Maternal Gems Sale - Thank You!

 

Humbled, Honored, excited, overwhelmed, ecstatic are just a few words to describe how we feel about the 2^nd annual Maternal Gems Sale held Saturday May 8^th.  We work so very hard to produce cattle that check all the boxes for phenotype, genetics and performance.  I have wanted to post since the sale but with Mother’s Day and Gall Bladder surgery I am running a bit behind.  I had a wonderful Mother’s day and all I can say about Gall Bladder surgery is ouch.  We want to throw out a big thank you to the Adams family for all they do to make this event such a success!  You can’t find folks any nicer than the Adams I hope they know how much they are appreciated.  Mark Sims, Sims plus LLC does a great job managing this sale putting together the lots and then doing the auctioneering he.  The consignors are just awesome everyone works so well together and they dig deep to bring you the very best, this sale is going to develop a reputation for quality!  And the buyers, Thank you, Thank you Thank you!  A very special thank you goes out to the buyers of the Gizmo Angus Lots:

Lot 24 and Lot 25 - to Will Chapman of Limestone Genetics in Cub Run KY, I have not met Will as yet but look forward to making it to KY to see his operation.  Watch out for big things from this operation.

Lot 24A, 47 and 53 - Upchurch Brothers LLC, Lineville AL, Ronnie and I have known the Upchurch Family for many years.  We met Randall and his brother Jason at a Junior National Show when Randall was still a teenager.  It has been an honor watching his growth, into a man that understands how to treat people, love his family and his God.  Randall as a teenager could impress you with his depth of knowledge of pedigrees and he has done nothing but improve on that knowledge in the 25 years since we met.  I can’t wait to see what he does with these females I expect to see the lot 47 in the donor pen and the 24A I am already having seller regret!  She is a double bred Wulff’s EXT you just can’t get any better than that!  The lot 53 is out of a first calf heifer but man did that heifer bring in a winner. 

Lot 25A - Randy Crowell Plantation Farms, Elrod Al, another heifer that gives me buyers regret.  I think this heifer could make the donor pen she has it all phenotype, genetics and performance going for her.  Her grand dam had a production record of 13@105 for WW, 13@103 for YW, 10@105 for IMF and 10@105 for RE.  I can’t wait to see what Randy does with this exceptional female.

Lot 45 – Scott and Ryan Clark of Clark Farm LLC Newton, AL the Clark’s got them a good one in this young productive cow. The dam of this young cow is out of our now deceased donor SAV Blackcap May 0524 and our Coleman EXT 6149 bull then sired by Coleman Charlo 0256.  I am a huge fan of the Charlo offspring I know most people think about the 5 million dollar flush that came out of SAV and I agree that is impressive.  However I feel his lasting legacy will be in his daughters they just do everything you can possible ask for in a female.

Lot 45A – Charles Chaz Bridges Damascus, GA I look forward to seeing this bull walking the pasture as a two year old he is going to be a good one!  Chaz has purchased bulls from us in the past and knows what they can do for his program. 

Lot 46 and Lot 48 – Lucas Chittom Booneville, MS Lucas the lot 46 cow is going to be a good one for sure.  She is out of a flush sister to the lot 47 cow that Randall Upchurch purchased.  The bull calf she had at side was a stout sucker.  The lot 48 cow is just a beast her dam was a Pathfinder in our herd as was her maternal sister the calf in her out of Niagara should be exceptional.

Lot 46A, 47A and 48A – Doug Smith Circle S Farm Dothan, AL Dough got him some really nice young bulls to develop.  We had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time at the sale and look forward to getting to know him better.  These three calves should develop into sure enough good herd bulls.

Lot 50 and Lot 55 – Scott Haynes Hayes Farm Blountsville, AL Scott is another young man that we have had the pleasure of meeting and watching as he has developed his herd.  He has a phenomenal eye for cattle and he is tenacious.  He visited our farm a number of years ago our calves were just babies.  He picked out a bull calf that was if I do say so myself the best calf in the pasture.  He asked are you going to sell him I told him only time would tell.  I had forgotten all about the conversation when months later at a bull sale he comes up and asked me again.  We ended up partnering on the bull, like I said a good eye and memory!  The lot 50 heifer is powerful in every aspect phenotype, genetics and performance she is the kind to go into the front pasture then the flush pen.  The lot 55 heifer doesn’t have the well known genetics that the lot 50 has but she is the type that can also be in the front pasture and she will earn her way to the flush pen.  The Duchess Cow family is the real deal this is one to keep an eye on.  Another farm that is on our tour list!

Lot 51and 52 – Vince Santini Shady Brook Angus Leoma, TN, The lot 51 heifer is out of the flush sister to the lot 24 heifer if Will wants to see what lot 24’s calf will look like all he needs to do is look at lot 51!  The two flush sisters D33 and D39 are peas in a pod which is consistent of what I have seen with Coleman genetics.  The lot 52 is an ET daughter of our now deceased SAV Blackcap May 0524 cow.  0524 was a good one and her daughter’s just work!  I know a tour of Shady Brook is in our future!

Lot 54 – Tim Hopkins Cedar Creek Ranch Ashford, AL Last but certainly not least, Ronnie and I met Tim at the Junior National Show back in the 90’s.  A friendship was born and has stood the test of time!  Tim has an eye for cattle we spend hours on the phone discussing them.  He is my go to guy for phenotype and I am his go to on genetics (and paperwork).  The lot 54 heifer is one of the hidden gems of the offering like lot 55 not the pedigree that is as well known but she is going to make an awesome cow.  She has the phenotype for the front pasture, genetics that will work in our environment and the performance to make it to the donor pen. 

Now you see why it has taken me so long to write my Face book Thank you I really felt it was better not to try to write while on the drugs they sent me home with!  And now you see why I am so honored and humbled at the response to our offering at the Maternal Gems Sale.  To have elite programs like the ones described bid on your cattle is just a tremendous blessing.

The Great Adventure Cheyenne Wyoming

I had big plans to blog all about our five week adventure out west, well we arrived home on August 16th and I am finally caught up enough to blog again.  The trip out west was wonderful, we stopped in at OCC Cattle Company in Palmer Ks.  I actually managed to blog about that visit.  We spent a couple of days in Cheyenne Wy visiting our Nephew Marc and his family.  Marc is stationed at Warren Air Force base in Cheyenne.  What a cool base, so much history, Marc took us on a driving tour of the base it was just beautiful.

While we were visiting Marc they took us on a tour of downtown Cheyenne it is just a cool town.  We also toured the Cowgirl museum!  I just loved it, seeing the impact that women have had over the years in the development of the cattle industry and their impact on shaping this great country was just neat to learn and to be able to share the time and experience with Marc and his family was such a treat.

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We were in Cheyenne the week prior to the Frontier Days Rodeo, so we missed the rodeo but did get to see the cattle drive bringing in the cattle to be used during the rodeo.

After seeing the cattle drive we said our good bye's to Marc and his family and Ronnie and I headed out to see Fort Laramie and a stop to a preserved portion of the Oregon Trail.  It is hard for me to put into words the impact of actually standing in the ruts made by the pioneers had on both of us.  We stood in those ruts and imagined the sweat and struggle of those that came before us.  In our world of instant everything to imagine walking hundreds to miles to chase your dream of a new home in an untamed land is just hard for us to imagine and very humbling.

After stopping to see this part of history we went on to another part of history.  Fort Laramie sitting out in the middle of nowhere.  It was like taking a step back in history.  The buildings have been preserved to help you get the feel of what those brave men and women faced each and every day.  

We finished up our tour of Fort Laramie and headed back to the camper tired but excited to continue our great adventure.  Next stop Dubios Wyoming, I decided to learn a new skill for this adventure I put a slide show of our different stops into a short video. It was fun to learn and neat to have as a fun reminder of our trip. The first video is of the first three days of the trip out to Wyoming.

The second video is of the visit to Cheyenne, the Oregon Trail and Fort Laramie.

The Big Adventure Days 1-3

Ronnie and I started out with our cattle as a hobby back in the mid 80's.  Needless to say we grew from a hobby to a full blown business.  Over the years we have made our share of mistakes.  One of the things we discovered is that just because it works for one operation doesn't mean it will work in ours. So many factors influence a cattle operation, environment, genetics, management just to name a few. We love getting out and visiting with others in the cattle industry, but between managing the farm and working a job off the farm it isn't something we have been able to do as much of as we would like.  As of July 1st that has changed a bit.  Ronnie has been semi retired from our family business for the past two years, but I have still been working.  As of July 1st I stepped away and we can now start checking off items on the ole bucket list.  Our big adventure began on July 11, 2017, thanks to our eldest son Lucas who loaned us his motor home we have hit the road, just the two of us and one of the dogs.

Cuddles getting her first look at MO!

Beautiful country

 We drove to Mo the first day and stayed the night in a Sam's parking lot.  This worked out great for Ronnie, however I soon realized that I had indeed watched to many episodes of Criminal Minds so sleep was not in the cards for me.  We started out early Wednesday morning for Kansas we had reservations at Farnum Creek Campground for Wednesday night.  We arrived around 3:00 and finally got set up around 6:00, discovering the importance of level campsites!  The thing that surprised me the most was the heat.  It hit 104 here late yesterday afternoon, it was HOT!  I will say that it is a different kind of hot, 104 in Florida is worse but it was still miserable.

104 now that is hot!

Beautiful morning drive over to OCC and the temp was low 70's!
What a difference a day makes!

We had contacted Tim Ohlde of Ohlde Cattle Company to see about a visit while on our adventure.  We have used OCC cattle for a number of years and sure like what they bring to the table.  The Ohlde cattle are thick and deep with beautiful udders, and they make a living on grass!  We met Tim at the Ranch around 7:30 a.m. and started out looking at the herd sires he had penned.  They were what I expected deep, thick heavy muscled bulls.  We have used OCC Juneau 807J, OCC Missing Link 830M and OCC Paxton 730P with Paxton and Missing Link being favorites.  I wanted to see what up and coming bulls I would like to use in the future.  I can't say we found a favorite, because we found several that we want to use, I will say the top two would be OCC Big Time 746Z the picture they have of this bull on their web site just doesn't do him justice!

OCC Big time 746Z and my photo doesn't do him justice either!

  He is a good one!  Another is a young bull Zodiak my goodness he is nice.

Zodiak out working.  This is one I sure want to have in the tank!

I just loved the look of the Paxton daughters they had the most I have ever seen in production.  They were all pretty darn sporty.  Tim knows his cattle and his genetics, it was a pleasure to finally get to meet both him Trudy and Jake. The cows we saw were all very uniformed and all thick, deep, with beautiful udders which was exactly what I expected to see in this herd.

Ronnie and Tim talking cows.

Tomorrow morning we head out to Cheyenne WY for a short visit with our nephew Marc and his family.  Then on toward MT.  I will be posting more about our adventure in the coming weeks!

Up Coming Bull Sales

Alabama BCIA Fall Round Up Sale

Friday November 11 at 12 Noon

Alabama Livestock Auction in

Uniontown, Alabama

Gizmo Angus Farm is offering nine stout two year old bulls in this years sale.  

B5 - Gizmo Paxton B5 1220 730P Reg# 18138240

B26 - Gizmo Rito B26 407 9R918138229

B35 - Gizmo B35 Y3051 5522-6148 Reg# 18130235

B41 - Gizmo Cedar Ridge B41 1144 Reg# 18138234

B60 - Gizmo Rito B60 732 9R Reg# 18138248

B74 - Gizmo Regis B74 814 1214 Reg# 18130240

B78 - Gizmo Campbell B78 0524 Reg# 18130244

B80 - Gizmo Juneau B80 1256 1221 Reg# 18138257

B92 - Gizmo Juneau B92 1262 1221 Reg# 18138267

These bulls are developed here at the farm, they are never pushed.  Check them out we invite you to pick our your next herd bull.  A new rule for this years sale is that all bulls offered for sale will be tested NEGATIVE FOR TRICHOMONIASIS! If you would like more information on Trich we invite you to go to the back of the sale catalog and read the very informative article written by Soren P. Rodning, Extension Veterinarian, Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences, Auburn University.  Bovine Trichomoniasis If you would like us to mail you a catalog give us a call (Debbie 850-232-2643) or (Michelle 205-646-0115 or 205-287-1080) or drop us an email request at gilmoredebra@gmail.com or elmormf@auburn.edu or visti the BCIA website at www.albcia.com

A few of the Fall Round Up bulls

4Th Annual Bull Sale

November 19, 2016

1:00 p.m. CST

Wadley Al. Whelan Farms Sale Facility

15418 Hwy 77 

Gizmo Angus Farm is proud to have the first Registered Angus Bulls ever offered at this prestigious sale.  When your the first you sure want them to be good and we feel we have sent some really good ones.  Rick does a great job developing these bulls.  This is a bull development program not a bull test, the focus at Southern Excellence is to DEVELOP Bulls that are in optimum conditioned to be released into your herd and go straight to work.  All bulls have passed a breeding soundness exam and have had complete ultrasound data collected.  All bulls sell with a 100% guarantee.  If your looking for bulls that have been developed right. Join us in Wadley Alabama on November 19th. If you would like us to send you a sale catalog give us a call (Debbie 850-232-2643) (Rick 404-476-6797) The catalog is online Southern Excellence Bull Sale We invite you to check out this offering, Rick has a spreadsheet on his web site with current EPD's on all the bulls as well as videos of each bull in the offering.  You won't find a stouter set of bulls offered in the Southeast this sale season.  The Gizmo Lots are:

Lot 58 - Gizmo CC7 C2 324 327
Herd sire prospect out of a first calf heifer

Lot 61 - Gizmo Pioneer C17 1120 7301
The Pioneer calves work

S A V Pioneer 7301 sire of lot 61



lot 62 - Gizmo EXT C21 0524 6149
This is an ET calf our of our Blackcap May 0524 donor and the flush brother of the Coleman Angus donor Coleman Donna 6145

Coleman Donna 6145 Flush sister to the sire of Lot 62


Lot 63 - Gizmo Charlo C32 744P 0256

Coleman Charlo 0256 sire of lot 63

Lot 64 - Giz Rainmaker C41 7009 6169

Chloe Juanada 7009 dam of lot 64

In addition to the two sale listed above we will have bulls selling again this year in the Florida Bull Test Sale on January 21, 2017 at the University of Florida Beef Unit.  We have five calves entered in this years test.  The bulls just completed the first 56 days of the test and we are very pleased with their progress.  56 day test results  I will do another blog on the Florida bulls when the test has been completed.  

If you have any questions on any of the bulls we have in these sales or bulls offered private treaty off the farm feel free to give us a call. 

Southern Excellence Bull Development Group Bull Sale

 Save the Date

Southern Excellence Bull Development Group Bull Sale

November 19, 2016

Whelan Farms

15418 AL Hwy 77

Wadley, AL 36276

On behalf of the Southern Excellence Bull Development Group we would like to invite you to save the date for our 4th annual Southern Excellence Simmental, SimAngus and Angus bull sale on November 19th.  You read that right this year the sale will offer purebred Angus genetics.  

Ronnie and Debbie Gilmore
Gizmo Angus Farm

Ronnie and I are excited to be a part of this elite sale.  We delivered five stout young bulls to Rick Whelan on June 30th.  Rick and his wife Lisa work very hard to insure the health and welfare of these animals.

The focus of the Southern Excellence is to DEVELOP bulls that are in optimum condition to be released into your herd and go straight to work.  All will have passed a breeding soundness exam and will have complete ultrasound data collected.  All bulls will sell with a 100% guarantee.

The sale management will be in the hands of Ruble Cattle Services.  Jeremie Ruble personally viewed each calf that will be included in this program.  Every effort is made to insure each bull delivered will have excellent EPD's as well as excellent structure.

The five calves representing Gizmo Angus genetics in this years sale will be:

Gizmo CC7 C2 324 327 Reg# 18472511 - This young bull is out of a first calf heifer that we purchased at the Southeast Classic from Bannister Farms in 2015.  She is everything we had hoped for.  She bred back AI the first time through the chute.  C2 had a actual birth weight of 74 pounds and an adjusted weaning weight of 623 pounds and a weaning ratio of 111.

SAV Pioneer 7301 sire of C17

Gizmo Pioneer C17 1120 7301 Reg# 18472508 We have been very pleased with the Pioneer calves, the daughters are making superior cows and the bulls are stout.  This calf had a actual birth weight of 74 pounds with an adjusted weaning weight of 680 pounds and a weaning ratio of 108.

Coleman Donna 6143
Flush Sister to the sire of C21

Gizmo EXT C21 0524 6149 Reg# 18490328 -This ET calf is out of a mating we are pretty excited about.  The Coleman EXT bull just didn't have any holes in him, his progeny are deep with plenty of muscle and stand on excellent feet and legs, his daughters have picture perfect udders. the SAV Blackcap May cow is a powerhouse of a cow, she is thick, deep with a beautiful udder. We only got four eggs out of the flush but they all stuck so we were tickled.  In addition to the C21 calf we are sending one of flush brothers to the Florida Bull Test the other will be developed at our farm.  The one heifer will be bred in the fall, all four calves are like peas in a pod.  C21 had a actual birth weight of 80 pounds and an adjusted weaning weight of 616 pounds and a weaning ratio of 98.

SAV Blackcap may 6097 Grand Dam of C21

Gizmo Charlo C32 744P 0256 Reg# 18472520 - This bull was purchased as an embryo from the Coleman program in Montana.  This calf should make a heifer bull.  His sire Coleman Charlo is a meat wagon. C32 had a actual birth weight of 78 pounds and an adjusted weaning weight of 642 pounds and a weaning ratio of 102

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Coleman Charlo 0256

Giz Rainmaker C41 7009 6169 - 18472528 -Another ET calf out of the Coleman program in Montana.  We have two bull calves out of this flush and both are stout little suckers.  We have retained C41's flush brother to use in our herd this coming year. C41 had a actual birth weight of 90 pounds with an adjusted weaning weight of 694 pounds and a weaning ratio of 111

We will be posting updates as the bulls develop.  For more information on this program check out Southeast Excellence on Facebook or Whelan Farms we hope to see you on sale day!

Foot Issues in the Angus Breed

 

If you Google foot issues in the Angus Breed, you’re not going to find much.  Following are the top three articles I found when I googled "Foot Issues in the Angus Breed".  The first is a newsletter published by VDAR or the Van Dyke family.  Seven years ago Ronnie and I had the pleasure of meeting both Lee and Keith Van Dyke and touring their farm.  You don't have to spend much time with either of them to know that they know their cattle.  When you walk through their cow herd you’re going to see structurally correct cattle that are deep with picture perfect udders.  When you read their newsletter you will see that they have been concerned about the foot issues in the Angus breed for several years.  

VDAR Stock Report

The second article I found on Google was the foot score brochure that has been developed by the American Angus Association.  I don't know when this was originally published but am glad to see that steps are being taken to address the issue.

Foot Score Brochure

The third article was considering structural integrity; this article was published back in 2010, so foot issues have been around for awhile.

Consider Structural Integrity

I also did a search through yahoo and found solid footing an article printed in the Angus Journal in 2014.  This article talks about the steps being taken to develop a foot scoring EPD

Solid Footing

The good news is that some folks are talking about foot issues, the bad news is at this point and time it is still just talk.  The Association is requesting breeders to turn in foot scores, but the question is how many breeders are actually doing it?  I confess we haven't turned in the first score; time seems to be the main issue. 

This year the foot issue really hit home for me, and here is why.  We had two first calf heifers that we had to send to the sale barn because of bad feet.  I am not talking about marginally bad I am talking about claw set 9 on the scoring sheet.  The really disappointing thing about these two cows is that we purchased both of them as embryos from a very well known breeder out west. Embryos are not cheap, not only do you have the cost of the embryo itself but you also have the cost of an embryologist to put the embryo in, in the case of these two first calf heifers we had raising them to breeding age, AI breeding then kaboom cull for feet!   Do we blame the breeder?  Should we blame the breeder?  Should a breeder be flushing a cow and selling embryos if the cow has bad feet?  Did the cow that produced these heifers have bad feet?  Did the bull?  The answer is I don't know.  I can tell you it has made me realize that I don't want to purchase anymore embryos at least not without seeing the cow and the bull.

If I feel this way about purchasing embryos, then I sure understand how commercial cattlemen would feel about bulls that came up unsound at 30 months old.  If we don't get a handle on this issue the commercial cattlemen are going to start looking at other breeds, and heck I can't blame them.  It is our responsibility as breeders to provide our customer with a product that works, cows find enough ways to hurt or kill themselves.  We sure don't need to give them another way through bad feet or structure to get culled.

An excerpt from the Consider Structural Integrity article explains what the Australian Angus Association is doing about this issue.

Scoring in Australia Attempting to aid cattle producers in genetic selection for structural integrity, Angus Australia has produced trial estimated breeding values (EBVs) for five foot and leg traits. The five traits include front feet claw set, front feet angle, rear feet angle, correctness of rear legs from a side view and correctness of rear legs from a rear view. Carel Teseling, Angus Australia’s breed development and information manager, says data from 9,000 animals representing 40 Angus herds were used to generate structure EBVs. Structure scores are accepted only for animals assessed by technicians accredited by the Performance Beef Breeders Association. Teseling emphasizes that the new EBVs have been produced as a trial only, but the information is available on the Angus Australia website. Posted structure EBVs have accuracies of 40% or greater. The assessment system uses a 1-to-9 scoring system for feetand-leg structure, with a 5 being ideal (see Figs. 1-4). Scores 4 and 6 show slight variations from ideal, but would include most animals and would be acceptable in any breeding program. Scores 3 and 7 represent greater variation, but would be acceptable in most commercial breeding programs, but seedstock producers should be wary. Scores 2 and 8 are low-scoring animals and should be looked at carefully before purchasing, according to the Australian scoring system. Scores 1 and 9 should not be catalogued and are considered culls.

Keep in mind the above was from an article in 2011 here we are the middle of 2016 and were still talking about it!  I sent an email to the Angus Association Board of Directors concerning foot issues in May.  Folks we need to put this issue on the forefront not on the back burner.  Ask yourself, what can I do to to help?

If you haven't done it already make 2016 the year you do foot scoring on your herd!  That is what we intend to do, we will never solve a problem if we aren't willing to take the first step needed to start solving it.

Fall 2015

It has to be Fall, even if we didn't have a little nip in the air it would be hard to miss.  The Fall sale season has arrived!  I needed to eat some Wheaties just to drag the September Angus Journal out of the mail box.  I imagine the October issue will be the same, sale book after sale book.  I love going through the sale books seeing what direction other breeders are traveling genetically. 

Fall is also calving season for us at Gizmo Angus Farm.  Time to find out if those heifers we like so much are going to become the cows we want them to be.  Fall is also a time of great excitement and at times great disappointment.  There is nothing more exciting than finding your favorite heifer standing over her first calf and a cherry on top its a heifer!

Gizmo Eriskay 1336 2N1 972 Reg# 17844679

  But nothing sadder than finding one of your favorite old cows in trouble, you get her up check her and find a dead calf in her.  You go to work get the calf pulled doctor her up then watch her looking for that lost baby for several days.  It is just heart breaking.

Gizmo Beauty 0707 201 4132 lost her calf this year
 

Fall is the culmination of so much planning, bull selection, breeding then waiting nine months in anticipation of a live calf.  Watching the calves develop and hoping we have done all we can to insure they are healthy.  If we aren't busy enough keeping up with all the new babies.


 It is also time to get our winter pastures planted, plan for the next breeding season, freeze brand,  give herd health vaccination not to mention it is sale season!  We have 7 bulls consigned to the Alabama BCIA Fall Round Up Sale in Uniontown Alabama on Friday November 13th.  This means we have to get BSE's scheduled and add hauling bulls to the schedule.  With all we have to get done, it doesn't look like we are going to have much time to go to many of the sales being advertised, but we are sure going to try to get to a few.  We love attending sales when we get the opportunity, seeing old friends meeting new ones. 

2014 Calf Crop

The past few months have been really busy for us here at Gizmo Angus Farm. For me busy equates to paperwork, for Ronnie it equates to feeding, checking and building fence.  I think I like my job better since it is much warmer sitting here in my recliner typing!  Our last calf arrived on 12/31/2014.  Our first calving date was 10/6/2014 so we calved out 97 calves in 86 days (if I did the math correctly). Ronnie is very strict about trying to get our herd into a 60 day calving season so anything that calved after 12/5/2015 is on the sale list.  I understand getting our herd into a shorter calving season, but man oh man when you have some of your favorite cows on the list it hurts.  We have some calves this year that I am really excited about.  We purchased some embryos from the Sinclair dispersal and the calves are on the ground, they are:

Gizmo B9 Y3051 5522-6148
Gizmo B35 Y3051 5522-6148

We will be really interested to see how these two calves turn out.  There were only two eggs available and we were able to get them purchased, both stuck giving us two nice bull calves.  The dam of these two calves is a bull maker.

N Bar Primrose Y3051 Registration # 11553390



Some notable sons out of this cow are:

Sinclair Emulation 5522 XP Registration # 15696693

 

Sinclair Executive 9XV2 Registration # 16365949

Sinclair Emulation XXP Registration # 15355048

Sinclair Grass Master Registration # 16027094

 



In addition to these two bull calves some other ET calves that are on the watch list are two
SAV Final Answer 0035 sons out of our old Finks Pride 065 6198 LB donor cow. We flushed this cow at the age of 13 twice once to our Coleman EXT 6149 bull and once to Final Answer with the two flushes resulting in 44 eggs. We have only implanted 4 of the eggs two of the 6149 which didn't stick and two of the Final Answer's that did. Although the dam of these calves didn't make Pathfinder status in our herd she did produce one Pathfinder daughter and has one Pathfinder Granddaughter working in our herd.

Gizmo Final Answer B7 065

Gizmo Final Answer B14 065

 

Another group that so far is looking really good are out of an old cow we purchased from the Kinsington Cattle dispersal.

 

Ambrose Erica A47

 

We have several calves on the ground this year out of this old cow they are:

 



 



Gizmo Erica B8 A47 0035 - This is a nice heifer out of A47 and SAV Final Answer 0035

                                       SAV Final Answer 0035                                            

                                                                    

OCC Juneau 807J

 

Gizmo Juneau B15 A47 807J

Gizmo Juneau B30 A47 807J

Gizmo Juneau B36 A47 807J

 

 These three flush brothers out of 807J are really eye catchers!  They are on the radar for sure.

 

Two more calves that keep catching our eye are our of a flush from a cow owned by our friend Tim Hopkins over at Cedar Creek Ranch in Ashford Alabama.  We split the flush of his RB Barber 756 528 B192 cow and Boyd New Day 8005.  We put two of the eggs out of this flush in and got a heifer and a bull.  They are long and deep with a ton of eye appeal.

 

Gizmo Barber B29 756 8005

Gizmo New Day B39 756 8005

Some of my very favorite calves this year are out of another flush purchased from the Sinclair dispersal.  They are N Bar Clova Pride F2839 X Sinclair Rito Legacy 3R9 and they are something to get excited about for sure!

 

 



Gizmo Legacy B33 F2839 3R9

Gizmo Clova Pride B34 3R9

Gizmo Legacy B37 F2839 3R9

Gizmo Clova Pride B40 3R9

                                                                        Sinclair Rito Legacy 3R9

I am really excited to see how both the heifers and the bulls out of this mating develop!

 

We have a few ET calves out of our now deceased donor RB Bridget 658 C11 111 and N Bar Emulation EXT.  We are currently using a full brother natural service on our heifers and a maternal brother out of Coleman EXT 6149 on our two and three year old cows. The 658 cow has had a major impact on our herd and will continue impacting it through her sons.

 

Gizmo Bridget B17 658 EXT

Gizmo EXT B28 658 U23

Gizmo EXT B31 658 U23
 

 A New Day out of the 658 cow

  A Final Answer out of the 658 Cow

 

In addition to our old proven cows calves we have some up and coming young cows that we are pretty darn excited about.  Needless to say they have done everything right so far but they still have to raise their calves and breed back.

 

Giz Miss Emulous 1220 EXT Registration # 17523774 This is a first calf heifer that was purchased as an embryo from Coleman Angus.  She took AI on the first service and is raising a bull calf out of OCC Paxton 730P. 

 

Giz Kinochtry Bty 1212 6807 Registration # 17525496 Another heifer purchased as an embryo from Coleman Angus.  She took AI on the first service and is raising a heifer calf out of our

Coleman EXT 6149 bull.

 

Giz Kinochtry Bty 1216 6807 Registration # 17525495A flush sister to the 1212 cow that stuck AI on the first service.  She is raising a bull calf out of our Coleman EXT 6149 bull.

 

Giz Kinochtry Bty 1232 6807 Registration # 17530336 A flush sister to the 1212 and 1216 cows that also stuck AI on the first service.  She is raising a heifer calf out of OCC Missing Link 830M.

 

Gizmo Bridget 1219 956 830M Registration # 17538449 This is a heifer that we have been watching, she is out of a natural daughter of our 658 cow and a really nice Matrix bull that we raised.  She has been a favorite from birth, then stuck AI on the first service. 

 

 

We also have some of those tried and true cows that just keep getting the job done for us that have some calves that are going to be really good ones.

 

Our Gizmo Pride 525 065 0125 Registration # 15394906  just keeps on doing us a great job! She achieved Pathfinder again this year the and this was the 7th consecutive calf so not only did she make Pathfinder she continues to perform.  She has a heifer calf on the ground out of SAV Resource 1441 that is already catching everyone's eye.  I think this one is a keeper!

 

Our Gizmo Pride 811 525 430 Registration # 16358620 that has followed in her dams footsteps making Pathfinder on her third calf.  This year she has a standout heifer calf on her side out of SAV Net Worth 4200.

 

We also have a bull calf on the ground out of a cow that we are currently flushing she is SAV Blackcap May 0524 Registration # 16697983 the sire of the calf is SAV Campbell 0262 Registration # 16687708 he is a little stud, so it will be interesting to see how he develops.

 

Well I am sure there are a few I missed, we have a bunch of nice calves this year these are just a sample, of what we are doing genetically.