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librarian.... I am not sure what you are meaning in your post?  The cow I pictured was purchased in a Cyclone Trace sale. Two years earlier, John Hagie ( Cyclone Trace) purchased a sizable group of embryos from us from our Prairie Lane Sparkle 1K and he also purchased a flush in her. He also...

That heifer was from another era. She was a good heifer in that era, but I am quite sure she would be a long ways down the line today. It was 16 years ago now that Gary Buchholtz drove up here and loaded her on his trailer. Here is a picture of her when she won San Antonio.

That is correct. I found the old Sparkle cow in a small herd of 12 cows. This herd was owned by a new breeder who had started his herd 3 years earlier. The first animal they had to register was Wolf Willow Major Leroy 1M and He had asked me to stop in sometime and see him as he wanted to sell...

This is very true and I agree with what you have said, but my point is that good cattle that can work for whatever you are wanting to do with your herd, oftentimes appear where you least expected them, and we all need to recognize opportunity when you see it. I did not become interested in this...

I thought I would post a picture of a female I purchased in a major US sale ( Cyclone Trace) as a bred heifer. She was bred here in our herd and was the result of embryos we sold to John Hagie. When I went through the bred heifers at the CYT sale a couple years later, I thought this female  was...

Linnette... I always enjoy seeing the pictures you post. Either you have an amazing gift of photography or you have some of the best cattle I have seen. Maybe it is both!  Amazing set of females, both your purebreds and F1s. If those Angus X Shorthorn females can't persuade more commercial herds...

Here are a few more pics of some cows from the Sparkle family here: 1) HC Sparkle Delight 77W - a grand daughter of Prairie Lane Sparkle 1K. She is sired by Star P Matrix 4N. She was flushed last year several times and is safe to Saskvalley Pioneer 126P. I can't wait to see the resulting calf! ...

We have been very fortunate so far this year. We had a very good winter, so our cows were in excellent condition this spring after only eating hay for the winter. We were about as dry as I ever want to see it, until late May and it looks like we may have to try to find more pastures for them. We...

Maybe I am just getting old, but I really struggle with some of the numbers I see on some animals. I also have been left scratching my head wondering about the numbers for some animals in different breed registries. This is why I cannot base my breeding decisions only on the numbers. I have seen...

downsize? I recall you saying Leroy weighed 2750lbs and his dam, Sparkle 1k,  was over a ton?  It's always interesting to hear the different descriptors people use and the varying experiences people have with bloodlines.  My experience with a Leroy son was about a 180 from what's being described...

I would not use Leroy on heifers, however, I know some who have done so, even when I told them not to do it. We did not have any calving issues when we used him on females that had at least one calf previously. I would use him on cows that you would like to down size some, and add some thickness...

A few pasture pics taken yesterday while doing pasture checks. The first pic of HC FL Sparkle Delight 2X ET, who has proven herself to be one of our best donors and producers. She is a daughter of Saskvalley Pioneer 126P and Prairie Lane Sparkle 1K. 2X is the dam of HC Bluebook 22B who topped...

The photo enhancements done in the 30s to 80s were unbelievable. I can remember many major breed magazines ( not just for the Shorthorn breed, but most other breeds as well) that reserved the right to enhance any photo they received for use in an ad in their magazine. Many of them barely...

I don't know what the Spry cow would have weighed, but her dam was what I would call a moderate framed cow that on a good day would weigh around 1500 lbs. Sometimes pictures do not depict size very well... in both directions. I have seen some animals that appeared massive in their pictures that...

Several years ago, I sold 30 embryos to Sprys Shorthorns in Australia. One of the sires Gerald Spry wanted to use was Alta Cedar Ultimate 130K and I agreed that he was an excellent choice to use. Here is a picture of one of the Ultimate 130K daughters that he got from those embryos. She produced...

To me, it is a toss-up as to which bull I like the best. Both bulls are true beef bulls, but something about the Matt bull really grabs my attention. I also like his pedigree with 3 crosses of Ultimate 130K, two crosses of Bonanza and one of Buster 14K wrapped up together. I can certainly see...

Both Robert and Matt are what beef bulls should look like, in any breed. We need far more bulls like these bulls in the Shorthorn breed, in order to gain more commercial acceptance. I often wonder that if the black hide is such a huge issue especially in the US, why more red bulls like there are...

  I don't know how many cattle men I've talked to admit they are missing something, but it's hard to argue when they think their calves are going to bring 15 cents a pound more at weaning, simply because they're black.  We can provide all the proof we want, but until that changes, it's going to...

Librarian... you have certainly made me dig back into my memory bank!  First of all, HC Trendsetter 26K was one of the first sons of Ready Go we ever sold. He was born in March, 1978 and we decided to put two weaned sons of Ready Go in our production sale that fall. Trendsetter was the high...

I don't remember seeing a picture of Seven T's John but I heard many times that he was a great breeding bull. I also know a fair bit about his sire, IDS Touch of Class 30T, as he was raised here and we sold him to Vic Taylor in one of our production sales in the mid 80s. Touch of Class was sired...