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I agree that some of his comments may have been taken wrong, but if that was the case, he should have tried to clarify what he was saying. I did hear the comment on the white heifer having too much bone and would set the breed back 10 years, and that is how I heard it. I spoke with several...

About 3 or 4 classes into the show, I received a phone call from an Australian breeder, who told me to take the microphone from the judge as he was going to destroy the breed. He was watching the show online. I spent most of the show in the entrance of the show ring, and I could not hear his...

We have a large selection of sires. Here is one that I think is going to sire some very useful cattle. His first calves are excellent - both sexes.  He is HC Bluebook 22B. He is an ET son of Waukaru Orion 2047 ET and HC FL Sparkle Delight 2X ET. He topped our bull sale in 2015 at $32,000 and he...

We dissolved the Irish Drovers many years ago, but I have always had a membership... but no one in the ASA would know that I was a partner in this group. I think this is another glitch in the new system that hasn't been fixed yet. I also agree with Knabe in that the epds for some of these older...

A few years ago, I saw several of the Heatwave clones at Hawkeye Breeders at Adel, IA. I think there was 4 of them there when I was there on that occasion. I guess what I wondered about was that the only real resemblance I saw between them was that they were black. Other than that, there was...

I have had two cows produce until age 21 and several that have made it to age 18. The first cow to make 21 was a dual purpose Shorthorn cow that raised a good calf at 21 but came in from pasture open. She was one of the toughest cows I have ever owned and had the udder of a 4-5 year old when she...

I understand your concerns about the whole herd registry system, but almost every breed I can think of, at least here in Canada, has moved in that direction. Personally, the whole herd registry is a good thing for me, as it allows me to actually pay less than I used to and I get every calf...

It is not the job of any breed organization to sell your cattle. This is the job of each and every breeder to do. The breed association should promote the breed as a whole in the industry, but it should never promote one or a few breeders over others. I have seen so many cases where a breed...

I guess I really struggle to understand anyone who quits registering, because they don't like what the association is doing. I realize it is a protest against the association but to me, it seems that the breeder takes the far biggest hit. If a person feels they have some good breeding stock...

I have never heard of any offspring of Mandalong Super Flag that had double muscling issues. I don't know if he was ever tested or not.

Many of the " mistakes" of the past we just that... mistakes. Others were deliberate. After being in Scotland and talking with some of the older breeders, I think it is safe to say that there were a few well known breeders in that era that were not Saints. The same can be said for breeders...

I sent you a PM as well. Can you find out which Crestdale Super Flag bull you are talking about? There were several of them. I don't remember any semen from Crestdale Super Flag 14G ( the bull that sold for $41,500 in the 1977 Regina Bull Sale) ever going to the US. There was another very good...

I have a few bulls from the early to mid 60s. The TPS Coronet Leader 21 semen I used in a couple flushes was collected in 1963. I had the semen checked before we bred the donors, and the ET center said they wished all the semen they used was as good. It was very high quality at over 50 years...

I have noticed a few older bulls who have no DNA that can be tested that are shown in this way. Someone told me the H stood for Heritage but that doesn't seem to fit either. In any event, I think these bulls can be considered to be free by pedigree, as they were born before the TH defect arrived...

I have 6 Meat Packer bulls that will sell in the Sun Country sale on March 7th,2017. I only had 1 heifer and it is out of Waukaru Patent 8161's dam and she will stay here. We also have some Meat Packer embryos selling in Worchester England on September 28th and another set selling in Sterling...

I can sure tell the third heifer is sired by Irish Mist. I like all three heifers. I also liked all 3 of these sires. We need a  bunch more sires like them today!

I missed some prices as I was on the phone for several lots but here are some I got written down. This was a good set of breeding cattle and they sold pretty well to breeders across the US and Canada as well as to Australia and England. lot 1 - flush - 8000 -  Sprys Shorthorns, Australia 2 -...

justintime what year did the irish cattle go to north America The first Irish Shorthorns came to North America in 1976.  We purchased Highfield Irish Mist and two females early in 1977. One of my partners, Don Murphy was travelling through Ireland trying to visit some of his families roots...

Like many others have posted, I have had several "best deals" but I have also had numerous " poor deals" over the years. The best deals have not just been the animals I purchased at very reasonable prices. Sometimes they have cost the most. One of the high priced " best deals " I have been...

ok... I understand what you were saying now. Unfortunately, this is just another example of another " glitch " in the ASA data. I sure hope there are not as many errors in the American cattle as there are on the Canadian Shorthorns listed. The cow I wrote about is the ET female CYT Sparkle Girl...