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For once I think I made a decision using my head instead of just my heart and we have decided to disperse most of our cow herd on October 18th at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. There are several reasons for this decision but the main ones are recent health issues and Mother Nature's...

I offer a minimum pregnancy guarantee of 50% at 70 days following implantation, and I have only had to replace 4 embryos in the last 10 years. That is over several hundred embryos sold. In my own herd I have found varying results but usually I averaged between 50-60 %. Three years ago, I...

I would agree that this is Duke of Swisher.

I lost Bar Code a few weeks before I was planning to take him to stud to collect semen. It was a big loss as I would still be using him on heifers if he was here or if I had semen from him. I sold a Bar Code son to a young couple who raise a lot of clubbies and they say he has been one of the...

I have been told the same thing in regards to having SH in an animal and never having a rat tail calf. I also have never heard of a rat tail calf based on Red Angus and Charolais.  This may be wrong but in my experience, all the rat tails I have heard of were grey and were Black Angus and...

haha!  I am trying to forget about those bulls. I purchased Curt for the simple reason, that I thought he would be the US National Champion bull as he was 1.5 inches taller than any bull being shown in the US at the time. That happened the next year in Fort Worth but I was able to triple my...

I am far from being an expert on the current EPD figures as I usually struggle with some of the numbers especially with Canadian cattle in the system. With that said, I do think his current EPD numbers are probably close to representing his real world performance. As I said in a previous post...

Without exception my Major Leroy daughters are the smallest framed cows in my herd. They have also risen to the top as being some of my best producing cows. They have been bred to a variety of sires and the calves are always in the top end of the calf crop. They are not the heaviest milking cows...

I have found a huge variation on calving dates from my ET calves. I am not sure if they are much different than pasture bred or AI bred females as I have also found differences in calving dates from females that were synchronized and AI bred.  One two different occasions I have had 18 days from...

I have already flushed 2 donors to Fire Storm and am planning a few more flushes to him this spring. I am already planning to order more semen. As I said earlier, this bull is the real deal. When he showed at Agribition, I had a couple well known breeders in another popular breed tell me, that...

I have not milked a cow out in at least 40 years. As long as the teat is sealed, it is safe from getting infected. Once you open it and remove the waxy seal in it, that quarter can become a target for bacteria to enter. I have had far less mastitis as well as messed up udders since I made the...

As you are probably aware, every state has different health regulations for cattle entering that state. Iowa is one of the better ones, as are Illinois, Indiana, Texas and Missouri. All that is required is a Canadian health paper and an Identification tag ( CCIA tag) along with a " CAN" tattoo...

I missed listing him. He had an infection and we left him at home. We will semen test him again in a couple weeks. We had two bulls pulled because they had testicles that had been stepped on. I have never had this happen before but I imagine it happened in some of the storms we had this...

We had a very good sale despite having one of the worst days possible, with zero visibility almost all day from 100 Km/hour winds and snow. There was a very small crowd in attendance because of the storm, but we had over 400 people who watched the sale online. There was also many areas with no...

We now have the videos of the bulls and heifers selling in the Sun Country Shorthorn Sale, which will be held on March 7th at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK at 1 PM CST. You will find a link to the videos on the "Sales" tab on our website www.horseshoecreekfarms.com. This is 10th year we...

I am really liking my calves from HC Bluebook 22B. Both sexes are thick with good hindquarters. We only had 8 last spring but in every case I think his calves are better than the cows they come out of.  Bluebook has tremendous length as well and is very easy fleshing which he gets from his dam...

I think there was a lot of people on the Shorthorn side of the fence that agreed with you. The two calves that were named Champion and reserve, were very good calves, but Fire Storm was in a category of his own. He won the Royal Winter Fair, in Toronto, and I heard people calling him the best...

This bull is the real deal IMO. I think he checks more of the boxes than any other bull I have seen this fall.

We have semen from HC Bluebook 22B available in Canada, USA and Australia. BW- 88 lb, WW- 655 lb, YW - 1328 lb. Weight at 20 months- 2015 Weight at 32 months- 2465 His first calves are some of our best. All have been born unassisted, and all are polled.

There are still a few people raising Hays Converters in Western Canada, but their numbers are falling every year, not because they are poor cattle, but because of the poor promotion that has been mentioned in a previous post. We always had a pen of Hays Converter bulls at the Saskatchewan...