Feature Article The females of the
150 Cow Family DDD Miss Jana 150B22 R10287316
DDD Ambrosia 150Y10 R10203786
GTB Ms Naomi 150J R725598
TVR Ms Alpha 150F2 R676269
“I’m very excited and proud to see progeny and donors, that we selected nearly 20 years ago, come out and win the nationals back-to-back,” says Mike Doguet, of Doguet Diamond D Ranch in Poteet, Texas. Doguet has watched many showmen and women be successful with cattle from the 150-cow family. In 1999, Doguet bought his first cow from the 150 family from Terra Verde Ranch at its dispersal sale. “There’s a lot of history in that calf,” says Past IBBA President Robert Vineyard, DDS of DDD Miss Jana 150B22. Vineyard owned one of DDD Miss Jana 150B22’s predecessors, and he knows the genetics of the 150-cow family back to the beginning of the Brangus breed. From the beginning, the 150-cow family has offered genetic excellence. Vineyard says his cow, RSV-WSR Anna 650-101, was one of the first two donors in the Brangus breed in the 1970s. He also says the genetics from RSV-WSR Anna 650-101’s son, VCC Cracker Jack 101N2, still contribute generously to the performance of Brangus cattle today, especially in regard to weaning and yearling weights. RSV-WSR Anna 650-101 is the maternal great-great-grandmother of Miss VCC Shasta 150Z. Sired by BBI Exacto 55W3 Map 6, embryo-transfer calf Miss VCC Shasta 150Z was born in December 1990. She would be the great-great-grandmother of Camille’s heifer, Miss Jana 150B22, years later. Back-to-back NJBS Champion Camille shares in show-ring success similar to her father, Taylor. In 1997, Taylor won Reserve Champion Heifer at the State Fair of Texas. In 1998, Taylor won the Fort Worth Stock Show, the Houston International Open Show, and the Houston Livestock Junior Show. In 1999, Taylor won Champion Cow-Calf Pair at Houston Livestock Show with Miss VCC Shasta 150Z and Ambrosia. “What makes this story special is the fact that it was a fatherdaughter combination,” Doguet says about both Camille’s and Taylor’s individual successes. “In January of 1997 Clay Meyer, the manager of Terra Verde Ranch in Boling, Texas, asked me to come with him to look at a set of calves on a satellite recip herd in Cedar Lane, Texas. At that time, I was hauling and showing the Terra Verde show cattle so I was eager to see what our fall [embryo transfer] calves looked like. Little did I know that I would find a heifer that day that would have such a big impact in my life,” Taylor recalls about the first time he saw TVR Miss Alpha 150F2, who they called “Ambrosia.” Taylor says Ambrosia immediately caught his eye the day he looked at the group of cows with Meyer. Later in the spring of 1999, Terra Verde had its dispersal sale. Taylor says, “at that time Mike Doguet was in the beginning stages of building what would become an awesome set of cattle. Mike stepped up that day and purchased Ambrosia as the high selling female of that event. On her side was an MVP heifer calf, 150J. Mike would go on to exhibit 150J at the American Royal in Kansas City the following year and she was Reserve Champion Female in that National Open Show.” Doguet says it’s extraordinary to have had the cow family for as long as they have, with continued success. “We’ve had a lot of success in the show ring with lots of different cow families,” (continued on page 46)
Ms VCC Shasta 150Z R503064 SJR Ms XT - Frances PII 150X R446572 Miss Windac Extra 150/6 R389259 Ms HI Nan 101R2 R274260
RSV-WSR Anna 650-101 R160661
Ms HY-I Justana 23/2 R75756
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