2014 Dakota County Fair

Purebred Simmental bull calf.  Class winner prospect calves.

The Dakota county fair was here and gone for 2014.  Tiana had a really nice fair starting out with the cow/calf and feeder calf show.  Her bull calf won his class and she competed well in showmanship.  She then had the beef show with her two heifers and Shorthorn plus steer.  She ended up 10th overall with her steer and 12th with her Simmental heifer.  The next day she had the swine show where she really shined!  Champion breeding gilt, reserve champion market gilt, reserve interview and reserve showmanship plus a class winner with her lightweight cross barrow.  She's headed to state fair with her steer and will also compete in the Jr. Barrow show and FFA/open class beef weekend.  After that here comes school!

MN State Sale and Bred Heifer Pics

Worked up a couple of entries to the Minnesota State Shorthorn Sale. (Simon Arena in Cannon Falls MN first weekend in March)  We also pictured other females we would be interested in selling right off the farm.  Let me know what you if you are interested.

Minnesota State Sale Entries:

219z - BSF Fresh Prince times Byland Dazzler 1AW
bred to Creole 135

232z - BSF Fresh Prince times Shorthorn Plus (Alta Cedar Samuri X Red Angus)
bred to Kiwaliks Velvet Leader

313a  - BSF Northern King (Red Angus by Norseman King) times NFS New Alliance
open Shorthorn Plus heifer

 

 

For Sale off the Farm

I have a few more bred heifers for sale same as the listing in the last post.  Tried to get more pics but this one will have to do for now.

209z bred heifer- See listing in Previous Post.

Also have a nice set of half sibs to the open heifer we are selling on the state sale.  Here are a few pics of them.


Open heifers by Northen King (Red Angus Bull)

Northern King daughter



Northern King daughter



Just for fun...

Tiana and Ben (new bull calf purchased from Tramm Shorthorns)
As you can see he's pretty easy going.

2013 Bred Heifers for Sale

We are once again offering up a stout set of bred heifers.  Most are out of our herdsire Fresh Prince who is a Hub's Red Prince back to an Eionmor bred female.  Please send me an email if you are interested and have questions. (see side note for contact info.)

			2013 Bred Heifer Offering		Breeding Info
Heifer	#	Reg #	Sire	M Grand Sire	Sire	Due Date
BSF 7095 CHERRY 211Z	211z	x4191615	BSF Fresh Prince	Rosa's Lilacs 02	Mr Conq	5/25/14
BSF 329 LUXURY LADY 209Z	209z	x4191624	BSF Fresh Prince	Deerhorn Powerstroke	Conquest	4/25/14
BSF 6077 ROSABELL 213Z	213z	x4191622	BSF Fresh Prince	Rosa's Lilacs 02	Mr Conq	4/25/14
BSF 805 STR ROSABELL 205Z	205z	*xAR57738	Star Power (PB Simm)	BSF Absolute Power 503	Prince	3/18/14
BSF 427 MISS PRINCE 219Z	219z	x4191618	BSF Fresh Prince	Byland Dazzler 1AW	Creole 135	3/18/14
	232z	short plus	BSF Fresh Prince	ALTA CEDAR Samuri	Velvet L.	3/18/14
BSF 615 GAYLE 206Z	206z	*x4188363	JSF Capiche	Eionmor Mr Gus 80c	Mr Conq	4/25/14
Sires
ADS MISTER CONQUEST 009X	009x	*x4173589	JR CONQUEST 62K	K-KIM REVAMP
HOMEDALE CREOLE 135	135	*x4182272	GFS CREOLE 9590 ET	MOLLIE'S DEFENDER ADAIR
KIWALIKS VELVET LEADER	D06F	3967020	DEERPARK LEADER 13TH	AF DEERPARK DIVIDEND 932

2013 Pig Project

This year again we raised our own show pigs, and did very well.  My niece Annabelle did good, she got 3rd with her market gilt, and last with the barrow but the barrow is a crossbred that looks like the kind of pig i showed when i was in 4-H, but she did awesome in the auction!  Tiana got Reserve Champion Breeding Gilt and Show person, and also got Champion Swine Intermediate Interview. Also got 3rd with her Purebred Hampshire barrow, she was going to take him to the Minnesota State Fair but he injured his leg, so she took her breeding gilt.  She got 6th place for 4-H, which was amazing because her class had about 20 gilts in it.  Then we took that same breeding gilt to FFA and also a market gilt that we got from Nick Janak.  The breeding gilt got 4th in her class, then the market gilt didn't place.

This was Tiana's gray belted barrow she named Willy Wonka!

These are all of our crossbred pigs, that were out of T's old sow that she showed up at the

 Minnesota State Fair. 

Tiana and Tweety!

 After we bought this heifer at the MN State Shorthorn Sale, from Vogel Shorthorn Farm, we took her to the Minnesota Junior Spring Classic, and ended up getting Reserve Shorthorn Plus female.  Even though it was a very cold MJSC this year it was still fun being up there seeing all the other different heifers and even steers.

At MJSC

 Then this summer we took Tiana to the Shorthorn Junior Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa.  That is one amazing show with all the activities for those kids to do.  We did okay with T's Shorthorn Plus female "Tweety", she did amazing in Showmanship, and learned a lot of new things she can do for showmanship  to fitting and even judging.  Here are some pictures of T showing.  Also at our Dakota County Fair Tiana got Reserve Show person with the heifer.  Now she is out in the pasture enjoying being retired, for now.  Tiana would like to show her as cow calf sometime.

At Junior Nationals

2013 Minnesota State Sale Results

I would like say the 2013 State Sale was as solid as ever.  The quality ran extremely deep with not a single no-sale lot with cattle bringing solid prices with averages close to or above last year. 

For our farm I would like to thank the following buyers:

Ryan Galbreath - Galbreath Farms, Enderlin, ND purchased Lot 45. Bred female by Shadybrook Scotty

Jeff VanderWal - Vanderwal Livestock, Brentford, SD purchased Lot 36. Daughter of BSF Fresh Prince.

Dr. Bert Moore - Elkhorn, NE purchased Lot 45. Fancy bred heifer by DF Builtmore.

Thanks again to you and your families!

We also made a purchase from Vogel Shorthorn Farm of lot 26x blue roan heifer - see you guys in Des Moines!

2012 North Star Classic

Valley City was exceptionally warm and dry.  I think most of Dakota County was in attendance at the show as we had Will Bolllum and Hannah Neil along with us.  The Shorthorn was third in class behind two blue roans and the cross heifer ran into some tough competition.  We home to be buying in the revamped club calf sale next year.

T and Hope our home raised Shadybrook Scotty daughter.





T and Betty a Q Dog hiefer we had purchased from Glen and Ruth Dicks.