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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1651569" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>SBMF, and any interested others,</p><p>You don't have to go to across the ocean to get good Shorthorn genetics.</p><p></p><p>If you're looking at producing SH-cross calves that'll perform in the feedlot...it'd be hard to beat Waukaru genetics - they've concentrated on solid red, polled, calving ease and growth, with good carcass traits. They probably have more performance data on their cattle than any other SH breeder - and more than you'd find in most other breeds, if you get right down to it. They were even doing genomic testing for tenderness, marbling, etc., early on, back in the GeneStar days.</p><p>Waukaru GoldMine 2109 daughters here were terrific - don't think we ever had a bad one - and he was safe to use on heifers of any breed; W. Coppertop 464 daughters were quite good, W .GoldCard 5042 daughters were good, but HUGE... the W. Orion 2047 and W. Patent 8161 daughters were big, hard keepers that didn't really do a good job with their calves... just too much 'growth' and inputs required for the Orion and Patent daughters do do well for us.</p><p></p><p>For good moderate-framed, working-clothes type commercial cows, it'd be hard to beat Rob Sneed or Gary Kaper's Shorthorn genetics. We used Rob Sneed's '034' bull quite a bit( RS DV729 01 034 04; I still have a couple canes of semen in the tank, that I'd sell reasonable, if anyone would be interested...) and really liked the 034 daughters. Always wanted to use some Kaper 4508 and Dover DRC 101VM, but we shifted back to the baldy Simmental side in our breeding program, and I never got around to those two good Shorthorn bulls.</p><p></p><p>I've not looked at CattleVisions' Shorthorn offerings in a couple of years, but they'll have some that would work for a commercial cattle operation. Some of the bulls in the Waukaru sire battery are available from Origen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1651569, member: 12607"] SBMF, and any interested others, You don't have to go to across the ocean to get good Shorthorn genetics. If you're looking at producing SH-cross calves that'll perform in the feedlot...it'd be hard to beat Waukaru genetics - they've concentrated on solid red, polled, calving ease and growth, with good carcass traits. They probably have more performance data on their cattle than any other SH breeder - and more than you'd find in most other breeds, if you get right down to it. They were even doing genomic testing for tenderness, marbling, etc., early on, back in the GeneStar days. Waukaru GoldMine 2109 daughters here were terrific - don't think we ever had a bad one - and he was safe to use on heifers of any breed; W. Coppertop 464 daughters were quite good, W .GoldCard 5042 daughters were good, but HUGE... the W. Orion 2047 and W. Patent 8161 daughters were big, hard keepers that didn't really do a good job with their calves... just too much 'growth' and inputs required for the Orion and Patent daughters do do well for us. For good moderate-framed, working-clothes type commercial cows, it'd be hard to beat Rob Sneed or Gary Kaper's Shorthorn genetics. We used Rob Sneed's '034' bull quite a bit( RS DV729 01 034 04; I still have a couple canes of semen in the tank, that I'd sell reasonable, if anyone would be interested...) and really liked the 034 daughters. Always wanted to use some Kaper 4508 and Dover DRC 101VM, but we shifted back to the baldy Simmental side in our breeding program, and I never got around to those two good Shorthorn bulls. I've not looked at CattleVisions' Shorthorn offerings in a couple of years, but they'll have some that would work for a commercial cattle operation. Some of the bulls in the Waukaru sire battery are available from Origen. [/QUOTE]
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