Herd Management
Our cattle are located together on the Wyatt farm south of Kisbey and managed in a consistent manner supporting our joint herd objectives.
To start the two herds a small number of females and a herd sire were acquired from Grant Alexander of Horseshoe Creek Farms, George Cleggett of Renosa Shorthorns, Muri’s of Muridale Shorthorns, Gary Rose of Gar-Lind Shorthorns and Erwin and Kathy Rosenkranz of Wolf Willow Shorthorns.
We thank these cattlemen for their support and encouragement.
We have since acquired many new additions to our herd and are very excited about their potential.
It was with great humility and thanks we accepted the Shorthorn Herdsman Award at the 2006 Canadian Western Agribition.
Herd Objectives
Our objective is to establish and maintain together a team of moderately framed, outstanding females that will produce sound, highly marketable offspring and genetics attractive to commercial cattlemen and other shorthorn breeders alike and to have fun while doing it.
We will only retain the females which we believe will help us improve our herd and the breed. These females will be matched to some of the breed’s TH Free and PHA Free leading sires.
We will not be the biggest but we will strive to walk among the best.
Our first calf crop was a tremendous learning experience with the Shorthorn breed and the challenges helped us to improve our future endeavors.
Our 2007 calf crop was much more satisfying and some of them were introduced in Regina at Agribition 2007.
During the summer of 2007 our herd sire “Red Rose Gold Spear Ruffian 22P” serviced all of our cows and our other new sire “Foxwillow Sovereign 3S” looked after our heifers. Some of their exciting progeny are pictured below and we are very pleased with their performance.
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| McBeth Jay Jay 22U | Commercial calf 16U | Uluru Choice 25U |
We are committed to providing our herd information to the Whole Herd Recording Program, measuring performance, and utilizing the information to improve our product.
In the ongoing evaluation and selection of cattle for our Shorthorn team we will support our visual observations, preference type and pedigree data with extensive assessment of EPD’s and any other performance data available to us. The use of this documentation will be essential to aid us in developing a better product.
Tibial Hemimelia (TH) Policy
We recognize TH is a genetic disorder caused by a recessive gene which has become a concern for the Shorthorn breed. We also believe that with sound breeding decisions, proper due diligence and common sense this problem can be minimized.
In December 2006 all cows owned by McBeth and Uluru Shorthorns were tested for TH and PHA. We are pleased all our cows retained in the herd tested TH Free and PHA Free. We have since acquired a number of excellent females at sales and privately which were all purchased as being TH Free. Our proven herd sire “Red Rose Gold Spear Ruffian 22P” has tested TH Free, as has “Foxwillow Sovereign 3S” and our new sire “Creekside Standoff 9T”.
We believe our herd is now TH Free and we intend to keep it that way.
Should we have any doubts about the status of any of the new progeny they will be tested without delay.
We believe this is a responsible approach to this genetic disorder and we welcome open and honest dialogue on this issue.