Ready go

[kiblercattle]

I was wondering if anyone has pics of ready go progeny they could post. It seems that jit has mentioned having semen on him. Is it amps? And us available?

 

[Doc]

We used a son of Ready Go out of a Weston Dynamo dtr back from about 1980 thru 85. Sure didn't have any calving problems. I wil see if I can find a pic.

 

[justintime]

I will try to scan a few pictures of some Ready Go offspring as soon as I can get time. He is the only bull I have ever owned that I have sold semen from, for almost 38 years. Some breeders still rely on using him on their heifers as they think he is a calving ease specialist. Unfortunately, I do not have any Ready Go semen left that is qualified to export to the US. I think I have about 120 vials left in total. He did a lot of things right but his daughters were what he was remembered for the most. They have great udders with milk and are very good mothers. Right now I'm wishing I had the 400 doses that went to South America, that I never got paid for.
I think okotoks is using a Ready Go son in his herd.

 

[kiblercattle]

That's to bad I was looking for something bred Weston. Dad talks about how good the cows were out of the Weston bull we had and I was looking for something from there.

 

[sue]

You might do a  search as  Ready Go has been discussed on her before. Yes you can purchase semen. Wexvale in Cadillac,MI has used him recently. Florence is a great person to visit with on shorthorn, duals and breeding cattle in general.

Fairly sure they have a nearby bull customer using a son of  ready go? Long and smooth. Sorry no pics- if I visit again I can snap a few, trouble with this herd is it's not papered and they dont tag? 

 

[stick]

I see in the Shorthorn Country that Gary Hansen has pictures of Dynamo and Fillet in his ad.

 

[justintime]

I see in the Shorthorn Country that Gary Hansen has pictures of Dynamo and Fillet in his ad.

Gary has a Weston Dynamo bull that should be about 2 1/2 years old now. I saw him as a calf and as a yearling and he looked very good. Quite moderate framed and very well muscled and very sound and eye appealing. I think he may have some Fillet offspring as well by now.

 

[aj]

Lippert in Colorado had possesion on him last. He was homo polled I think. Wasn't he pretty darn red red? I had some semen that I tossed(amp)s.

 

[justintime]

Lippert in Colorado had possesion on him last. He was homo polled I think. Wasn't he pretty darn red red? I had some semen that I tossed(amp)s.

You are correct in that Gus Lippert purchased Ready Go from us after we had used him for 6 breeding seasons. Gus bought him in July of that year after we had finished breeding to him.  He was 8 ( actually coming 9) when Gus bought him and I think he was still breeding cows at 12 or 13 years old. When Gus Lippert dispersed his herd, Ready Go was in the sale catalog and I think he was at least 12 then, but I don't know if he was actually sold in the sale. I remember someone telling me that Gus sold him privately to someone before the sale. but I was never able to confirm that. I remember thinking about buying him back but at his age, I decided to get a younger bull.

He was a dark cherry red color and he was homozygous polled. He had perfect feet and while some criticzed him for having too much set to his hind legs, he walked like great stud horse. He never really passed his leg set on to his offspring, and quite frankly, I would take a bull designed like him , far faster than a bull with no set to his hind wheels. Ready Go never lost weight on pasture, as he would breed a cow once and never look at her again. He sometimes almost drove me crazy as I would do a pasture check and there could be 2-3 cows in heat and he would be resting under a tree at the other end of the pasture. The cows were always in calf, and safe to the date I would see cows in heat. I think he bred most of the cows at night or very early in the morning, as I hardly never saw him breed a cow... or follow a cow. We were running over 300 purebred cows in those days and he oftentimes would be turned out with 60-70 cows and there was hardly any that did not calve in a 6 week calving season.  He was a great semen producer, and when we collected him at Universal Semen Service, Cardston, AB, his semen was used to compare other bulls collected for many years afterwards. They told us, they had only seen one or two dairy bulls with as high semen score. It was not uncommon for Ready Go to produce 1000 vials of semen on each collection day. He was a delight to be around, as he was never interested in other bulls. He left other bulls alone and they seemed to never bother him either.
After spending 6 weeks travelling through herds in Canada and the US, Stephen Gawith of South Africa, selected Ready Go as the bull he would buy semen from to introduce new blood into his herd. He took 600 vials of semen. That sale is an interesting story, as at that time, it was illegal for a South African citizen to take more than $2000 out of the country on one occasion. ( This law was designed to try to prevent diamonds or the proceeds of diamonds being sent out of the country). Stephen solved that problem by having some of his girlfriends in London, San Fransisco, and Vancouver each send us part of the payment.  He was also used in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil as well as here in Canada. If you look back into the pedigrees of some of the popular lines in Canadian Shorthorns today, you will often find Ready Go, and he is oftentimes shows up several times in a pedigree.

We purchased Ready Go at the American Polled Congress in Louisville in 1973 where he was Supreme Champion of the show at a then record price of $5200. He was the first bull we owned where we had sold more dollars of semen from, before we had his first calf on the ground. Within the first year of owning him we had sold over $15,000 in semen from him, so he was a pretty good investment. If we had never sold a single dose of semen from him, he would have been a good investment as he totally changed our herd... in many good ways. When we purchased our Irish bulls in Ireland, it was our Ready Go females that worked the best with them.  I find it amusing, that we sold semen from him almost 40 years ago for $35 per vial and we never had anyone question the cost. Today, we get complaints about $35 semen being too high priced. As I mentioned previously, it is now almost 40 years since we purchased Ready Go, and there has never been a year that we have not sold some semen from him. I have never kept track but one breeder must have purchased over 300 doses himself and he has used him on some of his heifers for probably more than 30 years.

 

[aj]

I would be interested in some semen for a flush if anybody has some.

 

[Okotoks]

I will try to scan a few pictures of some Ready Go offspring as soon as I can get time. He is the only bull I have ever owned that I have sold semen from, for almost 38 years. Some breeders still rely on using him on their heifers as they think he is a calving ease specialist. Unfortunately, I do not have any Ready Go semen left that is qualified to export to the US. I think I have about 120 vials left in total. He did a lot of things right but his daughters were what he was remembered for the most. They have great udders with milk and are very good mothers. Right now I'm wishing I had the 400 doses that went to South America, that I never got paid for.
I think okotoks is using a Ready Go son in his herd.

We did use a son of Ready Go recently, Matlock Red Sniper 1U. I have attached a pic of one of his yearling daughters. I think one of Ready Go's best sons was HC Trendsetter 26K used in the Ramsholt herd in the 80's. Red Sniper's dam has a Paintearth Rama 53U bull calf this year that looks to be smoking good! She seems to work with a range of sires.

 

[jason]

We really need to start cataloging these bull/offspring photos in a directory.  If anyone is interested in help volunteering for the cause, contact me.

 

[jaimiediamond]

We really need to start cataloging these bull/offspring photos in a directory.  If anyone is interested in help volunteering for the cause, contact me.

I could easily set up a cataloging system, I have a basic plan on how we could do it for all sires that have been listed on steerplanet. 

 

[aj]

Were Ready Go daughters udders.....in general.....at least adequate?

 

[justintime]

Were Ready Go daughters udders.....in general.....at least adequate?

I have never seen a poor uddered Ready Go daughter. He cleaned up udders on even the worst uddered cows. They had tight well attached udders with nice shaped teats that were properly placed. I suppose there is a chance that there could have been a few that might not have been absolutely perfect in design, but I think he cleaned up udders as good as any other bull I have used. Irish Mist was much the same. I never shipped a cow from either bull for their udders going bad.

 

[aj]

Cool. I went over and saw him at Gus's. I wonder if he might be an all around type problem solving bull.

 

[librarian]

Bump. The Heritage Yearling bull I just posted is by a Weston Resource son, DMH Mr T.
DMH had some good Red Bull calves by him last year, maybe more this year? He also has Lincoln Reds. I used a Lincoln Red x Heritage Shorthorn last year. His dam was a Minn Max Leader daughter. The calves came very easy. Photo of DMH Mr T.

 

[librarian]

Weston Dynamo https://shorthorn.digitalbeef.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=_animal&file=_animal&animal_registration=3527163
Weston Resource https://shorthorn.digitalbeef.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=_animal&file=_animal&animal_registration=3651465