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AI Sires
Below is our current sires we used for the yearling bulls and heifers that are being sold in our annual production sale in February 2024. If you click on the name of the sire, it will take you to their current epd's and pedigree through the American Angus Association.
Quarterback was our choice for our a high growth performance sire. His growth provides superior phenotype cattle that just look good. His pedigree alone backs the high-quality sons and daughters he produces. His calves have extreme growth, and they are a little bigger framed type of cattle. Birth weight is no concern, the calves came earlier and were smaller than expected.
Renovation... we just can’t get enough of Mr. Cow Maker! We don’t think you can make them any better than Renovation. The females he sires are some of our very favorite cows. In fact, we’ve kept so many daughters because we don’t want to let them go. They make stunning mama cows. They calve out wonderfully, have a beautiful, feminine quality about them but still have plenty of depth and body. Our Renovation daughters are one of the most even set of cows we have had. If you’re striving to improve the overall quality of your mama cows, this sire will do the trick. And if you can’t find Abe, he is probably out on the ranger looking at his Renovation girls!
This Rainfall son is not your typical Charlo progeny. He boasted a lot of thickness, length and muscle volume we couldn’t pass up. This bull is similar to Quarterback and Payweight in terms of length and growth. His dam is a powerful, Resource daughter with a feminine look and beautiful udders. Downpour provides long bodied, easy fleshing and high-performance progeny.
Bull calves are very correct and with a lot of natural muscle and performance. We like the daughters even better than the bulls. They are easy keeping, have a rich, black hair coat and may just be our favorites in the bred heifers!
Herd Sires on the Ranch (Used in Previous Years)
Sas
We purchased Come As U R Storyteller 17C from Brooking Angus Ranch in 2016. Brooking is located in Saskatchewan Canada so this bull has affectionately been called Sas ever since he came to our ranch. His favorite thing is to come up and get scratched on the back. We are very pleased with how he has filled out and are starting to see what his calves look like and we love what we see! Sas is pretty impressive up close and in person, he is a gentle giant but really gets the job done breeding. Everyone on the ranch has come to love this bull. Not only is he gentle, has a great disposition and his infamous curly northern hair that really shows up in wintertime, he is a breeding machine. We really chose to work him in 2019 by putting him in our largest bunch of cows and he did great. Even when he's working, he doesn't lose any of his depth, he can really hold his own and we are excited to get more calves out of him every year.
We purchased Realist on the 2013 Schaff Angus Valley Production Sale, selecting him for his remarkable depth, thickness, and powerful hind quarter. We felt that he would be a good cross on the Payweight daughters in our herd. Needless to say we have not been disappointed with the results. He is the King of Kuck Ranch! The Realist cattle are sound on the feet, attractive in body and build, and they posses powerful growth genetics to add dollars to your bottom line. He ranks in the top 1% of the breed for RADG. Realist is a true power bull, and a herd improver. Even though we lost Realist in 2019, we continue to build his legacy through the progeny we have kept on the ranch and the semen we collected on him previously. He will forever be King of Kuck Ranch!
Expo is one of our herd bulls we bought as a yearling in 2019. He is a moderate framed bull with loads of muscle and natural thickness. He is calving ease but doesn’t give up performance. The best thing about Expo is his picture perfect, absolutely stunning dam! She is one of the prettiest cows we have ever seen. With 6 of the best cows in the industry leading his pedigree, we are sure he will make some excellent females. We have liked the progeny Expo has produced and went so far as to collect on him this past year. We plan to continue using him in our herd in the coming years. Because he is a Canadian born bull his American EPD's do not reflect how good of a bull he is. As we continue to get progeny out of him, those numbers should contine to get even more available. Some of his progeny will sell in our 2022 production sale.
A&K Sunrise D052
This is a bull we raised right here on the ranch. A favorite of Abe's! His biggest assest to our herd is the females he produces. His current EPD's are available by clicking on his name. He spends his summers on grass with cows.
We purchased this South Dakota son from Mohnen Angus back in 2015 as a yearling. He's been used in large pastures ever since and is an excellent breeder. We typically let him handle anywhere from 65-75 cows on his own. These past couple of years we chose to give the "ol man" a break and turned him in with smaller bunches of cows. He never lets us down and always gets the job done as an excellent clean up herd bull.
(Pictured is Dam of) S A V System 6908
Our herd bull, System, has been a go for the past several years. The best thing about him is his daughters. They have beautiful udders, are moderate framed, and good footed.