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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1399878" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>I got the chance to visit Shaw Cattle Company near Boise, ID this past summer while in Boise for a family wedding. They are long time breeders who mainly bred horned Herefords in the past but have now been gradually moving more to the polled side. They are an operation that runs 3 breeds of cattle: Herefords, Angus, and Red Angus and between the 3 breeds sell around 400 bulls a year so they have quite a large customer base. They do a lot of AI to polled bulls such as Hometown, 936, Tested, and York currently and we also saw either cows or calves that were sired by Thor, Wonder M326 W18, X51, and 755T. Saw 1 pasture they had 3 yearling 936 sons they kept running cleanup on cows. They had a good mix of polled and horned cattle in the pastures we saw and have polled and both horned and dehorned bulls they keep for sale to be able to have something for all their customers. They told us more of their customers are moving away from the horned bulls to the polled bulls as they don't want to mess with horns anymore. Their focus on the polled side is using only proven polled AI sires which of that list above those bulls have several years of progeny and daughters in production now that would fit the criteria.</p><p></p><p>Also saw some very good horned cattle while there too. Their Peerless and Efficient lines were good looking cattle, they also are doing some AI to the popular 3027 bull too. If you go out to their website or look at their sale catalog you can get a good idea of the blend of both polled and horned Herefords they are producing right now.</p><p></p><p>It may not be out in the mountain range area but little over an hour away from us is Wiese & Sons who are several generation Hereford breeders that we have known for a long time. Made a visit there late last summer as they bought a polled bull from us a few years back which we kept in-herd semen interest on but we wanted to see some of the progeny they had out of him along with their other bloodlines. They have purchased some polled sires in the past few years and are doing a mix of horned and polled bulls now, was told their bull battery is about 50/50 horned and polled currently.</p><p></p><p>Would love to get out and view some more herds in person in the future as seeing the cattle in person is probably one of the best evaluations you can get. It's starting to become something we look at doing more when we're going to be in the area of a breeder and have time to stop in along with keeping in touch with our own bull buyers and making follow up visits with them to see what kind of results they are getting. Two things I hope to do some day is go to the Nationals in Denver and venture around the pens there and make a visit to Rausch's in South Dakota which is a program we have bought a herd bull from as well as use a lot of their AI genetics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1399878, member: 20580"] I got the chance to visit Shaw Cattle Company near Boise, ID this past summer while in Boise for a family wedding. They are long time breeders who mainly bred horned Herefords in the past but have now been gradually moving more to the polled side. They are an operation that runs 3 breeds of cattle: Herefords, Angus, and Red Angus and between the 3 breeds sell around 400 bulls a year so they have quite a large customer base. They do a lot of AI to polled bulls such as Hometown, 936, Tested, and York currently and we also saw either cows or calves that were sired by Thor, Wonder M326 W18, X51, and 755T. Saw 1 pasture they had 3 yearling 936 sons they kept running cleanup on cows. They had a good mix of polled and horned cattle in the pastures we saw and have polled and both horned and dehorned bulls they keep for sale to be able to have something for all their customers. They told us more of their customers are moving away from the horned bulls to the polled bulls as they don't want to mess with horns anymore. Their focus on the polled side is using only proven polled AI sires which of that list above those bulls have several years of progeny and daughters in production now that would fit the criteria. Also saw some very good horned cattle while there too. Their Peerless and Efficient lines were good looking cattle, they also are doing some AI to the popular 3027 bull too. If you go out to their website or look at their sale catalog you can get a good idea of the blend of both polled and horned Herefords they are producing right now. It may not be out in the mountain range area but little over an hour away from us is Wiese & Sons who are several generation Hereford breeders that we have known for a long time. Made a visit there late last summer as they bought a polled bull from us a few years back which we kept in-herd semen interest on but we wanted to see some of the progeny they had out of him along with their other bloodlines. They have purchased some polled sires in the past few years and are doing a mix of horned and polled bulls now, was told their bull battery is about 50/50 horned and polled currently. Would love to get out and view some more herds in person in the future as seeing the cattle in person is probably one of the best evaluations you can get. It's starting to become something we look at doing more when we're going to be in the area of a breeder and have time to stop in along with keeping in touch with our own bull buyers and making follow up visits with them to see what kind of results they are getting. Two things I hope to do some day is go to the Nationals in Denver and venture around the pens there and make a visit to Rausch's in South Dakota which is a program we have bought a herd bull from as well as use a lot of their AI genetics. [/QUOTE]
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