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| 2008 Natural Sires | |
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| Our senior herd sire is PHG FIGHTING IRISH N07. He has been used on heifers with no problem. He is giving length and depth in his calves with plenty of muscle. The Irish daughters are proving themselves as mothers with their first calves coming this year. The 2008 Irish calves averaged 81.8 pounds at birth, and 713 at weaning. Irish is a Beretta son out of a NiteVision daughter. |  |
Our second herd sire is ELK CK Formula 957S. Formula was the high selling bull at the 2007 Black Hills Stock Show. He's a son of ELK CK Maverick who's a maternal brother to the Ring of Gold champion female Jewel. Formula is a moderate framed bull who packs a ton of thickness into a very smooth made package. His first calves arrived in the spring of 2008 and averaged 86 pounds at birth and 746 at weaning. |
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| We purchased DVE Davidson Pld Redneck 6T from Davidson Gelbvieh in Saskatchewan this spring. Redneck is a complete outcross to any US genetics. We really like the depth and thickness that this bull shows. He has a 76 lb birthweight and a 732 weaning. We used Redneck exclusively on heifers this year, so his first calves will be arriving in the spring of 2009. | |
| 2008 AI Sires | |
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| In addition to calves
by Irish and Formula, we also AI'd to OZZ Ideal Direction and
MCFG MCF Bruce Almighty. Ideal Direction gave us all heifers,
and every one of them is in the replacement pen. This group of
females averaged 88 lbs at birth and 698 at weaning. Bruce Almighty is proving to be a great cross on the Fighting Irish daughters. We bred a majority of our first calf heifers to Bruce and didn't have any calving trouble. This is the second year we have used him and have had wonderful results. Check the Show Results page to see PHG The Rookie who is Bruce son. The Bruce calves averaged 82 lbs at birth and 721 at weaning, all from 1st calf heifers. . |
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| 2009 Sires | |
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| Due to the excessive
drought that we experienced this year, we made the decision to
forego any AI during the spring of 2008 and concentrated instead
on natural breeding. Our heifers were pen exposed to PHG Top Shelf T50, the high selling bull at the 2008 ND Golden Rule sale. We were only able to pen breed for a few weeks before Top Shelf had to go to his new home. The rest of the heifers were exposed to DVE Davidson Pld Redneck. The remainder of the cows were again split between Fighting Irish and ELK Ck Formula. After PG testing the cows it appears that we successfully moved our calving dates up by one month, so the first calves should beging coming on February 1, 2009. |
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