We are located in the Duchess area in Southern Alberta, which is about 1 1/2 hours east of Calgary.  We have two children, Jennifer & Tyler, and they are both very involved in 4-H and have shown at Agribition in Regina and the Pen Show in Medicine Hat.  We run about 75 head of cattle, both red and black, most of them being purebreds and a hand full of commercials that we put embryos in.  We are working to eventually have a herd of 100 purebred cows.  Our focus will always remain on quality over quantity. 

We first became aware of the Gelbvieh breed in 1990 when we saw a breeder showing them locally.  With both of us working off the farm we needed to change our cattle program.  We decided to try Gelbvieh and were very impressed with the calving ease and weaning weights and have never looked back.  Very pleased with the results we got from using the Gelbvieh bull on our commercial cows we decided to invest in some purebred Gelbvieh cows.  In 1993 we cut back on our commercial cows and added to our purebred herd.  In 1996 we purchased a bull, Casesun 3F who has made a great difference to our program.  We eventually sold him to another purebred breeder, Leepart Farms, who used him a lot and loved the calves.  He now has a new home at the Doyle Farm in Manitoba.  After Casesun we decided to try some black cattle so we invested in Jack Daniels 129J, a black bull who put a great amount of performance in our herd, and gave us a few blacks.

This year we bought MMM Calberta Resource 8307H from Jean Cochran, Pembina Gelbvieh, in Jarvie, Alberta.  He is the sire of this year's Futurity winner in Farm Fair, JC Pembina McLeod 86M.  We feel he will be a great asset to our herd.

The Gelbvieh cattle have great dispositions, excellent maternal traits with high milk and fertility.  We've been 13 years in the business and the past few years we have been working heavily with our AI and Embryo program.  We have had great success with both.  Two years ago we flushed one of our cows and received over 30 eggs, with these eggs being mated to Atlas 712G and Tempest 160F, resulting in great calves from both. 

Our goal is to raise high quality black and red polled Gelbvieh cattle.

MWH Pld Casesun 3F
Casesun was a very powerful bull that left just awesome heifers, those heifers have turned out to be great moms and our highest weaning weights in the fall.  Casesun was shown as a calf at the Calgary Stamped and placed second, he placed first in 1997 as a yearling in the Chinook Show and Junior Champion at Farm Fair, we also showed him at the Canadian Western Agribition in 1998 and he got Reserve Grand Champion Senior Bull.  Casesun was sold to Pat Leepart in 1998 and he is still using him and he is still leaving those great calves.

CES DECKA JACK DANIELS 129J
129J has been one of the most powerful bulls that we has ever used, he is very long and his depth is unbelievable.  His calves are just like him, we are very impressed with them.  Jack Daniels heifers will be keepers in our herd for a long time to come.

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