A plan first requires a goal. Our goal is to produce good milking, low birth weight, moderate sized Herefords with high growth, excellent carcas data and get all the Economic Indexes in the top one percent of their range. Eventually we will have the entire herd with these qualities. We also want our final bulls to be able to breed to heifers without problems if a breeder chooses. Adam Cotton, after hearing our goals, said the only way to do this was to start with a small herd. That part we have.

The development of this plan would not be possible without the tremendous data collected and made available by the AHA and the breeders who have taken the time to collect and send in information on their herds.

In 2008, we purchased 4 more cows with calves and one bred heifer. Only one of these cows had a heifer calf and she is being kept in our herd. With the exception of the heifer kept, none of the cows are in any way related to each other. We have devoloped a three generation breeding program, with thrree cows in each program. Each group will consist of breeding to well known and proven bulls. The bulls will be chosen for the different traits needed by the groups and their sequences will be chosen to eventually arrive with Herefords that meet our goals.

In order to track the predictions made by our plan, we will collect Birth Weights, Weaning Weights, Yearling Weights, Scrotal Circumferences on our bull calves and Ultrasound a high percentage of our calves. Culling or changing of planned sires will be done to achieve our goals. Herd size may be increased by flushing some of our best cows.

When this is completed, we will breed Group One offspring to Group Two and vise versa. The resulting offspring should produce a line of Herefords that will provide new blood and be a benefit to Hereford and commercial breeders.

Since we are looking mostly for heifer calves to further our program, we will be selling some fine bull calves along the way. We may also have F1 calves for sale. Be sure to check out our For Sale Page for current offerings.