Kj cl j119 logic semen x on target daughters

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We have two 5 year old Logic daughters in our herd who have been pretty good cows for us. He's one bull based off the calves we got in a couple years of using him AI awhile back that has lived up to his EPDs as the calving ease, milk, and growth traits have all been there. Wouldn't mind having a few more daughters out of him actually. One of the cows in particular (pictured below) just missed DOD designation by 1 day in calving interval, she's weaned 3 at 105 average ratio including a Revolution son we retained semen interest on that we sold and his calves have been some of our best lately as well.

I think you'd be just fine with using him on On Target daughters, we used 936 AI a couple years and are using a 936 son this summer and been very pleased so far with what we've seen from the On Target lines so I think that would probably be a pretty nice AI pairing.

[hoekland]

Wow!

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Jul 31, 2015 18:06:13 GMT -6 rodeohunter said:

Have all your 936 offspring come out a little "hairier"than calves from previous bulls. Most I've seen have seemed to have quite a thick coat when compared to the cow or calves from different sires on the same cow. I have one that's built for Wisconsin weather with the looks of her coat.

We had three 936 offspring last year (2 bulls and 1 heifer) and 1 full sister to that heifer this year and I don't think any seem to carry more hair than anything else we have.  We have some pictures on our website and Facebook page of them at various stages last year and this year if you are curious to look.  I just looked them over myself out of curiosity and I didn't notice any difference in hair over anything else we have.  Here's a couple videos of 936 in the pasture at Rausch's, he looks pretty slicked down to me from a hair standpoint. 

Sort of a side topic while we are at it... I wish there were more videos out there on bulls that people are marketing semen on so you can see them in the flesh like this.  Makes it a lot easier to get a good look at them moving around in a natural setting than being marketed using the best pose they captured.  It's something we've made an effort to do with all our yearling bulls in our sale pen the past few years, if we can get footage of them even if it's just walking down the fence line in the lot it's allowing people to get a good look at the bull before even seeing him in person.  If you've got nothing to hide and the means to get video it's a great tool.  We had video on all 4 of our yearling bulls this year that I didn't even get a chance to edit the raw footage and publish because we had so many inquiries on them and had them sold before I could but even just being able to send some raw footage to some guys really helps.

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By the looks of the corn I'm guessing that is probably a pretty recent picture. She doesn't look too hairy to me. Seems like some heifers don't always shed their hair as much as others do and for being located in IN I don't consider the coat of hair she is carrying excessive by any means. I'll have to take a closer look at our heifers this weekend when we pull the bull from the summer pasture but I looked back at photos I took in early July last year and our heifers had about the same amount of hair as yours does there, possibly a little more and they were Revolution and Puckster III daughters.

[hoekland]

It's not so much about the amount of hair as it is about the quality of the hair as that is directly related to how early or late the animal will shed the winter coat.

[markm]

Just a thought. We feed free choice, cafeteria style minerals. This past fall we added Selenium in an attempt to remedy nagging foot issues we were having. The foot issues have improved dramatically and the haircoats have improved so much that it almost looks like a different bunch of cattle.

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I'd love to hear what you think of the Bonanza calves you get next year. The Bonanza and Foremost bulls Rausch's are using are intriguing but they are younger bulls so they didn't have much of them on their last production sale to see how they compare to the rest of the lines they are using.

[Glenn]

Aug 21, 2015 19:32:43 GMT -6 rodeohunter said:

I woukd post a pic but the 1mb maximum is a pia. ...... I tried resizing the pic and it still won't let me upload. That needs to be switched to 3mp as I can upload directly from my phone to any other website I use.

When you start paying the bills here, you can can set this up any way you like. Members have uploaded so many pics here we are at the limit of our storage. The best way to post pics is from a third site (like facebook, flickr, photobucket) then post directly and not UPLOAD.

If you're unhappy with how it is, then get your happy ass down the road.

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Rodeo, I just sent you a pm with my email. I'll help you out. Not everyone is a computer whiz so I don't mind helping you out