Comments on Total and Dillion bulls from select sires

[cows]

I was wondering if anyone had any comments on using these two bulls. [/b]

 

[WagaAgeyv]

Try posting pics again none here.

 

[certherfbeef]

Here is the link to Dillion
http://www.selectsires.com/beef/angus_2006_p12.pdf

And Total
http://www.selectsires.com/beef/angus_2006_p13.pdf

 

[WagaAgeyv]

Here is the link to Dillion
http://www.selectsires.com/beef/angus_2006_p12.pdf

And Total
http://www.selectsires.com/beef/angus_2006_p13.pdf

Dillion looked quite nice. Liked him as soon as he popped up. Lots of muscle. Straight back, just nice.
Total is okay not big enough yet for me to judge.

 

[SEC]

Dillon offers as much to my breeding program as my grandmother.

I would need a reason to use the bull, sorry for being blunt but you asked for opinions.

Total might not know he is a bull by his feminine front end, very common non descript.


Ask yourself this if you can imagine. Does this bull offer so much quality that I would be able to pick him out of a pen of bulls?

The 199 Ratio on IMF is good, but how many contemporaries?
Is the extreme good?

 

[CattleAnnie]

Well, no offense intended, as I sure don't claim to know a lot about purebreds, but I just can't get that excited about either of those two...whatever the numbers say, neither really catches my eye.



Take care.

 

[jaydill]

Well, no offense intended, as I sure don't claim to know a lot about purebreds, but I just can't get that excited about either of those two...whatever the numbers say, neither really catches my eye.



Take care.

I agree with Annie on this one. I'd keep looking. Out of the two, though, I'd have to say I preferred Total.

 

[Brandonm2]

I didn't love either bull; though I preferred Dillon over Total. Looking at the two I can't find any reason to discount Dillon other than his mediocre real weaning wt. of 601 and the fact that his picture just isn't very appealing. I think I would probably like him better if somebody put down the clippers and wintered him in the Dakotas then took a shot.

 

[Hill Creek Farm]

Dillon is sired by 1407, another breeding giant in the Angus breed. 1407 has sired really good sons that have done well in the pastures. So, I really like Dillon. I can't really say much about the Total bull, one because he is a unproven bull and that he is not my type of bull to use. He doesn't have enough thickness and he isn't at all a long skeleton animal either. So, if it were me, I would cancel out using Total, unless you are going to just experiment with him and I wouldn't breed him to my whole entire cow herd. :cboy: