wish Red could have seen it.
more on the bull. I think Euro-pursang Livestock Ltd may have owned his mother and flushed his mother after a calf every year for a while. That flush yielded 8 calves registered in Canada in 1982. I think Euro went out of business and Dick Barkhurst purchased Epl Prospector 240P and 242P (champion calve's sire). He did not collect 240P, said 242P was a better bull so he collected him. He kept mostly females from shorthorn cows from the bull with pigmentation on their udders and teats as he liked that due to more protection from sunburn from the sun when it snowed. Thunderbasin (who owned thunderhead, the bull, not the horse) used him a little. I liked a bull in his background, Vainqueur, and 242P goes to him the quickest of any animal available. Vainqueur is the only bull Harlan Ritchie took a picture of fullbloods of when he was in France and said he was the best bull there and he was looking at Atan, Cunia's sire, saw Cunia's mother and some other prominent bulls I can't remember. Anyway, I haven't been set up to use the bull so I think it's really cool someone else is able to use him. 242P is homozygous for Tenderness 1 and 2 for what that's worth. Maine's are mostly homozygous for tenderness 1. Not sure that matters any more as marker people say those original 3 or 4 gene panels don't explain much of the tenderness variability.
Would like to see the heifer continue to be used as a fullblood. Again, GREAT JOB ON BUYING THE EMBRYOS AND SEEING THROUGH SHOWING!!!!!!
me and Telos used to bore each other to death talking about the bull.
