It is an Angus bullDoesn't look angus.
I was sure that someone would figure it out, but I wanted to get unbiased opinions before naming him.Admittedly I figured out who the bull is
He has some very good EPDs but they are still at low accuracy levels.I like how he looks for many reasons. However, I would like to see his pedigree before
I would use him. Looks can be deceiving.
So you consider him a slaughter bull and not a breeding bull. May I ask what you see as his faults?Well groomed, clipped ... about $1.05/lb
I look at the bloodlines behind a bull, cow families are important, as much or more than I look at EPD's.He has some very good EPDs but they are still at low accuracy levels.
I wouldn't spend a lot of time plumbing the depths of this angry well.....So you consider him a slaughter bull and not a breeding bull. May I ask what you see as his faults?
I do not know the bull. But a photo alone does no good. Just as numbers alone do no good. Too much of a cost and possible waste of time to merely drool over a polished picture. If my pricing insults you, add $500 for the registered value until I know more. The semen collection centers and farm tanks are full of semen from past "great ones". Most should be dumped.For those that haven't already figured out the bull's identity, it's Butchs Trustee.
He is a Confidence Plus son but as mentioned before there are only 20 offspring reported to the Angus association, so EPD accuracies are low.
All of the $ indexes are in the top 10% of the breed.
Butchs Trustee
bullbarn.com
I think this is the modern seedstock reality. Both breeders and AI companies can comb the data and find outliers. The bull may be in some commercial pasture and they buy the bull just for the potential genetic merit in the EPDs/DNA.He has apparently sired very few calves (with progeny data submitted to AAA) for his age (4.5years), therefore the low accuracies on the EPD's. Birth weights on only 20 calves. Weaning weights on just 12. Wondering why he has not been used more in purebred herds?