Here's a Whale Tale!

This Heat Wave bull/steer is out of a Saugahatchee X Maine cow that we kept to possible flush. She has raised some incredible Maine calves for us and this is her first club calf attempt. After this she is going to go into our donor pen! She is a WHALE and so is this calf. She laid down and shot him out without a thought and he hasn't stopped since. He can barely fit through the barn door AND he is sound!!!

Smooth Sailing on the Catwalk!

This sweet little dolly is out of Smooth Sailing and a Gigolo Joe X Sonny daughter. She actually goes back to a cow family that we referred to as "Big Cow" #86 in our herd. That Momma cow raised some great calves and the grand-daughters are proving to be every bit as maternal.

Labor Day Sale Calves

This is a Grizzly steer out of a Gigolo Joe X Irish Whiskey second calf female. This calf has the look AND the personality to make anyone a great show calf prospect. He will be selling on our Labor Day sale. You will just love his blaze face!

Turning things around

This is one of our newest Donors at Nelson Cattle Company. We are honored to be partners with Bruhn Farms: Al Bruhn and Family. Her farm name is "360". We named her this because she is the kind of female that will turn a program around...360 degrees!

We purchased her as a yearling heifer from the Doug Steele family. She is a daughter of Plainview Lutton E102 and Steele Miss Kymra Katy K006. In the year that we have owned her she has produced 12 calves and 28 grade one embryos! We will usually NEVER flush a virgin female but we opted to give it a shot and flushed her last spring to MEYER 734. That mating produced 12 grade one embryos which we put in fresh. Eleven of them stuck and we now have a small herd of Meyer X 360 blazed faces running around the pasture! We then let her cycle once and bred her back using SEXED Maximus semen. She settled the first time and produced a beautiful heifer calf.

We were so impressed with the quality of the calfcrop that we decided to flush her this spring to Heat Wave. That mating produced 28 grade one embryos with 8 unfertilized. We put a few in fresh and the others are being put in over a couple of different intervals. Needless to say we are incredibly excited about this flush and look forward to next spring. As of yet we haven't decided what to breed her to. We had better be making up our minds soon!!!

WHEN CELL PHONE RINGTONES ARE BAD: LESSON 1

When you are out in the heat, working on your hight voltage, stun-an-elephant electric fence it is NOT appropriate to carry your cell phone in your pants pocket on VIBRATE!!! I am just saying....