Select Sires Incorporated and its member cooperatives have a goal of providing the industry with sires for a balanced program.
Included in this year's sire directory are 98 beef bulls of 14 different breeds.
These sires represent some of the breed's elite sires of cavineys, growth, maternal, and carcass traits.
The latest sire summary information on these sires is listed in the sire directory and proves that Select Sires Incorporated is the number one source of beef genetics in the world.
In this video we will highlight some of the outstanding bulls available to the member owners of Select Sires.
At Select Sires, we will continue to stress the importance of sires that provide genetics for a balanced program.
Select Sires continues to be the leading AI stud in the Angus breed.
Currently at Select Sires, the 35 active Angus sires average 2.2 pounds on birth, 31 pounds at weaning, 53 pounds at yearling, and plus 17 pounds on pure milk with a total maternal of plus 33 pounds.
Select Sires has nine proven cavineys Angus sires. The birth weight average is minus 0.4 pounds, weaning weight of plus 30 pounds, yearling weight of plus 51, pure milk of plus 16, and a total maternal of 31 pounds.
The cavineys segment of Select Sires Angus program has never been any stronger.
Select Sires continues to be the leader in evaluating Angus sires for carcass data, with the average of the active sires with data of carcass weight plus 11.8, marbling 0.04, ribeye 0.30, and fat thickness of minus 0.04.
All sires that have been evaluated are plus for ribeye area, carcass weight, and weight for day of age, and minus for fat thickness.
The number two sire in the breed for yearling weight is 7AN118 Hoff Boldscotch.
The number one sire in the breed for pure milk is 7AN125 Ginger Hill Mountain Dew.
In 7AN124, Rideau 9M9 of 2036 Scotchgap is rapidly becoming one of the most popular bulls in the Angus breed because of his ability to sire thick, heavy-muscled, eye-appealing cattle.
9M9 is the son of Scotchgap out of the 2036 cow that came from Leachman Angus Ranch.
9M9 puts an excellent combination together of birth, growth, and milk. His plus 5 pound birth weight, plus 36 pound weaning weight, plus 53 pound yearling weight, and pure milk of plus 17 pounds makes him one of the most balanced bulls in the Angus breed.
These are 9M9 heifer calves at the Langenberger Farms in Dresden, Ohio. 9M9 cattle are known for their moderate frame, excellent feet and legs, and good capacity.
This is a 9M9 son at Weirman Angus in Virginia. 9M9 sons are known for their thickness, volume, excellent feet and legs, and are being sought out by many commercial producers in the United States for bulls to produce thick, stout-made, heavy-muscled cattle.
These are the first two-year-old daughters of 9M9 in production at Weirman Angus in Virginia. As we travel around the United States, we are extremely impressed with the daughters of 9M9.
They are high volume, thick-made cattle that have excellent keeping ability, and all the owners of the 9M9 daughters are satisfied with the results that they have had on their two-year-old 9M9 daughters.
9M9 continues to be one of the stalwarts in the SelectSires program, and his daughters are exceptional.
7AN124, RETO9M9, a 2036 Scotch kit. 7AN145, RETO1B1 of 5H11 Bando, is one of the popular young bulls in the SelectSires program.
Sired by Tehama Bando out of the 5H11 9J9 cow at Weirman's, he puts together a great combination of growth, muscle, and milk.
One has unequal data as he is plus 2.7 pounds on birth, 38 at weaning, 65 pounds at yearling, and has a pure milk of plus 28 pounds.
There are many calves on the ground already in the United States by 1B1.
This is the son of 1B1 at Dave Duncan's High Valley Ranch in Ellingsburg, Washington.
With a big stout, thick-made young bulls in the country, and this bull weaned off at over 800 pounds.
1B1 cattle are moderate frame cattle that have excellent volume and mass.
This bull is at the Mapleton Farms in Virginia, showing you the type and kind that 1B1 sires.
Cattle that have adequate volume, excellent on their feet and legs, have good rib and mass to them, and the females are feminine, and the bulls have well above average muscle.
These heifers are at the C.W. Pratt Farm in Virginia and Weirman Angus.
This is 1B1 as a yearling after he came off test at Weirman Angus.
And as we look at the first sons of 1B1 that are being weaned, they look very similar to what 1B1 did as a yearling bull.
7 AN145, Rideau 1B1 of 5H11 Bando.
7 AN136, TC Influence has been a popular bull in the select sire's program.
He is the son of O. Confluence out of a premier independence daughter.
He is becoming one of the most popular bulls in the select sire's program.
His 4.8 pound birth weight and 60 pound yearling weight make him a very unique combination that he is a 60 pound bull that has moderate birth weight within the Angus breed.
His protection of 18 pounds of pure milk also puts him as one of the highest estimated milk bulls in the country.
These heifers are at Langenberger Farms at Dresden, Ohio.
The Influence cattle are very long, clean made cattle that have good set to their hind legs.
Influence sire's cattle that have exceptional eye appeal and are very clean in their shoulder and have been some of the high selling cattle in the fall sales.
This heifer in steer is at the Subard Angus Ranch in Robeson, North Dakota.
These cattle are at Bondview Farms in South Dakota and were some of the high selling cattle in their spring production sale.
These females are at Weaver Angus Farms in Illinois, again showing you the style and balance that you can expect from Influence.
Influence sire's females that are clean made and are some of the most eye appealing young females in the breed.
7 AN136 TC Influence.
7 AN118 Hoff Boldscotch is a very unique bull in the Select Sire's program.
Boldscotch is a son of bold ruler out of a scotch cap daughter.
He is the second highest yearling weight bull in the Angus breed.
A moderate frame bull that sire's cattle that have exceptional volume, thickness, and mass.
When you analyze Boldscotch's data, his plus 63 pounds at weaning and plus 109 pounds at yearling weight makes him one of the outstanding growth bulls that there has ever been in the Angus breed.
His pure milk of plus 15 pounds on 11 daughters is very impressive and as we are adding more daughters to his data, the information looks very promising.
These are Boldscotch yearling heifers at Reedsville Upper Piedmont Research Station in North Carolina.
Boldscotch cattle are volume cattle that are sound on their feet and legs and have tremendous capacity and growth to them.
They are some of the most explosive cattle on test that we have observed.
These are two year old daughters at Waldeck Farms in Kentucky showing you the mass and volume that Boldscotch can sire.
Boldscotch is a bull that can be used to increase growth rate in all breeds of cattle.
In a cross breed comparison, Boldscotch would be one of the highest growth bulls of all breeds of cattle in the United States.
These are three year old daughters from Boldscotch at Waldeck Farms showing you the same kind that they are high volume cattle that have excellent mass to them
and are going to be some of the highest growth cattle within the whole population of beef cattle in the U.S.
7 AN118 Hoff Boldscotch
7 AN147 Summit Crest Sasquatch 150X is a son of the popular PS Sasquatch bull out of a power play daughter.
She was one of the top producing power play daughters in the Summit Crest herd.
Sasquatch 150X is a very long bodied bull that is sound on his feet and legs.
150X puts together a very nice combination of plus 4.2 pounds at birth and 62 pounds at yearling and 12 pounds on pure milk.
There are additional daughters of 150X that are now in production and they have been reported and his milk data continues to look very promising.
150X carcass data is also very outstanding with a carcass weight of plus 21.3 pounds and a ribeye area of plus.35.
Sasquatch 150X cattle are long bodied sound cattle that are moderate in their frame size and have excellent thickness and volume to them.
Their calves are all at the Summit Crest farms in Summitville, Ohio where they have utilized this bull heavily in their breeding program.
As we analyze the cattle sired by Sasquatch 150X, they have excellent eye appeal to them, they are sound on their feet and legs and have good thickness and volume to them.
His daughters are clean made females with excellent rib, clean in their shoulders and they are exceptionally long and straight in their rump.
Sasquatch 150X cattle are sound on their feet and legs and he is a bull that can be utilized in many programs to increase growth, moderate birth weight, increase milk production and maintain cattle that have excellent feet and legs.
150X's dam was one of the outstanding cows ever in the Summit Crest herd and had six calves at weaning at 119 and six calves at yearling at 160.
7AN147 Summit Crest Sasquatch 150X
7AN156 Westwind Rideau 8503 DJH 019 has been a recent addition to the Select Sires program.
He gives an outcross pedigree to many of the bulls that we have been working with.
He is the son of the Waffle Hill Rideau bull out of a daughter of GB Cornhusker 6236.
Westwind's data is extremely attractive being plus.9 on birth weight, plus 42 pounds at weaning, plus 69 pounds at yearling and milk of plus 18 pounds.
Westwind Rideau has been used in the Westwind herd at Valere, Montana and these are some of the nine-month-old calves sired by him.
These cattle are moderate frame cattle that have thickness, volume and mass to them and are some of the outstanding young cattle that we have observed in the Angus breed for bulls that have low birth weights with exceptional growth.
The progeny of Westwind are sound on their feet and legs and have excellent thickness and mass and rib.
The bulls maintain good muscling and the daughters look as they are going to be very high-volume feminine females that can manage themselves in most environments.
These calves are all at the Westwind Ranch in Valere, Montana and they have been some of the most popular cattle in their last two production sales.
The Westwind Rideau calves have been some of the top-selling bull calves in their program.
This is the dam of Westwind Rideau. She is the daughter of G.V. Cornhusker 6236 and has weaned four calves at 106 and has three calves at yearling at 109.
7AN156 Westwind Rideau.
7AN80 Paramount Ambush 2172 continues to be one of the most popular bulls ever in the select sire's program.
A son of pace setter, out of a Shoshone daughter, he is leaving his mark not only in the commercial industry but also in the purebred industry in the United States.
A highly proven bull with excellent data with.4 for birth weight, weaning plus 31 and yearling of plus 51 pounds and a maternal pure milk of plus 17 pounds.
Ambush gets better with every proof.
Ambush also has excellent carcass data with a marbling of plus.16 and a ribeye area of plus.30.
These are yearling daughters of Ambush at the Summit Crest Herd in Ohio.
Typical are the kind of daughters that we see sired by Ambush. Big volume females that have excellent rib and capacity but maintain excellent femininity and are very sound on their feet and legs.
This is an Ambush son at Y Plantation.
These are Ambush daughters at the Y Plantation.
Ambush sons in the Y Plantation sale were some of the highest valued cattle in that offering.
These are typical of the two year old daughters that we see of Ambush around the country.
Big feminine volume cows that have excellent mass and capacity to them but are good in their udders and very sound on their feet and legs.
Ambush continues to be a stalwart in our program because of his ability to sire cattle that have muscle, volume, low birth weight, good growth and have the ability to stay in the herd.
These are daughters of Ambush at Tehama Angus Ranch in California.
These females have produced some of the high selling cattle in their sales the past two years.
These females also are some of the highest producing females in the Tehama herd.
Ambush is a legend in his own time because of his ability to sire cattle that will maintain themselves, milk and grow in most any environment.
7 AN80 Paramount Ambush.
7 AN127 Landmark Bando 912 is one of the outstanding proven Bando sons in the U.S.
bred in the landmark herd in Montana. 912 has been utilized heavily in the Savak Sire's commercial program for many people utilizing him as a calving use sire.
His birth weight of plus 1.6 pounds and yearling weight of plus 55 makes him one of the very unique bulls as he is a low birth weight, high growth bull that is very hard to find in the industry today.
Landmark Bando's carcass data also looks very outstanding.
He is plus 13.1 pounds on carcass weight per day of age and has a ribeye area of plus 0.25.
These are some of the yearling daughters of Landmark Bando 912 at the Reedsville Test Station in North Carolina.
Landmark Bando daughters are moderate on their frame size but certainly have the ability to maintain themselves in most environments.
These females are at Clemson University in South Carolina.
These females are at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee.
These are typical of what we see by 912. Females that are some of the outstanding yearling heifers in the programs and cattle that have good volume and are making their owners very satisfied.
These are the first daughters of Landmark Bando have calved and we are extremely excited about what we see on these first daughters.
These are females at the Skaggs Ranch in Utah. These heifers were calved at 22 months of age and are some of the outstanding young two-year-old females they have ever had in their program.
7AN127 Landmark Bando 912. 7AN129 GAR Sleep Easy has become one of the most popular bulls in the Select Sires program.
A son of Bando out of the 103 Traveler Cow from Gardner Angus Ranch in Kansas is a very attractive, clean-made son of Bando that puts together a great combination of numbers.
His minus 1.4 pound birth weight, plus 30 pounds of weaning, 23 pounds of yearling, and 23 pounds of pure milk makes him one of the outstanding young bulls that has come through the sire summary in the last couple years.
Sleep Easy also has excellent carcass data with a carcass weight of plus 10.7 pounds, marbling plus.11, and a rib eye area of plus.45.
This is a Sleep Easy son at the C.W. Pratt Herd in Virginia. Sleep Easy cattle are moderate-framed, excellent on their feet and legs, and have excellent eye appeal.
This female is also in the C.W. Pratt Herd. The daughters of Sleep Easy are some of the most attractive young females we see in the Angus breed.
This female is at the Back Creek Angus Ranch in North Carolina.
These are bred heifers at the Reedsville Research Station in North Carolina, and are some of the outstanding young females in that herd of cattle.
Sleep Easy cattle are clean-made, very good on their feet and legs, and have good volume.
The daughters are feminine and have good rib and mass.
This female is at Wehrman Angus Farms, where she was one of the top indexing females in their program.
7AN129 GAR Sleep Easy
7AN137 VDAR Power Play 91 continues to be a very popular cavities bull in our program.
As we have used Power Play 91 across the country, the breeders that have used him are well satisfied with the birth weights and cavities on his calves.
A son of Power Play out of a Shoshone daughter, he was produced in the Van Dyke herd.
His birth weight of minus 1.1 pounds, weaning weight of plus 24, and yearling weight of 43 pounds makes him a very excellent combination bull to supply low birth weight, yet also supply you with cattle that have good growth and volume to them.
This is a son of Power Play 91 at Tehama Angus Ranch in California.
The Power Play 91 cattle are moderate frame cattle that have excellent thickness and muscling.
His females are moderate frame females that have rib and volume to them and look like they are going to be some of the top young cows in the commercial herds that we have looked with.
All of these calves are at Tehama Angus Ranch in California where these females have good growth, low birth weights but also have volume and mass to them.
This is a daughter of Power Play 91 at Green Garden Angus in Kansas.
The Power Play 91 daughters in the herds of cattle that we have evaluated them are moderate frame females that are sound in their udders but have the ability to maintain themselves in most environmental conditions.
7AN137 VDAR Power Play 91
7AN155 Summit Crest Traveler X044 is a recent addition to the Select Sires program.
Originally bred and used in the Summit Crest herds across the country, Summit is an outstanding son of QAS Traveler out of a very top Power Play daughter in the Summit Crest herd.
His birth weight of minus 1.8 pounds and 52 pounds at yearly and projected milk of plus 16 makes him an elite son of QAS Traveler to put together the combination of birth, weaning, and growth.
This is Summit in pasture at Summit Crest farms, a moderate frame bull that is very sound on his feet and legs.
Summit daughters are moderate frame females that are feminine in their heads and necks but also maintain good volume and mass.
They are straight line females that are good on their feet and legs and have excellent capacity to them.
Summit can be utilized in both commercial and purebred programs to provide cattle that are moderate frame, low birth weight, good growth cattle that are in demand in the marketplace today.
These females are all at the Summit Crest farms in Ohio. This bull has been utilized heavily in the past year in their program to provide cavities genetics.
This is a daughter of Summit in production. The first females that we have seen out of him are very sound in their udders and have maintained themselves well in the first year of lactation.
7 AN-155 Summit Crest Traveler XO-44. 7 AN-133 Basin Rainmaker 814Z is a bull that is being tested in the young sire program at Select Sires.
As we have analyzed his calves this spring, we have been very excited about this double bred rainmaker bull.
He is a son of 380U out of a daughter of 450U which makes him a double bred rainmaker.
His birth weight of plus.6 pounds projected and weaning of plus 24 pounds makes him one of the top young cavities prospects in the breed.
However, as we are analyzing his progeny, we are extremely satisfied with the birth weights on his calves and also the kind of calves that we see him sire.
These are calves at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.
They are the type of cattle that we see by rainmaker across the country.
Low birth weight, good growth, good volume to them and they have more muscle than most low birth weight bulls.
These are calves in the Doncaster herd in Idaho and these calves by rainmaker in his herd of cattle were low birth weight but as they get older and approach weaning age, these cattle have thickness, volume and mass to them and are some of the most eye appealing young calves in their program.
Rainmaker is also an excellent conception sire that has been utilized by many people wanting an outcross sire for many of the other bulls in today's programs.
These calves are at the Jackson Research Station in Jackson, Ohio out of crossbred heifers.
These calves have matured extremely well and are some of the highest indexing calves in the herd this fall.
Rainmaker cattle can be utilized to decrease birth weight, add volume and mass to cattle and cattle that are very acceptable in today's marketplace.
7 AN-133 basin rainmaker.
7 AN-135, our hero 6267, continues to be one of the very popular calving ease bulls in the select sire's program.
He is a total outcross to any of the other bulls that we have utilized in our program and breeders are very satisfied with these calving ease and the style of cattle that he sires.
His birth weight of minus.3 pounds, weaning of plus 24 and milk of plus 11 makes him one of the highly proving calving ease sires that is available today in the industry.
The hero 6267 sires cattle that are light at birth but have the ability to get out and grow. They are very muscular, clean made cattle and very clean underneath.
These calves are at the Doug Price farm in Hensler, North Dakota. They are typical of calves sired by 6267 out of purebred and crossbred females.
Commercial breeders are very satisfied with their hero 6267 calves because of the calving ease, muscle and style that he sires.
These are two and three year old daughters of hero 6267 at the Rolling Rock herd in Montana.
These females have been stalwarts in their program producing low birth weight cattle that have excellent milk and excellent style.
Hero 6267 are long, clean made females that are excellent in their udders and have the ability to maintain themselves in most voyage environments.
The hero 6267 cattle are being well accepted by many commercial and purebred breeders across the United States.
7 AN135, our hero 6267. The red Angus breed continues to gain popularity across the United States.
One of the bulls that has done an outstanding job for select sires for many people not only in North America but also in South America is 7AR24 Leachman EBV 6703.
EBV 6703 is a moderate frame, thick made bull that sires cattle that have excellent mass and volume.
His birth weight of minus 1.9 pounds and yearling weight of plus 28 pounds and pure milk of plus 18.4 marks him as one of the outstanding low birth weight calving ease, good growth, high milk bulls that is available in the industry today.
EBV 6703 has been used extensively by select sires in commercial programs and has gained reputation as one of the great calving ease bulls in the Angus breed.
These are typical heifer calves sired by him at the Doug Price farm in Hensley, North Dakota.
These females are at the Jim Perdane farms in North Dakota.
Typical are the kind of females that we see by 6703 out of exotic cross females.
EBV 6703 works extremely well on cattle to size them down, give them muscle, volume and mass and make some of the outstanding young females that we have seen in the commercial industry.
They are excellent in their udders, have excellent reproduction and are making some of the very outstanding commercial cows that we have had the opportunity to work with.
For people wanting to utilize a bull on exotic cross females that will lower birth, add muscle and mass and durability and have females that will stay in your program, EBV 6703 will do it as well as any bull in the red Angus breed.
7AR24 Leachman EBV 6703
7AR27 Shuler, Iowa has a number of calves spread across the country and producers are very well pleased with his calves.
A son of the Iowa bull out of a leachman heavyweight daughter, he puts together a great combination of low birth, excellent eye appeal and an out-cross pedigree for many people in the red Angus breed.
The minus 3.9 pound birth weight, plus 27 pounds at yearly and plus 10.9 pounds on pure milk makes him one of the outstanding young low birth weight bulls that is available in the red Angus breed.
There are many calves spread by Iowa across the country this spring in many different types of operation.
The producers are very impressed with the calving ease of the Iowa calves.
These are young calves at the Doug Price farm in North Dakota.
These calves were born out of heifers with virtually no assistance and have continued to grow and are going to be some of the heaviest weaning calves that he has in his program this fall.
Iowa cattle are moderate in their frame size, have excellent thickness and volume to them, and he's a sure bet for people wanting to utilize a bull that will give you low birth weights, growth, muscle and cattle that will maintain themselves in most environments today.
7, AR-27, Shuler, Iowa.
Select Sires is proud to offer the industry an outstanding lineup of Simmental Bulls.
In the fall 1993 ASA Sire Summary we have 22 active Simmental Sires.
We have two quadruple trait leaders, one triple trait leader, three double trait leaders and four single genetic trait leaders.
In the fall 1993 Sire Summary, Select Sires offers two birth weight trait leaders, seven weaning weight trait leaders, five yearling weight trait leaders, one maternal calving ease trait leader, two maternal milk trait leaders and four maternal weaning weight trait leaders.
This highly proven set of bulls is offering a great genetic package to the customers of Select Sires.
7 SM-20 ASR Cactus Red is continuing to gain popularity in the United States.
A son of polled stretch out of an alpine polled proto daughter, Cactus Red is siring cattle that are much in demand in the Simmental market today.
Cactus Red is plus 10 on heifer calving ease, minus 1.4 on birth weight and is 19.7 pounds on weaning weight, which makes him a trait leader for weaning weight in the breed.
This is Cactus Red in pasture conditions, in moderate frame, clean made, easy moving bull.
This is a young female by Cactus Red at the Doug Price farm in North Dakota, moderate frame cattle that have excellent muscle to them and are clean made and very attractive.
This is a heifer calf at Mike Canaster's in Tennessee.
Cactus Red cattle have been extremely popular, not only in the purebred industry in the United States, but also the commercial industry.
Cactus Red females have been some of the most popular females in the Simmental breed and have commanded well above average prices when they have been offered at public auction.
Seven SM-20, ASR Cactus Red.
Seven SM-21, High Tech 901 is a homozygous polled son of a highwayman out of a polled stretch daughter.
High Tech has established himself as one of the outstanding bulls in the Simmental breed for siring low birth weights and cattle that have acceptable growth.
His minus 2.6 pounds birth weight makes him a trait leader for birth weight.
His weaning weight of plus 14.3 pounds and yearling weight of plus 24.6 pounds coupled with his minus birth weight makes him a very unique bull within the ASR sire summary.
High Tech in pasture.
High Tech is a moderate frame, easy moving bull that is siring the same type of cattle.
High Tech himself is one of the most structurally correct Simmental bulls that we have had the opportunity to work with.
This is a heifer calf at Trio Farms in Virginia, typical of the kind of cattle that High Tech sires.
These heifers are the Mike Kanatsers in Tennessee.
High Tech can be bred on black cows and produce some black calves.
High Tech sires cattle that are solid color pattern, homozygous for the polled gene, and have excellent thickness and muscle to them as this Simmental bull does at Bite Simmental in Iowa.
If you want to have cattle that are polled, low birth weight, have eye appeal to them, and still have the Simmental look, High Tech is a bull that will certainly do that.
These heifers are at Silver Town Simintals in Indiana, and have been some of the very popular females on the show road this year.
This female was one of the high placing females at the National Junior Heifer Show.
7SM21, High Tech 901.
7SM22, Red Alert is becoming one of the popular young bulls in the Simmental breed today.
A son of a Leachman 438W bull out of an own daughter of the high milk sire, Mount Billy, Red Alert offers you a total out-cross pedigree for anyone in the Simmental breed.
His minus one pound birth weight with his first progeny data depict that Red Alert is one of the easiest calving bulls in the Simmental breed.
These are calves by Red Alert at Gateway Simintals in Montana. Many of these calves are out of spotted calves.
Red Alert, as we observe him in the herds that he has been utilized in, is one of the best spot removers we see in the Simmental breed.
His calves, even bred to females like this spotted color cow, come out with a very high percentage of them being solid red color pattern that is very much desired by many Simmental breeders today.
His calves are moderate frame calves that have excellent eye appeal to them and are some of the outstanding young calves that we see in the Simmental breed.
Red Alert also sires bull calves that have thickness and muscling to them.
These calves are at the Sioux Anne Cattle Company in Iowa.
7SM22, Red Alert, a spot remover for the Simmental breed. 7SM19, Zorro, is one of the most phenotypically eye appealing bulls in the Black Simmental breed.
Zorro is a son of polled stretch out of a salts daughter that offers polled Black Simmental breeders a total out-cross to many of the cattle that they have been utilizing in their program.
His minus 0.7 pound birth weight, 21.7 pounds on yearling weight, and projected milk of plus 6 pounds makes him one of the very unique combination polled Black Simmental bulls that is available in the United States today.
This is a bull calf at B&B Simmentals in Virginia, typical of the kind of cattle that we see by Zorro around the country, moderate frame, thick made cattle that have excellent muscling and mass to them with excellent growth.
These calves in yearling bull are at Trio Farms in Virginia. The Zorro calves have good growth, moderate birth weight, excellent eye appeal to them, and for many people working in the Black Simmental breed will offer the best set of EPDs of any of the Black bulls in the industry today.
This is a yearling red Simmental bull sired by Zorro at Trio Farms in Virginia, typical of the thickness, muscle, and mass that we see in the young Zorro cattle.
This female is at the Tom Clark herd in Virginia and one of the oldest Zorro daughters.
7 SM19 Zorro.
21 SM416 DS Coffee Time is one of the outstanding young bulls there has ever been in the Simmental breed.
Bred in the Bob Deckison herd in Kansas, Coffee Time has been used heavily in the Pelton Simmental herd at Burdette, Kansas.
He puts together a fantastic combination of birth, weaning, and yearling weight. He is the only three-star trait leader that includes birth, weaning, and yearling weight in the fall 1993 Simmental sire summary.
His minus 2.4 pound birth weight, 23.9 pound weaning weight, and 36.5 pound yearling weight makes him one of the unique combination bulls there has ever been available.
This is Coffee Time in pasture. He is a very sound moving, moderate frame bull that is excellent on his feet and legs.
These are Coffee Time calves at Pelton Simmentals in Kansas, moderate frame cattle that have good thickness and volume and are very sound on their feet and legs.
Cattle that the industry is demanding today because of the fact they are moderate frame size with excellent muscle, low birth weight, but still have a tremendous amount of growth to them.
Coffee Time sires a high percentage of cattle with solid color pattern so that he can be utilized in many of the breeding programs today where you also want cattle that are solid color.
These are some of the first daughters of Coffee Time in production. These are two-year-old females at Pelton's in Kansas.
Coffee Time daughters appear to maintain themselves in good working order and maintain themselves in grass environments.
DS Coffee Time T41.
Select Sires is proud to offer the Polderford industry the highly proven bull 7HP79 MGM Renegade Victor.
Renegade Victor is proving in his own right as being one of the outstanding bulls ever in the Select Sires program.
A son of Renegade out of a daughter of Indicator, he puts together a great combination of birth weight, growth, and milk.
His 3.7 pound birth weight, 60 pound yearling weight, and 9.9 pounds of milk makes him a total performance trait leader in the 1993 American Polderford Association sires summary.
Renegade Victor daughters are some of the most functional young females that we see in the Polderford breed.
These are two-year-olds that George Palmer has heard in Virginia.
Moderate frame cattle that are sound in their udders and excellent young females in that program.
The Renegade Victor females are females that will maintain themselves in most environments and milk extremely well.
These cows are at Dr. Leland Falls in Minnesota, one of the young sire herds for Select Sires.
These females have maintained themselves in his conditions extremely well and are some of the good young two-year-olds in his program.
This female is at the Francis Birch Herd in Minnesota, typical of the kind of young daughters of Renegade Victor that we see around the country.
Functional, no-nonsense cows that have the ability to grow out and maintain themselves and bring in a large calf at weaning time.
This female is at the Clover Hollow Farm in Virginia.
Seven HP 79 Renegade Victor, one of the hallmark sires in the Polderford breed.
Seven HP 80 FLF Blade Runner, a son of performer, is one of the highest growth, highest volume bulls in the Polderford breed.
A very large frame bull himself, he was one of the outstanding growth bulls ever produced at Falkland Farms in Pennsylvania.
Blade Runner is an extremely high growth, high volume bull.
His weaning weight of plus 43 pounds and yearling weight of 75.7 pounds makes him a yearling weight trait leader in the Polderford breed.
His 8.9 pounds of milk makes him one of the few bulls that is a trait leader for yearling weight and plus for milk.
These are two and three year old daughters of Blade Runner at Clover Hollow Farms in Virginia.
The Blade Runner daughters are high volume females that are sound in their udders and have the ability to maintain themselves in most environments.
They are very heavy working females that are some of the outstanding young females that we find in the herds around the country.
These are the type of females that we find by Blade Runner around the country.
Cattle that have volume, mass, and if you want to add frame size and growth and milk to Polderford cattle,
is one of the few bulls that is available in the Polderford breed that has high growth and high milk to go along with it.
Blade Runner is a bull that can be utilized in many Polderford breeding programs today.
7HB80 FLF Blade Runner
The Guelphi breed continues to gain popularity in the United States,
and Select Cires is very proud to offer some of the outstanding bulls in this breed of cattle.
7GB04 PTC Pacific Prospector is becoming one of the most popular bulls in the Guelphi breed.
Breeders are pleased with the calves by Pacific Prospector.
He is a moderate-framed individual that has excellent data where he is minus 7.7 pounds at birth,
plus 10 at weaning, plus 15 at yearling, plus 6 pounds of milk, with a cavities direct of 123.
Pacific Prospector has gained a reputation across the United States as siring, low birth weight,
merchandisable cattle that fits the needs of the commercial cattle industry today.
These calves and yearlings are all at early dawn buckhorn ranches in California.
Typical of the kind of cattle that we see by Pacific Prospector as we travel across the country.
Breeders are very satisfied with his calves as they are easy calving and have excellent eye appeal to them
and fits today's market extremely well.
They are moderate-framed medium-bone cattle that have excellent femininity to the females
and the bulls have good thickness and mass to them.
If you want to reduce birth weight in Guelphi cattle, make them more attractive and more eye appealing.
Pacific Prospector is unequaled in his ability to do that today in the Guelphi breed.
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7GB04 PTC Pacific Prospector
7GB05 DAR Captain Doc continues to be one of the all-around sires in the Guelphi Sire Summary.
A son of Doc, Captain Doc puts together a great combination of growth, birth, milk, and cavities
as there is any bull in this Guelphi Sire Summary today.
His minus 2.1 pounds on birth, plus 12 at weaning, plus 27 pounds at yearling, and plus 8 pounds on milk,
plus his 109 direct cavities makes Captain Doc a seven-star sire in the Guelphi breed of cattle.
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As we see the Captain Doc progeny across the country,
people are extremely satisfied with the kind of cattle he sires.
Moderate frame cattle that are exceptionally sound on their feet and legs have good eye appeal to them,
and they are very clean and straight.
The young females that we see by Captain Doc are some of the excellent young brood cows
that we have seen not only in the Guelphi breed, but in the whole beef cattle industry.
Moderate-framed, easy-fleshing females that are good in their udders
and have the ability to maintain themselves as two-year-olds in forage environments.
Captain Doc is a bull that can be used in both the purebred and commercial industry
to provide cattle that have no nasty surprises.
Cattle that are moderate in their birth, good growth, and excellent females that maintain themselves in range environments.
These females have all been at the Perkins Blue Sky Farm in Kansas.
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7 CH78 RAC Max Factor is becoming one of the most popular young Char-Lay bulls there has ever been at Select Sires.
Max Factor is a son of MAC 2244 out of an HBR Performer Daughter,
which makes him unique in the Char-Lay breed as he has stacked together two of the outstanding bulls
there has ever been in the Char-Lay sire summary.
His birth weight projection of plus 3.4 pounds, weaning of plus 27.4, yearling of 37.4, and milk plus 9.3 pounds
make him one of the outstanding young bulls that is available in the Char-Lay breed in the United States for balanced EPDs.
This is Max Factor this summer, a moderate-framed, easy-moving bull that has excellent eye appeal to him
and is one of the very outstanding two-year-old Char-Lay bulls that is available in the country today with excellent EPDs.
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This is Max Factor's dam in the Rocky Acres Herd in North Dakota.
She is one of the very broody, high-volume females sired by HBR Performer.
She has been one of the top producers in that herd of cattle and is an excellent uddered female that is high-volume,
moderate-framed, and has been able to do it under range conditions.
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7 CH78, RAC Max Factor.
7 LM04, polled Silverstone, is a total out-cross bull to the limousine breed in the United States.
Silverstone was bred in the Walford in Minnesota and is sired by the roughly ultra-bright, who is an imported bull from England.
Silverstone's first data looks quite outstanding. A moderate birth weight bull of plus 2.3 pounds and his growth looks tremendous.
His weaning weight of 17.5 pounds and yearling weight of 31 pounds has made him a weaning and yearling weight trait leader in the breed.
This is a heifer calf at Wolf Limousine Farms in Minnesota, typical of what we see by Silverstone around the country.
These heifer calves are at Caneridge Farms in Kentucky.
These females have been shown very successfully in the Eastern United States in the summer of 1993 and have won several shows.
These daughters are typical of what we see out of Silverstone, moderate-framed cattle that are good on their feet and legs,
with excellent thickness and volume, still retaining their femininity but have lots of rib and mass.
The cattle also have excellent temperaments.
These heifers are at Clonch Farms in Ohio. These are yearling daughters of Silverstone, showing the excellent volume, mass, and capacity to these cattle.
Silverstone is an exciting young bull in the limousine breed, as he offers out-cross genetics with excellent growth, muscle, and volume
in the kind of cattle that are being desired by many limousine breeders in the United States today.
Seven LM04 polled Silverstone.