A New Bull

[randiliana]

This is the first of 2 that we have bought so far.

We got this guy from a local breeder. He's registered Red Angus. BW 88. The pride and joy of his previous owner.... I think he's going to make some good babies. Going to breed all my Shorthorn cows to him. If anyone really feels the urge to look him up his Reg # (CAA) is 1608441

[gone-a-milkin]

Hoo boy, he's a dandy one.
Here is hoping for lots of pretty red calves from him.

[Cheribelle]

Wow. He's a nice looking critter!

[farmgirl6]

handsome!!

[G. Seddon]

And with all the cattle you have, he has hit the cow lotto! Very nice bull!

[Karen in Alabam]

Nice looking bull

[MO_cows]

Nice bull! Lots of meat on him and he is really square and sound looking. From the first photo "in his face" it would seem he has a good disposition, too.

[ArmyDoc]

I like the look of him. How old is he, and what frame size?

[agmantoo]

Like ArmyDoc I also want to know his frame size. I like the gut on him and he has all the other attributes. He should produce calves that can convert forage to meat rapidly. For my market I would need black but I could make the exception particularly if he could adjust to fescue grass. Certainly that is a magnificent animal and you were fortunate to locate him. Wishing you success.

[randiliana]

He is a January yearling. I am not sure what his frame size is. He is quite big for his age, but then he was on the show circuit as a calf.

[haypoint]

Michigan Cattleman Asso. has a bull auction every spring. People bring their young bulls to a Test Station. They weigh them and collect all sorts of data. In the Spring they are judged and all the data put together. Michigan State Univ. has some bulls in there, too. Then they have an auction. You get the bull's birth weight, weaned weight, current weight, plus how he stacks up to this bunch and the national average.
I bought a bull from a gut that had bought him through the Bull Test Station auction a couple years earlier. He was 6th place out of 80 bulls.