NAME THE BULL!

[LN]

Give this one a shot.

I believe that is PTL Trendsetter, black Simmi bull from the early 90s.

 

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NFM

 

[OH Breeder]

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ICE CHEST

 

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Ya found that picture tonight!

Pretty easy when I post it, LOL!

Tony

 

[CJB]

I believe that is PTL Trendsetter, black Simmi bull from the early 90s.

Right on.  I'm going to have to try harder.

 

[CJB]

Another

 

[bcosu]

Another

is that tc freedom 104?

i know i've seen this bull before, that's just the only thing that i can think of looking like him.

 

[cattleking]

I have the easiest bull to figure out, dont even need a pic, which bull leads semen sales but has recenly stop producing semen, in about a month its already up to 500$ a straw! He for sure IS the best composite out there!

 

[farmboy]

I have the easiest bull to figure out, dont even need a pic, which bull leads semen sales but has recenly stop producing semen, in about a month its already up to 500$ a straw! He for sure IS the best composite out there!

what was that one bulls name? he had the awesome cross eyes and big goofy lookin face. i think he was jills. that must be it 

 

[Easy]

I have the easiest bull to figure out, dont even need a pic, which bull leads semen sales but has recenly stop producing semen, in about a month its already up to 500$ a straw! He for sure IS the best composite out there!

Heat Wave!!!!!

 

[cattleking]

Yup, but semen is probably  your life's savings now!

 

[Shady Lane]

I really enjoyed this thread and read every page. Especially the Shorthorn Posts!

So I think I can come up with a few interesting bulls myself.

 

[justintime]

Jamie, that must be the notorious Hulkster..... is that right?

 

[Shady Lane]

That would be correct!

DJS Hulkster,

He was a Seville son out of Steck's "Goose" cow.

He was owned in part by Hunt Farms in Ontario Canada.

Hulkster females were at the time probably some of the most winning females in Canada.

When I was a kid they were the ones to beat.

  Herdsman Murray Pimmet and Bobbie Goble who worked there at the time got a lot of mileage out of those cattle.

Bigger was better and they were Big!

We bought a Hulkster daughter from one of Hunts production sales in the early 90's and we went with a Charolais breeder who was a neighbour of ours to pick her up a few days after the sale.

I remember standing in the pen at Hunts and Harrold declaring, "That's the biggest cow I have ever seen in my life".

To this day I think he might be right.

She was MAMMOTH!

 

[justintime]

Hulkster was one of three triplet bull calves born from the Goose female of Steck's. They resulted from 3 embryos not being removed after a flush was completed. If memory serves me right the smallest of the triplets was 90 lbs. The three calves weighed over 300 lbs combined at birth. I would think that cow was greatly relieved when that pregnancy was completed!!

 

[Shady Lane]

Ok, here is another bull that saw some use on both sides of the border I believe.

  He was bron and bred in Canada, from a combination of Canadian, American and Australian genetics.

Some of the cattle in my fathers herd trace back to this bull many generations back, this bull left some great females.

  Justintime and some of the other Canadians will likely know this one right away.

I believe this bull was shown in Denver when I was about Knee High, and I also believe there is a story of him posting one of the heighest weights, or WPDA for SH bulls at that time?

 

[justintime]

Manitoba Sunrise...sired  by Crestdale Super Flag 14G. Manitoba Sunrise was the heaviest WPDA Shorthorn bull ever shown at Denver at that time. Lynn Ewald in Minnesota had  purchased the US rights and showed him in Denver. He was also a herd sire at Saskvalley for several years.His sire Crestdale Super Flag 14G sold for $41,500 at the Regina Bull Sale in 1973. He was so impressive at that time, that many leading Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn breeders at the time tried to buy him. He was purchased by a partnership of 4 Saskatchewan Shorthorn breeders. The runner up bidder was Beartooth Ranch in Montana. I think the electricity in the sale ring was the greatest I have ever seen in my lifetime. People flew in, from all over North America to see this bull when word got out about him. There was probably over 2500 people packed in the sale ring when he sold and it took over an hour to complete the sale of him.

 

[vcsf]

JIT did they not have problems ever getting much good semen froze on Super Flag 14G after the sale or was that a different bull that sold through Regina about that time.  I wondered if the picture was Manitoba Sunrise.

 

[justintime]

You are right, in that Crestdale Super Flag 14G did not produce much good semen. He did produce some though and there was enough produced that the insurance company did not pay the buyers out.The insurance company even had private investigators hired to try to watch the bull on pasture and see if he was breeding cows. He was breeding them all right but few got pregnant.It was a very strange deal as he had excellent testicles and he did produce one batch of excellent quality semen ( of which there is still some around). He ended up being one of the highest priced gomer bulls in the industry.

14G went on the win the Grand Champion honours at the 1980 World Shorthorn Conference show at the Calgary Stampede. He weighed 2700 lbs as a three year old bull, and was pretty impressive. ( they had a special mature bull class for this show). At one time, there were a bunch of 14G daughters at Huberdale, and they were excellent brood cows for them. I still have about 100 doses of his sire, Mandalong Super Flag, in my tanks, and it maybe time to try some again. It may be interesting to use this on some of today's genetics.

 

[Shady Lane]

I remember some Super Flag daughters at Scotsdale when I was a kid.

They were some impressive cows.

I bet their are some modern gentics that he'd still work on.