Black River Farm

Black River Lowline/Angus

NEW Lowlines

Our small, closed herd of purebred Lowline/Angus is raised on a small acreage without hormones, antibiotics, or growth enhancers. Breeding stock available and occasionally Angus meat for sale. We also breed 50% Lowline crossed with Galloway, Jersey, and Angus.

Sept. 4, 2019 - Fresh 100% Lowline beef available by

quarter or side SOLD OUT

Lowline/Jersey/Angus meat also fresh on Sept. 4, 2019 SOLD OUT

Dec. 23, 2019 100% Lowline beef - FOR SALE NOW

The addition of the Jersey breed produces the most tender, tasty beef - no need to marinate. Our beef is mainly grass/haylage fed with small amount of mixed grain (my father's home recipe) with no chemical additives or growth enhancers. We do not use Round-up on our pastures. All our mature cows are entirely grass fed - antibiotic free & not vaccinated.

$5/lb. RESERVE BEFORE Sept. 3/19

Call 902-658-2570 to place your order

TO SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE LOWLINE BREED, SEE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE

http://www.springscattlefarm.com/media/Lowline_Breed_Pomotion_Flyer_2012.pdf

(Highlight & click Go to website)

Operating on a very small acreage, Judy Burgoyne and Mike Landry with the guidance of Judy’s 96 year old father, continued with a few purebred Angus cows from his Country View Farm(later to become Springvale Angus) to start a new herd, BLACK RIVER in 1998. The offspring of these cows were sold for breeding stock over the years. Desiring to keep a part of my father’s passion for Angus alive and finding it more difficult to keep the larger cows, we had been exploring the Lowline breed since 2007 and finally purchased two purebred females from Honeybrook Lowlines of Edam, Saskatchewan, to start a new herd but still Angus based. We are thrilled with their dispositions and ease of handling. So our aim is to produce breeding Lowline stock and also combine the Lowlines with the full size Angus. This 50/50 cross of Lowline/Angus is now being marketed as Aberdeen Plus or Moderators. The Aberdeen Plus are from purebred Angus mothers and by purebred Lowline bulls. In 2019 & 2020 we are exploring the crossbreeding of 100% Lowline on Galloway, Angus, & Jersey cows. The results have exceeded our expectations and are proven by the very positive comments from our beef customers who say the meat is better than anything else they have tried.

Thank you Cathy and Lee Monteith of Honeybrook Lowlines for their wonderful patience and assistance in getting our herd started & ongoing help.

NEW ABERDEEN PLUS+

6 MOS. ANGUS/LOWLINE CALF

BLACK RIVER 50% ANGUS/LOWLINE BULL

Our pure Lowline and Lowline/Galloway or Lowline/Angus bulls (all polled) are very quiet and easy to work around. Excellent for small acreage land owners being easy to breed and producing vigorous, beefy calves that gain weight more quickly than most all other small breed cattle. Lowlines have no genetic hereditary defects.

Our cattle finish at 16 – 17 months with a dressed weight over 60+ percent of live weight producing tasty, tender meat – some have dressed 62%.

Our cows with calves are in excellent shape and are strictly grass or haylage/silage fed. No potatoes, no roundup on our fields. Animals going for meat are finished on a modest, mixed grain recipe with vitamins and minerals but no growth enhancement products. Calves when weaned are also placed on haylage and mixed grain ration with vitamins & minerals to ensure they get the nutrition they need to grow into healthy cows. As yearlings they come off all grain & then receive only haylage/silage or grass.

Morning Mist at Black River Farm

2019 Surprise Our 1st RED Calf

Dam: Out to Pasture Harriet

Sire: Black River Jackpine

Jackpine 2019 Red Calves

Black River Jackpine (yearling)

RED CARRIER

Jackpine 2019 - 3 yr. old in Paddock

Our Lowline & Angus cows are quiet and easily moved & handled

Black River Tallulah

(Colombo Park Zaccaria x Honeybrook Fireworks)

Black River Honeybee (2015 calf)

(Ardrossan Richmond x Honeybrook Fireworks)

Black River Honeybee (yearling) 2016

Black River Honeybee 2019

OUR FOUNDATION COWS

Lin Pepper (3 yr. old Lowline)

Honeybrook Fireworks (2 yr. old Lowline)



WHY LOWLINES?

LOWLINES are a small breed of cattle derived totally from the original Angus breed. They are not miniatures, having no dwarfism gene. They are easy to handle, very feed efficient, have calving ease, take up less space, can be beef ready on grass and forage and are great for small acreages.

An Angus Bull in 1960

            In 1929 New South Wales, Australia, imported two top Angus bulls to breed with the Angus cows they had at the time. Over the next 27 years Angus genetics were added from Canada, U.S., England, and Scotland. In 1964 the herd was closed to any outside sires or dams and thereafter a detailed study was undertaken to compare, measure and record in detail the feed intake, weight gain, fertility, milk production, carcass yield and structural conformation and what type of animal would yield the best results in these areas. So from the three groups of animals used in their breeding study: the “highline”, “lowline”, and the “control” groups, the LOWLINE came out on top.

           The herd was open for public auction by the Department of Agriculture in 1992. Since that time the Lowline has become quite popular around Australia, New Zealand, China, United States, Canada and other countries.

For a complete history of the breeding program see:

http://www.usa-lowline.org/history.html

  TRAITS OF LOWLINES

   1. Naturally polled, extremely hardy

    2. Higher percentage of ribeye area than any other breed

    3. Easy calving and docile

4.      4. Smaller calves (40 - 50 lbs.) Great 4-H projects for kids

5.      5. Excellent mothers and good milk producers

6.      6. Size: Bulls 42 - 49 in. hip height Cows 39 - 42 in.

                    7. Very efficient grass feeders

7.              8.     Carcass high yield with less fat but greater marbling

9.              9. Small cuts of meat for health conscious consumer

10.   10. Cost effective to raise (Less acreage required than standard beef breeds) which  means higher profit ratio

        11. 10 Lowlines can be pastured on the acreage needed for 6 full-sized beef cattle

FOR SALE

100% (registerable) Lowline Bull Calf Yearling SOLD
100% Lowline Bull - 23 mos. (smaller bull) SOLD
1- 100% (registerable) Bull Calf
50% Lowline/Galloway solid RED Bull Calf - For sale
for purebred herd

e-mail or call 902-658-2570 for details

BLACK RIVER JUST A JACKAROO - Our 1st LOWLINE calf born Dec. 3, 2013

*2nd Jackaroo son born in Canada

SIRE: YARRA RANGES JACKAROO DAM: LIN PEPPER

sold: JUSTA JACKAROO

BLACK RIVER JACKPINE

BLACK RIVER JUSTA JACKAROO'S 1ST 100% LOWLINE CALF

JACKPINE YEARLING 2017

Dam: Honeybrook Fireworks

Sire: Black River JustaJackaroo

YARRA RANGES JACKAROO

Jackaroo is the youngest bull to ever win Supreme Exhibit at the Royal Melbourne Show, at just

11mths age he had an EMA of 72sq cm and weighed 343kg.

Jackaroo won Senior and Grand Champion Bull at the 2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show Lowline

Feature breed. In 2011 he won Champion Sires Progeny.

The Australian Lowline judge Bill Dunlop, Charolais breeder from NSW, said
"this bull appeals to me as he moves freely and is sound. He has a lot to offer the beef industry and lowline breed as he has all the traits I want to see in any breed, mobility, balance, masculinity, scrotal size and muscularity – I can’t fault him.”

PREVIOUS ANGUS STOCK


	Black River Etta's Fame (Springvale Black River Etta x VNAR Famous Players)
Black River Spring Sitz (Black River Spring Forth x Sitz Alliance)	Black River Elmo's Fame (Black River Etta's Fame x Grand Island Elmo) SOLD

SOLD - Cape Breton

SOLD - Nova Scotia