Mark & Cathy DeBoo 1-800-932-6487 www.diamonddangus.com 406-799-3480 cell 2016 Sire Directory Semen for Sale
What will Diamond D Angus Genetics do for you? Diamond D Angus would like to thank all of our past and future customers for supporting and believing in our program. We have chosen to put a lot more emphases on functional and economic traits rather than EPD s. During the 1980 s, cattle were being bred to look like race horses - all legs and no guts. Many of the functional traits were left behind in the race for big numbers. We did not follow this trend; instead, choosing to breed for just classic Angus traits. While we have not bred cattle for carcass numbers, our ultrasound numbers are very good. This is an indication that just good basic Angus have always had good quality meat. Consistency - Diamond D Angus genetics will breed more true due to the many years of intensive line breeding. Calving ease - We have always put emphases on good calving ease. We typically will not use a bull on cows that we would not also use on first calf heifers. Carcass - Ultrasound has proven that DDA cattle excel in the grass fed beef industry, and as always, are still suitable for the feed lot. Diamond D Angus cattle have proven to be consistently superior in tenderness. Efficiency - For many years, the cows and calves have been weighed at weaning and conditions scores are given. Typically our cows are weaning calves weighing 50% of their own weight or greater. We prefer a 4-frame cow weighing 1200 to 1300 pounds in good flesh. Longevity - Most traits can be compared to a chapter in a book, but longevity is the entire book. Diamond D Angus has numerous cows that are still in the herd at the age of fifteen and beyond. Our commercial industry needs great cattle, not cattle with great numbers. Breeding cattle with great numbers is easy. Breeding great cattle is a challenging task. What DDA s coming two year old Grassfed Bulls will offer: Increased fertility. Will continue to gain weight through first breeding season. No bull s feet or legs ruined due to hot feed. More years of service. Our bulls are more conditioned to the real world. Fewer injuries. Fewer breeding problems. The emphasis here on the ranch has been placed on efficiency, moderate frame and high maternal mothers. We like a 4-frame cow that will weigh 1200 to 1300 pounds in good flesh. We feel these are the cows that will last in the herd. This is not a new direction or philosophy for Diamond D Angus. We have been consistent, with very little variation for over forty-six years. Mark & Cathy DeBoo 4092 Valier-Dupuyer Rd 1-406-279-3633 1-406-799-3480 cell 1-800-932-6487 dda@3rivers.net
Black Angus Bull DDA Emblazon 27C We are happy to announce DDA Emblazon 27C has been put to the test all across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South America. He may be the thickest easiest fleshing bull we have ever seen, and he does it on 100% forage. A large part of our market is semen sold to cow/calf operations. The registered breeders that have chosen to use this great sire have offspring that top their sales. The mother of 27C is now 18 years old and still in production. She and 27C both landed spots in the Angus Legends books. This great sire should be in every registered herd in the country. I know he will not be, because he was not bred for the EPD numbers. DDA Emblazon 27C is a five frame bull weighing 2300 lbs. after the breeding season. He is an udder-fixer due to Shoshone 130, Bear and Fahren of Wye on the dam side and OCC Emblazon on the sire side. He traces to the same cow family as DDA Fahren 21X. Phenotypically, this bull is very correct with great feet and legs. Q A S TRAVELER 23-4 # DHD TRAVELER 6807 # BEMINDFUL MAID D H D 0807 # OCC EMBLAZON 854E #+ REG 12514348 PBC 707 1M F0203 # DIXIE ERICA OF C H 1019 DIXIE ERICA OF C H 615 SHOSHONE ERIC 1714 SHOSHONE 130-6357 SHOSHONE FRANCES 6357 # DDA MELISA 824 # REG 13054587 BEAR OF WYE UMF 6591 DDA MELISA 545 DDA MELISA 115 1 #14257843 2/01/02 27C BW +1.6 WW +38 YW +61 SC +.19 MILK +18 $EN +24.61 $W +43.86 DDA Melisa 824 Mother to 27C and E5H
Black Angus Bull DDA Fahren 21X 12773616 2/01/97 21X BW -2.4 WW +21 YW +42 SC +.46 MILK +13 $EN +61.59 $W +43.49 DDA Fahren 21X is a line bred Fahren of Wye. The Fahren daughters we have are some of the best cows we have ever owned. They are deep, thick and very functional with almost perfect udder quality. We have Fahren daughters that are very sound at 19 years of age. The temperament of his offspring is second to none. If you are looking for a sire to use on your first calf heifers and would like to sleep at night this is your bull. We have sold thousands of straws on this great bull for use on heifers. We have never had a complaint. Calving ease supreme Guaranteed. You will also want to use him on your cows and save every daughter he produces. His semen is in high demand and has been used all across the U.S. and Canada with outstanding satisfaction. FAVOUR OF WYE FENLAND OF WYE FINE OF WYE # FAHREN OF WYE UMF 5830 REG 10762574 BUTLER OF WYE FLORELLE OF WYE UMF 5229 # FRANNIE OF WYE # BEAR OF WYE UMF 6591 CARTY OF WYE UMF 6952 CLOVA OF WYE UMF 6686 DDA MELISA 549 REG 12320123 MC GILL CREEK BLAZE 0241 DDA MELISA 381 # DDA MELISA 115 2 DDA Fahren 21X Daughter
Black Angus Bull H A R Pinebank 443 202 This is a ¾ brother to the 50H. Bulls with this kind of fertility and drive will sire fertile, feminine females. This bull is very correct with great feet. The 202 bull is a very impressive individual. To say he is a breeding machine would be an understatement. As a two year old he bred 75 out of 77 three year old heifers. At the age of 3 he bred 77 out of 80 three year olds. On the first jump at the semen collection center, he produced just under 500 straws of very concentrated semen. If you want fertile replacement females you need to use very fertile bulls. Diamond D Angus has always bred cattle with longevity and fertility. Josh Freiberger, owner of Hague Angus Ranch, bought our DDA Stella 443 cow for a foundation for his registered herd. She is the mother of the 202 bull; she is a beautiful cow at the age of 12. We will have many outstanding sons sell at our November 10, 2016 sale. Co- owned with Hague Angus Ranch. PINEBANK WAIG 5/93 PINEBANK WAIG 31/95 PINEBANK WAIG 58/93 PINEBANK WAIGROUP 41/97 # REG 14959541 TUPURUPURU 838/86 PINEBANK 639/88 PINEBANK 663/85 D D A AMBUSH 20Y DDA ALLY 69C GALATEA DIAMOND 006 DDA STELLA 443 REG 14663400 OCC EMBLAZON 854E #+ DDA STELLA 216 DDA STELLA 057 3 DDA Stella 443 Mother to 202 + 17505028 3/27/12 202 BW +.2 WW +32 YW +50 SC MILK +17 $EN +28.84 $W +37.36
Black Angus Bull DDA Lodge E5H +15974013 2/14/07 E5H BW +1.9 WW +13 YW +17 SC -.34 MILK +12 $EN +65.46 $W +22.14 What an outstanding individual DDA Lodge E5H is. He is very deep, long and thick. He has a great temperament and very good feet and legs. He is a maternal brother to 27C. His sire is Lodge of Wye. Lodge is one of twelve bulls in the entire breed that has been proven genetic defect free. We have four full sisters to E5H in production and they are phenotypically very correct. The E5H daughters are beautiful young cows. They are very feminine, fertile cows that will stay in production for a very long time. Udder quality is nearly perfect. The E5H sons have sold very well at our sale. FABRON OF WYE CAREER OF WYE CLARICE OF WYE + LODGE OF WYE REG 4020202 PRINCE OF MALPAS + LORENA OF WYE DEVOTION OF WYE SHOSHONE ERIC 1714 SHOSHONE 130-6357 SHOSHONE FRANCES 6357 # DDA MELISA 824 # REG 13054587 BEAR OF WYE UMF 6591 DDA MELISA 545 DDA MELISA 115 4 DDA Melisa E706 Full sister to E5H
Black Angus Bull Hyland BC 0668 #15528673 3/11/06 0668 BW +.9 WW +26 YW +28 SC -1.02 MILK +17 $EN +42.74 $W +39.24 When we saw this great pedigree, we thought what an opportunity to continue lining up the same goodness that Fahren came from. His dam is line bred to good old Wye and Rito 707. She is truly a great maternal cow. His sire, Lodge of Wye, is one of the very few sires that has been proven genetically defect free. Lodge also ranks #2 in the entire breed for $EN. His daughters in production are beautiful young cows. They are very feminine with great udder quality and fleshing ability. Co-owned with Hyland Angus. FABRON OF WYE CAREER OF WYE CLARICE OF WYE + LODGE OF WYE REG 4020202 PRINCE OF MALPAS + LORENA OF WYE DEVOTION OF WYE LEONID OF WYE # MISTIC OF VOLGA 2018 + MARGARET OF VOLGA 9009 # HYLAND BARBARA 0266 #+ REG 14304783 LEROY OF VOLGA 9874 BARBARA OF VOLGA 2094 # BARBARA OF VOLGA 9835 5 DDA Hana 879 Daughter of 0668
Black Angus Bulls LONESTAR OF WYE BANJO OF WYE UMF 6413 BLACKBIRD OF WYE UMF 5362 # DDA BANJO 1101 REG 11603400 BLACK BROWE JUMBO 37P MISS DIAMOND JUMBO 587 MISS DIAMOND CHANCE 334 PARAMONT AMBUSH 2172 # HIGH VALLEY 4C6 AMBUSH # HIGH VALLEY GLORIA 1Q2 DDA GALATEA 031 REG 13647176 BANJO OF WYE UMF 6413 DDA GALATEA 423 GALATEA DIAMOND 006 DDA B&T 18K We are very excited about this young bull. Phenotypically, he is very correct. He is long bodied with great depth and thickness. Very good temperament. The average birth weight on his sons has been 75 pounds, all falling between 69 and 80 pounds. He is double bred Banjo of Wye. His mother is 16 years old and still in production. Diamond D Angus will be using this young bull very heavily in the upcoming years. His daughters are making very nice young cows, they are very good mothers and have great temperament. Jad Fremont Z6306 SHOSHONE LUD 840 JAD PRUDENT LAD 6157 SHOSHONE PRUDENCE 6157 JAD EX T3199 REG 16029920 SHOSHONE EUSTON 3131 SHOSHONE ESTER 731-3199 HBR ESTER 3128-731 SHOSHONE PYUS 6157 SHOSHONE PIVOT 6159 SHOSHONE PRUDENCE 6159 SHOSHONE FRANCES 6306 REG 14039458 SHOSHONE EGAN 3128 SHOSHONE FRANCES 6347 SHOSHONE FRANCES 6357 16878656 5/01/10 18K 17472365 4/05/12 Z6306 BW +.1 WW +37 YW +58 SC +.08 MILK +12 $EN +32.96 $W +36.95 BW +1.8 WW +20 YW +31 SC +.39 MILK +16 $EN +30.82 $W +11.52 This pedigree combines some of the very best Shoshone maternal genetics. The Great Grandmother is also the mother to our Shoshone 130 bull. The Shoshone 130 is the maternal Grand sire to some of our great sires we are using today, like DDA Emblazon 27C and DDA Lodge E5H. John Dockweiler writes about this great sire. It takes time to concentrate genetically superior cows into every slot of an animal s recent recorded ancestry. Once that has been done, it provides a certain stability and predictability. We recently sold 1000 straws of semen in Uruguay. Co Owned with John Dockweiler and Scott Shively. 6
Red Angus Bulls RDDA JULIAN 10N BKT JULIAN 7526 G BECKTON JULIAN GG B571 BKT MARTA 9A13 JL RED HILL B571 JULIAN 84S REG 1147702 BECKTON CHAMP R3 H338 BECKTON BARMAID M554 CH BECKTON BARMAID H031 HR RDDA JULIAN 29H RDDA JULIAN 97J RDDA MARY 725 RDDA MELISA 185 REG 1482460 RDDA JULIAN 29H RDDA MELISA 9128 RDDA MELISA 627 RDDA X FACTOR 14M EBLIS OF CLASSLOCHIE EVESUND OF DUPPLIN EBERGREEN 3 OF DUPPLIN DUNLOUISE EXCALIBUR Y070 REG 1282449 BEVY OF NEWARK EJETA OF TEMPLEHOUSE EJETA OF BANKHEAD BB L902 BBRED 5236 BB 5236 BBRED 6015 MM 1369 SALEE 1907 RDDA MABEL 011 REG 1410553 RDDA HUSTLER 19G RDDA MABEL 896 RDDA 507 1655609 5/8/13 10N 1578031 5/2/12 14M BW -2.2 WW 57 YW 85 SC MILK 16 This may be one of the most complete Red Angus bulls I have ever seen. He has depth of body, length and fleshing ability. His feet look great and he travels very well. His temperament is as soft as it gets. His mother is very feminine with great feet and udder quality. We have sold 3,000 straws of semen in South America to C.I.I.A.D.O., a long time Diamond D Angus customer that knows what Diamond D Angus genetics will do. We sold 2/3 interest in this great bull to Bruns Red Angus Bloomfield NE. at our sale last fall. BW -1.3 WW 44 YW 57 SC MILK 13 The 14M bull was sold at our 2013 sale to John and Candy Balkenbush. I was visiting with John after this fall sale and he said you need to see the 14M now. I could not help myself; a couple of weeks later I stopped to look at him and what I saw was almost unbelievable. The condition that the 14M bull was in was truly amazing. He was run out on range with no extra goodies. His feet look almost perfect and have never been touched. His temperament is very good. This is a bull that the entire breed would benefit from. He would be an outcross to the entire breed. We have already sold 100 straws on this great red bull in Uruguay. 7
The Diamond D Angus Story I am the third generation DeBoo raising functional Angus cows. It all started with my grandfather and grandmother (Charlie and Mary) in the 1950 s. At that time, Charles was the only registered Angus breeder in the Golden Triangle area of Montana. In the early days, he owned a bull called Pattern of Wye. Pattern of Wye was instrumental in shaping the future for DDA. In 1972, my grandfather s life was cut short after hip replacement surgery. He died less than 24 hours later. My dad and mom (Don and Janet) were married in 1957 and started raising cows on shares with my grandparents, on a small ranch 10 miles southwest of Valier. My Mom and Dad raised 7 kids on this small operation. Needless to say, everyone needed to learn how to work and be very thrifty and efficient. That also included the cows. In 1962, my Mom and Dad bought their first registered Angus heifers. They continued raising commercial cattle at that time. Due to the influence from Pattern of Wye, my Dad learned that all cows were not created equally. In the 1960 s, most cattle were very short and blocky; they would have been a frame score of 1 or maybe in the negative figures. The Wye cattle were the larger framed cattle for the time period. The industry trend changed in the late 60 s and early 70 s to larger framed cattle and the Wye cattle became very popular. There were a lot of very functional cattle at that time. The trend continued to go larger and larger framed in the late 70 s and 80 s. My parents tried to follow the trend until the early 1980 s. I am very thankful that at that time my parents knew what a really good functional Angus cow was like. It did not take them long to understand the direction the industry was headed and this was not the path they wanted to be on. Due to the influence of the Pattern of Wye bull in the early 70 s and the direction the whole industry was headed, Diamond D Angus knew they didn t want to follow this route. They decided with the knowledge of the old Pattern Bull, they would once again go to the Wye herd for their genetics. My parents spent many years selling bulls private treaty to repeat commercial buyers. After working 6 years as a mechanic for John Deere, I (Mark) moved back to the ranch in 1988. We had our 1st production sale in the spring of 1989 in an old barn. Looking at it today, I still wonder how we did it. At that time, we were selling about 50 bulls at the sale. Perhaps our competition was averaging more per bull than we were, for it was the start of the big EPD race. We continued to line breed for functional, maternal and efficient traits. This was not a popular or easy path to be on at the time. I am 100% convinced it was the proper path to take. In 2006, we had our first fall production sale where we sold long yearling forage developed bulls. I would challenge any registered breeder to forage test your bulls if you really want to know what they are made of. This has proven to be a very good change for DDA. In recent years, we are selling our genetics all over the US, Canada and Argentina. My wife Cathy and I now sell about 130 bulls every fall and about 100 bred females at our production sale. This is our 12th annual Sire Directory where we offer our time-tested line bred genetics. 8
Semen Price List 2016 Free ground shipping on orders over $1,500. 50 % off shipping on orders over $1,000. *10 % DISCOUNT on orders over $1,000. *Prices subject to change without notice. NAME REG. # SEMEN CERTIFICATE VOLUME DDA Emblazon 27C #14257843 $20 $35 DDA Fahren 21X #12773616 $20 $35 Carty of Wye UMF 6952 #11773159 $50 $35 DDA Fahren 5Z #13299980 $15 $35 DDA Lodge E5H #15974013 $15 $35 DDA B&T 18K #16878656 $15 $35 DDA Freemen 68F #15165535 $20 $35 DDA Banjo 2124 #11789346 $15 $35 DDA Banjo E2B #13825814 $20 $35 DDA Emulation 30K #16879584 $15 $35 DDA Freemen 160K #16893849 $15 $35 DDA Favour 26F #15435944 $15 $35 Hyland BC 0668 #15528673 $20 $35 MH Mick 53 #15993873 $20 $35 DDA Lazer 114 I #16256306 $15 $35 DDA Favour E4H #15974012 $15 $35 DDA Roy 33K #1410549 $15 N/A H A R Pinebank 443 202 #17505028 $15 $35 Jad Fremont Z6306 # 17472365 $15 $35 RDDA Julian 10N # 1655609 $15 N/A RDDA X Factor 14M # 1578031 $15 N/A Call, Write or E-mail your order to: DIAMOND D ANGUS Mark DeBoo ------ 1-406-279-3633--------1-406-799-3480 cell ------ dda@3rivers.net 4092 Valier Dupuyer Rd., Valier, MT 59486 www.diamonddangus.com Todd Churchill founder of Thousand Hills Cattle Company stated, After examining over 5 thousand 100% grass feed cattle, the fat open 24 month old heifers Mark shipped to me are consistently the best cattle I killed. These heifers had excellent marbling, back fat, large ribeyes great tenderness and fine muscle texture. My only complaint is that there aren t enough of them and they make the rest of the fat cattle look bad. In addition to the desirable carcass qualities, because of tight breeding and ruthless culling over the years, I like all the DDA cattle I ve seen at their sales they would all work perfectly in the Thousand Hills Cattle Company. Please consider using DDA bulls, especially if you are in MN or the Dakotas, because I want to purchase more DDA influence cattle. 9
Fall Production Sale Thursday, November 10, 2016 at the Ranch Valier, MT Mark & Cathy DeBoo 4092 Valier-Dupuyer Road Valier, MT 59486 FIRST CLASS MAIL FIRST CLASS MAIL AUTO U.S. POSTAGE PAID LEWISTOWN, MT PERMIT NO. 181 Photo courtesy of Scott Shively. Daughter of DDA Fahren 58F, a bull sold to Scott Shively from North Dakota.