New herd bull

[oakview]

Fieser's Wesley, just got him home last week.  This photo was taken at Dean's just before leaving Kansas.  Looking forward to using him along  with Zulu this summer. 

 

[Duncraggan]

I like him, what is his breeding?

 

[shortyjock89]

He looks great.  Good to see Dean is still making the right kind.  How's he bred?

 

[justintime]

Tremendous depth and lots of capacity. He also has a very unique pedigree. Is that a map of North and South America on his side?

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Theres a white hiefer roaming around up there in Iowa that would sure work with him-pedigree and phenotype-wise. O0

 

[Okotoks]

Nice looking bull with and interesting pedigree, bringing some ArSuLu ,K-Kim and Elbee breeding in. I see he also carries a cross of your Oakview Two Plus Two bull (thumbsup)

 

[oakview]

His left side is actually a map of the Louisiana Purchase.  It was much larger than just North and South Dakota.  The right side is merely a map of the Badlands, much less white.  A little chrome never hurt anybody!

Oakview 2 + 2 was a bull I raised several years ago when I was still in my "experimental" stage.  Remember Me, Leader Plus, Cunia, there were lots of ingredients in his recipe.  I sold him to Dean as a calf and Tony Shultz and I bought him back about 5 or 6 years later.  Little Cedar sold a daughter for a nice five figure price in their sale a few years ago.  Dean used the heck out of 2 + 2 and several of his herd sires over the years were sons or grandsons.  I raised the bull, but I will admit that he was not one of my favorites.  I never had a calf sired by him.  Several people have done quite well with offspring, though.  Shows what I know!  By the way, his ASA pedigree shows DSH.  Wesley is TH, PHA, and DS free.   

 

[sue]

I like the bull, it's a "dick braman" kinda color for sure ! His phenotype is ideal, BW is high but . .. how did he test DSF if his dam has DSH in both the top and bottom of pedigree? 

 

[oakview]

Evidently he is far enough away from DSH that their DSC offspring didn't include that gene when they passed on the others.  Very fortunate.  I know that Two Plus Two was getting around pretty good at least as an 8 year old.  I don't know how many years he lasted after that.  Even though he apparently tested DSH, I don't know of any physically defective calves.  Dean used several sons, grandsons, etc., and I am not aware of any defective calves going back to him in his herd.  I have a few calfhood photos of Two Plus Two that show him to be sound, as much as you can tell from a photo.  He had a good hoof, and had good flex, although he was a little straight on his back legs for me.  My only complaint with him was that he just didn't have enough grow in him.  He was born a day two apart from a Jam's Uh-Huh bull calf and there was at least 200 pounds difference in weaning weights.  Two Plus Two was not starved by a poor milking dam, either.  He just didn't have a lot of gas.  I don't know too much about the Ruby Pooh bull, other than he was loaded with muscle. 

 

[mark tenenbaum]

I remember pictures of Ruby Pooh-He went back to Irish Magic, and Elbee breeding I believe-He was really stout-and showed the maine in the woodpile. O0

 

[simba]

I like him a lot, there's a lot of bull there!!