Red Simmental A.I.

[garybob]

Homeboy would be cool.  I'd be willing to bet what the calf would look like as far as color or markings.

You would?...Because I sure wouldn't! Breeding a baldy or blaze faced Simmental to another baldy is VERY unpredictable in terms of color pattern. You could get a baldy... You could get a solid... Or you could get spots. I wouldn't do it unless you're fine with the possibility you'll get a traditionally marked, old school colored up Simmental calf.

It's kinda funny to me that the poster mentioned wanting a black calf, and pretty much every suggestion so far is for a red or heterozygous black bull...lol. Nice female btw...I like her.

I thought Y'uns involved in raising Simmentals were the first to use DNA Technology? I disagree. You could use a South-African Fleckvieh that is a guaranteed Non-spotter, Non-dilluter, if you wanted to, and be pretty certain of the color of the anticipated calf.

Awesome cow! I really like her.She's the kind that produces good ones.
GB

 

[Simmgal]

Thank you for all of the posts! Her voyager calf came out black with a
Whiteface and I am pretty impressed with him so far. Thank you for all of your suggestions, but I would like to keep her calves black if at all possible. Can't sell or show red around here and it's a shame. Both homeboy and drakkar look really nice, I just don't want a red calf if I can help it haha.

I had someone mention Domination, any thoughts on him? I haven't seem any calves in person so I am really curious about him. Is he better than Amazon? And cut above was another option, I believe he was mentioned on here too.

If you want black use a homo black SM bull.

That's what I will probably end up doing, I just wanted to see what some other options were before I made a final decision. Thanks for all of the input everyone.

 

[leanbeef]

Homeboy would be cool.  I'd be willing to bet what the calf would look like as far as color or markings.

You would?...Because I sure wouldn't! Breeding a baldy or blaze faced Simmental to another baldy is VERY unpredictable in terms of color pattern. You could get a baldy... You could get a solid... Or you could get spots. I wouldn't do it unless you're fine with the possibility you'll get a traditionally marked, old school colored up Simmental calf.

It's kinda funny to me that the poster mentioned wanting a black calf, and pretty much every suggestion so far is for a red or heterozygous black bull...lol. Nice female btw...I like her.

I thought Y'uns involved in raising Simmentals were the first to use DNA Technology? I disagree. You could use a South-African Fleckvieh that is a guaranteed Non-spotter, Non-dilluter, if you wanted to, and be pretty certain of the color of the anticipated calf.

Awesome cow! I really like her.She's the kind that produces good ones.
GB

We'uns involved in raising Simmentals know there isn't a test for the spot gene, and I don't know of any white-faced Simmental that's guaranteed to be a non-spotter. Yes...there are lots of solid bulls that are guaranteed non-spotters, either through pedigree or progeny testing, but none of them will guarantee a blaze faced calf out of that cow. My point is that mating a baldy to a baldy is unpredictable in regards to color pattern of the calf. Maybe you know something I don't know.