Upgrade Bull

[Bright Raven]

Very good to know. I will keep an eye on that. May wait a couple years to see how these turn out before breeding to him again. I would prefer to breed them angus. My select sires rep highly recommend gar composure and gar surefire, but I think I'm going to use comrade on my chisum and right answer daughters this spring.

I bought a cane of Composure. Still have 3 or 4 straws left. I got about 6 calves. I kept one heifer that I sold as a bred. They are small calves that have low performance.

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

Why angus? Why not go back with Simm on them? I have several Upgrade daughters in production, and love each one of them. They raise one heck of a calf each year! We only use Simmental semen over here, so I really do not know the angus sires like others here.

 

[pdfangus]

Angus genetic change so fast now it is like riding a merry go round...
I laid off studying the catalogs for a couple of years and now I don't recognize much of anything...

 

[Tbrake]

I am not opposed to breeding simi. Just know absolutely nothing about them. These heifers will be the first time a simi has been on any of our farms

 

[Franke]

We have had inconsistent results with upgrades in out herd. We've had BIG and good, mid and good, but also tall and shallow and short and choppy.