MATERNAL FOUDATION SIRES

We strive to maintain a base of moderately sized, easy-fleshing cow families, all going back several times to older Rito, Traveler, and Juanada breeding. We cross these with more modern terminal-type AI sires to get the best of both ends of the breed to our bull customers. Steer calves that will weigh up well in the fall and trouble-free replacement heifers that will keep you in the cattle business without eating all of your profits.

BAR Dark Canyon 09 left us with some excellent daughters, as I knew he would. Surprisingly, his sons performed very well compared to our terminal AI-sired calves. We were excited to keep several more generations of his daughters when he decided to walk out on some thin pond ice and drown himself. Look for his grandsons sired by BAR Dark Canyon 321 in 2025.

This bull was a cow-maker! Maternal grandsire to several of the bulls selling, his daughters have tight udders with short teats and give ample milk.

Broadback and Wideback Jack lineage both descend from the same originating cow. We felt she was a superior cow in our herd and wanted to propagate her influence. BAR Broadback 928 is the maternal grandsire to several of the bulls selling.

HERD SIRES

We purchased Cole Creek 1322 Auto 717 from Cole Creek Angus of Joliet, Montana, in their 2022 sale. The Cole Creek cow herd is line-bred to emphasize efficient, trouble-free mother cows that thrive in a grassland environment without extra inputs. It’s educational to look through the Cole Creek cow herd. One cow looks just like the next one you will see. All are uniformly perfect uddered and structurally correct in every way. Cole Creek 1322 Auto 717 sons will make the type of cows that will keep you from going broke in the cow business.

Additionally, although this bull is intended to be a cow maker, his sons performed very respectably next to our AI-sired calves.

We put BAR Greeley 735 through the Midland Bull Test and then decided to bring him home for our own use. He fulfills his purpose very well. He is intended to be a terminally bred bull. His calves have a tick more performance. His daughters, though, will have a little more frame. This bull’s maternal brother sold to Jared Jensen of Roosevelt, Utah, through the 2023 Basin Bull Sale.

We sold this bull through the 2020 Basin Bull Sale, then decided we made a mistake and bought him back. His dam is a phenotypically perfect, high-producing daughter of Sinclair Memento 8RL18. We have kept two of her sons for our own use. His sire RR Optima 4098 is a producer of perfect-uddered, trouble-free females. This bull’s sons will be cow makers.

AI Sires