| Sires Used at Gurr Lake | |||
| As you may gather from the list of bulls presented on this page, our focus during this "building" stage of our herd is on insuring that every heifer calf is a keeper. These bulls represent some of the finest achievements from ranches with national reputations for producing elite females. This does not mean that we don't value great bull calves. Just look at the length, muscle and thickness of these sires. They pass those qualities on to their sons as well as their daughters. These bulls are also very capable carcass sires and will produce solid, balanced offspring that fit the demands of today's cattle industry. Our first criteria in using a bull is that his mother must be a great cow. By great cow, we don't necessarily mean high milk. Fertility, udder quality, depth of rib contribute much to a female's ability to stay in the herd and produce. Most of the bulls we use tend to have fairly high Scrotal EPDs as we do believe that fertility can be affected when scrotal size is restricted too much. | |||
McCumber 5009 Rito 8007 Mc Cumber 5009 Rito 8007 is an ET son of Gale 045 of Mc Cumber. She was the $11,500 second high-selling cow in the 1997 McCumber Angus Ranch Female Sale, going to Daltons on the Sycamore. Gale 045 was without a doubt one of the best producing cows in the McCumber Angus Ranch program. His sire, "5009" was the high-selling bull in the 1996 McCumber Bull Sale. "5009" is the top-producing son of Rito 054 GDAR out of Miss Wix 365 of Mc Cumber making him a full brother to Miss Wix 903 of Mc Cumber, known as the mother of VDAR Rito 953 and VDAR New Trend 933 and also a full brother to Miss Wix of Mc Cumber 303 who is the dam of Omaha Clint. "8007" is super thick and moderate framed, We have several daughters in the herd and are retaining an additional number of his heifer calves as replacements. 8007 has really made a place for himself at Gurr Lake. He looks as good now at 7 years old as he ever did and always holds his flesh extremely well. He is a very active breeder and sires cattle with moderate frame, tremendous depth and incredible thickness. 8007 daughters have done well in our herd and the sons are working in many commercial herds in our area. He may not have award-winning EPDs, but the shape, soundness and disposition of his offspring have made him a real favorite around here. As a bonus, Rito 8007 consistently sires the highest scanning group for ultrasound IMF, REA and Retail Percentage in our herd – without giving up muscle, depth or fertility. We lost 8007 in the summer of 2005. He is greatly missed here, but has left a fantastic group of replacement heifers and a herd bull that will be important parts of our operation for many years. Rito 8007 is owned with Krauth Angus Farm of Prescott, IA, and McCumber Angus Ranch of Rolette, ND. Semen is very limited.
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Sire: McCumber 054 Rito
5009 MGS: AAR New Trend Dam: Gale 045 of McCumber
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Leachman Right Time Right Time is a very well proven Pathfinder sire that produces very nice daughters and fast-growing sons. His daughters are highly valued and we continue to use Right Time on some of our better cows.
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Sire: EXT MGS: Tehama Bando 155 |
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SAV 8180 Traveler 004 We saw Traveler 004 at Schaff Angus Valley during the 2003 National Angus Tour. We really liked the shape and dispostion of the bull. His high Weaning and Yearling EPDs make him an interesting experiment for us as we expand and start sampling some of the performance bulls in the breed. We used 004 on some heifers last year and we have a handful of his calves on the ground. Time will tell whether he complements our base genetics like we hope. |
Sire: Sitz Traveler 8180 MGS: AAR New Trend |
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| Boyd New Day 8005 We have been very pleased with the influence of AAR New Trend and Right Time in our herd and Boyd New Day seems to offer a very powerful combination of these sires. We are anxious to see what these calves will do. |
Sire: AAR New Trend MGS: Leachman Right TIme |
