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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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