This is the "girls" page. Listed below are
all the producing cows and up-and-coming heifers in our herd. One of the advantages of Beefmasters is the wide variety of colors they
come in. This makes it easy to tell them all apart, and makes calving time a
real surprise! In 2007, faced with loss of our leased pasture space and the worst
drought in 50 years, we severely cut down our numbers. We retained a strong nucleus for continuing on with our breeding program, however,
and with our current polled bull are producing better calves than ever.
All of our cows have been inspected by BBU. We are participants
in the BBU upgrade program, and all the females below that are not purebred and who are at
least a year old have been inspected and accepted into this program. We also participate in
the voluntary classification program for our purebred and 2X cows, usually at 1 and 3 years of
age -- results are shown below for those that are old enough to have been classified.
FH Alexandra 04-8, BBU#C958881, U (Chernobyl II x Richland) 05/17/08.
After five bulls in a row, Richland finally produced a heifer in 2008! She's solid red with just a few white
hairs on her face and small patches on her underline. She's a pretty and very feminine young cow, very smooth and meaty with a pretty face, and her
first two calves by Osiris, both lovely heifers (see below), show her quality as a Mama cow. Her calving interval between her first and second calves
was only 11.5 months.
FH Wings 06-10 #C989591, purebred red paint heifer b. 4/10/10 (Osiris x
FH Richland). This is the one we have been waiting for as Richland's replacement. Everything
is right about this beautiful, well built, pretty-faced and extremely flashy heifer! She was born
strong and active and is a real go-getter.
FH Flight 08-10 #C989593, purebred black paint heifer b. 5/3/10 (Osiris x
FH Mayfly). Just what we ordered -- and slick polled too. We will be keeping this cutie as a potential
addition to our herd. Love the bone, the topline, her long neck and the flashy color doesn't hurt either!
FH Isis 03-10 #C989588, purebred solid dark red heifer b. 3/13/10 (Osiris x
FH Alexandra). The first calf from her mother Alexandra, she looks very much like her -- pretty, very
feminine, and smooth. She will be a bigger cow than her dam, however. She only has a tiny, tiny white mark just in front of her udder.
FH Ireland 04-10 #C989589, purebred red or brown heifer b. 3/26/10 (Osiris x
FH Janiebiker). Janie's first -- a sassy and very feminine red or brown purebred heifer with a heavily mottled underline,
an interesting star like an Irish harp on her face, and brockling on both hind legs. She looks like she is going to be a big girl like her mother.
FH Rain 02-11, BBU #C1001483, purebred red or brown heifer b. 2/28/11 (Osiris x
FH Alexandra). Very pretty and feminine polled heifer with a lovely long neck, smooth body, excellent topline and good
bones. Rain has a white underline, a few small white spots on her hind feet, and a white-tipped tail. Looks very much like her mother and
older full sister Isis above, only a more interesting color and POLLED.
A Second Cross or 2X cow is at least 75% Beefmaster. Under the terms of the BBU upgrade program, heifers
must be inspected by a BBU representative at 12 months of age or older before they can be registered as a 2X.
The offspring of a purebred Beefmaster bull and a registered 2X cow are considered to be
purebred without further inspection. We usually do not sell our 2X candidate heifers until after they have been
inspected and registered. The boys are normally sold at the local sale barn at weaning time, but a number of them have been
purchased for use as bulls on commercial herds.
"FH Mayfly" BBU#S22252, U1-2 (Secret Weapon x **September).
Black brindle close-to-paint polled cow, born 5/23/03.
Mayfly is a real doll with lots of eye appeal and a friendly personality. A tiny calf when born,
she has grown up to be a larger cow than her Typesetter mother, **September, and is even better looking.
Accepted as a second cross on August 1, 2004, and classified as U1-2 in September 2009, she has had six calves so
far, including two red paints, two solid red, one black, and one black paint.
All to date have been polled.
FH Iris 02-5, BBU #S22863, U2-2, b. 04/15/05. This black mottle-faced
polled cow was born on Tax Day 2005(IRS = Iris) and looks like a clone of her mother, but with more meat on her
hindquarters. She had her first calf in May 2007, a heavy-boned black and white paint heifer
that was the best of our very nice crop of 2007 calves. Her calves since have always been among our best (see her
dandy 2010 model, a black paint bull, and her 5th calf born February 22, 2011, a
red paint bull.
Like her mother Midnight, Iris is a wonderful mother with copious quantities of milk, and is very caring of her calf.
FH Janiebiker 01-8, BBU #S23394, U, born 03/12/08.
Black splash paint like her mother Pasco, this stout and upright heifer is stylish and nicely built.
Bred to Osiris, she had a very nice purebred heifer in 2009, and 11 months later had a
hunky bull calf with huge bones and the best underline we have ever produced.
A First Cross or 1X cow is at least 50% Beefmaster. Under the terms of the BBU upgrade program, yearling heifers
must be inspected by a BBU representative before they can be registered as a 1X.
Heifers by a purebred Beefmaster bull out of a 1X cow that passes this inspection are eligible for
inspection and certification as a Second Cross. We no longer have any first cross cows in our herd.
