Category: Foundation Breeders

Celebrating the foundation breeders of the bucking stock industry.

The Legendary Don Kish Talks Bull Knowledge with BST

January 4, 2022 Terry Lidral Foundation Breeders Leave a comment

Don Kish is a legend in the bucking bull business. His great success has come from from his passion for bucking bulls and his desire to learn everything there is to know about them.

In 1949, J.C. Ward and his brother Bill put on their first rodeo in Coalgate, Oklahoma. Picture is Ward Rodeo Company’s Rodeo Red, nicknamed Booger Red, blowing the pants off a cowboy.

Photo courtesy of Richard Field Levine

Embryo transfer in cattle was first developed in the 1970’s and 1980s to propagate the genetics of specific cows (donors) and bulls (herd sires). In a natural situation a cow can only produce one live calf per year because of the length of gestation. The average bull breeding by live cover will sire 15 to 50 calves per year depending on the length of the breeding season. With the use of artificial insemination, the number of calves a bull can sire has been greatly increased. Until embryo transfer was developed, the reproductive potential of the female had yet to be exploited. Once the techniques were developed to collect embryos and successfully transplant them into recipients to obtain pregnancies, the number of calves a cow can produce has also been increased. Read more here:https://buckingstocktalk.com/embryo-transfer-ivf-essentials-you-need-to-know/

Congrats to Ridin Solo on a great career: 93 outs with 11 rides for an 89% buck-off rate. Enjoy your retirement!

Acupuncture procedure can be less painful and less stressful on an animal than a large medical treatments. This process has proven to lead to the nourishment of tissues and organs which can help the body heal itself. Click to read more.