Welcome to our 2024 sale!
Dear Friends and Cattlemen -
We are excited to feature some of the deepest and most complete sire groups we have had the privilege of raising in our 40 plus year effort of raising beef genetics to help our fellow cattlemen succeed. The sire groups represent our continued effort to make performance cattle that are built for calving ease, rapid growth, style, carcass, and maternal quality. In our selections, you will find bulls that excel in each of these performance categories; many are of the quality that can sire your next generation of elite, fertile females built with first-class genetics that serious cattlemen demand.
Longevity and fertility are at the forefront of our feeding program that is designed to develop lean, hard, durable bulls that are ready to work a rigorous breeding season! Poppe Bulls are developed on a high roughage, lower energy diet with ZERO creep on summer pastures. Our disciplined feeding program helps ensure that the bulls are made right, look great and can maintain their best condition possible throughout the breeding season and be ready to do it all over again the next year.
Whether you are looking to calve fancy, scale crushing feeders; net extra carcass premiums; or make those highly sought after fertile replacement females, we have just the right bulls that check all the boxes, all backed by high accuracy DNA enhanced EPD’s! In fact, every Angus bull in our lineup is backed by a complete DNA defect bundle test.
Thank you for taking the time to see how POPPE BULLS can enhance your program. We value our customers, and we respect the confidence our customers put in us to build quality cattle and help grow profits for their operations. We look forward to seeing you at our open house on Sunday, February 11 and invite you to bid on Poppe Bulls online at DVauction.com February 12-13th.
Thank you, the Horseshoe Hill Ranch Team
POPPE BULLS RETAINS ONE-HALF SEMEN INTEREST IN
SALE CONTACTS
Jay Poppe..............402-640-9031
Gary Poppe...........402-640-9029
Karen Poppe.........402-640-1259
OPEN HOUSE LOCATION
Horseshoe Hill Ranch, 89079 544 Ave, Bloomfield, NE
Directions: 7 miles west of Crofton, NE on Hwy 12 and 3/4 miles north on 544 Avenue.
ONLINE ONLY SALE
SALE OPEN FEBRUARY 12 - 13, 2024
Open House
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Come anytime 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM! Lunch served throughout the day.
Online Sale
FEBRUARY 12-13, 2024
Bidding open on DVAuction.com
LIABILITY All persons who attend our open house do so at their own risk, legal, or otherwise, for their safety or for the behavior of the animals. The owners and staff assume no liability for property loss or any accident that occurs.
VOLUME DISCOUNTS 3% discount for any single buyer purchasing 3-5 bulls. 5% discount for any single buyer purchasing more than 5 bulls.
GUARANTEE All bulls will pass a breeding soundness exam prior to turnout of their first breeding season. This is not a breeding injury guarantee, death guarantee or otherwise. We highly recommend the purchase of breeding injury and/or mortality insurance to protect your genetic investment.
Bidding opens at 7 AM CT and closes at 7 PM CT when active bidding stops.
Bid online and watch the sale from the comfort of your home! Preview the sale lots online, along with comprehensive data, pedigree, EPD’s, and videos of each lot for several days before the sale. During that time, bidders can leave a maximum bid, which the system will represent confidentially up to that amount. Bidders can also actively bid as the bid increases prior to the close of the sale. All lots will close at the same time in a horse race format. If a bid is placed within 5 minutes of the closing time, closing times will be extended 5 minutes for all lots after bid is increased. This will continue until no bids are placed for 5 minutes. Once the time runs out, the sale closes.
Buyers must create an account and request a buyer number through DVAuction. Sign up 24 hours prior to bidding and review the helpful tutorial at www.dvauction.com. As shown in the tutorial, if you are the winning bidder, you will see these words flash across the auction screen “You won this lot”. You should also receive an email stating the final bid price on the lot you purchased. After the online sale closes, we will contact the buyers of each lot to make payment arrangements as soon as we can. If you have questions before we contact you, feel free to call us.
If you do not wish to navigate the online sale, please contact us ahead of sale day to make arrangements for someone to manage that for you.
EPDS LISTED AS OF DECEMBER 29, 2023. PLEASE NOTE THAT EPDS CHANGE WEEKLY.
SEMEN INTEREST Gary Poppe and Karen Poppe and Jay Poppe and Deanna Poppe d/b/a/ Poppe Bulls and Horseshoe Hill Ranch retains a one-half (½) semen interest in all bulls. In the event a bull purchased from Gary Poppe and Karen Poppe and Jay Poppe and Deanna Poppe d/b/d Poppe Bulls and Horseshoe Hill Ranch becomes a bull from which semen collection occurs (a bull becomes an A.I. bull) then Gary Poppe and Karen Poppe and Jay Poppe and Deanna Poppe d/b/a/ Poppe Bulls and Horseshoe Hill Ranch shall be entitled to one-half (1/2) of the semen and semen sales. In the event a bull is sold or transferred to another, Gary Poppe and Karen Poppe and Jay Poppe and Deanna Poppe d/b/a Poppe Bulls and Horseshoe Hill Ranch’s retained one-half (1/2) interest in the semen of the bull shall remain and be unaffected by said sale or transfer.
DELIVERY Free delivery up to 200 miles. Our goal is to deliver by April 15th or sooner if circumstances require. Bulls not picked up or delivered by April 15th will have $8 per day charge.
HEALTH Two rounds of Pyramid 5, Vision 7/Somnus and Pasturella. All bulls receive pre-breeding and foot rot vaccinations at fertility evaluations. This includes Express 3+VL5 and Fusoguard. All bulls are semen checked by a veterinarian and passed a fertility and breeding soundness exam before delivery. All Bulls are DNA tested.
Catalog Design by Honor Ag Branding
Bull Photography by Doug Ward
A calving ease sire with top end growth!
Now into our third season using Jailbreak as our dominant sire, and with wet daughters in production, it’s clear that Jailbreak’s impact will be felt for generations to come. Our first calving Jailbreak daughters have a fancy, feminine build and have displayed gentle, mothering traits enabling them to capitalize on excellent udder and teat quality. We could not be more excited to lead the catalog with this explosive set of Jailbreak bulls. Take one look at the Jailbreak sons videos and photos and you’ll see their awesome and unique style and character jumping out—almost like they wanted to be photographed! Look for great calving ease, high performance, maternal quality, and style beyond compare. Thank you for taking time to look through the Jailbreak lineup and our many other great bulls. We have enjoyed raising them and are confident you will enhance your herd by adding them to your bull battery.
Angus Bulls
HHR Jailbreak L003
For producers looking for explosive growth and very moderate birthweights, this Jailbreak son would be a great fit! A great prospect for heifers or cows, L003 hits the top 10% for weaning and yearling weight, a top 10% $Maternal and $Weaned calf value and a
easy going disposition! Not only does he have a great EPD profile but a stacked pedigree that also includes EXAR Upshot and Bon View New Design 878. His grandam, B097, has been a consistent producer and has sold several top bulls.
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HHR Jailbreak L201
This Jailbreak son is out of a Southside cow that is quickly building herself quite the resume with her 4th high performing and top selling bull calf in a row. HHR Blackbird F049 is establishing herself as one of our dominant and elegantly designed power cows. With a near flawless EPD profile, L201 shows incredible calving ease and a monster birth to yearling spread with important $M, $W and $C near the top of the breed! Look for an easy-going disposition, outstanding feet and unmatched functionality with so many ways to use this genetic powerhouse!
HHR Jailbreak L005
HHR Jailbreak L061
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HHR Jailbreak L064
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Longevity and consistency is the name of the game with this cow family. D216 & 22 have been outstanding producers who calve
One of our top docility bulls that ranks in the top 30% with sound claw and top 20%
scores and a heifer pregnancy EPD that ranks in the top 1%! There’s lots to appreciate with this
HHR Jailbreak L103
Here’s another curve bending Jailbreak son with many core EPD’s that score in the top 35% and higher, including heifer pregnancy, docility, $Feedlot, $Beef, and $Combined values. His grandam, HHR Blackbird 9W, is
HHR Man In Black L183
Our goal is to create genetics that can excel no matter how a producer wants to use them, whether it’s performance, convenience traits, end product merit or making the next set of heifers that will propel their herd into the future. With all of this in mind, L183 rings the bell, and he rings it loudly!! With an
EPD profile and an
absolutely loaded pedigree that also includes PA Fortitude, PA Power Tool, HARB Denali, SAV Pioneer, GAR Expectation and the list goes on and on. This bull will be our next impact sire! Ultra fancy in his design, L183 has enough calving ease that can be used on heifers or cows and has an astounding top 1% WW and YW EPD, top 1% carcass weight, top 1% weaned calf value, top 10% $B and an overall $Combined in the top 4%. To top it off, L183 has great disposition and solid feet scores.
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is to create
that can excel no matter how a producer wants to use them, whether it’s performance, convenience traits,
merit or making the next set of heifers that will propel their herd into the future.
Bar R Jet
Connealy Courage 25L
HHR Lady Padington D072
HHR Lady Padington B064
Connealy Black Granite Bar R Iris Anita 0113 Sitz Top Game 561X JMB Maxine Deluxe 9034
Connealy Confidence 0100
Pearl Pammy of Conanga 194
B/R New Day 454
HHR Lady Padington 6X
An outstanding herd bull prospect to make attractive soggy feeders. Made to calve easy with a top 20% CED and explosive growth with WW in the top 10% and YW in the top 5%. His dam, D072 is a model cow, moderate in her design and incredibly easy fleshing. She has recorded 6 straight A.I. calves and her first 5 are daughters all working in the herd.
HHR Man In Black L170
HHR Accomplishment L078
Accomplishment
HHR Accomplishment L099
HHR Wildcat L127
HHR Wildcat L148
This is a unique bull that checks a lot of boxes. Great calving ease, top end growth performance with loads of carcass merit but what is most unique about him is his status as a red carrier. Carrying a registration in both the Angus and Red Angus associations and reads as a game changing bull in the red database. He is in the top 2 % for CED and the top 1% for the following traits: Pros 234, GM 182, WW 91, YW 159, ADG-43, Marb 1.2, CW- 91 & REA.76. An absolute genetic standout in the red Angus database and backed by special dams that produced Connealy Confidence Plus and VAR Reserve.
SydGen C C & 7
HHR Bonnie 42Y
K R Miss Prime Cut 95T Deer Valley Patriot 3222
Connealy Capitalist 028 Deer Valley Rita 0274
Connealy Confidence 0100
Elsha of Conanga 138V
S A F Connection
SydGen Forever Lady 4087
Three Trees Prime Cut 0145
K R Gridmaker 77R
Certain calves have the “it” factors the day they are born and L149 definitely has It! Born to the prolific grandam of Jailbreak, 42Y; at 13 years of age and 11 consecutive A.I. calves later she is still performing at a high level. Ultrasound safe to another Connealy National 390C this season! With great calving ease and weaning performance expect good looking and profitable feeders or breeders!
HHR National L052
HHR National L076
Connealy
028
Deer Valley Rita 0274
Connealy Confidence 0100
Elsha of Conanga 138V
SydGen Exceed 3223
SydGen Rita 2618
Plowman 1627 of Millbrae SAR
HHR National L165
Connealy Capitalist 028
Connealy National 390C
Ellza of Conanga 390C
HHR Blackhawk G003
HHR Blackbird J221
HHR Blackbird E007 Deer Valley Patriot 3222
Deer Valley Rita 0274
Connealy Confidence 0100
Elsha of Conanga 138V
Connealy Blackhawk 6198
HHR Erma of Airyland C064
WR Journey-1X74
HHR Blackbird C118
Solid calving ease with crazy weaning and yearling performance out of this National son. He has an interesting pedigree with elite growth sires, Connealy Blackhawk, Plattemere Weigh Up and WR Journey whose daughters have been popular sale features. Featuring strong feedlot, Grid and Beef $ values and a very high top 2% weaned calf value.
HHR National L173
Deer Valley Patriot 3222
Connealy National 390C
Ellza of Conanga 390C
T/D Patton 771
HHR Lady Padington J020
HHR Lady Padington E031
Connealy Capitalist 028 Deer Valley Rita 0274
Connealy Confidence 0100
Elsha of Conanga 138V
JVC Cavalry V3326
JVC Forever Lady B444
K C F Bennett Fortress
HHR Lady Padington 4
This curve bending Iconic son is from a cow family that’s been making strikingly attractive offspring and a sire equally as capable! Look for a set of feeders that should be extra fancy in the sale ring!
HHR Wall Street L008
The pedigree in this Deer Vally Wall Street grandson is absolutely loaded with highly fertile dams with great maternal instinct! The first 4 HHR cows in this pedigree have a combined 35 calves, 33 were by A.I. 23 A, 24T and great Grandam 31A together have 29 A.I. calves with zero natural service calves. Just wave the straw in front of their noses and they get bred!
HHR Fireball L046
HHR Fireball L161
HHR Patriarch L121
HHR Blackhawk L190
Byergo Black Magic 3348 HHR Lady Padington H108
Precious of Conanga 380X
A R 5050 Data Manager 0536
HHR Erma of Airyland 51U
Silveiras Conversion 8064
Byergo Elia Cupcake 5900
Connealy Courage 25L
Padington 52W
This Patriarch son is an outstanding heifer bull prospect that should make fancy moderate females. His grandam, 38A by Confidence 0100 sold one of our high selling bulls last season and this bulls strong suit should be to make more females with that kind of potential.
HHR Patton L180
HHR Bonnie 42Y
EZAR Gold Rush 6001
HHR Zara’s Lady J016
HHR Zara’s Lady D022 T/D Patton 771 HHR Patton J108
JVC Cavalry V3326# JVC Forever Lady B444 SydGen C C & 7# K R Miss Prime Cut 95T V A R Discovery 2240# V
Blackcap 1059 S
Angus Valley 1867#
HHR Zara’s Lady 56X
output as the HHR cow families represented are extremely gentle, fertile and friendly
cows!
SimAngus Bulls
HHR EAGLE L025
HOOK`S BLACK HAWK 50B
HOOK`S EAGLE 6E
HOOK`S CRYSTAL 1C
S S NIAGARA Z29
HHR PRINCESS J124
HHR PRINCESS F096
HOOK`S XAVIER 14X
HOOK`S YVETTE 100Y GW-WBF SUBSTANCE 820Y
HOOK`S UNDERESTIMATED 6U
PRINCESS D025
This all-around performer with solid calving ease and top end growth will be hard to pass up for those looking for more pop out of their calf crop! With high numbers for docility, All Purpose Index and Terminal Index, this stand out from Hooks Eagle should make attractive, scale crushing feeders or replacements to continue his tradition of performance.
BLACK HAWK 50B HOOK`S EAGLE 6E HOOK`S CRYSTAL 1C
HHR EAGLE L048
HOOK`S BLACK HAWK 50B
HOOK`S EAGLE 6E
HOOK`S CRYSTAL 1C
CCR WIDE RANGE 9005A
BLACKBIRD D032 HHR BLACKBIRD 40Z
HHR EAGLE L070
EAGLE L079
K C F BENNETT FORTRESS
HHR LADY PADINGTON
HOOK`S UNDERESTIMATED 6U
CONNEALY CONSENSUS
THOMAS PATRICIA 9705
SYDGEN BLACK PEARL 2006 HHR LADY PADINGTON C076
Moderately made and as thick as he is tall, a real meat wagon! Great calving ease and growth performance with top 15% docility and overall, All Purpose and Terminal Index values in the top 25% and 15%! There’s a lot of consistency in this cow family, check out L125!
EAGLE L114
HHR HIGHLIFE L053
HHR HIGHLIFE L100
A
HHR HIGHLIFE L108
HHR HIGH ROAD L102
HOOK`S BEACON 56B
KBHR HIGH ROAD E283
WS MISS SUGAR C4
TNT BCR UNIFIED B203
HHR PRINCESS F096
HHR PRINCESS D025
MS NLC TANKER Z2058
ELLINGSON DOMINANCE 2079 HHR 116A
HHR HIGH ROAD L125
HOOK`S BEACON 56B
KBHR HIGH ROAD E283 WS MISS SUGAR C4
SYDGEN BLACK PEARL 2006 HHR LADY PADINGTON E048
HHR LADY PADINGTON C076
ZAFIRAH 41Z
GRADE-A 875 A WS ANISE A71
SYDGEN TRUST 6228
SYDGEN ANITA 8611
MR NLC UPGRADE U8676
HHR LADY PADINGTON 4Y
Calving ease, growth, stayability, docility in an attractive package that should work great on heifers and transitions nicely into the herd bull pen after a couple of seasons breeding heifers. This maternal line is operating at a high level, look at L025 for the proof as well!
Substance, Style and scale crushing performance. This High Road son excels so many ways, whether you want to sell attractive high performing feeders, retain productive daughters or own until the end to net extra carcass premiums, he wins from all angles!
HHR HIGH ROAD L153
FORCE 38K
ZAFIRAH 41Z
GRADE-A 875 A
HHR JAILBREAK L042
Basin Payweight 1682
HHR
Top 30% calving ease and BW for outstanding heifer bull potential that will help you
HHR HIGH ROAD L167
HHR Queen Elsa 3A Growth Fund
Deer Valley Rita 36113
Connealy Confidence 0100
HHR Bonnie 42Y
MR NLC UPGRADE U86 76
TJ MISS NEW DAY U14
SAVE BRAND NAME
HHR QUEEN ELSA 8U
Performance has always been high, no matter the Queen Elsa cow. They’ve consistently been very strong maternally and daughters from this cow family have always shown very roomy pelvic areas. Some customers have commented that bulls from this cow family were the best they’ve ever owned. L042 was one of the easier going, docile bulls to enter the picture pen, so gentle we could almost put him into his pose. From the Queen Elsa cow family and out of a young TJ Main Event cow that has not missed a beat with three January A.I. calves in a row. I expect this bull to do what Jailbreak offspring do best, calve easy and grow like crazy with a super cool look!
HHR JAILBREAK L071
HHR JAILBREAK L093
31A
QUEEN 1072
An elite curve bender with stayability, solid docility and high end All purpose in top 10% and Terminal Index values in the top 15%! Lots of ways to use this explosive and attractive Jailbreak son. Feed’em, breed’em, and keep’em!
HHR PAYWEIGHT L128
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Red Angus Bulls
PIE STOCKMAN 4051
BIEBER CL STOCKMARKET E119
BIEBER CL ADELLE 475C
BROWN JYJ REDEMPTION Y1334
HHR D063
HHR B085
CINCH 4126 HHR PRINCESS RED G017 HAGEMANN 695W-062 PIE STOCKMAN 4051
BIEBER CL STOCKMARKET E119 BIEBER CL ADELLE 475C
HHR PROPULSION L094
HHR PROPULSION L150
HHR PROPULSION L207
HHR ENDZONE L011
BIEBER DEEP END B597
COLLIER
HHR PRINCESS RED F125
COLLIER FINAL PRODUCT B389
COLLIER AMY B385
BIEBER
Top end calving ease coupled with
HHR ENDZONE L115
HHR ENDZONE L152
BIEBER ROLLIN DEEP Y118
BIEBER LAURA 158W
BOXED BEEF 9063W HAGEMANN 0082X-233 PIE CINCH 4126 HHR GEE GEE J115 HHR GEE GEE C015 BIEBER DEEP
BECKTON NEBULA P P707
BROWN MS JULIAN W6579
LSF SAGA 1040Y
TKP BONNE BEL 110
High Index Values with very solid calving ease, growth and maternal power from both sides of his pedigree.
HHR ENDZONE L155
BIEBER DEEP END B597
BROWN JRAR END ZONE H6629
BROWN MS P707 Y6648
BIEBER SPARTACUS A193
HHR SARA J155
HHR SARA D208
BIEBER ROLLIN DEEP Y118
BIEBER LAURA 158W
BECKTON NEBULA P P707
BROWN MS JULIAN W6579
BIEBER ROUSE SAMURAI X22
BIEBER TILLY 233U HAGEMANN 2291-241 HAGEMANN P27-041
HHR IMPERIAL L135
HHR IMPERIAL L151
HHR BLUET E004 IR IMPERIAL B772 IR IMPERIAL D948
IR MS DUAL FOCUS W086
FEDDES OSCAR X28
HHR BLUET G023
CROWFOOT OLE’S OSCAR
FEDDES SLEEK 806
BIEBER HARD DRIVE Y120 HAGEMANN 8800U-252
HHR ENERGIZE L132
BIEBER CL ATOMIC C218
BIEBER CL ENERGIZE F121 BIEBER CL ADELLE 575D
BIEBER SPARTACUS A193 HHR PRINCESS RED F125 HAGEMANN 695W-062
BIEBER HARD DRIVE Y120
BIEBER ADELLE 297Y
BIEBER ROUSE SAMURAI X22
BIEBER TILLY 233U
SIX MILE INTENSITY 695W HAGEMANN 301-811
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