Blog

https://www.breedersworld.com/search?auction=335

https://auctions.thewendtgroup.com/auction/5412

Category: Steer
Tag/Tattoo: 5
Breed: Cross
Sire: Man Among Boys
Dam: Troubadour
Contact Information: Address: 2694 Graces Run Road, Winchester OH 45697 Phone: 513-295-7384
Note:
Whoa! Here is a horse of different color! It really doesn’t matter how this one is marked-he is just that good. Cool fronted and sound, this one will catch a lot attention. This guy has great hair and a showman’s dream as far as an attitude goes. Guess how easy he will standout in a class of black ones? Analyze this one closely – get ready to be in the winners circle.

MAB Orig and MAB Clone semen available at Lautner Farms 800.515.3284

https://www.sconlinesales.com/Bids/AuctionsListing/22532#15

Embryos Sale that are full sibs to Calf pictured was 6th place Heavy Weight at Fort Worth 2018. These 8084 calves have placed well at the major shows in Texas the last couple years. Including 3rd, 5th, 7th at Fort Worth and 3rd, 5th at Houston. And the heifer calves have gone to the pasture and they are working well as cows to produce the next generation of show calves.

BATTLE CRY

Battle Cry semen available at Lautner Farms 800.515.3284

This stud sells Labor Day weekend on Scott & Gotto Club Calf sale Mapleton Iowa hosted by SC Online. He is a Trust In Me X Troubadour/ Miss Kitty (Full sister to LF Steam Roller)

In the spring of 2000, 67 year old Max Fawley of northern Indiana delivered a black bull calf out of a home raised first calf heifer. This stocky little bull calf was sired by Larry Campbell & Brad Hook’s Heetseeker bull. Max and his family would name the calf Oscar. Little did they know at that time, Oscar would go on to be one of the top steer sires of all time. A bull which would later be displayed in Denver in 2001 and named Heat Wave by his new owners Mike Weidner and Phil Lautner. Starting in 2002 Heat Wave sired cattle would go on to win most major market cattle shows at least once and sometimes multiple times. 

The Beginning:
Oscar was a little bigger at birth and his mother was a little short on milk so Max and his family would give him a bottle each day and as you can see in the pictures little Oscar was always a very nice looking bull calf. 

Later in August as he grew Barry Nowatzke and Joe Gensini were by Max’s farm to look thru calves and while they liked Oscar pretty good, they thought he was a little small for what they were looking for for their steer buyers. 

In mid October on a Saturday morning as Max prepared to meet his vet to work his home raised calves and castrate his bull calves Max’s phone rang and it was a familiar voice on the other end of the phone. It was Joe Gensini and Joe asked if Max still had that younger black bull calf they had looked at in August. Max responded yes but he was getting ready to cut him. Joe instructed Max to wait a couple days so he could come back and look at him again. 

It turned out that Gensini of Illinois bought the bull calf called Oscar for $3000. Gensini would later sell Oscar to Mike Weidner & Phil Lautner for $5000. In December on their way home from an Ohio Craig Reiter cow sale Weidner & Lautner loaded him up to go to his forever home in Central Iowa. 

In the day’s before internet and social media it would be several years before Max Fawley even realized his young black bull calf turned out to be the famous sire Heat Wave. Heat Wave even sired the Indiana State Fair Grand Champion steer multiple times in Max’s home state of Indiana. 

Max was proud of the success of his bull calf named Oscar. He even met Phil Lautner once at the Iowa Beef Expo. Phil gave Max and “LF” ink pen as token of his appreciation. 

Max now 85 years old, still raises calves at the farm just northeast of Warsaw, Indiana. Free free to call him and schedule a visit to his historic farm. Max phone number is 574.453.6182. We would like to congratulate Max on his accomplishment of raising little Oscar, the bull that went on to be named Heat Wave!

Call 1.800.515.3284 to order your semen today! 📲

https://www.breedersworld.com/search?auction=335

https://www.breedersworld.com/search?auction=334

https://www.breedersworld.com/search?auction=335

Call 1.800.515.3284 to order your semen today!