Denver Stock Show 2011- Black Angus Pen Show

The Canadians came out in full force for the Black Angus Pen Show today. We had three farms competing including:

Soo Line Cattle Co.

Mountain View Farms

Southland Angus

These breeders held back from showing these animals on the hill for a chance to win the pens show. The breeders did any excellent job. It really was to bad that out of the 4 pens total, 3 were in the same class. However, we will came out with 1-1st place, 2- 2nd place, and a 4th place.

Congratulations again to these breeders, and safe travels home.

Mountain View Angus- 1st in Class

Denver Stock Show 2011- Hereford Females and Black Angus Pens

Today will be another busy day in Denver, and it has turned out to be a busy day here at the farm in Breton. I will have some results up tonight from both the Angus and Hereford shows. Good luck to our Canadian participants.

I am also planning on getting some posts up later this week about the happenings on the farm. It has been a busy few weeks as we are in the middle of calving and temperatures have been in the -30 Celsius range for the past few days. Defiantly not the ideal time to be born if you are a baby calf.

Hope everyone stays warm this weekend!

Denver Stock Show 2011- Black Angus Female Results

The Black Angus wrapped up there showing today with the female classes today. This is one of the larger shows in Denver, so it took a good while to get through the show.

The Canadians had a few less entries in the show today, however, the cattle did really well. There was also one animal that was born and raised in Canada who went on to do really well. You can see her picture below.

Congratulations to all of the Black Angus breeders and exhibitors.


GF EVENING TINGE 1X- Winter Division Champion Heifer 

Hamilton Farms



Denver Stock Show 2011- Black Angus Females and Hereford Pens

Well today is the start to a crazy weekend in Denver. The Black Angus shows will come to an end today with the Female show. There is another handful of Canadians competing in it today including

Hamilton Farms

Bandura Angus

The other big event that is happening today is the Hereford Pen shows. These will take place this afternoon, and I know I will be cheering on Star Lake to win their 12th straight carload. A real accomplishment. You can check out the daily report from the Star Lake team in Denver through Randy's blog.

I will hope to keep you updated as I can tonight and over the weekend. I am headed home to the farm for a few days. It is about -35 here with the wind chill and we have a handful of our top cows all due right now!

Denver Stock Show 2011- Black Angus Bull Show Results

Well the Canadian crew had another great day down in Denver. You can see full results here.

Although the bull show is much smaller then the female show, Canada was extremely well represented again today. We finished with:

1 Res. Division Champion
4 Second Place
3 Third Place

Here are some of the Canadian cattle from the show today.

BANDURA REPUTATION 15X- 3rd in Class

BANDURA MASTER PIECE 9X- 4th in Class

SOUTHLAND FREE STYLE 163U- 4th in Class

EXAR Marathon 2921B- 4th in Class

HF BENGAL 116X- 2nd in Class

HF El Tigre 28U- Res. Sr Bull

HF SWAGGER 75W- 3rd in Class

Justamere 4065 Stabilizer 507U

SAV Prodigy 8101- 2nd in Class

Denver Stock Show 2011- Black Angus Bull Show

The Black Angus Bull Show has just gotten underway in Denver. Again we have a nice contingent of Canadian's showing today. They include:

Hamilton Angus

Southland Angus
Bandura Ranches 
Remital Farms

Good luck to everyone today! I will try to get some results posted later today. In the mean time check out the up to date results from the NWSS

Denver Stock Show 2011- Bases Loaded Sales Report

Well what a sale it was last night. I only watched the first bit of the sale due to some other plans I had last night, but I was really excited to see the sale went well as always.

The main reason I was watching the sale was to see how the bulls were going to sell, specifically the Lot 3 bull, HF Kodiak.

Here is a full sales report as published by Live Auctions.

Lot		Lot Price	Category
1		35000.00	Bases Loaded
2		102000.00	Bases Loaded
3		150000.00	Bases Loaded
4		43000.00	Bases Loaded
5		50000.00	Bases Loaded
6		5100.00	Bases Loaded
7		12000.00	Bases Loaded
8		2000.00	Bases Loaded
10		25000.00	Bases Loaded
11		16500.00	Bases Loaded
11	a	16500.00	Bases Loaded
11	b	12500.00	Bases Loaded
12		5000.00	Bases Loaded
13		6000.00	Bases Loaded
13	a	6000.00	Bases Loaded
13	b	5000.00	Bases Loaded
14		25000.00	Bases Loaded
15		5000.00	Bases Loaded
15	a	5000.00	Bases Loaded
16		11000.00	Bases Loaded
17		6100.00	Bases Loaded
18		7500.00	Bases Loaded
20		5250.00	Bases Loaded
21		8000.00	Bases Loaded
22		4100.00	Bases Loaded
23		8500.00	Bases Loaded
24		17000.00	Bases Loaded
25		5250.00	Bases Loaded
26		9000.00	Bases Loaded
27		15000.00	Bases Loaded
28		11300.00	Bases Loaded
29		8750.00	Bases Loaded
29	a	8750.00	Bases Loaded
29	b	8500.00	Bases Loaded
30		16000.00	Bases Loaded
31		4300.00	Bases Loaded
32		3100.00	Bases Loaded
33		8500.00	Bases Loaded
34		3500.00	Bases Loaded
35		13500.00	Bases Loaded
38		800.00	Bases Loaded
39		5000.00	Bases Loaded
40		15200.00	Bases Loaded

Denver Stock Show 2011- Bases Loaded

Today is a relatively slow day for the Canadian's in Denver. There is lots of movement int he barns with Black Angus and Herefords getting moved into the Hill, and our Red Angus friends have all headed for home now.

Tonight however, things will get amped up big time for our Canadian Black Angus breeders!

The Bases Loaded sales is one of the elite Angus sales in North America. In the past few sales, some Canadian herds have been invited to participate in this event.

The sale is held at Coors Field, the baseball diamond where the Colorado Rockies play. They actually have the cattle there, so it is a really neat one of a kind event.

This year there is one lot that has gotten a lot of buzz not only in Canada but also the USA. HF Kodiak 5R is one of the most influential Black Angus bulls in the breed. He is Canadian born and bred, and a really impressive bull both to see and to look at what he has produced.

The Bases Loaded sale is one that I make sure to watch each year. It is pretty cool to watch cattle sell for potentially $100,000.00. And it has happened before!

The sale is going to be featured on Live Auctions tonight, and the sale starts at 5:00PM MST