Angus Semen Available for Purchase
In 2024, Al and Jeanne Conover purchased ownership in three exceptional bulls. Information about the bulls is below as well the full ads are at the bottom of the page.
Call Al Conover at 515-491-8078 for more details!
Call Al Conover at 515-491-8078 for more details!
Baldridge Working Class
Sire: Cherry Crk Blue Collar G275
Reg. #: 20420686 Birth Date: May 29, 2022 Actual BW: 68; WW: 665; and YW 1214 Multi-trait balance and overall superiority separates “Working Class” from the pack and enabled him to be the $70,000 top-selling lead bull of the record-setting 2024 Baldridge Performance Angus Sale and the headliner of the largest sire group of 47 Blue Collar sons that sold for an average of $11,149. Combining an impressive phenotype with an individual performance record of a 68 lbs. birth weight for a ratio of 96 with an adjusted 205 day wt. of 665 lbs. for a weaning ratio of 105 and an adjusted 365 day wt. of 1,214 lbs. for a yearling ratio of 107 compared to 127 contemporaries, Working Class scanned an adjusted %IMF of 6.26% for a ratio of 117 and an adjusted URE measure of 14.5 square inches for a ratio of 107 recorded an 18 month scrotal measurement of 40.0 cm. The dam of Working Class is an exciting young Baldridge donor that is a full sister to the $110,000 two-thirds interest Tennessee River Music herd sire Baldridge Pappy and a maternal sister to the $50,000 Riverbend Ranch herd sire Baldridge Gibson featured at Select Sires and the grandam is a flush sister to $60,000 two-thirds interest Baldridge Beast Mode. Elite for Rib Eye area measure EPD, Calving Ease Direct score EPD and Birth Weight EPD and better than breed avg for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Hair Shedding score EPD, Docility score EPD, Claw set score EPD, hoof Angle score EPD, Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, the ability to reduce Mature Weight EPD and the ability to store Fat reserves EPD. |
Mead MercurySire: Basin Safe Deposit 9324
Reg. #: 20741361 Birth Date: December 13, 2022 Actual BW: 67; WW: 589; and YW: 1186 Mead Mercury was the $85,000 top-selling bull of the March 2, 2024 Mead Farms Bull Sale. Purchased with several other progressive breeders, Mercury combines breed-leading muscle, outstanding thickness, a great look, solid feet, and still does an excellent job of covering the bases on paper. The owners of Mercury expect him to have the unique ability to sire heavy weaning weights (excellent for our customers who sell their calves by the pound at weaning), yet modest mature weights, whereby keeping cow size in check and not getting too extreme and harsh on feed resources. Mercury’s muscle is evident not only by viewing the bull, but his 17.7” ribeye gives him an off-the-charts 1.44” of ribeye per hundred pounds of body weight! Hoover Angus customers like muscle, and this bull certainly offers it! Mercury also offers higher Marbling potential for our customers feeding out their calves and selling them on a grid. His sire Basin Safe Deposit was the 2020 Montana Performance Bull Co-op top seller that offers a unique combination of foot quality, carcass merit, and curve bending spread with outstanding phenotype. Cattlemen who understand structure and how it relates to foot quality have described Safe Deposit as a legitimate foot improver. Mercury grew up in the tough fescue country of central Missouri at Mead Angus where mothers have to make a living or they get hauled to town. No excuses, no special treatment, just good cow sense and good genetics and Mercury was used natural service at Hoover Angus in 2024 on a large group of heifers. |
RC Lucchese L101Sire: Tehama Patriarch F028
Reg. #: 20827851 Birth Date: February 15, 2023 Actual BW: 69; WW: 694; and YW: 1222 Nicknamed "Boots," this is a no miss, sleep all night heifer bull that will leave some moderate, easy fleshing, tremendous uddered, highly fertile females. Use this Tehama Patriarch F028 son that focuses on the economically relevant traits of beef production, proving you can breed rapid early growth WITHOUT creating bigger cows. The maternal tabulation is stacked with low birth, good footed, easy fleshing, highly fertile cows with moderate size and lots of body dimension. The KG Justified 3023 and GDAR Leupold 298 lines in Montana and across the west are built to last with early growth, moderate mature size and that “right” look. Over 30 years of diligent phenotypic data collection, including teat and udder data, has gone into breeding this exciting new herd sire. This balanced trait pedigree is stacked with cow power and extreme maternal strength with HP, great feet, solid carcass traits and excellent $M/$C combination. The maternal grandsire, GDAR Justified 914, is featured at Beef 360, Rock Creek Angus, Spickler Ranch North and GDAR. He is a tremendously balanced sire that covers all the bases and ranks in the top 2% for claw and top 15% for angle, stepping down on a perfect foot. Knowing the Rock Creek cow herd, we believe “Lucchese” sons will surface in their respective sales, but perhaps more importantly, we project his daughters to be foundation dams as they mature into production. LUCCHESE is the Heir Apparent, prepared to assume the throne from his legendary sire PATRIARCH. In a word, Additive. Added performance, added end product, added maternal and $Maternal, added phenotype and added docility. |

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"Boots" semen available at ABS. "Working Class" and "Mercury" semen available at ORIgen.
Call Al Conover to learn more or to have him help you with your semen purchase!
Call Al Conover to learn more or to have him help you with your semen purchase!