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Post by hoekland on Aug 16, 2013 0:43:52 GMT -6
Good luck Kinnamon, enthusiasm and passion are two key ingredients to success and it seems you have them both.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 9:52:42 GMT -6
Just noticed this thread so here is my introduction: I'm a part owner in my parent's operation Simpson Polled Herefords in central Iowa. Feel free to visit our website: www.simpsonpolledherefords.com We have around 25 females and our current herd started in the mid 1970's when my parent's met when they were working for the American Polled Hereford Association in Kansas City. My dad oversaw the creation of the national youth association and started the first junior national show which has now become the Junior National Hereford Expo. Both my parents have Hereford background growing up, dad showed some Herefords in Ohio, my mom's family raised Herefords in Illinois and her dad (Lyle Kidwell for anyone out there who might still have some "old time ties" in the breed, he was quite the socializer I found out!) was once the herdsman for NS Polled Herefords before retiring. My brother and I both grew up showing Polled Herefords as juniors, had some success in the show ring winning some state shows over the years along with a champion at Ak-Sar-Ben and a division winner at the American Royal. I'm still very involved with the operation, I live about an hour away and go home often to help out (I do own a few cows afterall!  ) and am very involved in our breeding decisions. We're mostly a cow/calf operation. Our breeding program is designed to produce replacement females and bull prospects with an emphasis on low birth weights and high maternal milk and growth traits. Over the years we've bred or brought in influence from prominent programs such as Feltons, Dunwalke, Huth, Rausch, and Schu-Lar. The Schu-Lar females we bought off the dispersal have had some great calves and our Rausch herd sire has produced some strong calf crops the past 2 years so we have been very pleased adding those genetics to our program. In our AI program we look for a lot of the same traits and really pay attention to EPDs and pedigrees. We have used Revolution 4R the past few years along with Logic and World Class over the years and this year we decided to breed to Hyalite On Target 936 who looks to be one of the rising AI sires in the breed that Rausch co-owns with Linton. Over the past couple years we have been thrilled to sell some females and a bull to a junior and some young couples who are starting up their own Hereford herds or trying out some black baldy breeding and helping them get started as at some point we many of us probably had someone in the past advise us when we started out. Look forward to participating in discussions here, I love seeing what others are doing with their programs and keeping up to date on what sires people are using. |
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Post by Mickelson on Aug 23, 2013 20:05:39 GMT -6
Just noticed this thread so here is my introduction: I'm a part owner in my parent's operation Simpson Polled Herefords in central Iowa. Feel free to visit our website: www.simpsonpolledherefords.com We have around 25 females and our current herd started in the mid 1970's when my parent's met when they were working for the American Polled Hereford Association in Kansas City. My dad oversaw the creation of the national youth association and started the first junior national show which has now become the Junior National Hereford Expo. Both my parents have Hereford background growing up, dad showed some Herefords in Ohio, my mom's family raised Herefords in Illinois and her dad (Lyle Kidwell for anyone out there who might still have some "old time ties" in the breed, he was quite the socializer I found out!) was once the herdsman for NS Polled Herefords before retiring. My brother and I both grew up showing Polled Herefords as juniors, had some success in the show ring winning some state shows over the years along with a champion at Ak-Sar-Ben and a division winner at the American Royal. I'm still very involved with the operation, I live about an hour away and go home often to help out (I do own a few cows afterall! ) and am very involved in our breeding decisions. We're mostly a cow/calf operation. Our breeding program is designed to produce replacement females and bull prospects with an emphasis on low birth weights and high maternal milk and growth traits. Over the years we've bred or brought in influence from prominent programs such as Feltons, Dunwalke, Huth, Rausch, and Schu-Lar. The Schu-Lar females we bought off the dispersal have had some great calves and our Rausch herd sire has produced some strong calf crops the past 2 years so we have been very pleased adding those genetics to our program. In our AI program we look for a lot of the same traits and really pay attention to EPDs and pedigrees. We have used Revolution 4R the past few years along with Logic and World Class over the years and this year we decided to breed to Hyalite On Target 936 who looks to be one of the rising AI sires in the breed that Rausch co-owns with Linton. Over the past couple years we have been thrilled to sell some females and a bull to a junior and some young couples who are starting up their own Hereford herds or trying out some black baldy breeding and helping them get started as at some point we many of us probably had someone in the past advise us when we started out. Look forward to participating in discussions here, I love seeing what others are doing with their programs and keeping up to date on what sires people are using. Welcome. Great intro by the way. |
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Post by hcchereherefords on Aug 28, 2013 9:36:04 GMT -6
Good morning to all Iam a new member and hereford Breeder in SW Iowa.. my herd cosits of line bred King Ten off spring.. I also have the King Ten son which is the only line bred Sir ! son there has been if you would like to him and pics go hccherefords.com
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 12:01:04 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2013 12:17:23 GMT -6
Good morning to all Iam a new member and hereford Breeder in SW Iowa.. my herd cosits of line bred King Ten off spring.. I also have the King Ten son which is the only line bred Sir ! son there has been if you would like to him and pics go hccherefords.com Interesting pedigree on the 595 bull. It will be interesting to see if that marbling epd holds up. Welcome to the board. |
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Post by George on Aug 28, 2013 14:13:52 GMT -6
Good morning to all Iam a new member and hereford Breeder in SW Iowa.. my herd cosits of line bred King Ten off spring.. I also have the King Ten son which is the only line bred Sir ! son there has been if you would like to him and pics go hccherefords.com boy he reminds me of 8403. I was the runner-up bidder on him at Mill Creek's sale. Always wondered how he turned out. Nice to see an updated picture. |
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Post by jayh on Aug 28, 2013 17:06:33 GMT -6
I thought Lawerence Turner owned that bull? I was under the impression he was being used on angus females some where. Welcome aboard and congrates on your bull. I have liked him from the first time I seen him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2013 11:18:08 GMT -6
Hello,
My name is John West, I have been reading the posts for a while and thought it appropriate to join the board so that I could learn and share.
We have one polled Hereford bull calf, Perfect Timing x Mohican Kim.
I posted a few photos of him on CT but that website doesn't work well with my cellphone so I rarely visit it anymore.
Best regards,
John
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2013 12:17:23 GMT -6
Hello, My name is John West, I have been reading the posts for a while and thought it appropriate to join the board so that I could learn and share. We have one polled Hereford bull calf, Perfect Timing x Mohican Kim. I posted a few photos of him on CT but that website doesn't work well with my cellphone so I rarely visit it anymore. Best regards, John That's a nice combination of genetics to start out with. Post a few pics and pedigrees when you get a chance. John Alexander |
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Post by Glenn on Sept 7, 2013 12:20:26 GMT -6
Probably not the thread for this but I can't get past the 2111M cow being so close up in the pedigree.....not the type of udders that I like.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2013 12:28:03 GMT -6
Probably not the thread for this but I can't get past the 2111M cow being so close up in the pedigree.....not the type of udders that I like. Was 2111M a problem uddered cow? 767G did a good job of fixing up udders. She is a grand-daughter of the 850413 cow that was another of those super producing cows at Miles City. I had several grand-daughters of her and they were top, top producers. They weren't pretty uddered, but they stayed sound. |
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Post by Glenn on Sept 7, 2013 12:36:58 GMT -6
George used to have a video. Maybe he can post it again. It was from the Schafer dispersion, I believe. Also they had a TERRIBLE photoshop job in the catalog pic to try to hide it. The photoshop was hideously bad.
I am not the expert that a lot of you guys are on pedigrees. I am learning and taking in as much as I can but I believe through talking to folks and through some personal observations that 767G was hit or miss on udders as were several of his sons. They could throw the good ones as well as the bad one from time to time. JMO
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2013 12:41:22 GMT -6
Hello, My name is John West, I have been reading the posts for a while and thought it appropriate to join the board so that I could learn and share. We have one polled Hereford bull calf, Perfect Timing x Mohican Kim. I posted a few photos of him on CT but that website doesn't work well with my cellphone so I rarely visit it anymore. Best regards, John That's a nice combination of genetics to start out with. Post a few pics and pedigrees when you get a chance. John Alexander Thanks John, Mohican Vickie 238M #P42379769 Sire Remitall Boomer 46B Dam S&S Vickie 498 C Flatlander, thank you for sharing the info about Perfect Timing. What impressed me was the group of AI calves were extremely consistent from a fairly heterogeneous groups of cows. Mohican Vickie had picture perfect udders. Every calf had a birth weight close to 70lbs. I will post photos when I get off the tractor. Best, John |
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Post by Glenn on Sept 7, 2013 12:47:00 GMT -6
Cool. Welcome aboard!
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Post by strojanherefords on Sept 15, 2013 18:33:21 GMT -6
Paul Strojan Farmington, California
My family has been raising hereford cattle since after the second world war. Around twenty years ago, my father mothballed the registered herd; only keeping enough registered cows to provide bulls for our commercial operation. Over the past few years, I have caught the hereford bug and I am trying to slowly build the herd into a viable operation.
I want to raise bulls that complement black genetics. The Angus genetics today are like holsteins, more production with more inputs. I want: a cow that will raise a calf on next to nothing each and every year for a decade and bulls that will out breed everything else in the pasture. I don't believe that there is a perfect sized cow, so I'll keep my cattle a little larger to provide for a little frame size jump when crossed with angus cattle. I believe in the importance of maintaining distinct lines of cattle so I avoid line one and polled influences.
My primary influences are Ken Ochs and the dairyman. I live in dairy country and my friends in the dairy business are constantly improving what they do. The can do this because every day they are milking, calving and breeding. As for those in the Ochs Brothers mutual admiration society; I think that it is important to remember that Ken was not in the genetics game. He was their to breed cattle with true grit. With Ochs no longer being Ochs, we have started breeding some cows A.I. to bring in new genetics, we have had good luck with 20J and 40W from Lilybrook.
Let us brace ourselves to our duties...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 21:53:24 GMT -6
Paul Strojan Farmington, California My family has been raising hereford cattle since after the second world war. Around twenty years ago, my father mothballed the registered herd; only keeping enough registered cows to provide bulls for our commercial operation. Over the past few years, I have caught the hereford bug and I am trying to slowly build the herd into a viable operation.
I want to raise bulls that complement black genetics. The Angus genetics today are like holsteins, more production with more inputs. I want: a cow that will raise a calf on next to nothing each and every year for a decade and bulls that will out breed everything else in the pasture. I don't believe that there is a perfect sized cow, so I'll keep my cattle a little larger to provide for a little frame size jump when crossed with angus cattle. I believe in the importance of maintaining distinct lines of cattle so I avoid line one and polled influences. My primary influences are Ken Ochs and the dairyman. I live in dairy country and my friends in the dairy business are constantly improving what they do. The can do this because every day they are milking, calving and breeding. As for those in the Ochs Brothers mutual admiration society; I think that it is important to remember that Ken was not in the genetics game. He was their to breed cattle with true grit. With Ochs no longer being Ochs, we have started breeding some cows A.I. to bring in new genetics, we have had good luck with 20J and 40W from Lilybrook.
Let us brace ourselves to our duties...
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Post by Glenn on Sept 17, 2013 11:20:00 GMT -6
Worthless without pics....
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Post by Glenn on Sept 17, 2013 11:21:24 GMT -6
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Post by cotton on Oct 2, 2013 22:16:53 GMT -6
My name is David Haney, and we are located in central Virginia. I grew up with Angus cattle, dabbling in registered cattle with my father for 35 years. My bride and I purchased our current farm four years ago. We decided to abandon the norm of straight angus cattle in the area, and dabble with hereford cattle in addition to our small quarter horse breeding operation based on hancock/driftwood bloodlines. We currently have 30 registered females, and a small group of commercial angus/hereford cross mamas. I have visited the site often, and have enjoyed the discussions from afar. Thanks for the privilege of joining.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 21:05:26 GMT -6
My name is David Haney, and we are located in central Virginia. I grew up with Angus cattle, dabbling in registered cattle with my father for 35 years. My bride and I purchased our current farm four years ago. We decided to abandon the norm of straight angus cattle in the area, and dabble with hereford cattle in addition to our small quarter horse breeding operation based on hancock/driftwood bloodlines. We currently have 30 registered females, and a small group of commercial angus/hereford cross mamas. I have visited the site often, and have enjoyed the discussions from afar. Thanks for the privilege of joining. i can hear glen's head swelling from here. sorry cotton, can't resist a jab at glen. welcome. |
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Post by avignon on Oct 16, 2013 18:51:57 GMT -6
Hi,
I am a new member to your forum from Australia. I have enjoyed reading through some of your posts, very interesting. We have a limited (but growing) use of North American genetics in Australia. I have recently bought 955W into Australia, he has been well received to date.
Keep up the good work
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Post by DavisHerefords on Nov 18, 2013 16:55:26 GMT -6
Hi,
I am a new member, but been reading your board for a couple years and finally created an account. My dad (Dean) and I run around 75 registered Hereford cows in northeast Kansas. Our cowherd base is pretty much L1, Recent bull purchases have been from Colyer and upstream. We have been taking bulls to Denver, in the yards since the 90's for the sole purpose to sell them, but have had our fair share of success showing also. Current herd bulls are a 5216 son, a ribstone son, and a 719T son. Recent AI bulls are HH Advance 1098Y, H5 Solution, and an About Time son from White Cattle Company in Wyoming. This year we are using Harrells top selling bull from 2013 and Dimaggio.
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Post by Glenn on Nov 18, 2013 16:57:48 GMT -6
Welcome aboard!!!
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Post by lwa42 on Nov 26, 2013 22:56:27 GMT -6
hello, I am Landon Allen. I live in Section, AL. I have santa gertrudis cows. I came across this site researching some hereford bulls. I hope to learn and meet new people.
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