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RED ANGUS FEMALES
                           Tidy Bee Cow Family




                                                Spring Lots: 221 – 226








































                                              Show string at the Iowa State Fair


        The Tidy Bee cow family may be most noted for the      jack genetics and charge onward with a registered Red
        making of past Bootjack legend – BJR JR 107, one       Angus program. In the last decade, Damar Farms has
        of the most infl uential bulls of the mid and late ’90s,   become revered for some of the fi nest Red Angus cattle
        owned and used extensively by the Lonker program of    in the world most recently exhibited by the National
        Kansas and the Bieber program of South Dakota.         Grand Champion Red Angus Bull in Louisville, Ken-
                                                               tucky, (Nov. 2016) and the NWSS Grand Champion Red
        When Doc Hehli made his initial purchase of Red Angus  Angus Bull in Denver (Jan. 2017) – DAMAR TRUMP
        cattle in 1998, he couldn’t have chosen a stronger     C512 – a direct product of Damar Farms.
        foundation to invest in than the Bootjack program of
        Montana. I was one of the auctioneers for the Bootjack   The cattle and genetics coming out the Dama Farms
        Dispersal in 1998 when Doc bought four potloads of     “Last Dance” Dispersal will go on to make a major
        cows that day. We all wondered who he was and the      impact in the future of the Red Angus breed. My thanks
        only answer I heard was he was some doctor from Wis-   and gratitude go out to Dr. David (Doc) Hehli for in-
        consin. I did not hear another thing about these cows   vesting his resources, time and energy over the past
        or Dr. David Hehli for about fi ve years when I started to   decades to the greatest breed of cattle on earth – Red
        hear rumblings of a Red Angus operation in Wisconsin   Angus.
        called Damar Farms and they had a bunch of Bootjack
        genetics. When I fi nally met and became acquainted     The Tidy Bee’s are the last cow family highlighted in
        with Doc, he told me that he didn’t realize the power of   this offering – now we go on to the amazing Damar
        the genetics he had purchased at the time, and it was   herd and Lots 227 – 1024.
        later, that he decided to take this foundation of Boot-
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