When Dad decided that he was getting too old to run the cattle anymore, he sold Mike and me 4 bred pairs and gave us one of his favorite pair.That was in 1991. They were what we thought were his best first calf and second calf heifers. Interesting enough the sire of the 908 bull (that was referenced in an earlier post) and the grandam of the bull that just went to Indiana, both came in dam on those 5 cows. He leased all but 9 cows to Jack Orr. From the 9 cows that Dad kept, he produced the pen of bulls that Mike and I showed in Denver in 2000. We still receive very favorable comments about those 5 bulls, today. For the next three years, Dad took his lease money in heifer calves, which provided the rest of the foundation to our herd. Jack leased the cows for about 4 years, then purchased them from Dad, and kept them for around 5 more years. He ended up selling them to a couple with a ranch sale. (We really don't know how that all went down). This couple ended up yarding them at a sale barn. We would have been interested in buying them, but were just getting started and just didn't have the money or acreage to run them.