WalnutCrest
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As a breed, they are moderately framed, thick dense cattle.
... except ... and only very very rarely ... a greatly outsized animal will arrive and, almost without exception, French bull named Heros will be behind it.
Heros kids, almost without exception, have excellent structure, calm temperaments, and produce elite daughters with the prepotency continuing for generations, etc. He was born in 1992 and the French still seek out his daughters, grand daughters, and great grand daughters. We are fortunate to own (we believe) 100% of the global supply of his semen and have used him in our AI and ET work without hesitation.
We also have, we believe, 100% of the global supply of his 1991-born half brother (same sire, different dam), a bull named Goeland ... who doesn't ever produce these rare huge critters. We've used him in our AI and ST program without hesitating, too.
Well, here is a bull who is a half brother to my herd sire (Zach; FS 4.0 and 2000 lbs) ... same dam, different sires ... and the bull pictured below has Heros as a great great grand sire ... apparently, the size gene skipped several generations. Heros isn't anywhere in my bull's pedigree, fwiw ...
So, this bull (below) is a FS 7 (ish) and tips the scale at 3000 lbs (ish). Perfect feet, testes, and puppy dog gentle. He's four years old.
He'd make someone a beck of a terminal sire. He'd also make awesome replacements if big cows were your thing. His birth weight was 95 lbs, born several hours north of the Canadian border (were calves come much bigger).
... except ... and only very very rarely ... a greatly outsized animal will arrive and, almost without exception, French bull named Heros will be behind it.
Heros kids, almost without exception, have excellent structure, calm temperaments, and produce elite daughters with the prepotency continuing for generations, etc. He was born in 1992 and the French still seek out his daughters, grand daughters, and great grand daughters. We are fortunate to own (we believe) 100% of the global supply of his semen and have used him in our AI and ET work without hesitation.
We also have, we believe, 100% of the global supply of his 1991-born half brother (same sire, different dam), a bull named Goeland ... who doesn't ever produce these rare huge critters. We've used him in our AI and ST program without hesitating, too.
Well, here is a bull who is a half brother to my herd sire (Zach; FS 4.0 and 2000 lbs) ... same dam, different sires ... and the bull pictured below has Heros as a great great grand sire ... apparently, the size gene skipped several generations. Heros isn't anywhere in my bull's pedigree, fwiw ...
So, this bull (below) is a FS 7 (ish) and tips the scale at 3000 lbs (ish). Perfect feet, testes, and puppy dog gentle. He's four years old.
He'd make someone a beck of a terminal sire. He'd also make awesome replacements if big cows were your thing. His birth weight was 95 lbs, born several hours north of the Canadian border (were calves come much bigger).
