Spring Update, Summer Outlook

It has been a crazy and odd start to the summer around here.  We got in the fields extremely early compared to last year and have been extremely dry.  What a difference a year makes!  Last year I was writing about how wet we were and now we can't buy rain!  It really has only affected the hay and the pasture ground for us so far.  We have yielded about half the hay that we normally do with 60 more acres to cut for the first cutting.  The early heat coupled with the later frost really nipped the hay and forced a lot of guys around here to mow the wheat for hay.  Also with the pasture pretty much being nonexistant we have been forced to feed more hay than we would like to.
That being said the cows and calves are looking great in spite of the pasture!  The calves are hitting the creep and the cows are getting bred.  It is an awesome time of the year for predicting matings and invisioning how they will turn out in the coming months.  I am extremely excited about the opportunities for marketing the calves this fall.  We have a knockout Bismarck 243R heifer that will sure turn some heads as well as some great looking Airline and T-Bone heifers.  Also their is an April Lock-N-Load heifer that will garner a lot of attention this fall.  We still have roughly 20 more to calve and some exciting matings yet to come that have got me excited.  The calves will be marketed privately this fall and we will also be consigning a heifer to the Hoosier Beef Congress sale again this December.  Calves will be available for viewing after the 1st of August and I will try and snap some pictures in the pasture as the summer goes on.
Until next time!

Alex

Spring Update

It has been an exciting spring for us at Cosgray Polled Herefords. We have 50 calves roaming the pasture and they are looking really good. The Airline calves are stout hipped, wide topped, with a lot of bone. The T-Bone calves are all cherry red, with a lot of bone and thickness. Our A.I. Sired calves all look great and we will have plenty to offer this fall no matter what you're in the market for. It is also breeding season and we are in full force synching up cows and getting everything A.I.'d. We will have some great matings for next year as well as many new E.T. matings to hit the ground next year. Since I last posted we have acquired a new herd sire. He comes from Topp Herefords and is a TH 223 71I Victor 755T son that we have named TH 25P 755T Alcatraz 46Y. We are expecting big things from him and should have semen available in June. We feel he will be a moderate birth, high growth bull that will excel in making great females. We will also be breeding a lot of cows to AA HRD Chuckwagon 0138, the 2012 Division Champion at Ft. Worth. Chuck is a moderate framed meat wagon of a bull that we feel will moderate frame and birth, add depth, dimension, and thickness. He is by far the easiest fleshing bull we have ever seen and gains on minimal inputs. Ask us about semen options on this exciting bull. We will be marketing the calves in a variety of venues this fall and I encourage everyone to come on out and walk the pastures and check everything over. This is the most balanced set of calves we have had and we have roughly 50 more to calve. Give me a call if you are ever in the area or simply want to talk cattle! Until next time. Alex

Calving Season

Calving season is in full swing at Cosgray Polled Herefords. We have 35 calves on the ground from many different sires and they are growing like weeds. The Airline calves are cut from the same cloth. Big hipped, big boned, with a cherry red color. We are expecting some ET calves any day now from Nelson Land and Cattle and we couldn't be more excited. They are 719T's out of two of their most consistent donor cows, 33N and K077. For all calving updates you can find us at Twitter @amcherefords and on Facebook at Cosgray Polled Herefords. I will try and update the blog more often with pictures added!

Alex

Thank You!

A big thank you goes out to the Dave Wolfe family for their recent purchase of 3 show heifers and 3 bred cows.  We can't wait to see how the show heifers develop and show this summer!  Thank you for the repeat business and for the continued confidence in the Cosgray program!

Thank You!

We would like to thank John Murdock and Family of Rocking M Farms for their recent purchase of 5 bred heifers.  We look forward to hearing how they turn out for them!  Thanks for the confidence in our program!

Happy New Year!

Cosgray Polled Herefords wants to wish all of our friends and customers a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2012!  We have had a great year at Cosgray Polled Herefords and can't wait to see what opportunities arise in 2012. 

We have quite a few exciting matings expected in the coming weeks and the anticipation is growing.  We will start calving in the next week or so and won't finish up until early this fall.  We are expecting calves from our herd sires AA LF Airline 849 ET and AA LF T-Bone 9132 as well as many popular A.I. sires such as Star TCF Shock & Awe 158W ET, Harvie Tailor Made ET 7W, LCC Back N Time ET, and H Easy Deal 609 ET to name a few.  We will also be having the first calves from our popular bull AA HRD Chuckwagon 0138 hitting the ground this spring.  Be on the look out for updates and photos of the calves!

Cosgray Polled Herefords will be kicking the 2012 show season off at Fort Worth.  With the help of B2 Custom Fitting, we are taking our partner bull with Able Acres, AA HRD Chuckwagon 0138 and a yearling heifer to show.  Nick has them dialed in and looking great and it will be exciting to see how they do down south.  Be sure to check them out while you are down there. 

For updates on our calving season and show season be sure to friend us at Facebook!

Alex

Thank You!

We would like to thank John Murdock and Family of Rocking M Farms for purchasing our consignment to the Hoosier Beef Congress sale.  She will be in good hands with John and his family and we look forward to seeing how she shows this spring and summer.