Our Cattle

MCR MISS DYNASTY 514/8 RR10387462

Our IBBA herd is growing and producing outstanding calves in the spring and fall. At any given time, we will have a few select heifers and bulls available for sale.

Our goal with our IBBA cattle is to build a forage-fed, structurally-correct, thick and deep cow with multi-trait leading EPDs. There are plenty of great Red bulls with 1 to 3 good EPD traits. Black Brangus are covered up with great bulls with multi-trait excellence but there are very few that are Red gene carriers. We looked for over a year to find a great Black bull with the Red gene and multi-trait excellence. He turned up right next-door at our neighbor, Pennridge Ranch. PR HOLLYWOOD 129F12—R10378582 is a Red gene carrier with 9 traits in the top 25% as of May 2021. We also added RR10430950 PR Almost Famous—a Red bull with 11 traits in the top 35% (possibly the best EPD Red bull in the breed). These half brothers are both lookers and they will be servicing a select group of heifers and cows with pretty good EPDs of their own. With the addition of these two bulls, we hope over the next few years to produce great heifers and bulls with multi trait excellence.

We feed limited supplement to our calves after weaning and continue to supplement our girls until they’ve weaned their first calf. We want our girls to reach their genetic potential as quickly as possible and deliver a healthy first calf and then rebreed in a timely manner. After that, they become cows and have to continue to produce on grass, hay and minerals.

It’s hard to get where you’re going if you don’t know where you are. Therefore, we weigh our cattle on a regular basis, parent verify and genomic test all cattle we are going to retain or sell as breeders to see where we are and to plan where we’re going. Each generation needs to be better than the previous.

Come by and see us grow, we’re excited to see the outcome.