Finally got some time to get back on here to give you some more info that I shouldve given you in the first place....Didnt really know if anyone would be interested! Was glad he passed inspection with you discerning folk.
We did not breed this bull (we wish) and paid $9000 for him which we considered to be good buying at the time, but more than we generally pay for bulls. That was actually three years ago when he was the two year old pictured. He is all Oz breeding in his close-up pedigree and, as we are commercial breeders, we didnt get his papers transferred. He is not AI bred, his grandsire is Temana Muscleman for those of you in Aust who know him. His EBVs must have been good enough for us to buy him and I know his BW rating was +.01. We only buy low BW bulls of course.
He still looks great, never causes any management issues, and always holds his condition whether there's grass or no grass. A low maintenance bull. He's in a 5000 ac paddock with high content char cows and also some nice first generation charbray cows. Also other bulls of course. We wean some cracker calves out of there with big back ends. No problems ever getting the calves born out of the cows.
Obviously we really like this bull and there's a few others I gloat over as well. However....it's all downhill from there!
We have about 50 herd bulls, about 10 we really like, most are passable, and there's the few that we wonder "What on earth were we thinking????" Charolais and charbray for the main herd, a few senepol and a lone black angus for the heifers.
Will post some of our own bulls when I can get to it.
We did not breed this bull (we wish) and paid $9000 for him which we considered to be good buying at the time, but more than we generally pay for bulls. That was actually three years ago when he was the two year old pictured. He is all Oz breeding in his close-up pedigree and, as we are commercial breeders, we didnt get his papers transferred. He is not AI bred, his grandsire is Temana Muscleman for those of you in Aust who know him. His EBVs must have been good enough for us to buy him and I know his BW rating was +.01. We only buy low BW bulls of course.
He still looks great, never causes any management issues, and always holds his condition whether there's grass or no grass. A low maintenance bull. He's in a 5000 ac paddock with high content char cows and also some nice first generation charbray cows. Also other bulls of course. We wean some cracker calves out of there with big back ends. No problems ever getting the calves born out of the cows.
Obviously we really like this bull and there's a few others I gloat over as well. However....it's all downhill from there!
We have about 50 herd bulls, about 10 we really like, most are passable, and there's the few that we wonder "What on earth were we thinking????" Charolais and charbray for the main herd, a few senepol and a lone black angus for the heifers.
Will post some of our own bulls when I can get to it.