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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of history in that calf,\u201d says Past IBBA President Robert Vineyard, DDS of DDD Miss Jana 150B22. Vineyard owned one of DDD Miss Jana 150B22\u2019s predecessors, and he knows the genetics of the 150-cow family back to the beginning of the Brangus breed.<\/p>\n
From the beginning, the 150-cow family has offered genetic excellence. Vineyard says his cow, RSV-WSR Anna 650-101, was one of the first two donors in the Brangus breed in the 1970s. He also says the genetics from RSV-WSR Anna 650-101\u2019s son, VCC Cracker Jack 101N2, still contribute generously to the performance of Brangus cattle today, especially in regard to weaning and yearling weights. RSV-WSR Anna 650-101 is the maternal great-great-grandmother of Miss VCC Shasta 150Z. Sired by BBI Exacto 55W3 Map 6, embryo-transfer calf Miss VCC Shasta 150Z was born in December 1990. She would be the great-great-grandmother of Camille\u2019s heifer, Miss Jana 150B22, years later.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back NJBS Champion Camille shares in show-ring success similar to her father, Taylor. In 1997, Taylor won Reserve Champion Heifer at the State Fair of Texas. In 1998, Taylor won the Fort Worth Stock Show, the Houston International Open Show, and the Houston Livestock Junior Show. In 1999, Taylor won Champion Cow-Calf Pair at Houston Livestock Show with Miss VCC Shasta 150Z and Ambrosia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes this story special is the fact that it was a father-daughter combination,\u201d Doguet says about both Camille\u2019s and Taylor\u2019s individual successes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn January of 1997 Clay Meyer, the manager of Terra Verde Ranch in Boling, Texas, asked me to come with him to look at a set of calves on a satellite recip herd in Cedar Lane, Texas. At that time, I was hauling and showing the Terra Verde\u00a0show cattle\u00a0so I was eager to see what\u00a0our fall [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][embryo transfer] calves looked like. Little did I know that I would find a heifer that day that would have such a big impact in my life,\u201d Taylor recalls about the first time he saw TVR Miss Alpha 150F2, who they called \u201cAmbrosia.\u201d Taylor says Ambrosia immediately caught his eye the day he looked at the group of cows with Meyer.<\/p>\n
Later in the spring of 1999, Terra Verde had its dispersal sale. Taylor says, \u201cat that time Mike Doguet was in the beginning stages of building what would become an awesome set of cattle. Mike stepped up that day and purchased Ambrosia as the high selling female of that event. On her side was an MVP heifer calf, 150J. Mike would go on to exhibit 150J at the American Royal in Kansas City the following year and she was Reserve Champion Female in that National Open Show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doguet says it\u2019s extraordinary to have had the cow family for as long as they have, with continued success. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of success in the show ring with lots of different cow families,\u201d he explained, \u201cbut the 150s have been a family that have done super well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 150-cow family\u2019s show ring success is not a new trend. Like Doguet, Tim Lucherk, of Rafter L Ranch in Poth, Texas, has seen Taylor show and now gets to watch Camille grow up and show cattle out of the same cow family. Lucherk showed RSV-WSR Anna 650-101 in the 1980s. RSV-WSR Anna 650-101 is the sixth-great-grandmother of DDD Miss Jana 150B22, the heifer Camille shows. In 1980, Lucherk won Champion Heifer at the Houston Livestock Show with RSV-WSR Anna 650-101.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really neat how champions go back to champions,\u201d Lucherk says about the success of the cow family.<\/p>\n
Years later, after Doguet, Lucherk and Taylor all experienced show ring success with the 150-cow family, it was Camille\u2019s turn. Taylor knew just who he would call when it came time to find a female for Camille.<\/p>\n
Doguet says he asked Lucherk, several years back, to be looking for a female to name Ambrosia again. \u201cI wanted another one to name Ambrosia to continue on the legacy,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it had to be one good enough to give that name.\u201d DDD Ambrosia 150Y10 is the female Lucherk picked, and continue the legacy she did. She produced DDD Miss Jana 150B22 and full sibling, DDD Wall Street 150C, which was the Grand Champion Bull after being named Champion of the Junior Yearling Bull division at the 2016 Brangus Futurity.<\/p>\n
Taylor and Lucherk both remember the day they set out to choose Camille\u2019s calf. \u201cIn May of 2015, as we rode through a set of weaned heifer calves, it was pretty special when one heifer stepped out from the bunch and hit me hard at first glance,\u201d Taylor says, \u201cI had no idea what she was at first, but I immediately asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucherk recalls a similar story. He said Taylor was riding with him in the pasture and spotted a heifer. Lucherk said Taylor didn\u2019t know anything about the calf. \u201cI said \u2018you would like that one; she\u2019s a 150,\u2019\u201d Lucherk recounts.<\/p>\n
\u201cDDD Miss Jana 150B22’s grand-dam was the calf on the side of my show heifer that Mike purchased 15 years earlier and was exactly what I look for in a Brangus female. I knew this was the one I wanted to try and purchase for my daughter Camille to show,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cShe was huge-boned, showed a lot of breed character, and was really neat through her front one-third while being an incredible brood cow prospect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so excited to be able to add that female and cow family back to our herd after all this time,\u201d Taylor says with pride. \u201cLittle did I know that heifer would go on to do something that has never been done before in the Brangus Breed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course when Taylor says \u201csomething that never been done before in the Brangus breed,\u201d he is referring to Camille\u2019s back-to-back championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn her first show 150B22 was selected as the Champion Female at the National Junior Brangus Show in Duncan, Oklahoma\u00a0as a calf under Judge Ryan Cummins, which was in itself a dream come true for our family,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cWe would then return to the National Junior Brangus Show in 2016 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi under Judge Tyler Norvell, and she was selected champion once again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor is excited about Camille\u2019s success, and to have DDD Miss Jana 150B22 as a part of the family. He says: \u201c[DDD Miss Jana 150B22] has been incredibly special to our family, and we can\u2019t wait to get her into production and see what impact her offspring will have on our herd and our great breed.\u201d[\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legendary Cow Family,\u00a0by\u00a0Peyton Waldrip The Brangus breed has grown to be one of the most reliable and profitable breeds available to cattlemen. International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) member breeders have worked hard to help the breed evolve and to help the breed be successful. The history behind Brangus cattle today is important not only to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,5],"tags":[72,355,356,362,358,363,207,359,360,73,280,352,351,361,278,353,350,349,364,357,310,354],"yoast_head":"\n
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