This is the "girls" page. Listed below are
all the producing cows and up-and-coming heifers in our herd. One of the advantages of Beefmasters is the wide variety of colors they
come in. This makes it easy to tell them all apart, and makes calving time a
real surprise! In 2007, faced with loss of our leased pasture space and the worst
drought in 50 years, we severely cut down our numbers. We retained a strong nucleus for continuing on with our breeding program, however,
and with our current polled bull are producing better calves than ever.
All of our cows have been inspected by BBU. We are participants
in the BBU upgrade program, and all the females below that are not purebred and who are at
least a year old have been inspected and accepted into this program. We also participate in
the voluntary classification program for our purebred and 2X cows, usually at 1 and 3 years of
age -- results are shown below for those that are old enough to have been classified.
"FH St. Patricia" BBU#C827681, U2-1 (Flash x Cowie Owie).
After years of bulls (7 out of 9 calves!), our foundation cow 'Cowie Owie' finally had
a heifer on St. Patrick's day, 2000.
A good size, deep red cow, Patty has had a good-looking calf every year by a variety of bulls.
Like her mother, she has a great udder, plenty of milk, and a great disposition. She's had 9 calves
to date, including two of our favorites,
New Orleans, a heifer by Summers
and a full brother, Chernobyl II. She's a top producer.
SALE PENDING 5/8/10 to the Thomas family of Middle Tennessee, for pickup in mid-August.
"FH Richland" BBU#C827682, U2-2 (Flash x FH Easter Clown).
Wow, is all we can say about this 2001 cow! She's a great granddaughter of our first
Beeefmaster cow, Cowie Owie, but looks more like her than her two daughters did.
We love the flashy color and the pretty head, but even more we like her frame, heavy bone, good muscling,
calm temperament, and good mothering characteristics. She is a steady producer of great looking bulls --
seven so far -- and two excellent heifers. See
Chrome, a pretty paint bull by Summers who turned out to be a fine sire in his own right;
Alexandra, her 2008 heifer by Chernobyl II; and
Wings, her flashy 2010 heifer by Osiris.
SALE PENDING 5/8/10 to the Thomas family of Middle Tennessee, for pickup in mid-August.
FH Alexandra 04-8, BBU#C958881, U (Chernobyl II x Richland) 05/17/08.
After five bulls in a row, Richland finally produced a heifer in 2008! She's solid red with just a few white
hairs on her face and small patches on her underline. She's a pretty and very feminine young cow, very smooth and meaty with a pretty face, and her
first calf by Osiris, a lovely red heifer, shows her quality as a Mama cow.
FH Cortland 03-8, BBU#C958880, U (Chernobyl II x St. Patty) 04/04/08.
solid red 2008 heifer with just a few white hairs on her face. This heifer has an especially friendly and inquisitive
disposition. In fact, it's hard to get far enough away from her to take a full body shot! She has a good underline,
good bone, and a large frame, but is a little rough over the topline and a bit undistinguished in the neck area. She has passed her
BBU classification exam and should grade out as a 3 (average) or possibly a 2 (above average) depending on how she grows.
SALE PENDING 5/8/10 to the Thomas family of Middle Tennessee, for pickup in mid-August.
FH Isis 03-10, purebred solid dark red or brown heifer b. 3/13/10 (Osiris x
FH Alexandra). Alexandra had this calf, her first, all by herself and is doing a great job with her. She's
a pretty and very well put together heifer who may be polled. She only has a tiny, tiny white mark just in front of her udder. This top-
quality heifer is for sale at weaning (after mid-July).
FH Ireland 04-10, purebred red or brown heifer b. 3/26/10 (Osiris x
FH Janiebiker). Janie's first -- a sassy and very feminine red or brown polled purebred heifer with a heavily mottled underline,
an interesting star on her face, and brockling on both hind legs. We think we will keep this one for a while as a potential replacement for Janie. We'd rather
have a black one, but she's sure a fine looking heifer!
FH Wings 06-10, purebred red or brown paint heifer b. 4/10/10 (Osiris x
FH Richland). This is the one we have been waiting for as Richland's replacement. Unfortunately, she
is not polled, but everything else is right about this beautiful, well built, pretty-faced and extremely flashy heifer! She was born
strong and active and is a real go-getter.
FH Flight 08-10, purebred black or brindle paint heifer b. 5/3/10 (Osiris x
FH Mayfly). Just what we ordered -- and polled too. We will be keeping this cutie as a potential
addition to our herd. Love the bone, the topline, her long neck and the flashy color doesn't hurt either!
A Second Cross or 2X cow is at least 75% Beefmaster. Under the terms of the BBU upgrade program, heifers
must be inspected by a BBU representative at 12 months of age or older before they can be registered as a 2X.
The offspring of a purebred Beefmaster bull and a registered 2X cow are considered to be
purebred without further inspection. We usually do not sell our 2X candidate heifers until after they have been
inspected and registered. The boys are normally sold at the local sale barn at weaning time, but a number of them have been
purchased for use as bulls on commercial herds.
"FH Mayfly" BBU#S22252, U1-2 (Secret Weapon x **September).
Black brindle close-to-paint polled cow, born 5/23/03.
Mayfly is a real doll with lots of eye appeal and a friendly personality. A tiny calf when born,
she has grown up to be a larger cow than her Typesetter mother, **September, and is even better looking.
Accepted as a second cross on August 1, 2004, and classified as U1-2 in September 2009, she has had five calves so
far, including two red paints, one solid red, one black, and one black paint. All to date have been polled.
FH Iris 02-5, BBU #S22863, U2-2, b. 08/04/05. This black mottle-faced
polled cow was born on Tax Day 2005(IRS = Iris) and looks like a clone of her mother, but with more meat on her
hindquarters. She had her first calf in May 2007, a heavy-boned
black and white paint heifer that was the best of our very nice crop of 2007 calves. She again
had one of our best calves in 2009, a good looking red multi-faced polled heifer by Osiris.
Like her mother Midnight, Iris is a wonderful mother with copious quantities of milk, and is very caring of her calf.
FH Janie 01-8, BBU #S23394, U, born 03/12/08.
Black splash paint like her mother Pasco (see below), this stout and upright heifer is stylish and built right. Unfortunately, she is horned,
but is so nice otherwise that we kept her anyway. Her first heifer by Osiris is polled! See picture above under purebreds.
A First Cross or 1X cow is at least 50% Beefmaster. Under the terms of the BBU upgrade program, yearling heifers
must be inspected by a BBU representative before they can be registered as a 1X.
Heifers by a purebred Beefmaster bull out of a 1X cow that passes this inspection are eligible for
inspection and certification as a Second Cross.
"Pasco" BBU#F41228
This 2001 polled cow is one of three full sisters that we have used, and she is
the largest and has the best overall conformation. Her neck is particularly nice, and she carries
a lot of meat. We also like her interesting black paint color -- it sure makes her easy to pick out
in the pasture. She has had 7 calves for us and they have all been dandies. Her
pretty 2008 black paint heifer is pictured above under 2x cows.
SALE PENDING 5/8/10 to the Thomas family of Middle Tennessee, for pickup in mid-August.
