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Those 2 heifers are attractive. 

There is no data on Homeplace Hot Commodity 1625's tenderness.  However, our freezer beef customers rave about his offspring, so might it be above average?  It suits our palate, and we may be just a little bit biased? Dad and I always dreamed of breeding Shorthorns with desirable carcass...

Close to a 5.  His mature height is about 55"

He's a real beef bull with outstanding conformation.  At the Homeplace he looks even better than on sale day!  Now and then, there is a bull that grows rapidly and then stops, before becoming larger than ideal at maturity--Martindell Tradition 1120 has that potential, and time will tell.  The...

Matt's Shorthorn Country article is well worth reading and rereading!  Grandma Gleda used to say, "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you."  Matt is asking Shorthorn breeders what direction we want to go, in general, as a breed.     

The cattle looked the part--it was a very solid sale.  It was a pleasure to attend and visit with consigners and other Shorthorn enthusiasts.  Wall to wall salt of the earth people and a lot of bang for the buck.  Also, it is not everywhere that one sees long john donuts with bacon on top!

Someone who had been around extreme high dollar cattle said that the recip cow has more to do with the quality of the calf than one would expect.  The same commercial recip cow (a different breed than the embryo) raised their best ET calf every year--that producer valued her at well into 5...

Functional, durable, and easy on the eye Shorthorns that have breed character.

What breed is Reba?  DigitalBeef ASA has a different cow, a JF Reba, that is Simmental. 

Gary was a man of principle and the utmost integrity.  It was a privilege to visit the Kaper family and to have them tour the Homeplace.  At his farm we saw the highly impressive Kaper 4508 and Frontline.  His breeding program was both scientific and artistic.  Gary's knowledge of pedigrees was...

Yes, Reincarnation would be a good one to consider.  Who sells Reincarnation semen?  Or his colorful son, Ronan. Homeplace Hot Commodity 1625 is not a true "heifer bull" due a few higher birth weights, but he is above average and sires calves with a desirable shape for easy calving.  We calved...

Someone said that the giant skeletons found in the digs were not dinosaurs but his British breed from the '80's.  Current cattle nearly all have some of those giants back in the pedigree, but breeders have selected toward their goals.  Fire and ice matings can have a good result or...

Our JJC Wild Side's dam was bred like Da Big Hurt.  Wild Side bred thick, useful, moderate cattle with some look.

Leveldale--Headquarters for Hindquarters.  Was that not one of their ads? 

Lol--thanks!  Our 4-yr.-old granddaughter even dressed as Scooby for Halloween, so I need to watch Scooby-Doo with her?

Is The Mystery Machine an AI bull?  What breed?  Since I do not use club calf sires (unless you count our Hot Commodity 1625 herd bull), I do not follow the sires that much. At a recent sale I noticed that the majority of them including the Plus cattle had very big bodies; that body type...

Felix has the same long level rump as Cat 20.  Our Catalyst 45 bull from Thieman's had similar proportions.  Cat 45 sired useful females with good udders.  Several of Cat 45's daughters were from the Bi Ru (Bill and Ruth Warters of Allerton, IL) herd that Burke and I purchased.  Cat 45 sired...

Haumont family has long produced cattle with utility.  Cattle bred at Haumont's have predictable EPD's (something like Keith Lauer) with strength in $CEZ, $BMI, CEM, Stay, Marbling, Milk, etc. that are what many Shorthorns traditionally have been.  With his COI at nearly 10% your bull should...

Daughters of HHC 1625 are calving for the first time this fall.  Their calving ease seems to match the expectations from his CEM, and their udders are excellent.  It is a little early to say that 1625 is an udder improver, but so far, so good.  Our cow herd's udders began getting better when we...

A well known breeder told me that a single drop of Chi blood results in no "bottle teats."  Does anyone else recall that Rodeo's electronic pedigree (previous version) showed Chi, possibly in the dam of HS KENDRA ANN 209TH,  Shorthorn %:  AR50?