I used Mr. Angus, Single Nick Doubletime and Bold Leader. No complaints about any of them. Bold Leader seemed to be great at making daughters. Same with Doubletime. Mr. Angus was one of the big-framed guys that had a lot of thickness with it. Just looked through a 1990 catalog the other day...
My A.I. rep found a unit at the bottom of my tank and labeled it in a separate cane last year. I put it in water to breed one last summer and it exploded. Ironically, it was a bull from 1992 named Nichols Easy Way.
Thanks for the help, everyone. Talked to a SireBuyer rep Monday morning, midway through timed A.I. as I was recording data and prepping guns. We left a few recip candidates un-bred as they came through the chute, just in case embryos were an option for them. He had some embryos that fit what I...
Looking to put embryos in a few cows this year to create my own cleanup bulls for 2022. Thought I had a source lined up for them, but they changed their mind at the last minute. Anyone ever deal with ABS on anything like this? My ABS rep is looking into it, but not getting me answers very fast...
With any bull selection, I usually look at what his weakest points are and decide if those weaknesses will be major for me, or if I can live with them with minimal impact. I finish all my calves and sell them on a grid, so OMF Epic would be my first choice of those four, and second place would...
I'm breeding the entire mature cowherd to him in three weeks. The yearling heifers are all Hoover Dam-sired, so I didn't want to use Boulder on them. He didn't seem to have many weak points and still got into the top third in a lot of EPDs. I finish all of my calves and did structured sire...