Bestoutwest
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Well, when it all shook out this was the bull that was available from my rep. I had never heard of him, but judging him by his numbers and catalog picture I'm impressed. Fingers crossed, now we wait.
@Stickney94 you mentioned three negatives with the grandsire PA POWER TOOL 9108 but you would still consider using him when his accuracy improves. Are you thinking these negative areas have been improved upon or do you consider the issues minor ones? By that I mean, the udders/teats not great but were they fully functional and didn't impare the dams ability to raise a good calf.large frame, docile, excellent carcass qualities, udders/teats not great but very good mothers/calve growers, fertile, leg angle not great, claw ok.
@Stickney94 you mentioned three negatives with the grandsire PA POWER TOOL 9108 but you would still consider using him when his accuracy improves. Are you thinking these negative areas have been improved upon or do you consider the issues minor ones? By that I mean, the udders/teats not great but were they fully functional and didn't impare the dams ability to raise a good calf.
The cattle way back in the subject bulls pedigree, like his grand sire PA Power Tool, Predestined, and a few other New Design 036 descendants have worked well for us. Especially, in the sense of commercial market calves. They grow good, have slick hair coats. All of those bulls just seem to be really virile, and the walking bulls we used of that pedigree always tested very high for BSE.I like the combination of his milk and $EN epds. If accurate then any retained heifers/cows should be lower maintenance with sufficient milk.
I've not used him but I would based off ky hills testimony. Apparently he has some fescue genetics in the mix.