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We are just starting to calve now, this guy is 4 days old and is a double bred Frontline and pictured with his dam.Every animal in his 3 generation pedigree is home bred and every female is a member of our Helianthus cow family.

I was sorry to hear about the passing of Phil Butterfield.I will never forget his genuine hospitality on a cold January evening and the stimulating Shorthorn conversation that ensued.I was also quite impressed with his operation and facilities.

I think value in a cow family is realized when the breeder makes an effort to preserve and enhance the traits that led them to purchase the original foundation female.I have told this story on here before but in 1973 I purchased a Helianthus heifer from the Haumont herd that became the...

Thanks for the comments,He was a year old April 22nd and is the last calf sired by our Frontline Bull.

Our Jr. herd sire Wolf Ridge Forefront H50 has a stacked pedigree for maternal performance.His dam is an ASA Pacesetter dam and his sire is an ASA Performance sire.His  maternal granddam is an ASA pacesetter dam as well and her paternal grand dam is an ASA Pacer Performance dam,her dam in turn...

I was perusing the Paint Valley bull sale catalog and noticed that Roan Brute's maternal grand dam is the dam of lot 3 and his maternal great grand dam is the dam of lot 5.

Sounds like the Durham Gold program that Ron Bolze had implemented,Doc

I appreciate the comments everyone

Thanks JIT, his registration # is 4272346 who knows maybe roan will become valuable down here some day.

Good observation Mark.What I meant by my statement that these cattle keep growing is that  they don't stop at weaning.Should of clarified that.Our females calve at 24 mo.some younger.There have been a few exceptions like when I eliminated fall calving or a bull went bad but 24 mo. is an...

His sire weighed 2270 last year I would expect this guy to be close to that.These cattle keep growing.

205 day adj. was 633 he is a solid 5 frame at this point.No creep until about 3 weeks before weaning limit fed.

Took this picture at weaning last week.

Congrats on a good sale Dan

Yes Dan the heifer pictured above is a double bred Frontline and since her sire is Double Brute she has 3 shots of 26a close up in her pedigree. Most of my cattle are red but a few roans turn up and I am not ashamed of that, even thinking about keeping a roan bull calf  to use here.The pedigree...

Sorry cant help you on the Kalona bull Librarian.To pick up where Okotoks left off on the Rose of Sharon cow,as Dan stated Bates sold her for export to America.The Ohio importing company headed by Felix Renick of Chillicothe Ohio.A sale was held on his farm of all the cattle imported with this...

The original purpose of the ASA was to preserve the ties to the old bloodlines.These ties were just about nil prior to the reintroduction of these old bulls.Because of that original purpose many inferior cattle have been bred over the years for the sake of purity or perpetuation of a fad.I agree...

Since the start of our herd we have made it a practice to follow up a successful herd sire with homebred sons across the herd so naturally those former herd sires influence is being concentrated with the use of 4508  and his homebred  decendents since he was out of a homebred cow. I always have...

Yes a good problem indeed.We have been stacking his sire in our pedigrees using great grandsons this year on his daughters,granddaughters,and great grandaughters and some of those are double bred.

My opinion might be considered biased but I sure like your bull.He looks quite familiar.