i wouldnt use him on hardcores or other cows that already have big bone and a big foot. he's NOT meant to be calving ease on first calf heifers. he IS meant to be calving ease on 2nd or after calf cows. same goes for dh. his full brother.
we screwed up on breeding my hardcore heifer to him. we had issues. the calf, which was a bull prolly had 3 inch diameter feet they were pretty big. the cow to begin with has as big of bone as some of the clubby bulls. calf got hip locked. we couldnt even get him out with the jack. we ended up using a winch. got the calf out somehow alive. called the float tank for the cow cus she ended pinching off a nerve and couldnt get up. put her in the skid steer bucket to get her in the barn cus it was pretty muddy in the pasture. she prolapsed as we got her in the barn. got that taken care of. calf died about a week later with pnemonia. he would have been sweet stuff. NOTE: calf was 10 days early.
on the plus we got her home. she bred back on first try and stuck with a heifer calf. we played it safe and used smokin joe on her for that one. no issues.
i'm glad to hear that the golden child heifer has nice heifer calf out of dh2.
of what i've seen of dh or dh2 the calves and full growns are definitely nice. 2 yrs ago both the grand champion and reserve champion steers at our county fair were dh's from gefferts sale. mine was reserve out of the panda donor cow. he had 2 other et brothers in that sale that also sold well. last yr i had a dh on a irish whiskey cow market heifer. she was reserve market heifer. if she wasnt a freemartin twin she would have been a breeding heifer.
dh has been known to throw em thick. hairy. big boned. and pretty sound. the only thing on steers u gotta watch is they tend to cut up a bit more in the flank than a lot of other clubby bulls do. but they do drop flank when they are finished. heifers are pretty much all around nice.
obviously with any bull they gotta still be bred right. and they sometimes do get big. my steer was 1365 at county. and the grand was 1285, he was registered appendix shorty.