Our senior herd sires for 2019

[ska]

nice cows!  O0

 

[aj]

Looks like to me that a cow that is just big enough to raise a calf that is big enough for the packers would be a nice size. And if you want to get really crazy.......animal science common sense crazy....have a moderate cow bred to a terminal trait bull. Why in the world Angus or Shorthorn people would want 1500 pound cows is beyond me. I guess that if the average cow herd size is 5o head or less...they can't use this crossbreeding system though.......so it doesn't matter I guess.

 

[Medium Rare]

Is Diamond Belvedere 29B semen available in the states?  Did they ever get the Australian data into digital beef?

I ran my yearling Lord Belmore son on some heifers this spring. He's sure looking the part.

 

[Duncraggan]

D. Dynamite 6D would be my choice!

Here are some Diamond Dynamite 6D yearling heifers. They were born April, May last year, mostly out of Angus x charolais or Angus x Shorthorn cows.
There are some nice purebred heifers by him as well. We are using a red son of 6D on a group of whites and light roan yearling heifers as well.
Dynamite's dam weighed 1400 lbs as a three year old weaning her second calf little late as we showed the pair. (pictured) The next photo is shortly after calving as a two year old with Dynamite and the next is of them at weaning.

The third picture really tells the story. The wean size is amazing!
Superb bunch of x-bred heifers. Very even Shorthorn look, considering they have Charolais about them!

 

[Okotoks]

Looks like to me that a cow that is just big enough to raise a calf that is big enough for the packers would be a nice size. And if you want to get really crazy.......animal science common sense crazy....have a moderate cow bred to a terminal trait bull. Why in the world Angus or Shorthorn people would want 1500 pound cows is beyond me. I guess that if the average cow herd size is 5o head or less...they can't use this crossbreeding system though.......so it doesn't matter I guess.

They did it with broiler chickens...and this article about salmon is a bit scary! Not sure a regular breeder lives long enough to create "the perfect profitable cow" for all environments
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-first-genetically-modified-animals-approved-for-us-consumption-are-here-2019-06-21?fbclid=IwAR3rW7i8E8zDV6vz3qwAQQqBaAi5y9VzaI5OWJniTQRZoW5M4o65vrQLM00

 

[shortybreeder]

There is research out there supporting the claims that you can regulate mature size by controlling feed intake through heifer development while still getting healthy calves out of 2 year old heifers. So maybe instead of focusing on breeding the performance out of our cattle, we need to focus on finding that balance point between feeding for physiological development and physical development. I believe you can have cows with the genetic potential of 1500-1600lb mature weights but actual mature weights of 1400-1450lbs.

 

[aj]

As far as "breeding performance out of cattle" is concerned......  Stayability is performance. Producing a calf every year without a pickup load of artificial protein supplements is performance. If I am feeding cattle in the feedlot or selling protein supplements to the cow-calf guy....i would love the 1500 pound cow. The calves gain better in the feedlot.

 

[mark tenenbaum]

THATS right-and they can have a big calf if it happens-that will wean of weighing more than the others and yield more pounds in the end O0

 

[Okotoks]

powerfull cow-Are the  Shorthorn  x char -angus cross 2 heifers in the foreground of the 4 pictured?-the closest one in front with her head down is my favorite of the whole post other than dynomites dam

I got it a bit wrong Mark. The front heifer does have a little Charolais in her but it's away back. Her dam was a Shorthorn x Angus with a bit of Charolais. The other heifers are out of Shorthorn Angus or Angus cows.

 

[Okotoks]

One of our junior herd sires this year is Hatfield Bingo 2F.

 

[Okotoks]

Another young bull owned by Woodruff Ranches that we were able to use on a group of heifers that were bred AI first. He is now with the Diamond Dynamite daughters. He had a 63 lb birth weight. Janell's Falcon 70F by Muridale President 33B and out of a cow by Muridale Tradition 115Y.
A bit of rain and I was able to get a better photo of Falcon today taking the first one down, it doesn't do him justice.

 

[Okotoks]

Is Diamond Belvedere 29B semen available in the states?  Did they ever get the Australian data into digital beef?

I ran my yearling Lord Belmore son on some heifers this spring. He's sure looking the part.

The Australians have run in the test phase of IGS but they have not gone live with yet as far as I can find out. I think that is why some of the accuracy numbers on Australian animals went up though.
Diamond Belvedere 29B will be collected later this year hopefully there will be some US qualified. Glad the Lord Belmore bull is doing well. We used two sons on afew this year plus have quite a few two year old and yearling daughters. They have been easy calving and good mothers! Pictured is one two year old last spring with her Diamond Dundee 26D bull calf born March 6.