This page is especially for our cattle.
We raise Polled Hereford Cattle. We currently have one bull he is a registered purebred polled Hereford. He is smaller in size but ihas a good build, dark beautiful color, and very docile nature. He is throwing all of these traits in his calves. We have about 60 head (about a half a dozen registered) and still growing. All our cows with the exception of a few are Hereford. Because we feel herefords make a good cow and good crosses. They produce excellent calves each year, very gentle to work with, put weight on very easily, and not to mention they are beautiful too. We always try to keep cattle for sale at all times. And if your interested in heifers let us know ahead of time and we can put you on a waiting list.
Here is a list of some the bloodlines on our registered cattle:
Remitall
King Domino
Victor
Cavalier
Demolition
Butler
*Our family shown steers all through Middle & High School for the 4-H & FFA. It's a great way of teaching responsibility and having fun while doing it. We have also bottle raised a few calves too.
Interesting Facts!
There are over 920 breeds of cattle in the world!
*Here are some of the most commonly known beef cattle:
Hereford-red and white
Angus-solid black or red with very little white
Black Baldy-black with white markings (a true black baldie is a hereford and angus cross)
Galloway-curly Hair, black with white stripe around belly
Texas Longhorn-lyre-like horns
Simmental-white face and yellowish red body
Shorthorn-roan, red and white
Gelbvieh-yellow, brown
Limousin-long bodied, brown
Salers-red, triangular shaped head
Sussex-red, big shoulders
Murray Grey-white, polled
Charolias-big, white with pink nose
Piedmont-huge butt, white
Chianina-white, biggest cow of them all
*Some of the most commonly known dairy cattle:
Holstein-big black spots
Guernsey-red and white, fawn spots and golden tears
Brown Swiss-brown, fuzzy ears
Jersey-brown, small
Ayrshire-red and white, lots of smaller spots
Did you know...
*The world's biggest Bison (statue) is in Jamestown, North Dakota!
*The world's biggest Holstein (statue) is in New Salem, North Dakota
*The world's biggest talking cow (Holstein statue) and a 17-ton replica of the world's biggest cheese are in Neillsville, Wisconsin.
*The fattest cow is the Durham Ox, a shorthorn in the 19th century that had layers of fat on it.
*The tallest cow is the Chianina, modeled for Michelangelo, the cows stand around 5 feet tall and the bulls 6 feet tall.
*The smallest cow is the dexter, bred for small size for household living.
*The cow that produces the most milk is the Holstein, the nation's number one diary cow.
*The cow with the richest, best tasting milk is the jersey, also great for making ice cream.
*The fastest cow is the Corriente, used in rodeos.
*A cows average temperature is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
*Per day a cow spends 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing cud.
*It takes 1 1/2 gallons of milk to make 1 gallon of ice cream.
*Total 1994 value of the 100,110,000 head in the U.S.A was $63,016,005,000.
*Today dairy cows produce double the amount of milk compared to cows from the 1960s.
*From 1866 to 1895 cowboys drove about 10,000,000 cattle out of Texas.Cattle could walk between 10 and 20 miles a day. The trails varied in length from 600 to 1,700 miles.
*Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.
*A cow can live up to 25 years or more.
*A maverick is a cow that escaped getting branded.
*A 1,000 pound cow produces an average 10 tons of manure a year.
*In an average herd, there is one bull to every 30 cows.
*In the ancient Celtic religion the cows of differnt colors held different meanings: a black cow meant death; a brown cow meant fertility; and a white cow symbolized the sun cult.
*A cow can detect odors up to 5 miles away.
*There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
*People first domesticated cows about 5,000 years ago.