Bullseye

Bullseye is a new feature with dairymen from around Ohio providing their insider knowledge of what bulls they are using in their herd and what observations they are making about the daughters.

Stein-Way Dairy, Maria Stein, OH:

Damon Bertke provided the following insight on their sire selections: 250H12961 King Doc- they have been some of the most consistent young cows we are freshening. Cows are scoring well and milking very well! They all have great udders! The Docs for us are ideal in size. 7H14477 Warrior-Red- although we have none milking yet our Warrior daughters stick out in the heifer pens. They are tall and long and fancy! They are putting on big cages and have good rib structures! 7H10920 Gold Chip- even though he’s an oldie Goldie, he’s been Mr. reliable for us and crosses really well in our herd! 7H9264 Dempsey- we’ve been using Dempsey on all of our Doc, Solomon, and Diamondback daughters. He keeps the style in the matings where the daughters are bringing the strength. He continues to weld on udders! They might not be show heifers but excited for their futures. 14H7770 Helix- Helix for us has been very fertile! Ours are still heifers yet but they are correct in the feet and legs, they also are strong heifers that are the perfect size for commercial cows. 250H13267 Duke- our Duke calves are all very strong with good bone structure. They are smaller in stature and we expect them to put on well attached udders! 513H3190 Chief- our first Chief daughter was born recently. She’s a granddaughter to Bentley! We are impressed by the pictures on Facebook from him and his fertility has been great! We are hoping he crosses well in our herd!

A few young sires we are using but don’t have calves on yet but are excited to get calves out of are 7H15220 Stan 250H15236 Mystic Crush 250H14134 Renegade 7H14364 Eisaku 507H15325 Hanans and 250H14579 Hancock

Nor-J Farms, Chickasaw, OH:

Jake Hein said they are currently using Lithium, Clyde, Repairman, Impression, Crush, Redcloud.

Their best young cows are sired by Impression, Unix and Crush.

Their best older cows are sired by Impression, Windbrook, Trump and Crank-It.

Jake said, “We use 95% proven bulls from proven cows. The other 5% are unproven bulls that come from deep cow families with proven high type and milk. We believe the genomics game is good for two things: Making bull studs and a very select few individuals very wealthy and increasing the inbreeding of our breed at an alarming rate.”