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Looks like she's turning out to be what you'd hoped for! Her sire just left for Oregon on Saturday. New owners are going to use him for pasture breeding in their Natural Beef program. We kept the semen rights. He will go to collection later this week.

No, Marty has not. He talked about jumping in his plane and coming up to see the cows a year or two ago, but haven't seen him. I don't believe I was in any ad pictures! Ads should be attractive!

Thanks NF. And thanks for your business last spring! I'll look forward to visiting with you soon. X-Bar, I'm pretty sure this cow is the full sib sister to the sire of your 513C heifer. Tried to blow up the picture to read the ear tag, but was still too blurry. IMG_0534 by Ralph Larson, on...

You've made my day Ryan. If there is one thing that will interrupt my nightly sleep cycle, it is to get up for a (ever more frequent) visit to the commode and then get to wondering how these cattle are working in other environments for folks. With your busy schedule, it's hard to catch up to ask...

Thanks Mark, I'm looking forward to visiting with you! In my opinion, you are dead-on about calf shape vs. BW. From what I'm seeing and hearing from "Commercial" folks, selecting for 65-70 lb. birth weights over several years, often leads to producing a herd of cows that can only birth smaller...

One of the great challenges a commercial cattle producer faces is in determining which claims made by their chosen seed stock producers are factual. The Shorthorn Association has partnered with the U of I to conduct a sire progeny evaluation. An unbiased sire progeny test out of a cross-bred...

Mark, The "heifer bulls" that I have saleable semen on at present are Dover and CPCL 6th. I would also breed any of my heifers to 294A or 429B. I also plan on collecting them for home use only at this point. As I'm sure you know, if one looks at the phenotype of newborns from true "calving ease"...

IMG_0881 by Ralph Larson, on Flickr Just an example of steers from a "maternally" focused herd. This was taken in mid-to late October. They came straight home off the cows onto pasture and supplemented with salt/mineral only. Weaning date was 9/9/2017.They never had a bite of any kind of grain...

Hope you all don't mind, but I'm posting a few more pictures before I turn in for the night. From today going back to a couple summer ones. No long winded commentary! IMG_1002 by Ralph Larson, on Flickr IMG_0970 by Ralph Larson, on Flickr IMG_1017 by Ralph Larson, on Flickr IMG_1016 by Ralph...

Thanks CAB, yes supposedly there are 40 breeds of cattle that have Shorthorn in their origins. I went up to the lease to check the cows today. With these cell phones, I'm always armed with a camera so took a few more pictures to show NF the sire of his 638D bulls (429B) female side of his...

In case you missed the link to the video that Mark posted, this is a picture of the 429B bull from about a month ago. IMG_0944_edited-1 by Ralph Larson, on Flickr This next picture was taken of him when he was part of our group at the Nancy M. Cummings (U of Idaho) Research Center near Salmon...

Getting back to the "foundation" dams This is DRC7119KL. My daughter nicknamed her "Eloise" so most females going back to her have the name Eloise on their registration papers. We bought her out of the DRC cull pen in the fall of 2011 . She was 14 years of age at the time. Dover practiced...

Darn it NF. You humble me. You are correct in that 638D calf has never had corn in his life. I'm just glad you allowed me to keep an in-herd semen interest. Running way late on chores this morning, but will post more pictures when I'm back in.

Thanks Winter Springs Dang it! I just had more pictures and comments all typed and ready, but I guess I'd "timed out". When I hit Preview, everything disappeared! Still on a learning curve with this stuff. I'm fortunate in that I have the learned the ability to glean valuable lessons from my...

Dover Sindelar was probably the most honest and astute cattleman I've known, and I feel blessed to have gotten to know him pretty well. He was a tough old Buzzard and didn't let the fact that he was well over 80 years old slow him down. He still put in very long and full days pretty much up to...

Thanks for the comments. I’ll try to answer some replies as I go along. I’m not the most computer savvy guy in the world, so it takes me awhile to figure out how to do things. Before I go any further, I just want to make clear that I don’t believe that I am exclusive in the goal of producing...

I think there is quite a lot of misunderstanding as to what having a “maternal” herd means. Too many of us strive to have one type of bovine that “does it all”. All breeds have an abundance of practitioners of this philosophy. If you are so afflicted, most likely nothing you read here will...

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Big tip of the hat to Don Hardin! It's always gratifying to see these cattle doing well for folks around the country. A big thanks to XBAR for having confidence in these cattle. The DRC x CPCL6th crosses work well. I can't take credit for the success of the genetic base. All I can just do my...

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