Red Angus Foundation Females

M554 was one of our selections from the 2003 Beckton sale. M554 adapted well to our KY/TN conditions, particularly showing a short, thin hair coat and having the ability to thrive and do well on fescue pastures during warm weather. M554 was a moderate framed, easy fleshing cow with an excellent udder that did everything we asked her to do reproductively. The footnote in the Beckton sale catalog stated, “Barmaid M554 is a beautiful heifer with beautiful EPDs out of a dam with beautiful production averages.” M554 was another cow that we consider near ideal for frame size, growth pattern, and fleshing ability. More than half of the Red Angus females in production at Red Hill trace back to this foundation female.

54P is a unique cow! She is easy fleshing, very quiet, big-volumed and unique in her short, THIN hair coat which makes her ideal for the southern climate.

54P is a daughter of the M554 cow above. She needs no introduction to followers of the Red Hill program. To date, 19 bulls and 9 females have been sold by Red Hill and are working for herds and bull studs from coast to coast. Some of the more notable sons she has produced are 105U, 1W and 77Z. 105U and 1W are B571 sons. 105U sold to Teddy Gentry (AL) and is now working for Ozark Hills Red Angus (MO). 1W sold to Buffalo Creek Red Angus (WY) and is now leased to ABS. 77Z was her outstanding 84S son that sold to Calvo Red Angus (NE). Gordon was extremely pleased when he visited Calvo’s and saw the quality of the 77Z calves. Red Hill has retained 1 bull and 18 daughters working in the herd. Probably her greatest accomplishment will be the daughters she is leaving at Red Hill, including donor dams, 190W and 104U. They are already leaving a legacy of their own and you can see their information below.

We are excited about the 4 bull calves and 5 heifer calves born in the fall of 2014 from the P707 x 54P mating! These bulls will be features of our March 2016 sale. Some of her latest additions are the six heifers we weaned in the fall of 2015 sired by 5L Hobo Design 7047. These females show great promise to be foundation quality cows.

54P has also had an influence in our Red SimAngus program. The bull we retained at Red Hill in 2015, 57B, is out of a Red Coat daughter of 54P. A red SimAngus bull calf by GW Predestined 645W out of 54P was a highlight in the 2015 sale selling to the Kelly Smith Family (KY). 54P also produced a top selling SimAngus bull in 2013 sired by Red Coat that sold to Alan Hubble (KY).

104U is a unique genetic package that stands out in the field and on the computer screen. We believe in using the economic indexes to speed up our breeding progress and this cow sets herself apart ranking in the top 1% for HerdBuilder and GridMaster. Her combination of phenotype and genotype will be extremely influential at Red Hill in years to come. 104U has an excellent 84S daughter in the Red Hill herd. Her 2012 T189 son was one of the top sellers in the 2014 sale going to Rollins Ranches in Florida. His full brother, 114B, was a sale feature in 2015 selling to Calvo Red Angus (NE). Her natural calf in the spring of 2015 is again a T189 son that will most certainly have a number of friends on sale day in 2016. He could be her best son to date.

A new herdsire at Red Hill Farms, 190A, is also a 104U son. We have received more calls on this bull (at such a young age) than any we have produced.

190W is the dam of Red Hill 28U Ripper 132Y. Click here for more information about this herd sire! She is also the dam of 186A, a P707 son that sold in the spring of 2015 to Ozark Hills Red Angus (MO) and Gourley Red Angus (MO). We sampled 186A in the fall of 2015 via AI and look forward to his calves. He was a bull that was unusually slick haired with outstanding performance data.

190W has two daughters of 84S retained in the Red Hill herd.

190W was flushed in the Fall of 2014 to 84S. In the fall of 2015 there were 8 heifer calves and 5 bull calves born from this flush. This is maybe the best set of ET sibs ever born at Red Hill. It is going to be fun in 2016 watching them develop. Those 8 ET heifers will not rise all the way to the top without competition as 190W’s natural calf is a 176A heifer that promises to be a good one too! We get excited thinking about the future when we think about the number of females of this quality coming into our program.

• BWR 7 @ 98, WWR 7 @ 109, YWR 7 @ 103
• She has 2 daughters in the Red Hill herd
• We have sold 4 sons of 87S – 149U, 125X, 152Y and 244A
• Red Hill Farms and L. J. Watson (KY) herdsire – 149U
• LOT 1 (125X) from 2012 sold to Calvo Red Angus (NE)
• 152Y sold to Rogers Cattle Company (NC)
• 244A – a Nice’n Easy T189 son sold to Jerry Leake (KY)
• 304B – a Nice’n Easy T189 son selling March 19, 2016

As we studied the cattle at the Buffalo Creek Dispersal, we concluded that P154 was phenotypically the most outstanding cow in the sale. We had admired P154 since we first saw her in the Fall of 2008 when we purchased her son, BUF CRK Nice’n Easy T189, as one of the highlights of Buffalo Creek’s 2008 sale. This cow is definitely the front pasture kind.

“We have had more inquiries about this cow than any other in the offering, and rightfully so once you lay your eyes on her. She is the epitome of the program… She is also a prime example of what her rare and unique sire, Julian B571, does best.” (Buffalo Creek Dispersal catalog, 2010)

P154 calved with a R017 bull calf in the Spring of 2011 that sold for $10,000 to Calvo Red Angus (NE). We have six daughters of P154 working in the Red Hill herd and are now using a son, Red Hill U199 Lancer 9B. Additional sons are working for England Farms (KY), Diedrichsen (NE), Watson (KY), Hines (KY), Barrow (KY), Burnett (KS), Kratzer (KS), Vinton (NE), Malooley (TN) and Pflughoeft (KS).

As you can see from studying our website, we have tremendous confidence in the B571 cattle. As we continue our linebreeding program, P154 and Amy M172 (listed below) each bring in outcross genetics on the bottom side of their pedigree that will allow us to continue this linebreeding program while keeping the inbreeding coefficients to a minimum.

P154’s dam, 9005, was a great producer at Buffalo Creek before going into their E.T. program. She weaned 10 calves with a 105 WWR and a 106 YWR. 9005 was a tightly linebred Chief-bred cow from the Roberts program in New Mexico.

As you can tell by her EPDs, this cow is about numbers! Let us share her ratios. Her individual ratios were as follows – BW 60 lbs/86, WW 583/102, YW 870/111, %IMF 4.39/155, and REA 9.11/117. M172 also has posted impressive progeny ratios – BW 10/85, WW 9/102, YW 8/100, %IMF 13/111, and REA 13/104.

For our internet search friends, go do the searches and no cow compares to M172. Her data was so unique she had to come to Red Hill Farms. We have retained three daughters in the herd.

M172’s son, 224A, is a new herd sire at Red Hill Farms.