Reference Cattle

Look on this page for some of the ancestors of cattle currently in our herd.

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 2003 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 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. Sold August 2002 expecting a calf by Secret Weapon.

FH Easter Clown (Fork Creek 2-77 x Kevin's Heritage 1) 1997-2002

"FH July Surprise, BBU#S22027", U2/1. A black brindle July 2002 polled heifer, she looked very much like her mother (see below) but was a bigger cow with more Beefmaster type. She was inspected and accepted as a 2X by BBU in 2003 and classified in July 2005. Her 2005 purebred calf, FH Ginny, born May 29, is a solid black heifer by Summers. July Surprise was sold in August 2005, bred back to Summers for 2006.

July Surprise (Secret Weapon x September)

"September" BBU#F40514. This 1999 polled cow was a really nice one -- not very tall, but 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's had two black calves, two black brindle calves, and a red calf.  She had her first baby at 23 months, a dandy black steer, followed by two full sisters by Secret Weapon — July Surprise and Mayfly. Then she had two full sisters by Summers — Augustine in 2004 and Nikki in June 2005, so she had five calves already before her sixth birthday September 7. 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.

September (Flash x Angus)

FH Smuggler (Flash x Charlotte Russ)

"Smuggler" BBU#F41226 This 2000 polled cow, pictured at 2 years, was the first heifer from her mother, who had five boys before she was born. She was worth the wait! Very smooth, long, square, and feminine, she had four calves for us. We retained her 2004 paint daughter, Devin in our herd. She was sold in June 2005 rebred to Summers for 2006.

"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 4 daughters and 5 granddaughters in our herd. She lost her 2003 heifer to a lightning strike, and because of her age it was time to sell her.

Brown Angus (Hankins Angus x Big Nose) 1991-2003

"Charlotte" BBU#B59043 This was Charlotte Russ, who was a polled solid black 1991 cow, 3/4 Angus and 1/4 Charolais. She had 7 calves for us (5 of them bulls) before we sold her in 2002. We retained one daughter, Smuggler, in our herd. Smuggler has since been sold, but Charlotte's granddaughter, FH Devin, is her replacement.

Charlotte Russ at 11 years (Hankins Angus x Smoky Charolais) 1991-2002

Big Nose (Angus x Hereford) 1982?-(sold 1993)	"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.
Charolais (Angus x Charolais) 1983?-(sold 1993)	"Smoky Charolais" This was Charlotte Russ's mother, a polled 1250-pound 1/2 Angus and 1/2 Charolais cow that we bought from a neighbor in 1990 at 7 years of age. She had 2 calves for us before we sold her in 1993. We retained one daughter, Charlotte, who became one of our base cows.

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