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 higher accuracy DNA enhanced EPD’s!
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. Please call and schedule a time for a private showing of your herds next Poppe Bull!
Thank you, the Horseshoe Hill Ranch Team
Directions: 7 miles west of Crofton, NE on Hwy 12 and 3/4 miles north on 544 Avenue.
Jay, Deanna, Ethan, William, Annabelle, and Harrison Poppe
Gary and Karen Poppe
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. You will receive an email stating the final bid price on the lot you purchased if you are the winning bidder. 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.
Online Sale
MARCH
3, 2025
Bidding opens at 7 AM CT and closes at 7 PM CT when active bidding stops.
BULLS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ANY TIME AT HORSESHOE HILL RANCH!
LIABILITY All persons who visit Horseshoe Hill Ranch 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.
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 (1/2) 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 250 miles. Our goal is to deliver by April 15th or sooner if circumstances require.
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.
EPDS LISTED AS OF JANUARY 10, 2025. PLEASE NOTE THAT EPDS CHANGE WEEKLY.
Catalog Design by Honor Ag Branding Bull Photography by Doug Ward
Angus Bulls
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HHR Identified M010
HHR Identified M117
From a sire whose combination of $Maternal and $Combined indexes
He is displaying many of these same qualities that made
been
go-to sire
but with enhanced calving ease and improved birthweight! He excels with high docility, explosive phenotype, curve bending growth, and top 2% $Weaned calf and carcass weight. His cow family line has corner stone type maternal genetics and
herd could be built around.
HHR Identified M171
HHR Identified M141
HHR Identified M142
HHR Identified M110
HHR Identified M121
High growth, solid dollar values across the range, and outstanding feet scores definitely put this guy on the radar. With striking similarities to his dam’s sire this bull could be really fun to watch grow up! At the time GENEX described Bruin Rubicon as one of the most massively constructed Angus bulls they have ever evaluated.
HHR Craftsman M063
Sitz Resilient 10208
Connealy Craftsman
Black Cathy of Conanga 8521#
Wilks Payweight 6311
HHR Bonnie H063
HHR Bonnie F009
726D
Miss Burgess 1856
Niobrara 5451
Carla of Conanga 450 Basin Payweight 1682
Forever Lady 0985
A V Ten Speed 3022 HHR Bonnie 42Y
With more built-in calving ease than his sire and virtually equal scale performance, use these top tier genetics with confidence and make those scale crushing, stylish feeders and replacements that should make the bidders bid more!
HHR Craftsman M108
HHR Craftsman M128
Consistency has been the name of the game with Blackbird G177 as her first 4 calves have entered the bull yard with a bang and this latest version by Connealy Craftsman is no exception. Powerfully constructed with style, high docility, and fertility as indicated by his
heifer pregnancy EPD. With his high $Maternal index he should work great to make productive replacements and high performance feeders!
HHR Craftsman M154
Sitz Resilient 10208
Connealy Craftsman
HHR Lady Padington E079
HHR Lady Padington 29
726D
Miss Burgess 1856
Niobrara 5451
Carla of Conanga 450 GAR-EGL Protege
Clara 0171
Padington 40S PA Fortitude 2500
This Craftsman son carrying high marks for $Maternal and $Weaned calf index comes from E079 who can be found throughout the catalog as the dam of Identified K056. Look for a similar style with increased maternal characteristics, and if daughters are kept back a more modest, mature cow size compared with his maternal brother Identified K056.
Miss Burgess 1856 Connealy Niobrara 5451
Carla of Conanga 450
Traveler 6807
8E8 1627 Morgans Direction 111 9901
This bull is maternally handcrafted to make an outstanding set of replacement females. He’s modestly made to design right sized females with great feet, high fertility and from a rugged dam who has produced 11
HHR Craftsman M049
HHR Jailbreak M175
HHR Jailbreak H111
HHR Bonnie 31A
V Rainfall 6846
HHR Rosella J017
HHR Rosella G086 Deer Valley Growth Fund
With Jailbreaks signature look and maternal lineage this bull is sure to make an impression with his big-time calving ease and growth numbers! We’ve combined the maternal power of Jailbreak with a long line of other great sires like SAV Rainfall, Basin Payweight Plus, Connealy Right Answer and more! A quick scan through his EPD profile shows elite numbers for $Maternal and $Weaned calf index as well as a management profile that is solid throughout. Progeny should be slick haired and docile with strong feet.
HHR Jailbreak M057
A unique combination of maternal strength and a genomically
HHR Jailbreak M166
HHR Jailbreak M192
HHR Jailbreak M167
HHR Jailbreak M176
One
HHR Jailbreak M189
HHR Stagecoach M011
HHR Stagecoach M015
Tehama Upward Y238
Tehama Mary Blackbird Y684
Connealy Capitalist 028 BSG Countess 1501 of 547W
Payweight Plus 6048
To make an even bigger group of explosive feeders and top end replacements use M011 on your heifers and M015 on your cows and let this dynamic duo get the job done for you! Both are very similarly patterned as they are paternal brothers and from the same maternal cow family.
HHR National M178
Connealy Capitalist 028 Deer Valley Rita 0274
HHR Iconic M046
If you are looking for a growth bull with solid calving ease and a maternal background around which a herd can flourish this Connealy National son might be just the one! His dam 42Y, the granddam of Jailbreak, has an unbelievable calving track record with 12 A.I. sired calves. Every female has entered service here and every bull calf has made the bull yard. Look for highly fertile replacements as indicated by his
HHR Iconic M193
HHR Wrecking Ball M208
High weaning and
HHR True North M081
This bull by True North was orphaned at a young age, and still managed a 205-day weight of 473 pounds. He was not fostered, but simply sent to pasture with his contemporaries and the rest was up to him! His genomically tested EPDs helped discover his true value and demonstrates good weaning and yearling performance, coupled with high marbling and top 4 percent weaned calf value.
HHR Full House M019
HRR Black Magic M225
Here is a “sleep all night” heifer bull prospect that can deliver more than just snappy calves out of your first calf heifers. High Marbling, $Weaned calf
and crazy high $Maternal have helped push his overall $Combined
To move younger calves into the bull yard they have got to be doing a lot of things right and this Black Magic grandson is certainly no exception. With a solid growth profile, top 3 percent $Maternal, 20 percent $Weaned and a top 10 percent $Combined Index value this bull deserves extra
Simangus Bulls
HHR JAILBREAK M026
Here is another great example of Jailbreak’s explosive ability to bend the growth curve in your favor. M026 is elite for calving ease, low birth weight and explosive yearling performance and literally from the coolest Eagle heifer we have. His young dam is highly maternal with a perfect udder shape and teat size that are every cowman’s goal when designing his next generation of replacement females. If Simangus genetics are on your radar, don’t miss this one as he scores highly for both API and TI.
HHR JAILBREAK M069
HHR JAILBEAK M012
HHR JAILBREAK M037
An attractively made Jailbreak son with elevated calving ease and high weaning and yearling performance as is typical with Jailbreak genetics. This one is
HHR JAILBREAK M205
HHR WAR PAINT M021
ABS has described his sire TJ War Paint as “lightning in a
with his performance and phenotype. With M021’s increased yearling performance over his sire we may have captured our own lighting in a bottle! This bull is a true phenotypic standout in a really tough group of contemporaries and from a highly maternal cow family with both New Design 5050 and HARB Denali in his pedigree.
HHR WAR PAINT M023
HHR WAR PAINT M136
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HHR WAR PAINT M180
TJ War Paint is described as a bull with superior balance, presence, and kind. M136 demonstrates a very similar type
HHR WAR PAINT M186
HHR WAR PAINT M135
HHR IDENTIFIED M112
Expect the same substance and quality found in War Paint progeny but with added frame and more length than is normally seen.
Here is a sharply made SS Identified son with great lines, masculine in appearance, top end yearling performance and great API and TI index values. The best part of this bull could be the maternal value he brings to the table as his dam was an absolute sweetheart of a cow and wonderful mother to her calves. She was incredibly fertile with 10 straight A.I. calves.
HHR IDENTIFIED M140
HHR IDENTIFIED M210
On paper this Identified K056 jumps out at you quickly with high marks for weaning, yearling, average daily gain, docility, and carcass weight. However, he would be underserved if proper attention wasn’t given to his dam. Truly a foundational SimAngus cow by Big Timber and her maternal grand sire KCF Bennet Fortress together produced a daughter whose docility and fertility are near the top of our SimAngus cow herd. To date, every calf produced by G020 and E053 have been by way of A.I. and a top performer.
HHR MAN IN BLACK M035
7382E BROAD RANGE HHR MISS CANDY J112
MISS CANDY G080
HHR MAN IN BLACK M114
If you got a set of mature cows that
absolutely
and loaded to the gills with weaning and yearling
Man in
Index value.
HHR WALL STREET M123
HHR WALL STREET M183
HHR ADDITION M030
HHR PATRIARCH M152
ABS describes Tehama Patriarch as having a bulletproof maternal pedigree with the power, data, and phenotype to produce both quality females and in demand, high satisfaction sons. With his striking good looks and powered up EPD profile compared to his sire, I expect the same or higher satisfaction with M152’s progeny as he comes loaded maternally on the bottom side of his pedigree as well!
Red Angus Bulls
PLAYMAKER 1080J
HHR PLAYMAKER M033
BULL REG: 4961250 DOB: 1/6/24 TATTOO: M033
PIE QUARTERBACK 789
WSM PLAYMAKER 1080J
BIEBER PRIMROSE 107W
HXC GRINDSTONE 9908G
HHR PRINCESS RED K092
HHR PRINCESS RED F125
PIE STOCKMAN 4051
PIE RUBY 520 BASIN HOBO 0545
BASIN PRIMROSE 24T9
HXC ALLEGIANCE 5502C
HXC 605D
BIEBER SPARTACUS A193
HAGEMANN 695W-062
Stoutly made and nearly as wide as he is tall. Built like an M1 Abrams tank, this prolific son by WSM Playmaker sports a top end growth profile with high-ranking index values. The Red Angus brand is rising and with bulls like this and the maternal goodness Red Angus cows are known for, it is easy to see why. There is a noticeable difference in demeanor when you put a pen of red calves together. Replacement heifers from M033 should have great docility and their calving disposition should be off the charts especially with Bieber Spartacus in his lineage.
HHR PLAYMAKER M058
His dam by Bieber Stockmarket E119 could be one of the easiest going cows on the farm regardless of breed, and granddam 281 by LSF Great Sky has such a natural pet like docility that if you’ve got kids helping in the operation one could almost say daughters from this bull are kid approved! So, a must use bull even before diving into the data but after seeing very high index values, top end weaning and yearling performance and to top it off a top 10% stayability, he definitely is a complete package.
HHR PLAYMAKER M086
HHR PROPULSION M045
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HHR SPARTAN M150
BULL
BIEBER ROUSE SAMURAI X22
BIEBER SPARTACUS A193
HHR PRINCESS RED F125 PIE ONE OF A KIND 777 BB PROPULSION 9096 BB MS GINNIE 6256
COLLIER FINISHED PRODUCT
HHR PRINCESS RED J027
ONE OF A KIND 352 PIE JULY DALLES 569 LARSON SUN KING 016
MS GINNIE 6019-2057
COLLIER FINAL PRODUCT B389
COLLIER AMY B385
BIEBER SPARTACUS A193 HAGEMANN 695W-062
From one of the top proven performance bulls in the Red Angus breed and made with extra style and length of body. With high ProS and Grid Master Index values and top end performance he shows outstanding potential to make explosive feeders with enhanced end product merit. But given his highly maternal dam by Finished Product and Spartacus grand dam there’s potential for some pretty cool replacements out of this bull as well. With modest milk, high marks for heifer pregnancy, and calving ease maternal I think a strong case can be made for heifer retention.
BIEBER SPARTAN E639
BIEBER RENEE 477A
BIEBER ROUSE SAMURAI X22
HHR PRINCESS RED B023 HAGEMANN 695W-062
BIEBER TILLY 233U
VGW OLY 903
OLC RENEE S188
LCC CHEYENNE B221L
MARITA R31
Moderately framed with extra substance and maternally stacked, combining Spartacus’s maternal power with Oly 903 influence and one of our stronger red cow family lines. Spartan progeny are known to stand out in a crowd with great feet, structure, and overall type and kind.
Another maternally oriented Spartan son with strong scores for weaning and yearling performance. Oly 903 daughters have built a tremendous reputation as elite females and his influence combined with strong maternal output from the bottom side of his pedigree should make for some cool daughters. BULL REG: 4961260 DOB:
BIEBER ROUSE SAMURAI X22
TILLY 233U VGW OLY 903
RENEE S188
HHR CINCH M223
Fancy from the get-go, one of my favorite red calves born this spring and from one of our best Bieber
A calving ease sire with top end growth!
HHR CINCH M229
HHR CINCH J237
HHR B014
HHR SARA F094
HHR SARA D208 HHR CINCH F016
PROFITBUILDER B403
Now into our fourth 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.
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.
Out of our blaze faced Cinch herd bull with built in style, structure, great
and coupled with one of the prettier red cows on the place. Progeny from
