Sale Day Phones: 712.643.5761 Trevor Roche........................................208.880.7676 Nick Weaver.........................................712.870.1634
Sale Staff:
Jon Schaben...........Auctioneer.............712.263.0755 Craig Talkington....................................785.623.1789 Kent Jaecke..........................................405.408.2440 Randy Rasby.........................................308.539.6195
Consultants: Brad Smith............................................712.209.1500 Chris Beutler.........................................402.380.8244 Kelvin Jorgenson..................................402.366.9475 James Felt............................................402.369.0513 John Peterson.......................................402.873.2224 Kirk Roecker..........................................712.269.2162 Scott Jorgensen....................................641.431.0756 Brent Powell.........................................712.253.7256 Brad Otto.............................................712.269.3473 Danny Roeber.......................................402.297.1269 Jeff Boddicker.......................................319.560.0168 Wayne & Barb Ohlrichs........................402.649.6911
Hotels:
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I can’t believe this is the seventh year we have had the privilege of putting on the Western Exposure. It is always a lot of work, beginning in April, and especially during the fall to get everything ready. I truly look forward to every second I get to spend in Iowa. I honestly think of Iowa, and the people I deal with out there, as my second home and family. I greatly enjoy and appreciate the friendships I have been able to develop during my time in God’s country. I truly believe we have improved the cattle every year and one will truly be impressed with the quality from top to bottom. Our philosophy is rather simple around here: we focus on raising cattle that are versatile for all markets. I don’t think you ever want to chase one trait or one market. Eventually, the winds will shift and one will be left standing at the altar of a dead market. We strive to market a female that can be bred multiple ways and click mated to many different sires. Out here, in the Wild West, it takes a different animal to survive. One can’t understand until they have seen the country were we run our cattle. Not only do they have to raise a marketable calf, the cattle have to deal with predators, fires, drought and work hard to find grass at times; the majority of these females were raised in these conditions and know how to survive. I truly believe that is why they are received so well in the Midwest. These cattle know how to clock in and clock out everyday! Nothing pleases us more then to see the cattle working for our customers. Feel free to call whenever to talk about cattle. I am proud of this group. No, they aren’t fluffed up, super clean, and clipped for a show, but they are honest. They have never had a bath and trust that policy won’t be changing around here. We don’t have time to baby these things. They are in their working clothes and ready to go to work. They will only look better once they make it to their new home. Thank you for the interest and we look forward to see everyone in Dunlap on January 5th.
- Trevor Roche
B: 10/3/19 Tucker Roche • DO 8 lb. 2 oz. : BW ct. •A BW: -.2
Another day, another beer…and the seventh year of the WESTERN EXPOSURE SALE! Seems like just yesterday Trevor and I we were doing the catalog for 2019. Many breeds to choose from this year and very deep in quality. Pick and choose, you can’t go wrong. The breds look amazing and are bred right for the times. Functional, flashy and pedigrees to burn, opening the door to endless breeding options after they calve. “What a year 2019 was,” everyone says. Seems like it is that way every year anymore, the weather, the markets and all the other bs going on in the world, but everyone at this sale or watching on the internet still enjoys raising, buying and selling good cattle. GOOD CATTLE ARE BRED, CHAMPIONS ARE FED! See you all January 4th in Dunlap.
- Nick Weaver
“We couldn’t be happier with the cattle we bought from Roche Cattle Company. The semi load of bred heifers calved in February 2013 in our hoop barn. They were very quiet and gentle to work with, easy calving, and extremely maternal. The weaning weights were through the roof and the keeper heifers look to have some real promise for the future of our herd. You can’t go wrong with sound, functional cattle that are maternally and performance driven with elite show pedigrees. Thanks again for sharing your genetics and a piece of your program. It was great doing business with you.” - Andy and Larry Platner from Lisbon, Iowa WESTERN EXPOSURE • PAGE 3
Roche 875
2018
1
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: Black Bear
AI Sire: Simplify
Due Date: 2/1
How a full sib to Reimanns 105 cow ended up in Idaho is still a mystery Matlock can’t solve. I found this prize at my good buddy, Mike Loecke’s Big Foot Ranch in Iowa. I don’t think either one of us had a clue what we were looking at. I just remember him telling me, “If you want a true sale feature, you need to buy this one. I don’t know the whole story on it, but it cost me a fortune as irish whiskey an egg!” Well, Big Foot was right and when you realize the dollars 105 has generated over time, I would be willing to roll the dice on a cow that was in the same pasture as her! In fact, my last conversation I had with the great Rick Frye a few days before he left us, was the history of 105. Of course, he knew her story and had nothing but praises for the opportunity to own a full sib. Well, here she is and she is also the ONLY bred that was sexed during ultrasound, and it is a heifer calf coming! Take a leap ahead of the competition and start your own success story with a female that rarely comes up for auction.
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2018
2
Roche 8392 MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Paradox
DAM: Irish Whiskey
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/1
Redheads are usually a little crazy, temperamental, freckle, sunburn easy and lean towards throwing your possessions on the front yard and setting them on fire over a petty argument. Take note, she is none of the above! This is the Nicole Kidman (natural redhead) of the bos taurus. Nicole knows how to cash checks and I have high hopes for this female to do the same. Good red cattle are hard to find. Ask the boys down south if there is a shortage and they will certainly agree. Raise what is in demand and you will always have a little money in the bank. I think she is stout enough to raise steers yet refined to raise heifers.
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Roche 8385
2018
3
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Cerveza
DAM: Sunseeker x Angus
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/1
Flooding along the river bottoms for 3 months in the spring of 2018 after a record breaking snow season.
2018
4
Roche 8112 MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: PB Angus Donor 471 (OCC Just Right)
AI Sire: Brilliance
Due Date: 1/28
lot 4 2018
5 Kind of hard to hide from the wife at the course when you need the horse trailer to haul the cart.
2018
6
Roche 8389 MaineTainer
Eligible
Eligible
DAM: Broker
AI Sire: Brilliance (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 1/29
Watching this heifer walk into the ring will be about the same as watching my mother-in-law drive off a cliff in a brand-new Cadillac. That makes one have mixed feelings. I debated back and forth about letting this one go and I might need a tissue when she walks into the ring. I’m sure Schaben will be there to hold my hand. She’s flat awesome. I don’t know what I would change to make her any more of my type. She has body, she has bone, she has the look, hair, you name it. She can even read at a fifth-grade level. This one can do it all! Buy with confidence, and start investing in FSH because you’ll be using it, and it keeps going up in price.
DAM: Sooner/602 clone
Due Date: 3/20
This All That Matters heifer comes from a good friend and longtime customer, Jeff Scott. He always has an exceptional set of calves in the fall and we have been lucky enough to purchase a few of them and incorporate them into our own herd. All that matters certainly looks like a bull that will be able to stay around for more than a year. The few that we have had are powerful, yet soft enough to survive without a daily visit of a TMR mixer wagon.
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MaineTainer
SIRE: Maternal Made
SIRE: All That Matters
AI Sire: Slider
Roche 8388
2018
7
Roche 8383 MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Thriller
DAM: Sooner
AI Sire: Brilliance (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 2/2
I would love to say I raised this one but it came from the good buddies, the Voglers, in Ashland, NE. I will always be indebted to Les for taking me to the BYU at Nebraska football game back in 2015. I think it was the last game of magnitude BYU won, but at least I was there! I’m a fan of BYU and the Dallas Cowboys. That is the recipe for constant disappointment, but I am hoping this heifer will change things for the up. She is flat awesome. I’m not sure if the Michelin man has enough rubber at his disposal to find a half blood Maine with this much body, power and look. I think she is clean to boot and will have her tested by sale time. She has been IVF flushed to Fu Man Chu and Monopoly; her eggs sell as lots 156A & 156B. Maines are making a comeback, but they will only stay if they are different. Right now, I think they are chasing the show ring too hard and look like black Shorthorns. We all know how great they perform in the pasture. This one is unique. The possibilities are endless, and I would love to partner up with this one. Selling half interest with the option to double the bid to own her all.
2018
8
lot 8
Roche 8128 1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Profit
DAM: PB Angus Donor A3 (Pineridge Hammer)
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money Son
Due Date: 4/1
Donor “A3” Dam of Lot 8 & Lot 18
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2018
9
Roche 850 1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Profit
DAM: PB Angus Donor (Shockwave)
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 1/30
There’s getting to be so many Simmentals in the world we will need Monsanto to make a spray! If Monsanto gets involved you can almost guarantee an ad from a blood sucking law firm on cable news seeking damages for past ranchers that bred Sims in the past! Here is an absolute freak of a true half-blood SimAngus. Yes, there have been half-blood Simmentals with freaky fronts, but they usually go back to some club calf on either side of the pedigree. This is a true SimAngus out of an exceptional purebred Angus donor cow. She is about as pretty fronted as you will find them, yet powerful and attractive from the side. In order for a Simmental to be worth money I think they have to be different, and this one certainly is. She’s not the typical jug headed, leather fronted, Simmental.
2018
10
Roche 8125W 3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim
DAM: 1/2 Simmental Donor 717 (Chopper x Draftpick)
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 2/10
My 717 Chopper donor has done an exceptional job. She has always put something in this sale, and they have gone on to all pay for themselves within the first two calves. Including this year. Faber sold a great show heifer out of one of his 717 daughters. If I were to be critical of her daughters they could all use a shot of belly. But what she lacks in belly she makes up in extension, foot, bone and power. With the belly craze that we are currently living in it’s not hard the open the sire book and find somebody with a big belly. If the cattle trends correlated with humans, we would be drooling over truckers and IT guys!
2018
11
lot 9
Roche 8197 5/8 Simmental
lot 10
Eligible
SIRE: Profit
DAM: 1/4 Simmental Donor 43 (Black Onyx)
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 2/10
These next full sisters are owned with one of my good friends and customers from the great state of Washington. Mike Pink and I purchased/partnered on their mother three years ago on of this sale. She wasn’t super expensive but she was an out-cross and I had high hopes for her. Her first embryo calves are truly ringing the bell. These things are exactly what makes a good Simmental. Super long fronted, pretty headed, massive middled with a very attractive square hip. They are different. That’s what makes a good Simmental! I swear every single person that bought a straw of semen from Broker thinks they’re great, but unless they look different than the rest, they are just another Simmental. Whoever ends up with these will have numerous options. Breed them for show heifers show steers or purebred Simmental cattle, either way I think they will click. PAGE 8 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
lot 11
2018
12 2018
13
Roche 89P 5/8 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Profit
DAM: 1/4 Simmental Donor 43 (Black Onyx)
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/20
Roche 8228 1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim
DAM: PB Angus Donor 917 (Opportunity)
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 2/2
If one was to study all of the recent catalogs that have been released for the bred female sales you would think there is not a single animal in the whole Midwest that does not have a perfect top line or a massive back leg. Also, for some reason, the cattle like to do the old Michael Jackson move of leaning forward like a hood ornament on the front of a long nosed Kenworth. It’s getting quite ridiculous if you ask me. If this offends you, then stop doing it! If you’re buying cattle just off of a picture, I want to sell you a winning lottery ticket before I even scratch it. We are one of the few that post videos. Don’t get me wrong, I will always post the best picture I get. We rotate them a few degrees and we work dang hard at getting a good shot, but I am also proud to say 99% of our videos look better than our pictures. No, our cattle aren’t always standing perfectly or in the same position, but I’m not talented or smart enough with a computer to move legs and all that other BS that happens. This female is a perfect example of someone that looks ten times better in the video than they do in the picture. Not everybody is photogenic. She is a load and carries it quite well.
2018
14 2018
15
lot 12
Roche 837R 5/8 Simmental
lot 13
Eligible
SIRE: Profit
DAM: 1/4 Simmental Donor 43 (Black Onyx)
AI Sire: Brilliance Son
Due Date: 4/3
Roche 81021 1/2 Simmental
donor 43 Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: 1/2 Maine Donor (361 Tyson)
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 2/10
Here is another great daughter out of one of my best donor cows. 361 has been made famous in Woodbine, IA. The 45 lb. overweight, Iowa version of Scott Frost, AKA Adam Pryor, has been windrowing my 361 daughters for the past three years. They flat work and he has been selling cattle high in his female sale, and hopefully they will continue to work for him. This is the first of the Duke females that we have ever offered. I purchased him from Voglers. He is a full sib to Hartman’s Equity. He has worked very well for us, and if he continues to sire females like this one, we will be shipping semen across the country.
lot 15 WESTERN EXPOSURE • PAGE 9
2018
16
Roche 810Y 3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: 1/2 Simmental Donor 717 (Chopper x Draftpick)
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/5
Another Duke, please take note that they do not come around like this one very often. She is just about flawless if you ask me. Super powerful, awesome fronted, sound, big-boned, monster footed and coming from my great 717 Chopper donor. Maternal sib sells as Lot 10. She also is out of Duke and we will certainly be making more of her. Certainly one of my favorites in the sale. I have mated 717 to numerous bulls, and this is by far the best one she has ever raised. I have semen on the bull if anyone is interested in trying him out for themselves. Good stock here.
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717 Donor
2018
17
Roche 8752 3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: 1/2 Simmental Donor 752 (Driver x OCC Angus)
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/21
I absolutely love this female. Her mother has sold 15 bulls in my bull sale the past two years and they have all averaged over $4,000. She comes from a great Driver donor cow that we actually sold in the 2016 sale. The original buyer was not happy with her, so I gladly bought her back and she has generated close to $100,000. This heifer was born in a snowstorm and would have lost her ears had she not had about 4” of hair covering her entire body. Look at those ears! They could probably get AM/FM and XM Radio. She is certainly a sale highlight. Be sure to find her because her picture does not do her justice. 3/4 Simmentals with this much shag are hard to find!
2018
18
Roche 80A3 1/2 Simmental
lot 17
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: PB Angus Donor A3 (Pineridge Hammer)
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/26
lot 18
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Roche 8T95
2018
19 2018
3/8 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim x Driver
DAM: PB Angus Donor 44 (Charlo)
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 2/28
Roche 880P
20
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: PB Angus Donor 44 (Charlo)
AI Sire: Brilliance
Due Date: 2/2
It’s a toss-up between this female and Lot 9 as to which has the better front end. They don’t come any sleeker and sexier than this one. She is absolutely jacked fronted. Much like her twin, she is a tick athletic. She’s the type that just needs to be hand fed for a month and then she will be fine. Two treed cougars. PAGE 12 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
2018
21
Roche 8372 3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim
DAM: 1/2 Simmental Donor (Meyer 734)
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/10
How often have you purchased an embryo package from a producer and had the producer in return by the calves back? That’s exactly what I did here with my good buddy, long-time customer, family friend and my first pick in a bar fight: Murl Dodd. Full sib to a past high seller at $19,000. I realize these will be sold in Busch country, and this concept might not be understood, but this heifer will be like a fine wine. She will just get better with time. Trust me on this heifer!
2018
22
Roche 8114W PB Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pays to Believe
DAM: Steel Force
AI Sire: Slider
Due Date: 3/2
I found this female at my good buddy’s and kingpin of Kearney, NE, Ward Eckloff. I don’t know why, but three or four times a year he will call me asking what he should breed a cow to. If you were to look on the list of people that have sold cattle higher more consistent than anyone in the nation, Ward would be number 1, 2 and 3. I’m pretty sure I’m the one that needs to be calling him. This female comes from one of his great donors and can paper as a purebred. She is super long fronted and attractive from the side. If somebody is wanting to raise a show heifer or two this one could certainly do it.
2018
23
lot 21
Roche 82368 1/2 Simmental
lot 22
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
DAM: PB Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/11
Here is another Duke daughter out of Lot 138. She is an absolute beast and certainly one of the best half-blood Simmentals to sell. This is my type. She’s powerful, yet feminine, and very versatile. She will be an exceptional mother, and if she’s not ,you let me know, and I’ll gladly buy her back, it’s a no-brainer here.
lot 23 WESTERN EXPOSURE • PAGE 13
WEAVER 45F
2018
24
1/2 Simmental
W/C Night Watch.
SIRE: ON THE MARK
DAM: NORTHERN IMPROVEMENT
AI Sire: W/C Night Watch
on the mark PAGE 14 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
Choke of the neck! Good pedigree, good phenotype, flat out good cow pros-
ASA# 3646109 pect. She may raise some papered Simmi steers the way she looks. Safe to
Due Date: 3/8
WEAVER 48F
2018
25
3/4 Simmental
ASA# 3449329
SIRE: W/C BANKROLL
Look at this 3/4 baldy on sale day! One good rip. Pretty fronted, soft made, and great running gear to boot. Not sure you can find a nicer fronted, long necked 3/4 simmental then her. Safe to Sexed WLE Uno Mas.
DAM: FAT BUTT
AI Sire: Sexed Uno Mas
Due Date: 2/29
2018
WEAVER 44F
26
1/2 Simmental
ASA# 3446623
SIRE: BROKER
DAM: STEELFORCE / MIDLAND / 5001
AI Sire: W/C Night Watch
Due Date: 2/11
A damn nice Broker going back to a Lutton 1831 x 5001 cow. You want a great one, set right in and bid to own here. Power, balance, mass and broody. Safe to W/C Night Watch.
lot 26 WESTERN EXPOSURE • PAGE 15
WEAVER 577F
2018
27
1/2 Simmental
ASA# 3646386
SIRE: W/C LOADED UP
DAM: TC ABERDEEN
Flat made in the front third, powerful, half blood Simmy. She’s made to raise heifers year-after-year like her Angus dam, 577, by TC Aberdeen, a massive beast of an Angus cow that has raised many females for me. Safe to Night Watch.
AI Sire: W/C Night Watch
Due Date: 3/2
2018
WEAVER 88F
28
5/8 Simmental
ASA# 3646387
SIRE: BROKER
DAM: BC LOOKOUT / TRENDSETTER
AI Sire: Night Train
lot 28 PAGE 16 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
Due Date: 4/15
You want the good ones, they’re here to sell. This Broker daughter will be marked to buy by all. Her BC Lookout dam has raised two females sold through this sale and a loaded up baldy that will be a sale feature here next year! Proven genetics here for a feamle making machine. Safe to Night Train, a Simplify x Tejas, 60lb. BW.
2018
WEAVER 1612F
29
1/2 Simmental
Pending
SIRE: W/C LOCKDOWN
DAM: GCC WHIZARD
Wicked, baldy bred right here! This Lockdown female is sure to turn some heads in Dunlap on sale day! She is zipper fronted, has massive rib shape and is as sound as they come! I can promise you the W/C Night Watch calf outta this female will not dissappoint!
AI Sire: W/C Night Watch
Due Date: 2/17
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WEAVER 1131F
30
2018
SIRE: BROKER-284
DAM: PVF INSIGHT
AI Sire: Blaze of Glory
Due Date: 3/20
Zipper fronted, long bodied female is sure to be a fan favorite on sale day! This female offers a tremendous amount of rib shape riding on a great structure from the ground up! Safe to Blaze of Glory.
lot 30
WEAVER 1212F
31
2018
1/4 Simmental
SIRE: BROKER-284
DAM: WHIZARD/MEYER
AI Sire: W/C Bullseye
Due Date: 3/2
One look at this female will leave you wondering if you are looking at a beached whale! This soggy bellied female sure doesnt disappoint, good fronted, sound as a cat and she is Safe AI to W/C Bullseye! I imagine a baldy heifer calf out of this female is sure to have plenty of rib shape!
lot 31
WEAVER 23F
32
2018
1/4 Simmental
SIRE: BROKER-284
DAM: WHIZARD/MEYER
AI Sire: Trailblazin
Due Date: 4/22
Take a look at this cool made female! Talk about one that is long bodied, zipper fronted and is huge footed! Not to mention the tremendous amount of power she has to offer! This is a great brood cow in the making that is going to produce for years to come! Trailblazin is a baldy, Blaze of Glory x Broker (Lot 118). 60# BW.
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lot 32
2018
33 w/c bullseye
WEAVER 4F 1/2 Simmental
Pending
SIRE: LETHAL WEAPON
DAM: 3C MACHO
AI Sire: W/C Bullseye
Due Date: 2/24
Donor Alert! One look at this foxy, baldy female and she will have your blood pumping like you are running from the cops that just busted your very first college house party! Trust me, I speak from experience! This giraffe necked, 1/2 blood, Simmy female is the total package: sound, good haired and packs a punch when you look at her from behind! Safe AI to W/C Bullseye, just imagine the females this one could raise!
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2018
Roche 8105
34
Purebred Charolais
Eligible
SIRE: Outsider
DAM: PB Char Donor (Hoo Doo Slasher)
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 3/5
This heifer is a lot like Justin Fields, the quarterback for Ohio State. For those that aren’t football fans, he was the backup quarterback to Jake Fromm, but because Jake was older, more experienced, and had proven himself, obviously he remained the starter. Well, the rest is history, and Justin Fields transferred to Ohio State and is currently on course for an invite for the Heisman Trophy. This heifer, too, is overshadowed by the one older than her. She is more mature, older and obviously looks the part, but with that being said, do not discredit this young, May born, bred heifer. It would be hard to find a Char better fronted and bigger middled at this age. She comes from a great donor cow that we sold in Dunlap five years ago that Dr. Faber from Sioux Center bought half of. She has a full sister at home that is flat-out awesome, and a full brother that will be in our bull sale this year that looks like a complete champion. Don’t make the same mistake Georgia football did and pass up on the young prodigy because there’s a good chance she might be better than the upperclassmen.
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donor dam of lot 34
Roche 82962
2018
35
Purebred Charolais
SIRE: Outsider
DAM: Turton
AI Sire: Phenom Sexed HF
Fall 2017
36
Eligible
Due Date: 2/2
Roche 875A Purebred Charolais
This white whale sticks out like a turd in a punchbowl. I would like to see somebody try to find a softer, looser made, Char female in the entire United States. This thing is really good and has been since I first laid my eyes on her. I really like the Chars because you can do so many different things with them and both sexes are very marketable. She was never pretty enough to show, but neither was Martha Stewart a beauty model. But I bet she was one heck of a mother and I expect the same with this one. Loaded with power, guts and volume, the only thing I would change is I wish she had a twin. Selling half interest with the option to double to bid to own all of her. Seller reserves the rights to two flushes.
Eligible
SIRE: Lt Landmark
DAM: Ledger
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/14
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Roche 8378
2018
37
Purebred Angus
SIRE: Tejas
DAM: Tour of Duty
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/22
Eligible
If you read the story about Noah in the Bible, it doesn’t mention anything about his mother-in-law getting on the ark. I sometimes feel the same as he did when putting on these sales. They are a lot of work and effort and time, but the reward is worth the effort. This one is a perfect example of that effort needed for a successful sale. She is a great female, but would not take a picture to save her life. After 45 minutes of “Try her this way, mover her this way, hot shot her, scare her, do anything to get her head up!” she finally stopped and posed. And when she posed, she posed! This is a really good Angus female. Breed her to one of those no muscle, big belly bulls they’re promoting now, and you will certainly have a show champion.
2018
Roche 8100
38
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19163166
SIRE: Bushs Sure Deal x Vin Mar O’Reilly Factor
DAM: Malsons Savannah 9A x EXAR Spartan
lot 38 PAGE 22 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
AI Sire: KR Outfit
Due Date: 2/8
I like a different Angus female than what the show ring is promoting right now. Yes, I like the belly and guts that they possess, but they still have to have some meat. This one fits my fancy. She is feminine yet powerful for an Angus and can certainly do somebody a lot of good.
Roche 888
2018
39
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19509430
SIRE: Barstow Cash
DAM: Malsons Sure Deal
AI Sire: KR Outfit
Due Date: 2/8
Roche 896
2018
40
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19165055
SIRE: KR Little Jo x Joe Canada
DAM: Malson Lass x Connealy Confidence
AI Sire: KR Outfit
Due Date: 2/8
Roche 899P
41
2018
1/4 Simmental
SIRE: United
DAM: SAV Priority
AI Sire: Phenom Sexed HF
Due Date: 2/1
Gentleman, when this one walks in the ring take your hats off because there is a lady in the house. She is flat awesome. I didn’t know what I even had until I got her clipped up. I didn’t even have her in the catalog at first. Thus, she is in the middle of the Angus because there was no spot for her anywhere else. I don’t know very much about the United bull, other than I had some semen in my tank so I tried him, but wow, did he click. She is a load and would be a really fun one to breed to a Maine. Maines are trying to make a comeback and this would be a good female for a first step.
lot 41
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Roche 897
2018
42
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19162877
SIRE: KR Captain Jack x CFCC Black Jack
DAM: Malson Savannah 93B x WK Rocky
AI Sire: KR Outfit
Due Date: 2/8
KR Outfit
2018
Roche 891
43
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19164113
SIRE: LD Capitalists 316 x Connealy Capitalists
DAM: Malsons Primrose 171D x Bushs Sure Deal
AI Sire: KR Outfit
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Due Date: 3/5
2018
Roche 892
44
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19164119
SIRE: LD Capitalists 316 x Connealy Capitalists
DAM: Malsons Savannah x Kramers Apollo
AI Sire: KR Outfit
Due Date: 2/8
2018
WEAVER 121F
45
Purebred Angus
AAA# 19590480
SIRE: EXAR BLUE CHIP
DAM: LUTTON/5001
AI Sire: Play It Safe
Due Date: 2/27
Truly a great one. I could write a book on this one with her pedigree and seeing her in person. Stemming back to Lutton and 5001 on the cow side sure makes this one highly valuable. A maternal sister by Primo, raised by Brent Powell, placed by Jeff Jackson, was champion angus at the TLJA Fall Classic this fall. The homework is done here on a great one in the making. She was ultrasounded early and the vet called it a heifer. Safe to Play it Safe.
play it safe
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2018
46
Roche Herf
Purebred Hereford
SIRE: ECR RO Chosen One
DAM: MGM Trust and Revolution
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/24
My wife watches a lot of HGTV and honestly, I kind of like it too. They are always fixing up some tired house, but, before purchasing they have to bid accordingly for their future expenses. Buying a Hereford is like buying a fixer-upper. You have to plan ahead for eye surgeries, sewn up prolapses, milk replacer for the calves and batteries for hot shots. On the flip side, once the stars align, they can be very profitable! There is still nothing easier to sell then a Hereford marked show steer. It doesn’t matter if it’s born in January or September, they are always marketable. Plus, the PB heifer trade is still strong. Obviously, my sale is not complete without a Hereford, and I am still not a proponent of the breed, but I know quite a few people making a great living selling these wood headed, slow moving, can’t find a gate even if it was right in front of them, Herefords. Breed her MAB and let me buy back the heifer calves. On a side note, this Hereford should be proud, as the only bred I have ever had lay down while taking her video and pictures. She was also in the timeout pen inside the picture pen and sat like a dog for most of the show. This one is special in a special kind of way.
lot 46
Roche 8396
47
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Man Amongst Boys
DAM: Hereford
AI Sire: Firestorm Son
Due Date: 3/21
If you have read my catalog and the last five or six years you will realize that I am not the biggest fan of Hereford cattle. That being said I am a huge fan of Hereford marked cattle. That is exactly what we have here. MAB keeps the Hereford color more consistent than any other bull I have tried. This one will raise some awesome show calves with some wicked cool color that is always easy to sell.
lot 47
Roche 83406
48
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Dakota Gold
DAM: PB Red Angus
AI Sire: Fuzion
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Due Date: 2/2
Roche 8378
49
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Man Amongst Boys
DAM: Hereford
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 1/30
Roche 8118
50
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Business Done Rights
DAM: Yellow Jacket
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/10
Reagan & Oakley in Mexico (7 yrs. old)
2018
51
Roche 8119 MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM:
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/12
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Roche 8254
2018
52
PB Angus
19267291
SIRE: Var Cash 3422 x Barstow Cash
DAM: Malson Savannah 60B x Bushs Sure Bet
AI Sire: Impressive
Due Date: 2/14
Roche 8398
53
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: In God We Trust
DAM: RSVP
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/3
This female was just a little too gentle to picture. She is great haired for a yellow baldy and certainly one of the softer made females. She comes from a great female we sold in the sale three years ago and, like I have said earlier in the catalog, we love to buy back our own females and this is another example of that. We participate more with our customers than anyone in the cow selling business! It’s never a one way street when dealing with us.
Roche 8380
54
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Bleeding Purple
DAM: Loecke Donor
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/3
Bleeding Purple certainly has a spot at the table as one of the best club calf bulls that was under utilized. This is a really neat mating coming out of a purebred Char female. She is good-sized, soft made and powerful. This looks like a future steer mama, if you ask me.
2018
55
Roche 82341 Composite Charolais
lot 54
Eligible
SIRE: In God We Trust
DAM: PB Char Donor
AI Sire: Firestorm Son
Due Date: 4/1
Here is a really powerful, sexy fronted, monster footed beast. She is an embryo out of a top producing Char cow we sold in last year’s sale to Mr. Show Circuit himself, Brad Otto. I have three full sibs to this heifer at home that look just as good as her. I would expect some consistency and predictability with this one. She is begging for a straw of club calf, and I hope somebody can fill that need, because she will work.
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lot 55
2018
WEAVER 43F
56
Composite Charolais
AICA# RF712773
SIRE: LT Long Distance
DAM: I-80
AI Sire: Sexed Bismarck
Due Date: 2/15
Whale of a female here! Stout, chubby, hairy and super sound. A true ground sow. Pay attention to what shes bred to???!!! Safe to Sexed Bismarck.
s a v bismarck
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WEAVER 119F
2018
57
Composite Charolais
AICA# RF711644
SIRE: TR PZC MR ASSERTION
DAM: UNO MAS/ANGUS
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/11
Check out the middle on this gal! Should be a female raising machine. She was ultrasounded early and the vet called it a heifer. Safe to Daddy’s Money.
lot 57
WEAVER 18F 2018
58
SIRE: JOHN WAYNE
DAM: YELLOW JACKET
AI Sire: May We All
Due Date: 2/24
If you are looking to get into the club calf buisness here is a female that you could build a herd off of! I have a John Wayne female at home that has none nothing but produce great show steers, just this year I sold a HIA X John Wayne for $4500! These females produce and this one is no different! This smoke show is great fronted, huge middled and sound as a house cat! Everything needed to produce great show steer! Safe to May We All.
lot 58
WEAVER 22F
59
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Primo
DAM: GVC Suh
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 2/21
Love this MaineTainer! Smooth made and built good. Breed her for steers or heifers. Her Daddy’s Money calf will be highly sellabe next fall.
lot 59
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2018
WEAVER 5F
60
1/2 Maine-Anjou
SIRE: I-80
One of the top bred heifers to sell in the country. Her picture represents her 100%, flat out cool lookin, stout, and great structure. Hope your in Dunlap to see her in person. Safe to Sexed WLE Uno Mas.
DAM: Angus
AI Sire: Sexed Uno Mas
Due Date: 2/19
WEAVER 35F
61
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Daddy’s Money
DAM: GCC Legacy / Hot Sauce
AI Sire: Silverias Style
Due Date: 4/5
A real beast in person. She should raise steers or heifers year-after-year. Bred to hit a home run for her first time. Safe to Silverias Style.
lot 61 WESTERN EXPOSURE • PAGE 31
WEAVER 30F
62
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM: Built Right
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/10
I’m crazy for selling this one. Cool looking, shag haired, soft made and nice bellied with plenty of shape. This one bred to Fu Man Chu or Here I Am will raise that steer everyone wants and put you in new tax bracket. Safe to Daddy’s Money.
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Daddy’s money
WEAVER 195F
63
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Margin
DAM: Lutton / Midland / 5001
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 2/11
Look at the neck, the body and leg work on this gal. Wow factor! You be the judge sale day. Safe to Daddy’s Money.
lot 63
WEAVER 203F
64
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM: SAV 004 Traveler / TC Foreman
AI Sire: Night Train
Due Date: 4/30
This one is zipper fronted and has a big ol’ belly. She will be starred and circled by all sale day. The offspring, either steers or heifers, she raises will sell high. Safe to Night Train.
lot 64
WEAVER 494F
65
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: IRISH WHISKEY
DAM: DONOR 728 SIM/AN
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/2
Super functional female! Out the 728 donor, a sim-angus cow that has raised many females. Breed her for steers and make money every year. Safe to DADDY’S MONEY.
lot 65
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WEAVER 22F
66
2018
MaineTainer
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM: Maine / Angus
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/2
This Maternal Made female is the total package! Good fronted, big ribbed and sound! Just imagine the Daddy’s Money hefier this one could raise or the big time show steers she could produce!
lot 66
WEAVER 71F
67
2018
Chianina
SIRE: HERE I AM
DAM: RSVP/MOST WANTED
AI Sire: Play It Safe
Due Date: 3/31
Great female sells here. Nice fronted, bone, hairy, middle, soft made and very very sound. The picture does not represent her nor does her video. See her in person or if bought sight unseen, you will be glad you bought this one. She’s the kind you breed to STYLE or Maternal Made to get that freak of a breeding heifer. Safe to PLAY IT SAFE.
lot 67
WEAVER 8261F
68
2018
Chianina
SIRE: BROKER SON
DAM: NUTT N BUTT BUSINESS
AI Sire: May We All
Due Date: 3/11
My oh my look at this sleek necked long bodied female we got here! This female offers a tremendous amount of rib shape and is as good structured as they come! This is a female that I think has a bright future ahead of her rasing high quality show steers just like her mother! Safe AI to May We All.
lot 68
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Roche 8364
2018
69
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM: Meyer
AI Sire: Dadddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/14
She has a neck longer than that sorry puke, Adam Schiff. Extremely extended through her front third, but I can guarantee her nose is about four feet shorter then his. I don’t care if you bleed blue or red, Schiff looks like he has a tweety bird in his mouth 24/7. He’s the type that says the calf is sound when trying to buy one over the phone, but the calf can’t even walk to the drinker without tripping. If our founding fathers knew what was going on in D.C. right now, they would be spinning in their graves.
2018
Roche 8365
70
MaineTainer
lot 69
Eligible
SIRE: Maternal Perfection
DAM: All About Who
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/6
I have really high hopes for this female becoming a great club calf producer. She has hair like a truckers back, bone like a redwood and power galore. She’s maternally bred and has the maternal look. Get the first one out of her alive, and then start dumping club calf semen into her and cashing checks.
2018
71
Roche 8353 MaineTainer
lot 70
Eligible
SIRE: All That Matters
DAM: Sooner/602 clone
AI Sire: Dadddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/8
I love this female, and many people might ask why she isn’t bred to the new, hot, club calf influenced sires that the semen jockeys are promoting. I decided to breed most of my stuff to Angus and some Daddy’s Money because there are more c-sections performed in the Midwest than there are calves out of firstcalf heifers in pasture sales. I have never had a customer angry because of a live calf, but I have because of a c-section. I had to pull two calves on just two heifers last year. They were both bred to the new, hot, calving ease sires. One of them we even pulled out with the pickup (both kind of lived)! This heifer, as well as all the others, are just too good to risk it. Get the first one out alive, and then start having fun mating her because she will certainly raise a winner.
lot 71
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Roche WS82
72
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Man Amongst Boys
DAM: Maine
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/24
Roche 8115
73 lot 73
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2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Monopoly
DAM: Hannibal Donor
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/7
I’m not the biggest fan of these crossbred females. They can work in Iowa, but not Idaho. That being said, this one is pretty darn neat to look at. She is out of a great Hannibal donor from my friend “Oh ya know, don’t you know,” Danny Roeber. I was a little spooked last year because I brought my wife to the sale and Danny was sitting by her the whole time. I hear he’s got some mad game, but luckily this last kid looks like me, so I canceled our Maury Povich episode. Danny does a great job with the cows that he runs and his sale cattle always look great. This female has looked awesome from the day I laid eyes on her. She is jack fronted, softer then smashing a Pro V-1 with an 8-iron and very, very, very, very hairy.
Roche 8354
74
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Heatwave
DAM: Who Made Who
AI Sire: Simplify
Due Date: 2/12
Roche 8361
75
2018
SIRE: Black Power Play
DAM: Sim Angus
Roche 8375
76
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Made 2 Order
DAM: Smilin Bob
AI Sire: Monumental
heat wave
made 2 order
Due Date: 2/2
Crossbred
AI Sire: Brilliance
Due Date: 2/20
Roche 8381
77
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Loaded for Bear
DAM: Macho x Angus
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/2
black power play
loaded for bear
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Roche ST250
78
2018
This one is like the really good looking girl in high school that was a total jerk to everybody else, but no one cared because she was so good looking. She has one of the prettiest blaze faces you will find and great markings to boot. She is certainly one of the most attractive females in the sale. Look at her picture, study her video and then when you’re at the sale take a picture of her face and send it to your wife. I guarantee you will get the go-ahead to purchase this one.
Crossbred
SIRE: Silvieras Style
DAM: Maternal Perfection
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money Son
2018
Due Date: 3/25
Roche 887T
79
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Fortune
80
1/2 Simmental
DAM: Angus
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Roche 8378 SIRE: On the Mark
DAM: RSVP
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
2018
Due Date: 2/23
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/2
Eligible
Roche 8382
2018
81
5/8 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Wheelman
DAM: Macho x Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/24
Call the pilot cars and get some flashing lights because you will need a wide load convoy to get this one home. She is powerful, stout, and carries it with ease. Plus, she has the great brockle face that we all love.
lot 81
Roche 8384
2018
82
3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Gentleman’s Jack
DAM: Meyer
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 3/5
If this female was in high school, all she would take is Home Ec classes. It looks like her only purpose in life is to be a great mother. She has the look and the blaze face to be great. She has more volume and mass then the Goodyear blimp.
2018
Roche 8390
83
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: On The Mark
Roche 826RX
2018
84
1/2 Simmental
SIRE: Duke
DAM: Upgrade
DAM: PB Angus Donor 44 (Charlo)
AI Sire: Brilliance
lot 82
Due Date: 1/31
We take great pride and I truly believe that we buy back and participate more with our customers than anyone else selling bred cattle. It is certainly not a one-way street when doing business with us. This heifer is another example of that. I purchased her from Swanson’s and her mother was a high seller to them back in 2015. This is a great one! I could put Ronnie Milsap on the Tilt-A-Whirl for an hour and he could still find this one.
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/1
Here is a really nice, May born heifer, but she is just not quite as mature and developed as her counterparts. She is an actual May. Not like all of the May borns that are shown at the same size as the February’s. Now, if you are from the Dakotas or Wyoming, I can totally see baby calves being born and still freezing ears in May, but for the other 99% of the May calves I would like to raise my BS flag. They should just have classes at the shows for Januarys, Februarys, and Marches because everything after the Marches were born in March/Feb anyways. Don’t let the size discourage you from this heifer’s potential. She comes from a great mother and was an embryo calf that was placed late because her recip aborted her early pregnancy. One of my favorites in the late Simmental division.
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Roche 8120
2018
85
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Bullseye
Eligible
DAM: PB Angus
AI Sire: Phenom Sexed HF
Due Date: 1/30
Roche 8138W
87
86
1/2 Simmental
SIRE: Duke
DAM: Total Recall
2018
Roche 8126P
2018
3/4 Simmental
AI Sire: Phenom Sexed HF
Due Date: 2/2
Eligible
SIRE: High Caliber
DAM: Meyer 734
AI Sire: Slider
Due Date: 1/30
phenom
2018
Roche 8245
88
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
89
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
DAM: Angus
DAM: Whiskey
Due Date: 2/12
The wood piles getting short, winter’s coming on, we keep having more kids, and funds are getting tight. I just hope it’s downhill from Omaha to Dunlap because I’m sure the trucks will be running on fumes bringing the cattle to market. We have all felt the pinch at some time during the year when involved with ag. Hopefully this bred can alleviate some of the stress. She’s the no assembly required, comes with batteries type, and this time of the year with little kids that is music to a parent’s ear. She will be a great asset to incorporate into your herd. She comes from a great mother that has put four heifers in the sale and a bull. I like everything about her. She’s bred right. She will calve early, and she will certainly love her baby.
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Roche 8362 SIRE: On The Mark
SIRE: High Regard
AI Sire: Simplify
2018
AI Sire: Brilliance Sexed Hf
Due Date: 3/8
Mother sells as Lot 140. Take note of the quality this female exhibits and don’t forget about her mother later in the sale!
Roche 8363
2018
90
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim
DAM: Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/1
Here is a great, blaze face out of Lot 139. She is long sided, soft shouldered and powerful. This is my type. Add the blaze to the equation, and it’s an easy decision. I have great luck with this type of female. They work for all situations.
lot 90
Roche 8395
2018
91
3/4 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Revival
DAM: Meyer x Angus
AI Sire: Brilliance
Due Date: 2/1
No such thing as a good, beer pong playing Mormon nor a bad blazed faced momma cow. Trust me on this one. I don’t know much about beer pong, but I do know this blaze will work. She comes from a great Meyer cow that we sold four years ago.
lot 91
Roche 8391
92
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Whiskey
AI Sire: Daddys Money
Due Date: 2/18
Sometimes breeding club calves can be about like teaching sign language with mittens on. It can get rather frustrating and seem pointless, but when they click, it’s about as fun as hunting at the Zoo. This is a female with a new school pedigree but old school look. I like this type and they are working extremely well.
2018
93
Roche 8393B MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: PB Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/22
There are three stages in life: 1st you believe in Santa Claus; 2nd you don’t believe in Santa Claus and 3rd you become Santa Claus. Let’s put a little rewind in your life and get back to stage one. There was never a harder night to fall asleep than December 24th, and the same thing will happen the night before this one’s due date. She could certainly raise a winner. Bred to the great Charlo from the great state of Montana. The calf inside of her could certainly ring the bell. I have high hopes for this one and give anyone my blessing to take this one home.
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Roche 8T41
2018
94
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Daddy’s Money
95
DAM: Hairy x Meyer
Due Date: 2/10
AI Sire: Slider
Roche 8402
96
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Lutton Son
Roche 8405
97
2018
Due Date: 2/14
AI Sire: Monumental
Roche 8407
98
Crossbred
SIRE: Total Recall
DAM: Whiskey x Chill Factor
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 2/1
100
99
AI Sire: Firestorm Son
DAM: Meyer GD
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Crossbred
DAM: Hoo Doo x WMW
Crossbred
Due Date: 2/2
I bought 15 straws of Friction a few years ago and I think this is my first female! She has the body and blaze of a Broker but the hip of the legendary Friction. We need more of these old school pedigrees injected into the club calf breed. I truly believe the maternal side is lacking. Go back to square one, and get some power back into your females.
2018
SIRE: Smokin Bob
SIRE: Friction
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 3/9
Roche 8408
Roche 8409
2018
Crossbred
DAM: Angus
2018
Due Date: 2/24
SIRE: Sooner Son
DAM: Hiredman x Meyer AI Sire: Slider
Crossbred
SIRE: I-80 Son
DAM: Irish Whiskey AI Sire: Slider
Roche 8135
2018
lot 100
Due Date: 4/15
Roche 8411
2018
MaineTainer
101
Eligible
SIRE: Simplify
DAM: Driver x Meyer
AI Sire: Slider
Due Date: 2/15
This female comes from my good buddy, long-time customer, and as my wife states it, “a really good looking old guy,” Joe Sullivan. Joe is one cool cat, and he certainly sent me one cool heifer. He has always bought bred stock from me so I told him to put me together a set of heifers and he did an exceptional job. This one came straight out of his replacement pen and I think we would all have to agree that Joe knows how to pick them. Super smooth and her lines with a great front end and she has that ever important look that she will be a good mother with that sleek blaze face.
Roche 8412
2018
Crossbred
102
SIRE: Made to Order
DAM: Hairy x Meyer
AI Sire: Slider
Due Date: 2/12
Roche 8385
2018
103
Char Composite
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Turton
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 3/15
Roche 8393W
2018
104
Char Composite
SIRE: Fu Man
DAM: Turton
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 3/1
Roche 8400
2018
105
Crossbred
SIRE: Smokin Bob
DAM: Maine-Anjou
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/1
lot 104
Roche 8403
2018
106
Char Composite
SIRE: Heatwave
DAM: PB Hoo Doo
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/1
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Roche 8404
2018
107
Roche 8410
Crossbred
2018
108
SIRE: Smokin Bob
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Whiskey x Draftpick
DAM: PB Hoo Doo
AI Sire: Fuzion
Char Composite
Due Date: 2/1
AI Sire: Fuzion
Due Date: 2/1
When this calf was born, I was as mad as a midget playing with a yo-yo. I was for sure it was a bull, and a promotional bull at that, when it stood up. This thing was an absolute hairy freak. He jumped up with a long cocky neck, massive bone, stretched, cranked his tail…and then peed out the back. Talk about disappointment. I think my wife felt the same after about our first week of marriage. I will be the first to say if they look like a steer, they milk like a steer, but every once in a while I am proven wrong. Hopefully this is one of those times.
Roche 8291
2018
109
Roche 8235
Crossbred
110
SIRE: Smokin Bob
Crossbred
SIRE: Interstate x Chantel
DAM: Maine-Anjou
DAM: Sim Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
2018
Due Date: 2/11
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 3/1
Roche 8427
111
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Hi Ho Silver
DAM: Sim Angus
AI Sire: Firestorm Son
Due Date: 3/25
2018
Roche 82961
112
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim
DAM: 1/2 Simmental Donor 738 (Foundation)
AI Sire: Monumental
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Due Date: 2/22
This heifer comes from my good buddy, and longtime customer, Mike Kuhlman. He sometimes has that lost look where he doesn’t know if he’s pitching or catching, but he does a lot of my nutrition work and he is pretty sharp. Give him a call if you ever have any questions. His cattle are always in great condition in September and everything he has told me has worked great. This heifer was the result of an embryo package he purchased from me a few years back and I purchased the heifer back. She ran around the pen for half a day and she never once stood in a decent position to take a picture. She had a sister bring $19,000 to Jorgensen a few years back and produced a heifer calf that is killing it in Mineral Point for the retired bull rider, Bob May. Her full brother was my Lot 1 in my bull sale last year, and she had a full sister sale to Swansons for $13,000 four years ago.
Roche 81460
2018
1/2 Simmental
113
Eligible
SIRE: Duke
114
Crossbred
SIRE: Not a Clue
DAM: PB Angus
DAM: A Black Cow
AI Sire: Brilliance Son
Roche 8RN
2018
Due Date: 3/25
AI Sire: Phenom (Sexed Heifer)
Due Date: 12/10
I bred this heifer early so that I could have a pair to show all of our attendees the quality of calves Phenom is siring. This is just a commercial heifer straight out of my herd. I have no clue what she’s out of. I have used her mother as a recip a couple times, but other than that she’s just a black cow. If they look like this out of common ol’ Bessy, just imagine what they will look like out of the other powerful females selling!
Roche 8527
115
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Pick a Sire
DAM: A Nice Fronted One
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/3
The start of the unknowns. You can name her whatever you want. All I know is that these things work. Ask Mark Johnson at MPJ Cattle. He has bought these for years and they have all paid for themselves. She’s a long fronted, big bellied moose that can be bred a lot of different ways. Quality always trumps pedigree in my opinion.
lot 115
Roche 8T51
116
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Possibly a Meyer Son
DAM: A Bovine
AI Sire: Monumental
Roche 8T56
117
2018
Crossbred
SIRE: Heck if I Know
DAM: Whoever You Want it to Be
Due Date: 2/2
AI Sire: Monumental
Due Date: 2/2
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WEAVER 669
2016
118
1/2 Simmental
SIRE: Broker
DAM: Northern Improvement
AI Sire: Dew North
Due Date: 3/12
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I might be crazy for selling a cow this good that is just getting into her prime! This cow has produced some great seedstock in the few years we have had her, the first calf out of her was a low birth weight, red, brockle face, Blaze of glory bull that I used to cover my heifers this year and let me tell you I have been nothing but impressed with him! This baldy cow has it all. She is zipper fronted, massive middled and perfect structured! She is Safe AI to the great Dew North and I think this could be a grand slam mating!
GCC DEW NORTH
2015
Broker Maine
119
1/2 Maine 1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Broker
DAM: Sooner
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Due Date: 2/27
After a 30 hour shrink I was able to get this whale into the chute. She looked like a sumo wrestler flying coach, but it held her long enough to get her head clipped. She had a freak accident this spring. I was chasing about 20 pair through a bog, and she was one of them. When they came out with three dogs on their heels her calf was not with her. I went back and found him dead for no reason. I don’t know if he got trampled in the mud or what happened, but she had an easy summer and ballooned up. Much like I did my freshman year of college. That being said, she still possesses a ton of natural power. It’s hard to find one like her with bone and mass but still keeping a pretty front end. I honestly have never done anything with her. She calved a little late as a heifer and just ran with the commercial cows. She is young and ready to be put to work. It will be exciting to mate her different ways and see what she can produce in the future. These kind don’t come up for auction very often.
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Roche 737
2010
120
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Chopper
DAM: Draftpick
AI Sire: Monopoly 7
Due Date: 2/26
Yellowstone 2019 – ask me for my review before booking your next trip.
2015
Roche 471
121
1/2 Simmental
Eligible
SIRE: Meyer 734
DAM: PB Angus Donor (Rito 818)
AI Sire: Monopoly 7
Lot 121
2016
Due Date: 3/17
The three hardest things to beat in life: a cold Mountain Dew, a half stale Rocky Road candy bar and a true Meyer 734 cow. All three of these put a smile on my face. She is out of one of my best Angus donor cows and has a very bright future ahead of her. She is young and this will be her first club calf. Get back to the basics, and make some money with the original recipe just like KFC has done for years.
Roche 805
122
PB Simmental
SIRE: Thunderstruck
DAM: PB Simmental
AI Sire: Primo
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Due Date: 2/2
Eligible
2016
123
Roche 359 Chi
Eligible
SIRE: Dr. Who
DAM: Angus
Dr. Who females are like pliers on the belt of a Midwestern farmer. Reliable, functional and have stood the test of time to always produce results. She weaned a fall calf by Charlo that will be one of my best bulls in my bull sale this spring. She is beautiful through her front third, long-sided and sound at the ground. Based upon the amount of straw stuck to her side she likes to roll in straw like a pig as well.
AI Sire: Here I Am
Roche 94MM
Due Date: 2/26 2017
124
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Maternal Made
DAM: Yellow Jacket x Meyer
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Due Date: 2/26
I own this one with my dentist, and good friend, Alan Timmons. I currently have more money in my mouth than you have in your donor pen. I think I need a bridge on my front teeth and my kids’ teeth are rotting faster then roadkill on a hot summer day. Our dental bills would make you want to set up a Go Fund Me page for my family. We have a full sister to this female that is currently being flushed very successfully. A silver blaze with MaineTainer papers is hard to find. She had a heifer calf this year that will be coming to Dunlap next year. She is young and ready to make a run. Good stock!
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Roche 97W
2012
MaineTainer
125
Eligible
SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: Charolais
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Due Date: 3/8
Always be careful when buying cattle through a dispersion. I bought this Whiskey female out of a dispersion south of Idaho. She was bred but was bulling a few weeks after arriving to Idaho. I realize freak things happens but in a dispersion there’s rarely a return phone call to resolve a problem. Since I didn’t want to wait a year to see what I would get with her I put her right into embryo production. She performed exceptionally and has embryos selling later in the catalog. After banking a good chunk of eggs, I bred her on her first shot this summer, and here she is today. She is unique, too, for her different color and also her power. This is a club calf mama.
Roche CF10
2010
126
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Chill Factor
Roche RedM
2015
Crossbred
127
SIRE: Ali Son
DAM: Mama’s Boy
DAM: Dr. Who
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Lot 125
Due Date: 3/18
AI Sire: Holy Smoker
Due Date: 3/17
Probably about as cool maternal pedigree a guy could draw up, and she has a history to boot. Her first calf she ever raised went on to be sold to Dave Duello and brought close to $10,000 in his Denver sale. She has sold steers into Oklahoma and Texas, and has been flushed twice with average results of 5 to 6 good eggs. She weaned a nice steer calf this fall and was spun from being a fall calver to a spring. Pray for some color and watch out. She will raise a good one!
2014
Roche RB1369
128
MaineTainer
Eligible
SIRE: Rocky Balboa
129
MaineTainer
Eligible
DAM: Hired Man
Due Date: 2/26
A really nice cow that lost her baby to a late range fire last August. She was a sad little girl but, luckily, made it home. I kept her open and bred her for this sale. She has put two heifers in the sale in years past.
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Roche 82P SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: Sim Angus AI Sire: Monopoly 7
2017
AI Sire: Monopoly 7
Due Date: 2/26
Roche 17WE
2017
MaineTainer
130
Eligible
SIRE: Irish Whiskey
DAM: Kadabra
AI Sire: Primo
Due Date: 2/10
Every year, we have a club calf starter pack, and I think this certainly will fit in the package. Buy a flat brim hat, get your pants pressed, put on some Nikes, grab your clippers and then tell everybody how to run their cows because your three are doing so good. It will be four after you buy this one! She’s got a future high-dollar one brewing and after you get all that gear, you’ll be able to clip him into anything you want anyways. She’s powerful, she’s bred right, and she has the look to be that special kind of club calf mama. Oh, but don’t forget, you also need to delete your voicemail because that shows real club calf commitment like my buddy in Riverdale, NE.
Roche 207
131
2009
Crossbred
SIRE: Who Made Who
DAM: OCC Angus
AI Sire: Blue Goose
Due Date: 2/26
Coyote killing machines.
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Roche Colby
2015
MaineTainer
132
SIRE: Hard Whiskey
Roche 542
2015
3/8 Simmental
133
Eligible
SIRE: Pilgrim x Driver
DAM: Heatseeker
DAM: Maine-Anjou
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Due Date: 2/26
AI Sire: Red Rocky
Due Date: 2/26
Here is a unique breeding piece I purchased as a calf from my friend Scott Jorgensen in Adair, IA. She comes from his famous Heatseeker donor that has raised countless dollars for Scotty. In all honesty, she is just a tick too hard doing for my area, and thus her milk production is mediocre at best. She belongs in the land of milk and honey known as Iowa. We have banked some eggs on her and she was spun from a fall to a spring so the opportunity to part ways was an easy call. For those not at the sale, she is a shot straight legged, but it only showed itself when she became fat from running dry this summer. I can relate, I think I’m getting a little straight from the added weight that comes with having six kids!
Roche 237
2016
Crossbred
134
SIRE: Pilgrim Son
AI Sire: In God We Trust
Due Date: 2/25
Roche 5201 PB Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/1
18095076
SIRE: Shaw Revenue
DAM: Coneally Final Product
AI Sire: Daddy’s Money
Due Date: 3/17
Lot 136
Roche 029
137
2010
PB Angus
SIRE: SAV Net Worth 7580
DAM: Formera Q38
AI Sire: Monopoly 7
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Eligible
DAM: PB Char Donor (Hoo Doo Slasher)
136
135
Comp Char/Red Angus
SIRE: Firestorm
DAM: Meyer GD
2015
Roche 8P
2017
Roche 357
2013
138
Com Angus
SIRE: SAV Net Worth 7580
DAM: PB Angus
Due Date: 2/26
AI Sire: Make a Wish
Due Date: 3/6
Roche 2875
2012
139
Com Angus
SIRE: SAV Net Worth 7580
DAM: PB Angus
Roche 3210
2013
Com Angus
140
SIRE: SAV Net Worth 7580
DAM: PB Angus
AI Sire: Make a Wish
Due Date: 3/6
AI Sire: Make a Wish
Due Date: 3/6
Roche Galaxy
141
2010
PB Angus
SIRE: Boyd Next Day 6010
DAM: VDAR Legend
AI Sire: Focus
Due Date: 2/26
Yes, she has some age, but she still has some good years ahead of her. She raised my Lot 1 from 2014 that sold for $6,500. She had a bull bring $4,000 this past year and has always done an exceptional job. Don’t let the grey hair fool ya, she still knows how to raise them!
Roche 8417
2014
142
1/2 Simmental
SIRE: High Voltage x OCC Angus
DAM: Sim Angus
AI Sire: Monopoly 7
Nevada
Lot 141
2013
143
Roche 300
Commercial Sim/Angus
SIRE: Sim Angus
DAM: Sim Angus
Due Date: 2/25
AI Sire: Make A Wish
Due Date: 2/26
Winston Churchill once said, ”A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the subject, and short enough to create interest”. I feel the same about comments in a catalog. They aren’t all great, they aren’t all bad, they aren’t all donors. Just call it the way you see it. I don’t think we have the next great one here, but we certainly have a usable product. We didn’t save the best for last like most online sales say. She just got tagged last, and I’m sick of typing footnotes so I just want to thank you for reading the catalog and hopefully we will see you in January. If you’re able to make it to the sale please be sure to come and say hi, and introduce yourself. Hopefully we can do business in the future.
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Roche Roy
144
2018
SIRE: One in the Chamber
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Angus
Here is our feedlot mascot, “Roy”. We’ll be sad to see him leave as he is quite the character. I have some Holstein recipients that he has been trying to breed. They are about 6’ tall and he is a club calf bull. He seems more frustrated than a Mexican learning english and trying to sound out the word colonel. I’ll actually be amazed if Cody Schaben can even pronounce colonel without asking Siri. Roy is a real honest club calf bull. He is probably TH free and loaded with real power and bone. No fluff and puff here. He is out of a great Whiskey and will probably throw some awesome color.
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Roche BP1461
144B
2018
SIRE: Black Power Play
DAM: PB Angus (Charlo)
A true club calf power bull that can actually walk around the pasture and breed a cow! The bulls in Denver every year look great, but if you were to see them at two-years-old, many can not move. This bull moves extremely well and shows no signs of any future problems. Quit breeding to future cripples and at least start with something that can move.
Roche BDR
145
2018
SIRE: Business Done Right
DAM: PB Shorthorn Donor (Vortec)
This is natural calf out of a purebred Shorthorn I bought from Michael Greiner. He will paper as a Shorthorn Plus, and based on the current trends in the Shorthorn cattle, he is about 4’ wider than anything on the market. He is super sound and awesome marked. Maybe more of a southern style but the females should work and maybe you can luck into a steer.
Roche T86
145B
2018
SIRE: Full Flush
DAM: 1/4 Simmental Donor
Yes you read the pedigree right, that is a Full Flush. I was trying to get females, but we got a bull. I pulled hair on him just to make sure I am correct because he certainly has a lot of guts to be a flush. His mother is the donor to Lots 11, 12 and 14 as well. She is the reason he looks the way he does. He is an exceptional clean up bull that will make awesome female that I will gladly buy back.
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Roche R588
146
SIRE: MAB (sexed male)
DAM: Firewater x Chantel
Due Date: 2/2
Full sibs sold for over $3,500 avg. at Dankers and Sullivans in 2019 pasture sales.
donor dam of lot 146 Sold in 2019 to Kevin Fisher, Ohio.
Roche 147R
147
SIRE: MAB (sexed male)
DAM: Firewater x Chantel
Due Date: 2/2
Roche 148R
148
SIRE: Red Rocky
DAM: Troubador x Chantel
Due Date: 2/24
Full sibs sold for over $3,500 avg. at Dankers and Sullivans in 2019 pasture sales.
A great Toubador donor from the great Faber herd. She is a powerful, choked neck, golden goddess. These will click!
Roche 149R
Roche 150R
149
SIRE: Red Rocky
DAM: Troubador x Chantel
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Due Date: 2/24
150
SIRE: Monopoly 2
DAM: Troubador x Chantel
Due Date: 4/20
Roche Cougar
151
1/2 Simmental
SIRE: High Calibur
DAM: Angus
AI Sire: Charlo
Due Date: 2/15
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Rick frye lot
I have been putting embryos in for Rick Frye for the past three years. In fact, a lot of his high selling steers were raised from his Idaho recips. In the fall of 2018, I had a recip that was confirmed bred, but we did not have any record of who the mating was. For some reason I did not write it down. I left her with my normal SIRE: Red Rocky spring calving cows and forgot all about it. Fast forward to March of 2019, I was DAM: Monti Montana Donor going through a group of cows on my 4-wheeler when all of a sudden, the most attractive, powerful, massive, hairy, freak, jumped up and ran off with his mom. Due Date: 2/28 The second I saw him, I knew he wasn’t mine. I have never had anything look like that before in my life. I ran him down with my 4-wheeler, threw a tag in his ear and sent a video to Rick Frye saying I had found one of his calves and he is dang good. I still have that text message, and I’m glad I do. It’s somewhat sentimental now. I ended up sending that calf back to Rick’s place, but I asked him to keep me informed with what that calf ended up doing. Like I said I have never seen anything like him before. Rick called me in July with a little excitement (by Rick Frye standards) in his voice to inform me that he had sold the calf. Wade Rodgers bought him as a display bull for Denver. We all know Wade only buys the best so you can only imagine the ticket it took to buy him. I told Rick he had to take his family to Disney World now and celebrate. I told him I expected a thank you or a Christmas card because, vicariously, I paid for the trip with my amazing herdsman skills. We all know what happened to Rick, and that the Disney World trip never did happen. Even though it didn’t happen with Rick on this earth, I would still like to see Stephanie take her two, sweet children on some type of vacation, compliments of Roche Cattle. Thus, we are donating this pregnant recip carrying a Red Rocky (which Rick told me to use) out of a Monti Montana donor, because everything about this mating oozes my good buddy: Rick Frye. All of the proceeds, 100%, will go to Stephanie and her children, to go on a fun vacation this summer. Rick was certainly one of the good guys. We did a lot of business together and he will be missed. Take the vacation, coach the team, tuck them in at night and put work off until tomorrow because life is short and your time with your family is all you will ever wish you had more of.
152
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Roche Stock Dog -Red 8 Months Old
153A
Male
BREED: Border Collie
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Roche Stock Dog -Bell 8 Months Old
153B
Female
BREED: Border Collie
We take pride in being the first to ever sell stock dogs on SC. Many have tried since, but they just aren’t the same. Our dogs are the type that can think for themselves. They don’t need to be told what to do every second of the day. I always say, “I want my dogs to act like a good hired man.” They need to see what is going on and then figure it out for themselves. Some hired hands, it doesn’t matter how many times you teach, show and explain they never do get it. There are even more dogs this way. These aren’t that type. Drag them everywhere you go, let them see everything you do. They will figure it out for themselves and you will look like the best dog trainer in a 500 mile radius. These two prospects will have been started and understand their directional commands (Go By, Away to Me) and have a basic down. This is all that is needed for a good dog. Fire the hired man, he steals to much anyways and buy a dog. You won’t be disappointed, but if you are, remember, all dogs go to heaven like the movie says.
Roche Monopoly (Original) x Lot 125
154A
SIRE: Monopoly Original
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
Roche Monopoly (Original) x Lot 125
154b
SIRE: Monopoly Original
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
Roche Monopoly (Original) x Lot 125
154c
SIRE: Monopoly Original
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
monopoly
Roche Monopoly (Original) x Lot 125
155 A
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
Lot 125
Roche Monopoly (Original) x Lot 125
155b
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
Roche fu man chu x Lot 125
155c
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Irish Whiskey x Char
fu man chu
Roche fu man chu x Lot 7
156A
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
Lot 125
Roche fu man chu x Lot 7
156b
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Thriller x Sooner
DAM: Thriller x Sooner
Roche fu man chu x Lot 7
156c
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Thriller x Sooner
fu man chu
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Roche Fu Man Chu x Lot 35
157
SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: Outsider x Turton
Roche Red Rocky x Monti Montana
158
SIRE: Red Rocky
DAM: Monti Montana Donor
A great Monti Montant Donor that raised a promotional bull as a natural calf that we will be selling later this spring.
In God We Trust x Colby
In God We Trust x Colby
159
160
Donor sells as Lot 132.
Donor sells as Lot 132.
SIRE: In God We Trust
DAM: Hard Whiskey x Heatseeker
In God We Trust x Char 2
SIRE: In God We Trust
DAM: Hard Whiskey x Heatseeker
Fu Man x 293 Meyer Donor
161
162
High Selling donor last year to Brad Otto. Full sib sells as Lot 55.
Maternal sib sells as Lot 21. Meyer 293 has sold females through the Western Exposure for $4,000 - $19,000.
SIRE: In God We Trust
DAM: PB Char Donor
red rocky x maternal made x troubador
163
SIRE: Red Rocky
DAM: Maternal Made x Troubador
High selling donor purchased from Dave Duello in the Western Elite. She raised a heifer calf that will be a high seller next year.
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SIRE: Fu Man Chu
DAM: 293 Meyer donor
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PAST BEAR HUNT WINNERS: 2017 - Stoltz Exotics - Nebraska 2017 - Doug Hansen - Iowa 2018 - Kevin Fisher - Ohio 2019 - Brian Little - Oklahoma
First of all, I want to thank Trevor for this bear hunt. We went to North Central Idaho with Jay Roche and two other guides. Between their stories - some true, and some I’m not so sure about - and the scenic country, it was quite the experience! Trevor calls it “God’s Country,” but I’m not sure about that. We hunted with dogs that had GPS collars, across creeks, rocks, trees, snow and other obstacles. At one point, the bear was 12 miles away from us and circled back and ended up 1.2 miles away. The dogs tree’d him, thank heavens, because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to walk 12 miles in the mountains to shoot him. The hospitality Jay showed us was second to none. Besides wrecking two four-wheelers and tearing the front end out of one pick-up, everyone came back in one piece with lots of pictures and stories. I could go on and on about this hunting trip, but Trevor said to keep it short! Thanks again, Trevor, for one hell of an adventure. - John Stoltz PAGE 64 • WESTERN EXPOSURE
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