

Oldest cow we have on our place is an '07 model. When we see dispersal sales, we spend a lot of time sorting through their old cows. An old cow with a solid production record, keeps condition and has a good bag is priceless in our eyes. When we first started buying cows, we usually bought bred...

Been really impressed with our Growth Fund March ET bull calf. We had two sexed heifer embryos that aborted (an environmental issue, not a genetic issue) that we are extremely disappointed about. torogmc81, are your Growth Funds moderate? We were expecting some height to them. Could be just a...