Thanks HD for posting the pics for me. Every time I try to upload them is tells me I am over my quota for pictures and no matter how many I delete I still cannnot upload.
The first picture is my bull on the left. The second is not him but a full brother to his mother that sold for $2900. The third picture is a frontal shot he is # 92. He also had a half brother by the same sire Sexton Northern Improvement, that brought $3200.
My main reason for revisiting this thread is not to gloat but to possibly educate some of the newbies around here to get the message that with cattle things are not always as cut and dried as some here would have you believe.
I was told numerous times that he was not masculine enough at the age of 4 months to be anything but a good steer. What rubish. I knew his genetics and phenatype gave him an excellant chance to prove out to be a very good bull and in fact he did. Is he a big ole pallet headed terminal sire? No , of course not, but a good bull nevertheless. So before you let any of the so called experts around here(including me) give you too much advice, do your homework and make good well informed descisions........and who knows maybe you will fall into a bucket of crap and come out smelling like a rose like I did yesterday.
It also doesn't hurt to surround yourself with a few very knowledgable cattlemen and women that you can draw on for on the spot advice. In this case that's exactly what I did, in the form of a young lady who, at the tender age of 30 has more knowledge and good instincts when it comes to cattle than most 60yr olds I know. If I had listened to the Australian contigent here this calf would be on his way to an audition for CAB right about now.
