Available Immediately

They cleared customs a couple of days ago and are available immediatley for delivery. Bodacious and One and Only are two of the most popular bulls going this year and they are now available in Canada! Contact Kolby at (780) 778-1435 to order now!

HCC BLK Raptor 18Y

As I promised in an earlier post. Here is the first pic of the natural calf of our two year old TNT Gunner donor female(pictured below) and YR BLK Convoy 27R, a LCL Black Tarmac son originally from Yellow Rose Cattle Co. This youngster was born April 18 and the picture was taken at a little over a month old. Look for him and his awesome mother along the show road this summer and fall!

NUH Ms Gunner 514W - Dam of Raptor

Tag 20 Boardwalk

Pictures taken at 31 days old of this extremely powerful April 20 Boardwalk x angus/Draft Pick(PHA free) heifer calf. We have come to find that the dispositions of the Boardwalk calves are second to none and this one is no exception! Extremely hairy, big boned big bellied, big hipped and the list goes on. This one is for sale privately at the moment, call Kolby for information and pricing at (780)778-1435!

Tag 7 Boardwalk

This is an April 7 Boardwalk x Angus/Draft Pick steer. He is a very attractive package and is as quiet as a kitten. He is consigned to the annual Flashin' Lights pasture bidoff, held by Diamond G Cattle Co. June 5-13. For more information about the calf or the sale feel free to contact Kolby (780) 778-1435 or Raymond Gonnet (780) 288-3255! Video to come...once it dries up.

I'm back

Well these past couple of days have been a complete mess! After receiving 3 inches of rain on Monday our already muddy barnyard is now like mud soup so as a result we have been spreading straw bales out like nobodies business. I did manage to get a couple of calves clipped and pictured and they look great.

Rain

Well today's rainstorm has brought the picture taking process to a screeching halt! We did manage to get 4 of 8 pictured and videoed and did we ever get some good ones!

Shave and a Haircut

Well June is almost upon us and that can only one thing, no not summer but the annual Flashin Lights calf sale! So today I'm off to clip and picture the sale calves. Results of picture day to come.

World Championships

Came in for lunch today and the Table Tennis world championships was on!

They call me the calf whisperer

This is only 15 minutes after I put a halter on him and tied him up for the first time!

Now booking sessions with problem calves! lol jk

Sunny Valley Renee 29R

This PB simmental donor cow was purchased from the Shologan Farms dispersal last March. She is sired by LFE Red Nevada, a foundation red bull for the Sunny Valley program and her three latest maternal siblings to sell have averaged nearly $6000! This cow has a gorgeous udder and this year she has a monster LBR Crockett bull calf at side.

Rough Day

Today I'm cultivating an extremely rocky field that's got the 7220 bouncing like a basketball!

Tag 20 Boardwalk heifer

This is a profile pic of the Boardwalk heifer featured in an earlier post. She is now 3 weeks old and I also attached is a rear shot of her at six days old!

Brockle Face

This brockle face Highliner x Angus is coming along and really starting to shag up!

Kinda Windy

We've had a fair amount of wind blowing today. It was enough to blow a few trees onto fences, which means
more fixing fence, it even flipped a wooden calf shelter! Luckily no calves were inside. I included a few pics of the damage.

CRY show- Olds, AB

Well that's another day over with. Congrats to the Townsend family on their champion female and the Hiller and Miller families for champion and reserve champ respectively.

Canada's Richest

Today we are at the CRY or Canada's Richest Youth show in Olds. We were on the road at 3:30 this morning and we just got everything settled in and now are awaiting the commencement of the show. Keep checking back for results!

Tis the season

Well its that time of the year again...the summer show season! While the shows are always fun, getting there can be quite a chore. 5:30 mornings day after day and big electric bill are just some of the things I'm not excited about. Alot of my time during the summer is spent training and growing hair on all my show animals. By putting that extra time in and keeping the hair on my cattle throughout the summer months it could possibly give me a competitive advantage.

So my mornings usually start each day at 5:30 am. First off I rinse the showstring off with cold water until their hide is cold. Then comb all the hair straight down, then straight forward and then at a 45 degree up and forward. Once I'm done that then they are blown dry, as soon as they are dry I spray some final bloom on them, blow it out and throw the steers in the cool room and the females under fans and a mister. This is repeated at least one more time, often two more times, everyday, weekends included!

Sometimes being competitive just isn't good enough! 

Show Heifer?...I think so!

Da Vinci couldn't have painted a better front end on this complete outcross purebred horned hereford heifer calf. She is an early candidate to lead our showstring at next summer's World Hereford Conference in Calgary!

King of the hill

Guess she wanted a better view!

Red Boardwalk Heifer

Keep your eyes peeled for further info on this STOUT Boardwalk x angus/Draft Pick heifer. She is two weeks old in this pic. Big but, big hair, big bone and big bellied! As Gonnet would say, this one is homozygous good! 

January % Simm

This halfblood simmental heifer is really coming on lately. She is extremely hairy and extended through front 1/3! Watch for her throughout the summer, she will be competetive in the % heifer class. Below is another picture of her at only three weeks old.

Today's Activities

Today I am fixing fence! Yay...not! Its not the most exciting thing to do especially on a hot day, you can bet i will have a real good start on my farmer's tan by the end of the day. lol However the cows are getting stranded in the mud in the calving grounds and they have to get out and onto some grass. With all the snow we got this year the grass is growing extremely well.

As for the tools I use my fencing pliers, pictured above, are the most important object I carry around. Mine has been around the block a few times, about 25 years, has been lost a few times, but still worked better than any other pair that we have purchased in the recent years. Just another case where they don't make things like they used to!  

Calving in Heaven

Well babies have been arriving here almost non stop for about a month now! Its always exciting to see the matings you planned 9 months before come to life. This years calves look exceptional. The calf pictured above is our leading steer at the moment, he is a Boardwalk x angus/Draft Pickand is a month old now.

PB Simm Donor

The weather was good the other day so i thought it was a good time to take a promo pic for one of our newest purebred simmental donors NUH Ms Gunner 514W( TNT Gunner x LCHMN Bodybuilder) . This young lady is a tank and and has a perfect udder, she is currently getting ready for the summer run of junior shows up here in Canada. Here April 18 bull calf is STOUT! ( pic of him to come)

Big News

I just recieved word that Champion Drive Genetics (club calf semen distribution) just closed a deal for the exclusive rights on the leading BALDY faced TH and PHA FREE son of Heatwave available. I am a CDG rep so feel free to contact me regarding semen or to have a farm visit. Kolby (780) 778-1435

Halter Breaking 101

Rule #1: Don't wait until a cow is 9 yrs old to start halter breaking her, she won't like it!

So as you may have taken from that I started to break a 9 yr old  cow today. This cow is lookin pretty phenomenol at the moment and she has a real pretty heifer calf a side, she is also one of my donor  cows( a cow used is embryo transfer ). Last week a decided I was gonna try at take her out to some junior shows this summer mainly to kick some but, also to see if I could actually get the job done!

This morning i figured it was finally dry enough to start the process. I made a small pen in front of the squeeze chute so she couldn't run to far when i let her out. finally I threw a halter on a opened the head gate expecting her to come out like a bullet! well she didn't go flying out of the chute, in fact she she didn't come out at all. it took about five minutes to finally walk out the headgate, then the fun really began! for fifteen minutes straight she ran aound the perimeter of the pen, with me at the end of the rope trailing behind her. let me tell you it aint easy holding on to a 1900 lb cow that has no respect for a thin piece of rope around her head. once she quit circling she was actually really good. within half an hour i was combing her off without her even being tied up or kicking me. ( I'm kinda prone to taking hooves to the shins) After having the halter on her for a couple of hours i figured that was enough for a day and let her go. Now i just have to do this everyday for the next couple of months to ensure she will be safe for town.

Broccoli, soon to be show cow!

Joining the Revolution

A blog has been a thought of mine for a while now. I was going to wait a month or two but things kinda got rushed for Summer Synergy. For the Marketing project at this year's junior show we have to create a blog to encourage agriculture education. So if anyone has any questions or suggestions, fire away!