Herd sires

This is how a herd sire should look.” This is the comment we hear, about “Eddie.” We selected this Freys Quality son and have never looked back. He’s a generational bull, with so many things to like: he’s big, easy keeping and breeds with so much consistency. He produces length, frame, thickness and muscle shape in a clean phenotype. And his daughters are also going to be great foundation builders.

This boy is breeding more consistent than his grandsire, Coneally Spur. He offers more power in his performance, ranking high in the breed in WW and YW. His progeny will also have more carcass value. He’s throwing tremendously long bodied calves with a lot of top thickness. They’re just the kind of calves Steve Hellwig at Hub City Livestock likes to sell. We’re also seeing his positive influence in his daughters.

The $85,000 top-seller at 2024 Mead Farms bull sale. Has breed-leading muscle, feet, & looks, while covering ALL the bases on paper. Sires heavy weaning weights (for those selling calves by the pound at weaning) yet modest mature weights, keeping cow size in check. His 17.7” ribeye gives him an off-the-charts 1.44” of ribeye per 100 pounds of body weight. His sire, Basin Safe Deposit, was the 2020 Montana performance bull co-op top seller, passing on foot quality, carcass merit and curve bending numbers. Cattlemen who understand structure and foot quality connection call this lineage, legitimate foot improvers. MM by the numbers: Ultra-elite for $Weaned calf value index, elite for $Combined value index and $Maternal value index; better than breed avg for WW from maternal milk EPD, PAP score EPD, scrotal circumference EPD, docility score EPD, hoof angle score EPD, BW EPD, $EN, and others. Call him an amazing cow sense bull, the kind that produces make-a-living or get hauled-to-town progeny.