This is the "girls" page. Listed below are
all the producing cows and up-and-coming heifers in our herd. We keep a small
herd, and 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 had 27 head
at the beginning of the summer and are now down to 9. We have retained
a strong nucleus for continuing on with our breeding program, however, and with our
new polled bull, expect that we will come back better 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 St. Patricia" BBU#C827681, U2-1 (Flash x Cowie Owie).
After years of bulls (7 out of 9 calves!), our foundation cow 'Cowie Owie' finally had
a heifer on St. Patrick's day, 2000.
A good size, deep red cow, Patty has had a good-looking calf every year by a variety of bulls.
Like her mother, she has a great udder, plenty of milk, and a great disposition. She's had 8 calves
to date, including two of our favorites,
New Orleans, a heifer by Summers
and a full brother, Chernobyl II. She's a top producer!
"FH Richland" BBU#C827682, U2-2 (Flash x FH Easter Clown).
Wow, is all we can say about this 2001 cow! She's a great granddaughter of our first
Beeefmaster cow, Cowie Owie, but looks more like her than her two daughters did.
We love the flashy color and the pretty head, but even more we like her frame, heavy bone, good muscling,
calm temperament, and good mothering characteristics. She is a steady producer of great looking bulls --
six so far -- and one 2008 heifer. See
Chrome, a pretty paint bull by Summers; and
Alexandra, her only heifer, by Chernobyl II.
FH Cortland 03-8, BBU#C958880, U (Chernobyl II x St. Patty) 04/04/08.
solid red 2008 heifer with just a few white hairs on her face. This heifer has an especially friendly and inquisitive
disposition. In fact, it's hard to get far enough away from her to take a full body shot! She has a good underline,
good bone, and a large frame, but is a little rough over the topline. She is for sale, and has been in with our polled
Oasis son since the end of May 2009. Her calf should be a dandy!
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. She's a nice looking girl, very smooth and meaty with a pretty face, and we plan to keep her for a year or
two to see if this is the only girl Richland is going to have. We'd rather have a paint, but this is a really nice looking heifer
who is growing up to be quite the little beauty.
FH SuperCowieFragilistic 04-9, BBU#C977080 (Osiris x Mayfly), 06/5/09.
Pretty polled purebred heifer with a great long body, elegant long neck, and nice underline. She looks very much like
her gorgeous mother did at the same age. She is for sale at weaning as we don't want to breed her back to her Dad next summer. Sale pending.
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 have been known to be
used 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 four calves so
far, including two red paints, one solid red and a black. All to date have been polled.
FH Iris 02-5, BBU #S22863, U2-2, b. 08/04/05. 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. This is the one we've been waiting for! 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. She again
had one of our best calves in 2009, a good looking red multi-faced polled heifer by Osiris.
Like Midnight, Iris is a wonderful mother with copious quantities of milk, and is very caring of her calf.
FH Janie 01-8, U, inspected 9/20/09, registration pending. Born 03/12/08.
Black splash paint like her mother Pasco (see below), this stout and upright heifer is stylish and built right. Unfortunately, she is horned,
but is so nice otherwise that she'll be one we keep as a possible replacement heifer for our herd.
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 from a 1X cow that passes this inspection and a purebred Beefmaster bull are eligible for
inspection and certification as a Second Cross.
"Pasco" BBU#F41228
This 2001 polled cow is one of three full sisters that we have used, and she is
the largest and has the best overall conformation. Her neck is particularly nice, and she carries
a lot of meat. We also like her interesting black paint color -- it sure makes her easy to pick out
in the pasture. She has had 6 calves for us and they have all been dandies. Her
pretty 2008 black paint heifer is pictured above under 2x cows.
