Front Runner

Front Runner is a black bull calf of Crystal's. Each year it seems like this cow family never misses. Just like Signature Move, Front Runner is out of the CDY Signature Black 2N cow. 

CDY Signature Black 2N

Front Runner is her natural calf this year. He is a mid January calf, out of the proven AI Sire Joker. This is a calf that we are pretty excited about. He brings some really great things to the table.

Black Joker

Front Runner was also named Bull Calf Champion at the Drayton Valley Show this summer.

Signature Move

 The 3rd heifer calf that we have in our string is RJY Signature Move 4X. She will be selling at the Simmental Sale at Agribition on Thursday. The catalog can be found here.

RJY Signature Move 4X

This female is out of the powerhouse AI sire Wheatland 680S. This bull has really shown his mark on the breed in the last couple of years.

Wheatland 680S

 Her mother is one of our top donor cows CDY Signature 2N. This is a cow of Crystal's that has been used heavily as a donor at our place. We have a really strong set of young females coming out of this cow, and Signature Move is no exception

CDY Signature 2N

Sweet Thing

While we are on the roll of Revolution heifer calves, I mine as well feature the other one that we are showing.

SLY Sweet Thing is a heifer of my own. As I mentioned she is also out of our herdsire IPU Revolution 172U

IPU Revolution 172U

 Her dam is my baby, and the oldest cow on our farm WFL Miss Westway 669K, or Ruffles. Ruffles is one of our top producing cows. She now has 4 daughters in the herd, and has added #5 with Sweet Thing. Ruffles was purchased out of the Checkers sale as a heifer calf. She went on to be my 4-H heifer winning multiple titles all the way up to the Provincial level.

WFL Miss Westway 669K "Ruffles"

Sweet Thing has been to a few shows already this year. She was 3rd in her class at Drayton Valley in June, and recently was 4th in Class at the Simmental National in Brandon.

Item of the Week #12

 

I seen this picture on BCBG Max Azria webpage today. I absolutely love these three outfits. They are fun, classic and just really beautiful.

Lil Bit of Paradise

Because I will be gone at Agribition all this week, I figured I would do something different to keep you up to date. We are taking 7 head to the show, so each of the 7 days that I am gone I am going to feature a new animal that we have at the show with us.

Today I am going to feature one of the new additions to the show string, RJY Lil Bit of Paradise 21X.

This is one of my favorite heifer calves of the year.  is a daughter of our herdsire IPU Revolution.

IPU Revolution 172U

 Her grandmother was a heifer that I had bought from Czechmate Livestock as a heifer calf. I showed CMS Paradise 05P as a yearling and then again as a 2yr old pair. She was a Heifer Calf Champion, and won her class as a 2yr old at the World Simmental Show in Calgary. That year we offered pick of our herd in the World sale, and the original Paradise was picked by Beechinor Bros Simmentals.

CMS Paradise 05P

We were lucky enough to get one flush out of her before she left. As a result we have 1 daughter out of 05P and Red Label. She has to be one of our top producing cows and definitely a favorite of mine on the farm. This is her second heifer that will be in the herd. The Paradise cow family really is a rising star in our herd.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year...

and No! It's not Christmas...

It's the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!! This show gets filmed every November, and then airs each December. I love fashion, and this show is the best of the best.

Each year they come up with so many new and creative ideas! I can't wait to watch it on TV this winter.

Here are some of my favorite outfits that are going to be making their way down the runway

Elegant Force

On Monday I got a call from my dad in the morning. He wanted to know if I wanted to buy a heifer with him. He knew that I had been wanting to buy something, but anything that I was looking at was way out of my budget!

Dad and I had been looking at a heifer in the NAILE sale for a few weeks. We both had really been wanting a black baldy heifer, and something that was a little different pedigreed. We found this heifer, and I did a little bit of digging on her.

She is out of a really strong cow family, and had done pretty well in her show career to date. The only problem was if we could afford her or not... That's where dad's phone call came in. He thought that if we partnered up we could maybe afford her then!

Long story short about 4 hours after the original phone call we had bought the heifer! She comes from a small farm in Kentucky, called Happy 6  Simmentals. They have a really cool story about how they got into cattle, and about their son Cramer if you are looking for a good read!

The heifer is now headed to get her tests done in Iowa and will cross the border in about 2 or 3 weeks. I am super excited to see her, and can't wait for her to get here!