Hooter's Heifer

Mike is fascinated by the newbie, wagging his tail with approval

The new baby, who is still in the house at this moment, (but probably won't be for too much longer), is probably the nicest looking Jersey calf we have had born here at Northview....She is long and tall and straight....which is just a little weird. Years ago, back when we were occasionally making enough money to do so, we bought Dreamroad Extreme Heather, an exceptionally well-bred Jersey from a nationally known breeder to pay Liz for a summer's work.

Right from the get-go Liz has chosen the bulls she bred Heather to, as well as making the matings for her offspring. (And there have been quite a number of those, as she has been very lucky in the heifer department.) The resulting animals are nice ones and she has done well in the show ring with them. She has used well-respected bulls, such as C'gar, Mecca, TNT, Top Flight, and Moments.

This year she didn't have a chance to pick up any top-notch bulls for two of her girls so she bred Hooter and Hazel to a bull we had in the tank for use on small first calf Holstein heifers. We sometimes buy very cheap ones for this purpose and we happened to have a five-dollar critter named Duce in the tank. Who would have expected that this random, cheapest thing the Select Sire Power guy happened to have in his tank, bull would make such a great looking baby?
Sometimes randomness works I guess.