I’ve done some recreational shopping over the last year.  Some of it may have been more like impulse buying but at any rate we’ve acquired some new animals and I wanted to show them all to you.  This is MISS FOREVER 67 GFAR.  She has a heifer calf by LODGE OF VOLGA 0816.  She was purchased from Gary Funk.  She is a very gentle cow with an excellent udder.  She is a half sister to Shoshone Ballard 628 GFAR owned by Gary Funk and Travis Krein.  I like the cow and it’s going to be fun to see how she contributes here.

Introducing JAD PETER X414-6157 and JAD PAUL X158-6157 (one of these bulls will sell December 4, 2010)

We will host our Forage Proven Production Sale Saturday December 4th, 2010.  It will be held at 1:00 MST at the Dawes County Fair Grounds in Chadron, Nebraska.  We are offering 50 long-yearling forage proven bulls, 1 bull calf and 2 heifer calves.

This bull is JAD LAD S6150.  He will have several sons selling.  The heifer pictured at the top is 6157’s last natural calf.  She is excellent!  Here is the link to her pedigree.  If you would like a catalog please go to the contact page and sign up for one.  We will have more information on the web page soon.

Heifer by JAD LAD S6150

I carried my camera this morning as I checked pastures.  Things look good.  Thursday August 27th will mark three weeks since we put the bulls in.  They are tired but happy.  🙂  Took a couple shots of bred heifers.  The Lilianne heifer picture is for the WYE enthusiasts among us. 

Notice anything peculiar about the LAD S6114 bull?  Like the swelling underneath.  Yes, it appears he has suffered a career ending injury.  I really liked him too.  Certainly one of the nicest looking Prudent Lad sons we have raised and a calving ease bull too.  The good thing is I’m working with a renewable strain.  It is NOT dependent on any one outstanding individual.   The strain is predicated on reliable continuity.   I didn’t cause it to be this way.  The work was largely done by those who came before me.  They used close breeding and selection to fix the characteristics to the point that, Iwill be able to use another young bull in the strain and expect with a high degree of confidence that he will transmit very similarly to the injured bull.  6114 was never collected, I didn’t have insurance on him and yet discovering his injury today was no big deal.  Replacing him will be neither expensive nor difficult as the entire herd is being used to replicate the same pattern over and over again.