Sires used at Rouse Red Angus for the 2024 calf crop
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EPDs current as of 8/5/2023, for most up to date EPDs click their name.
Jumpstart grabbed the Red Angus breed’s attention in the spring of 2022 when he sold for $185,000. It is not too often that you can find his combination of actual performance and EPD data along with his incredibly thick, powerful, deep bodied and attractive phenotype. And then throw in his terrific feet and soundness and it was a no-brainer to plug him into our breeding program in a major way. We really like our Energize calves, but this Energize son has taken his sire’s place in our AI line-up. We expect him to add more growth and mature size than his more moderate sire, and have mated him accordingly this first season. We are anxiously awaiting our first Jumpstart calves in 2024!
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Dynasty is our resident herd sire. As we searched through the bulls in the 2021 Bieber Spring Sale, Dynasty was the one that really stood out to us from all the rest, checking the boxes that we were looking for. He offers a pedigree that is different enough for us to be able to use him as a clean-up bull, and his data puts him right where we want to be as far as calving ease, growth, and carcass (both marbling and ribeye area). His dam is a top young Gladiator daughter who descends from the same Basin Rose 710P cow that excited us so much about the In The Black bull. Dynasty offers a 6+ frame with awesome feet, and he has a very high libido with a gentle disposition. He has been a very easy fleshing bull and we expect him to make some very productive and easy keeping daughters. He has been a very good calving ease sire for us, with calves that are slender and aerodynamic at birth, but they fill out as they grow. Our first crop of Dynasty calves was a small sample, but they showed good gains and excellent carcass scans, and we have a larger group born this year and many more coming next year as well.
After four years of Stockmarket dominating our sire line-up, it finally came time to move on, but we haven’t moved too far. Blue Chip is our pick of all the great Stockmarket sons out there. He offers the same do-it-all EPD profile of his sire, with an extra emphasis on calving ease. We certainly appreciate his high marbling, with his EPD at the top of the breed and his ultrasound ratio of 137. He is moderate framed but very long bodied, with extra muscle and style.
Paycheck is a bull that Biebers bought from Lundgren Angus Ranch in Kansas. He offers a different pedigree that is unrelated to most of our lines. We seriously considered using Paycheck two years ago, but ultimately went another way. His first set of sons sold last spring at Biebers’ sale and they were the standout sire group of the entire sale. In fact, the top four high sellers were all Paycheck sons. We didn’t want to make that mistake again, so we made it a priority to get in on him this year. Unfortunately Paycheck is deceased and there is a very limited amount of semen left, but fortunately, we had excellent luck with our limited use, getting 16 pregnancies from 18 straws. Paycheck provides growth in the top 1% of the breed while keeping frame size in check. He also boasts both marbling and ribeye area at the top of the breed.
D49 is a Stormy son we raised and used as our heifer clean up bull for three years. We decided he was too big to breed heifers and he was with our group of cows at the home farm the next three years. We must have kept him one year too long, as he came up lame on a hind leg just three days into his seventh breeding season, and we decided that would be the end for a bull that has been a real favorite of visitors and neighbors. He was a moderate framed, deep bodied and muscular bull with a great disposition. His dam is an Epic daughter from the great Lena cow family.
J47 is a Stockmarket son who we used as the clean up bull for our heifers in 2022 and as the replacement for Stormy D49 with the cows in 2023. He is the last calf from our 637 cow who was 15 years old when she raised him. 637 was the last remaining cow that we bought through the Basin Red Angus dispersal in 2008.
K27 is an Energize son that we used to clean up on our heifers in 2023. He combines calving ease with carcass in a muscular, dark cherry red package.
Additional sires represented in the Rouse Red Angus 2022 and 2023 calf crops
Stockmarket is the leading son of Stockman who was the second high seller in the 2018 Bieber Spring Sale. He is a grandson of our Bieber Adelle 297Y donor cow. Stockmarket posts the kind of do-it-all EPD profile that we are striving for in our herd, with heifer safe calving ease, top of the breed growth, strong maternal predictions, and high end carcass traits. We just love our Stockmarket calves and now that we have some daughters in production we like him even more. His sons have been some of the most sought after bulls in the breed the last few years. We feel that he is the best all around bull in the breed right now, and he was our most used AI sire for four consecutive seasons.
Energize is our favorite Atomic son who was the high seller in the 2019 Bieber Spring Sale. Like Stockmarket, he is a grandson of our Adelle 297Y donor cow, but his dam is a Hard Drive daughter. He is a moderate framed bull with tremendous depth of body and thickness. We really like what we have seen from our Energize calves, they really stand out for being wide made and heavy boned despite having excellent calving ease. Energize is another sire who is quickly becoming one of the best and most widely used bulls in the Red Angus breed. As much as we like our Energize calves, we decided to move on to his son Jumpstart for the 2023 season.
Flashdrive is a Hard Drive grandson who puts together a really impressive set of data. He has an interesting pedigree, besides being a grandson of Hard Drive, he is a grandson of Forefront, a bull who has done very well in the Bieber and Pieper herds but we haven’t used ourselves, and is also a great-grandson of the Basin Lass 7409 cow who we owned and who did a great job here for us. Flashdrive’s dam has gotten off to a great start with her first three calves, posting an impressive 110 MPPA, and has found her way into the Bieber donor pen. Flashdrive excels in growth and carcass traits, which has given him breed leading Gridmaster and ProS Indexes. We mainly used him on some of our light birth weight cows, and really like what we have seen from his calves thus far.
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Spartacus is a son of Samurai who was the high selling bull in the 2014 Bieber Red Angus Production Sale. Spartacus is a stout boned, thick, deep bodied bull with a great disposition and feet. He has been a very good calving ease sire for us. His calves have great vigor at birth, which is a hallmark of the Samurai calves as well. We used Spartacus for 5 years, but have moved on to the next generation, using some of the many great Spartacus sons available, including Trojan, Maximus, In The Black, and Gladiator. The only thing keeping us from using this sire line any harder is the number of females in our herd who are already related to him, but rest assured that the Spartacus line will continue to be a significant part of our breeding program.
Hard Drive proved himself to be one of the best bulls in the Red Angus breed in the 2010’s. He is an outcross to most of our herd, while providing breed leading growth, marbling and REA. He has tremendous depth and spring of rib, with above average bone, great feet and an excellent disposition. His sons were really in high demand in the Bieber production sales when he was in use. His dam really did a great job as a donor for Biebers, producing Hard Drive, Deep End and Gladiator, and sold in Denver to Twedt Red Angus for $30,000. We have daughters in production now, and they are doing a great job. Hard Drive semen is very rare, and we are only getting Hard Drive calves through our ET program currently.
Additional Sires which have impacted the Rouse Red Angus Herd
We feel that Atomic may be the best son of Andras Fusion out there. He is a deep bodied, soggy made bull who has a terrific combination of calving ease, growth, maternal, and carcass traits. We really like the soft structure and easy moving design he transmits to his progeny. After using Atomic as a full fledged sire group for four years, which is rare for a sire in our program, he has been replaced by his son Energize. Despite the fact that we have moved on to Energize, we still think very highly of Atomic, and really like the daughters we have in our herd.
We purchased Deep End as the high selling bull in the fall 2015 Bieber sale. Deep End is a Rollin Deep son who is out of Hard Drive’s dam, combining one of the all time great sires at Bieber’s with one of the most productive cows to come out of their herd. Deep End puts together an impressive combination of breed leading growth and carcass traits. He provides added frame size and length to his progeny, is heavy boned, and has dark red color with a terrific disposition. We have used him both AI and natural service, but unfortunately he suffered a breeding injury while covering cows in 2020 and his natural service career has come to an end.
Rollin Deep was the high selling bull in Biebers’ 2012 sale. He is the leading son of Roosevelt, and his dam is one of the very best cows to come out of Biebers’ herd. Rollin Deep has tremendous depth of body, thickness and a great overall phenotype. His calves have excellent growth and carcass, and his daughters make top notch cows. Much like his sire, Rollin Deep’s sons have been very well received by commercial cattlemen and purebred breeders alike. Rollin Deep semen is hard to come by now, and going forward we will only have a limited number of Rollin Deep progeny coming from our ET program.
Samurai is a Cheyenne son that we raised in 2010 and was purchased by Select Sires. Samurai calves have been doing a great job for us, as well as for Bieber Red Angus and breeders around the country. Nothing makes us happier than seeing the footnote in the Select Sires catalog calling him “one of our best for customer satisfaction”. Samurai has a tremendous spread from low birth weight to high growth. His calves are thick and deep and have excellent structure and movement. His dam was the best cow in our herd for years, and Samurai’s daughters look like they will carry on her maternal success.
