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Colorado
Hobo continues to redefine industry standards for thickness, fleshing
ability and capacity. He has had a monumental impact on the Red Angus
breed. Sons and daughters are excelling in grass-based programs all
over the world. For nine years, Colorado Hobo was used naturally on
40 to 110 cows per year. When DNA tested by Igenity, he received a
score of 9 out of 10 for marbling. Several outstanding Colorado Hobo
sons are working in our program — but I continue to be partial
to the original model.
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Déjà vu
continues to be one of our most popular Colorado Hobo sons. We sold
him at 11 years of age. As a calf, he reminded us so much of his sire
that we called him Déjà vu. This is a calving ease bull
with extreme power and thickness. Déjà vu’s birth
weight and calving ease direct EPDs are both in the top 10% of the
Red Angus breed. His momma is a fault-free, 1120-pound cow that is
still working at 15 years of age. Déjà vu’s maintenance
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There
is “No Doubt” that this is one of the very best Colorado
Hobo sons to enter our program. He is a real meat wagon, with a birth
weight EPD that is in the top 20% of the Red Angus breed. Everyone
who has used this bull says his calves are the best they’ve ever
produced. No Doubt goes back to Anchor and Vanesa 5900 on the bottom
side of his pedigree. His pedigree is stacked for maternal greatness.
No Doubt is co-owned with Ozark Hills Red Angus and Ohlde Cattle Co.
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Cinco de Mayo is a
deep-bodied, slick-haired, early-shedding bull that is working great
in the east and southeast — as well as in the west. His daughters
are high-volume, moderate-sized, perfect-uddered cows that everyone
loves. Cinco’s dam was a fault-free 1080 pound cow that had a
tremendous impact on our Red Angus program. She is the maternal grand
dam of Colorado High and Arapahoe. She came up open at 12 years of
age, so we sold her. Cinco de Mayo is co-owned with Ozark Hills Red
Angus.
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Marias is somewhat of an
outcross to our program. He is a TANK with a GREAT disposition! His
dam is a very nice, fault-free, tight-uddered cow that produced until
she was 14 years old. Every Marias daughter we have seen has had an
absolutely perfect udder with small teats. Marias also passes on phenomenal
marbling and ribeye area. He is co-owned with Reinart’s Prairie
Reds in Iowa and Maplewood Acres Farm in Missouri.
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Lancelot had explosive
growth from birth to a year of age. His weaning index was 113%. His
yearling index was 114%, and his gain on test index was an amazing
130%. When you can pack this much performance in a 4.5 frame bull,
you really have something. Lancelot’s maintenance energy EPD
is in the top 7% of the breed. His daughters are the keeping kind.
Lancelot is co-owned with the Red Fork Red Angus.
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Keepsake is
a forage-tested bull that sold in our 2003 Colorado Spring Bull Sale.
He was our lead-off Colorado Hobo son. He went to Arkansas, but could
not deal with the infected fescue. Soon after we brought him home,
our vet gave him a clean bill of health. Keepsake is homozygous for
both the GeneStar and TenderGENE DNA tests for tenderness. When it
comes to beef on the dinner plate, we believe tenderness is the most
important trait to select for. Co-owned with the Rhoades Ranch and
Bobby Umberson.
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Arapahoe
is a consistent frame reducer and disposition improver. His dam is
my all-time favorite Red Angus cow. She weaned her last calf at the
age of 15. Her maintenance energy EPD is in the top one half of 1%
for the Red Angus breed. She was as close to NO-input as we have ever
seen. Arapahoe’s maintenance energy EPD is in the top 10% of
the Red Angus breed. He will produce efficient, low-maintenance, long-lasting,
good-uddered females. Co-owned with the Rhoades Ranch near Burlington,
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Colorado Special is an ET calf out of a well-proven, perfect-uddered,
15-year old cow that we love. He is a very thick, easy-fleshing, well-muscled
bull with superb masculinity and testicular development. We have no
use for those flat-muscled, slab-sided, cow-headed, small-nutted, sissy
bulls. Colorado Special is co-owned with KOMA Cattle Company of Wyoming.
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Pace Setter was a thick,
deep-ribbed Colorado Hobo son with a little extra growth, performance
and frame. His dam was a very efficient, good-uddered Hero daughter
that only weighed 1085 pounds as an 11-year-old. She weaned 56% of
her own weight in this good bull calf. Pace Setter’s maintenance
energy EPD is in the top 10% of the Red Angus breed. Limited semen
inventory.
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Colorado Image’s
pedigree is stacked with low-input genetics that excel in grass-based
programs. His maintenance energy EPD is in the top 5% of the Red Angus
breed. His birth weight EPD is also in the top 5% of the breed. Colorado
Image has been DNA tested to be homozygous for both the GeneStar and
the TenderGENE tenderness tests. Co-owned with Lorin McDowell.
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We
have been looking for a son of the great Oscar 0366 bull for several
years. 0366 is a 1990 model. He has consistently produced small-framed,
good-uddered, easy-fleshing cows that last and last. Center Stage combines
extreme calving ease with tremendous thickness. Both his birth weight
EPD and maintenance energy EPD are in the top 5% of the Red Angus breed.
Our first Center Stage sired calves are everything we hoped they would
be. Co-owned with Red Fork Red Angus.
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