MRRherefords":7qzscq7w said:
As was said above, I don't know if you want horned or polled, but KCF Bennett Encore Z311 is a good sire and we AI'd to him this year. Also FTF Prospector 145Y is a great option and semen is not real expensive. Just had a great embryo heifer sired by him this year.
Haven't seen anything out of 145Y yet, I like the looks of him in the photos I've seen but the 1 thing that will probably keep us from ever considering using him is we AI'd a few cows to his sire K085 a long time back and were extremely disappointed with the few calves we had of his. Very light muscled calves and culled every one of them so I think his -0.12 REA EPD that has .66 accuracy held pretty true for us. I was going mention Revolution 4R but unless you already have semen in the tank on him he's starting to get expensive and tough to come by now that he'd dead. Seen people asking $100 a straw and up for him lately. Hometown is a bull I've been seeing more and more calves by lately too that I like the looks of and some nice sons out there as well.
Funny you mentioned Encore because I was just looking at the KCF sale catalog tonight. He's sired by the same bull as 936 but with Revolution on the dam side, if we already didn't already have enough 936 and Revolution in our herd he'd be a bull we'd consider using. I'll just go back to some things I've said here and other threads, of all the bulls we've used AI over the years the 2 bulls that have had the best results for us probably have been Revolution 4R and On Target 936. Both excel in multiple areas, 936 has probably added more muscle to our calves than any sire we've used and Revolution probably has sired some of the best females we've ever had. I made a comment to dad this fall after we had just weaned our 2nd calf crop sired by our 936 son how of any bull we've used he and 936 have consistently added the most muscle. Both bull's daughters have had great udder structure too, nice tight udders with good teats. No calving ease problems with either as well, have used them on heifers without any hesitation.