DIAMOND N BRAUNVIEH

4632 Cow Family

Picture above is Miss Golden Link 2015-Polled Purebred out of Mr Golden Link "Gold Nugget" 5165. 

2015 is the dam to DIA N Goldberry, DIA N Polled Rascal and DIA N PolarSteel.  

Mike Long, Ulysses, KS, owns half interest in 2015.

Above is DIA N Goldberry, daughter of 2015 and a donor at Broken Oak in Texas.

 Directly below is a picture of 2015's dam, Miss GLB 7058, at the GLB Dispersal where

Broken Oak bought her and she is one of their lead donors.

Above is her Grand Dam Miss Golden Link 4632 pictured at age 17.  She is the dam to Miss Golden Link 8135 who was sired by "Gold Nugget" and was the top donor at River Hills Ranch and now is at Broken Oak Ranch in Seguin, TX.  We have a BraunAngus halfblood out of 8135 pictured below.

Hannah Cow Family

Miss Pol-Blac 601M-   601M is a daughter of our E101 cow that we consider to be one of our Foundation Cow Lines. 601M may be the best black cow in the breed.  She is a polled purebred, homozygous black cow  and  on her paternal side is a Risson x H8135 granddaughter and goes back to the same 4632 cow family as Miss Golden Link 2015. 

She is the dam to DIA N Polled Revelation who topped his category at the first National Bull Test,

and dam to DIA N Impact who also excelled on test at Green Springs Bull Test

and is now at Richards Braunvieh. 

True to great cow families, a maternal sister, DIA N Hannah 608S

is making her presence known in our herd as well.

601's 2009 calf  is a new Junior Herd Sire for us, DIA N Polar Bear 922W.  Tested at Green Springs he was a negative 1.52 RFI, gained 3.83 per day, had over 1.4 inches of Rib Eye per hundred weight and scanned a 3.6 IMF.  We think he will be a heifer bull.

A 2010 heifer sold in the National Sale to Oklahoma.

Her 2011 calf may well be her most complete and best yet, a double polled son of KDG Bonanza.

Alex Cow Family

DIA N Alex 514R-A Polled Purebred Mr Slate daughter out of the Alex cow family.  She is a full sib to DIA N Tiger, sire Lighting F and Diamond N Herdsire DIA N PolarSteel.  Her first daughter is the Ridgefield Farms donor DIA N Alex 736T that was dam of the 2010 Show heifer of the year.   We have a maternal sister to her DIA N Alex 510R, who is sired by Basic Beef, and she may be the best cow on the place.  Her first calf was the champion steer carcass at the Beef Empire Days in 2009.  Pictured below at 14 and at 13 years of age is Alex F022, dam of 514R and 510R and also 511R, sire of Polar Steel.  Note her structural correctness of her feet and legs in the first picture and her big hip and pelvic in the second picture. 

The cow below is F022's dam at 19 years of age.  It takes real function for a cow to stay live that long. To survive is just part of it, no one keeps a problem cow around, so cows that stay in the herd that long have to be structurally correct, fertile, good uddered, and productive.

DIA N Alex 514W-Stoney Scheer from California purchased this heifer from us last year.  She is a Rascal daughter out of our DIA N Alex 510R cow.  510' is the dam of our Champion Steer Carcass in the 2009 Beef Empire Days Live and Carcass Contest.  510' has one of the best, if not the best heifers in our replacement pen this year.  914W is one of those heifers we never wanted to sell, but Stoney had just purchased DIA N Widetrack and asked if we had a donor quality heifer to sell that could cheapen up the freight rate for the trailer ride back to California.

Thanks Stoney for your beleif in our program helping to build yours!

We will try to get a picture this summer of 510R and post it, she is a Basic Beef daughter out of the great Alex F022 now owned by Mike Long and is as typey of a female as you will ever want to see.

Hershey Cow Family

DIA N Queen of Diamonds

Dam to DIA N Widetrack and full sib to DIA N Hershey 88P

whose Polar Steel daughter scanned a 5.5 IMF at 10 months of age.

Their dam was our first donor cow.

The Importance of COW FAMILIES

We have found whether its raising Bulls that rank high in National Bull Tests, or Steers that win Carcass Contests, or Females that are the Type and Kind that is good enough to attract National Attention, you cannot get there by breeding mediocre cows even if you use the best AI Sires available. To make the really good ones, more often than not it takes genetics of merit on the dam side.    

Bull, Steer, and Heifer progeny are all we ever get out of our cows, so we feel pretty strong about having the kind of cows that can make this 3 legged stool we sit on keep us sitting upright.  If we raise a calf and it can't make a value added bull, or a good feeding and killing steer, or a replacement female as good as her mom, then we should'nt be in the business of selling breeding stock to others.

Its the strength of the Cows we have bred and culled around, or cows we have bought and then identified over time that allow us to proudly call ourselves Seedstock Producers.

This little gem was the poster calf for the BAA PVP program.  She is our top scanning IMF heifer at 6.1.  She's a halfblood out of a Scotch Cap bred Angus cow from one of their

all time best cow families and DIA N Polar Steel 707T. We have 3 maternal sisters in our herd.  Her dam '828' just never misses on quality, raises them big, and breeds back early and is founding a great cow family of BraunAngus in our herd.  Her dam is pictured on our Beef Builder page.

Champion Cow/Calf Pair at American Royal,

Diamond N and Rocking L donor cow Miss Golden Link 2015

Champion Cow Calf Pair at the National Western

DIA N Delilah and Quinto sired heifer calf who now reside at Broken Oak in Seguin, TX

Calf Pics

  DIA N Alex 712T is a full sib to 514R and is in Ridgefield cow herd in North Carolina now along with DIA N Alex 736T.

Queen of Diamonds who was out of our original 810 donor cow.  She went on to be the Reserve Grand Champion Female at the Nebraska Cattlemens Classic and is the dam to DIA N Wide Track and one of our top cows.  

Diamond N Cows and Calves