Commercial Cows

Our classification of commercial cows is an animal that is of unknown breeding and is larger in size than our Herefords or the Lowlines. Even though some of our females are purebred Angus, and could have been registered, we still consider them commercial because they are "full size" Angus. 

We are in the process of cutting down on our commercial cows and only plan on keeping two females (#12 and #16). The others are A.I.ed and exposed to Power for spring calves, but it is just economically unfeasible for us to keep them right now. 

We have found that Angus/Charlois crossbred cows really work well for us. I am partial to the color, which is a tan, but we call it "mouse" and refer to the group of tan cows collectively as "the mouse cows."

Name: #12

Tag number: #12

Breed: Angus/Charlois

Offspring:

          MLAR Peanut Power

          MLAR Power's Dream

This is my favorite cow. She also happens to be the dam of Peanut and Dream. Blame the bad photography on me, I'll have to get a better picture. Ironically, she is one of the cows referred to by a tag number still. Historically she has passed on the tan color to every calf I have seen out of her, including when she was bred to our commercial Angus bull, Charlie (Charlie was awesome, but he had to be sold for beef after he broke. [NOTE: I DID NOT NAME MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE BULL!] Jeramie banded everything so we never had a bull out of him. Shortly after Charlie was sold, we drew semen from Power and I found we could have drawn Charlie, even after he broke. Someone didn't have to be too close to hear my disappointment. Although it wouldn't have been practical to keep females out of him, his bull calves had phenomenal growth and were great to put in the freezer).

Name: #16

Tag number: #16

Breed: Angus

Offspring:

          Pogo

This cow did not really stand out to me until she produced a calf from Power. The combination was outstanding! She never did get a name, though. Jeramie always referred to them by tag numbers (or so he claimed).

Name: Maggie

Tag number: #4

Breed: Angus

Maggie was the first commercial cow that I named. She caught my eye from the beginning: she is exactly what the commercial Angus breeders are looking for in type and style.