Hoover Explorer was the 4th top-selling bull at $19,500 in our 2015 auction to Alta Genetics and Diamond J Angus. Explorer was the 5th top weaning weight bull of his crop! He was born 7 days early and the calving book notes a "quick & easy birth, got up and sucked in 30 minutes".

Explorer is a big scrotaled, deep bodied bull that can pack in a lot of pounds. He is easy fleshing and has the ability to sire more frame than most sons. He will sire high performing cattle that have good dispositions. Explorer is a tame, pettable guy.  We expect his biggest asset to be highly productive, functional, fertile, good uddered daughters.

Pathfinder dam H115 is an amazing, beautiful cow and records 8-98 BWR, 8-109 WR, 7-106 YR, 15-106 IMF ratio and 15-102 Ribeye ratio. She serves as a working donor and maintains a 361 day calving interval. 

H115's first son was the 2nd top weaning weight bull of his crop, and was a photo feature selling to repeat customer Kirk Egbert in Idaho. A full brother to Explorer was a really correct made, bigger framed bull that was the 11th top weaning weight, 4th top yearling weight bull of his crop and selected by repeat customer Dan Olson. H115’s third son was the #1 adjusted weaning weight bull of his crop at 888 pounds. He was a deep bodied, darn good bull selected by repeat customer Jeff Bellamy. Yet another full brother to Explorer sold for $13,500 to Griffin Cattle in MT.

An ET son of H115 was the Lot 1, lead-off bull in our 2019 auction, where he sold to Mohnen Angus for $26,000.  See the herd sire page for Hoover Longevity T40 for more information.

H115 has an excellent udder, is super deep sided, and has style and eye appeal. She has an excellent disposition. H115 is truly a powerful performance cow, and one of my very favorites along with her mother.

Pathfinder grandam C50 is a working donor that maintains a 363 day calving interval on her 13 natural progeny and we have stolen flushes four different years! Her fertility is exceptional.

C50 is now 15 years old, and she is still as smooth walking and sound as ever. Phenotypically, C50 is probably my favorite cow on the farm. She is a big, stout girl, but very correct in her structure. It is extremely rare to find such a big cow that has as much depth, thickness and quarter as she does and still be structurally correct. I love cows with a little look, and C50 has a lot of "look"!  C50 records 13-100 BWR, 13-106 WR, 11-103 YR on her natural progeny.

C50 is the donor dam of the "Magnificent Seven" flush and the $24,000 Hoover 44 Mag from our 2019 sale selling to Alta Genetics. C50 has grossed well over $100,000 on her registered progeny sales.  She has 6 daughters working in the herd with a whopping 106 average WR on their progeny!

Great grandam 227 has been retired from the herd, but recorded a whopping 13-113 WR and a 360 day calving interval at the end of her career. She has two Pathfinder daughters to her honor.

Semen available through Alta Genetics for $20/unit, $33/Certificate.