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Monday, November 14, 2011

Sale Time

Wow the week has been a busy one. Just got home from our National Show and annual meeting in Edmonton at Farmfair International. Great week for our breed and for High Country Cattle. But more to come on that in the next few days. Today we are focusing on the North American Select Sale that is being held in Louisville.

CAJS Elegant Force when purchased
at Louisville in 2010

CAJS Elegant Force as a 2 yr old.

HC PowerDrive 88H

PVF BF 26F Black Joker

We have a very exciting lot - Lot 9 embryos out of our donor CAJS Elegant Force and your choice of either HC Powerdrive 88H or PVF BF 26F Black Joker. These embryos are currently in Canada but are exportable world wide. Elegant Force is a Steel Force daughter and a grand daughter or the strong H25 cow family.
Our daughter Crystal will be representing us at the sale.

You can watch and bid on line at www.edjecast.com or contact sales management Doug Parke at 859.421.6100 For more information on Elegant Force check her out on our website at www.highcountrycattle.com The sale starts at 5:00 pm est.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

All I want for Christmas

Some of you may remember that about this time last year Rob came home and said "I know what I want for Christmas." Now this is not an unusual statement for most people, but Rob never asks for gifts. What he really wanted was Lot 3 at the NAILE Simmental Sale in Louisville, KY. I think my reply was - you and a lot of other people.

Fast forward and with a partnership formed with our daughter Stacy - CAJS Elegant Force W24 (Lot 3) found her new home at High Country Cattle Services.

CAJS Elegant Forc

Elle - as a 2 yr old - Summer 2011

"Elle" as we have fondly named her has exceeded our expectations. She has turned into a beautiful young cow and produced one of the best heifer calves to date at HCC.

RJY / SLY Southern Elegance

Her BMR Explorer daughter will be a part of our show string this fall. "Elle" has entered into our embryo program and due to the success we had flusing her this year, we have decided to consign 6 embryos (that are exportable worldwide) to the NAILE sale on November 14. Lots 9A & 9B are embryos by CAJS Elegant Force W24 (Steel Force daughter) and your choice or HC Power Drive 88H or PVF-BF-BF26 Black Joker.

HC Powerdrive

Black Joker

The genetics that the Elle embryos present are quite unique. To date, there is no SVF Steel Force semen available in Canada, her 3/4 brother - Mr. HOC Broker is the current Reserve Champion Bull at Denver,and there is an extremely limited amount of both Powerdrive and Black Joker semen available. Maybe it's time to do a little Christmas shopping for yourself.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Treasure Hunt

A few years back we thought that we would try to find a Simmental heifer in the US and flush her to HC Power Drive 88H as there was no qualified semen available to come to Canada. We contacted a fellow that had some Power Drive semen for sale, (better get the semen before you buy the heifer). After visiting with him for a while he said" Why don't you just buy the semen and flush one of your donors to him?" We explained the situation with the semen not being qualified for Canada. He suggested we contact his semen distributor. After several phone calls we discovered a reasonable amount of semen that was available to come to Canada. Jackpot! Within a few weeks we had secured the remaining amount of semen that was Canadian qualified. Fast forward a few years and we now have several outstanding HC Power Drive daughters in our herd.

HC Power Drive 88H

We're looking forward to flushing our new donor's CAJS Elegant Force W24 to him in the near future. There was Power Drive semen sold in the Denver 2011 sale that brought $800/straw.

In the spring of 2010 I suggested to Rob that we buy a few straws of PVF-BF Black JokerS36.

Again an older Black Simmental bull but one that is leaving some tremendous daughters, and 2 of our best bull calves this year are Joker sons.

RJY First Date 1W - Black Joker Daughter

We checked our inventory and had 4 straws in the tank. We thought that was enough for our smaller herd. And there was lots of semen available so we didn't make the purchase. Again fast forward to the spring of 2011. We were browsing through he AI catalogs deciding on which sires to use this year. We added Black Joker to the list. When we phoned in our order we were surprised to hear that Joker was sold out and we were about the 10th person to call looking for some. Now what? Again we started our search on the web and began making some calls. The treasure hunt had started again. I'm not sure who has been looking out for us, but again we were able to find 30 straws of Black Joker........qualified for Canada.............the last in existence. Jackpot!

Through lots of phone calls and some very cooperative staff at the semen distribution centre our semen arrived 18 hours prior to breeding 3 of our donors, SS Ebony's Dreamdate SS27, CAJS Elegant Force W24, and CDY Signature Black 2N. Nothing like cutting it close. We now have 33 Black Joker Embryo's, a few were implated fresh, a few will be the start of Crystal's US Simmental herd, and the rest we'll just have to see what happens with them. It's nice to know you can get lucky once in a while.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Your Success is Our Success

Last week we told you about us selling some embryo's to Australian Simmental breeders Peter and Charmaine Cook from Barana Simmentals in NSW.

They hosted their 10th Annual Production Sale on July 1, 2010. Included in their offering were 10 Black Simmental Bulls, 7 of them were embryo progeny from 2 of our top donor cows JDN Blk Signature 19L and SS Ebony's Dreamdate 27S. These 7 bulls averaged $6071, topping at $9000. 5 were between $6000 - $6500 and one at $3000. They sold into Queensland, and throughout NSW. This is the sale report from their web page:

"Barana Simmentals 10th Anniversary Sale achieved a satisfying result with 51 of the 52 Simmental bulls offered selling to a top of $9,000 with an average of $4,985. The 10 Simmental heifers sold to $2,250 with an average of $1,625 and 12 commercial Simmental heifers sold to $1,400 with an average of $1,316. The 10 black Simmentals sold to average $6,350. Pre & post sale enquiry was positive with buyers looking to secure Simmental bulls due to the contribution they make to their commercial operation. The sale outcome and comments on the day indicate strong interest in Barana Simmentals with the first offering of the Barana black Simmentals achieving an excellent result.
We were very pleased with the outcome and our sincere thanks go to our clients for their continued & solid support. We also appreciate the extremely positive feedback we received on the cattle presented at our 10th Anniversary Sale."

Congratulations Peter and Charmaine for your very successful sale. We look forward to meeting you and seeing the sisters to these bulls when we visit in October.

RJY First Date 1W - full sister to 2 of the bulls that sold.

Thank you to our good mate John Brogan, Orange NSW for helping to connect the two of us.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Class of 2010

We have reached the half way point of calving and everything has gone really good so far. We are very excited about some of the matings that we have and thought we would share a few pictures with you. Calving time is always the most exciting time of the year. The great weather this year has also helped.