New bull

[Ky hills]

Here's our new bull.
14 month old registered Hereford.
It's a real windy day here so feed troughs are everywhere and upside down he didn't do that. He is docile and from a longtime Hereford breeder.

 

[wbvs58]

He looks easy on the eye. Looks like he has got a bit of growth in him.

Ken

 

[MurraysMutts]

Yep. He's just a puppy still. Bet he fills out nicely unless ya got a bunch of ladies in waiting!

 

[Ky hills]

Yep. He's just a puppy still. Bet he fills out nicely unless ya got a bunch of ladies in waiting!

Not too many probably just 10-12 cows right now that aren't already bred.

 

[Ky hills]

Turned him out with the 5 yr old bull yesterday. He put up more of a fight than some others have, but the old bull backed him down pretty fast.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Sometimes that's great fun to watch!

 

[gcreekrch]

As long as you are happy, I'm happy.

 

[coachg]

Looks good , put him on some black cows and get you some baldies .

 

[Logan52]

I fought the red calf/black calf price differential for years, and gave away a lot of money in the process.
Now I have Angus or SimAngus bulls and have profited from it.
I still love to see red cattle and maybe the short cattle numbers will help them sell higher.
It is hard to beat the eye appeal of a nice Hereford like yours. A little more pigment around the eyes would have been nice.
It will be fun to anticipate the bald face calves he will sire, but unless your cows are homo black several will be red.

 

[coachg]

Red baldies look good too !

 

[Ky hills]

I fought the red calf/black calf price differential for years, and gave away a lot of money in the process.
Now I have Angus or SimAngus bulls and have profited from it.
I still love to see red cattle and maybe the short cattle numbers will help them sell higher.
It is hard to beat the eye appeal of a nice Hereford like yours. A little more pigment around the eyes would have been nice.
It will be fun to anticipate the bald face calves he will sire, but unless your cows are homo black several will be red.

I've used Angus bulls for a lot of years, and have used Herefords at times inbetween. Generally the Herefords seem to have a little more growth on average, but the dock is real. The last two bulls we bought were Simmental bulls and had issues with both, so that pretty much soured my wife on Simmentals. I would be willing to try again sometime.
I was leaning toward going back to an Angus, and am friends with a good local breeder, that has some good ones. This Hereford bull came from a friend that I've always said if I ever got another Hereford I'd like to get one from his outfit.
I would have preferred some pigment, there was another bull had some pigment and was more red without the traditional Hereford markings and I picked it out first but wife and I both felt this one was the better of the two. My wife likes Herefords so she
liked the traditional markings of this one better too.
We have some Hereford and BWF cows, and all of our black cows are heterozygous black, so there will be quite a few red calves.
We will sell them at the Hereford influence sales.

 

[Lazy M]

Looks like he has a lot of frame for a 14 month old

 

[Ky hills]

Looks like he has a lot of frame for a 14 month old

larger frame was one of the things I was looking for. At this point our cows are fairly small on average and the moderate bulls just don't give the kind of calves I want.

 

[Davemk]

larger frame was one of the things I was looking for. At this point our cows are fairly small on average and the moderate bulls just don't give the kind of calves I want.

I like him. Did you put him on any of your Angus cows?

 

[Ky hills]

I like him. Did you put him on any of your Angus cows?

Thanks, we'll put him with all the cows eventually, to breed whatever isn't already bred.