Cowie Owie (T Bar E 31/6 x Lady War Eagle 3/5)
6/9/90 - 2/13/03
"Cowie Owie" BBU#456344, U2/3, a 1990 red paint
granddaughter of **Ranger's Pride and **War Eagle. Our first purebred Beefmaster, we bought
her at a 1995 SEBBA auction as a 3-in-one package. She had nine calves for us — 7 boys,
finishing with a fine red paint bull on 2/13/03. Unfortunately,
she did not survive the delivery and we bottle raised her final baby. She was a great mother
with enough milk for triplets. She is well represented in our herd
through her great-grandaughter FH Richland,
her daughter St. Patricia, and their progeny. Picture taken
August 2002, at 12 years old while nursing a huge calf.
"FH Easter Clown" BBU#750108.
This 1997 granddaughter of Cowie Owie was born on the farm. She was the only calf we had from her
mother "Red", whom we sold in 1998. Easter had two lovely calves for
us, both of them paints. We retained her daughter
Richland in our herd, who has had 7 calves as of Spring 2009. Easter was sold August 2002 expecting a
calf by Secret Weapon.
FH Easter Clown (Fork Creek 2-77 x Kevin's Heritage 1) 1997-2002
**September BBU#F40514.
This 1999 polled cow was not very tall, but was very smooth and meaty,
outstandingly fertile, and a great milker. Her color was an interesting black
and brown brindle. Bred to red and red paint bulls, she had two black calves,
two black brindle calves, and a red calf. She had her first baby at 23 months, and
had five calves before her sixth birthday. You hate to sell cows like this,
but we were out of pasture space and decided to keep two of her daughters and
one full sister -- so she was sold bred back to Summers for 2006. We still have one of her
daughters in our herd, Mayfly U1-2 by
Secret Weapon. **September was named a Typesetter cow by the
BBU on 9/14/09 because of the superior conformation of her progeny, including ones we kept and ones we sold.
"Angus" BBU#B59042
When we decided to switch to Beefmasters, we kept our two best cows to use for upgrading.
This was Angus, who was 3/4 Angus and 1/4 Hereford. She was an 1100-pound 1991 polled cow that
had 9 black, polled calves for us -- 8 of them heifers. We have used 4 daughters and 5 granddaughters
in our herd, and still have 1 daughter, 3 granddaughters, and 2 great-granddaughters.
"Big Nose"
This is Big Nose, a polled 1300-pound black baldy cow
that we bought from a neighbor in 1990 as part of our initial 4-cow purchase.
She had 3 calves for us (two bulls) before we sold her in 1993. Her daughter
Angus became our most prolific base cow,
so Big Nose's blood is throughout our herd.
