Bulls that sire mostly good daughters

I'm in the stage where I want to grow and improve my herd. Good heifers is what I'm concerned with now. I can worry about the steers later.

Yep, I'm in the heifer stage also, bull calves are just a by product to help pay the feed, fertilizer, etc bills.

This is where I am at as well. I am almost to carrying capacity, buying outside hay, and am trying to decide staying black angus bulls on angus/angus cross cows or going with a cross for a better hfr.

I find that the very masculine bulls make the best cows. I am still raising Angus, and it is hard to get all the traits lined up with good legs. You can find a good masculine bull, but often his rear legs are not right. I did purchase a bull that had a slight wiggle in his hocks, and he lost the use of his back legs as far as breeding early. The wiggle was small, but proved to be a weakness that would not hold up. He could get his legs up underneath him well. If you see something that doesn't look right, then be very careful about bringing him home. Often at sales I will see expensive bulls sell and the legs are so off that it gives me the chills that people put that kind of money in the bull. It is just too much weight piled up on those leg joints during breeding, and they give out.

The cycle never stops. A guru on CT has recommended a current bull in a catalog due to a "great mother". Phenotype was best ever. But she only is shown with 2 calves in her EPDs. Her breeding, or as he waxed eloquently, as double bred, lined up a low HP EPD and I see it in the bloodlines of cows in the maternal side of the pedigree. The sire apparently brought in poor DOC. Yet he recommends this current bull as a cheap fix for Leachman Righttime. I would have trouble directly using Righttime in our environment, from what I have seen, but he left some good cattle and plenty to sort through. But there is a great deal of emptiness in recommendations. I personally would not pay a lot for Righttime because I would have to cull too many but have paid a good bit for other old sires that actually had decent track records. It seems every chat site gives every poster the ability to rise to "guru on the mountain top" in no time. Everybody reads a book, goes to a seminar, buys a cow, plants some seed and suddenly have strong opinions and fixed ideas. There is a FB page that is about regenerative agriculture I got on somehow. What a funny mix. One sprays, one only sprays brand X, one does no spray but cuts with a chain saw, one does not spray but used an axe while "Mr. Pure" or "Mrs. Pure" uses nothing and waits for nature to heal the situation. Common sense and mental comprehension is in short supply.