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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 137038" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>It is a little more than just his colors (though they are a red flag). Look at his butt....he has none!!! The pin bones of his ass stick out and then his hide is a tight slope all the way down to his hocks. THERE is no muscle bulge anywhere in there at all. The pin bones on a healthy bull should be so covered in red meat and condition that you can't clearly see them and the flesh of his round should stick out much further than his pins anyway. You look at his butt and Holstein is the only thing that is even close to that. I am not a big Simmie guy; but not many of them are lite muscled to that degree. Then you go to the front end and he has a big massive head that is out of proportion with the rest of his body. That big noggin on his calves is likely to get stuck in the cows' birth canals even if the birth wt is only 75 pounds (and eared sires typically have HIGHER birth wts). He is also a little lacking in the length department. I don't see a big muscular chuck or loin to make up for his rear problems and he looks SMALL in that photo. </p><p></p><p>I know you got a good deal on him and his calves MIGHT be better than he is and I have certainly seen worse herd sires; but given that beef prices are high right now you might want to take him to town along with your worst cow and come back with a better bull with some kind of performance history behind him. To me he just looks like the wild bull calf that somebody didn't catch at sale time. I really can't see any other reason that anybody would hold him back for development as a bull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 137038, member: 2095"] It is a little more than just his colors (though they are a red flag). Look at his butt....he has none!!! The pin bones of his ass stick out and then his hide is a tight slope all the way down to his hocks. THERE is no muscle bulge anywhere in there at all. The pin bones on a healthy bull should be so covered in red meat and condition that you can't clearly see them and the flesh of his round should stick out much further than his pins anyway. You look at his butt and Holstein is the only thing that is even close to that. I am not a big Simmie guy; but not many of them are lite muscled to that degree. Then you go to the front end and he has a big massive head that is out of proportion with the rest of his body. That big noggin on his calves is likely to get stuck in the cows' birth canals even if the birth wt is only 75 pounds (and eared sires typically have HIGHER birth wts). He is also a little lacking in the length department. I don't see a big muscular chuck or loin to make up for his rear problems and he looks SMALL in that photo. I know you got a good deal on him and his calves MIGHT be better than he is and I have certainly seen worse herd sires; but given that beef prices are high right now you might want to take him to town along with your worst cow and come back with a better bull with some kind of performance history behind him. To me he just looks like the wild bull calf that somebody didn't catch at sale time. I really can't see any other reason that anybody would hold him back for development as a bull. [/QUOTE]
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