Top Notch was the $33,000 top-selling bull in our 2017 auction selling to Select Sires, Baldridge Bros., and Ray Sikes. He came to auction with a phenomenal set of credentials, and a phenotype to match. Top Notch will add some guts & girth to his daughters – save every one he makes! Top Notch was the #1 adjusted yearling weight ET bull of his crop.

Top Notch was a member of the “Fab Five”, the set of 5 flush brothers that averaged $23,800! This flush led off our sale, and for good reason. Two of these flush brothers were selected by bull studs. Top Notch was noted by many as the neatest phenotype bull of the flush.

Top Notch’s first calves were weaned in the fall of 2018, and the 2nd top weaning weight bull of the Hoover crop was sired by him! A Top Notch heifer calf of this crop was the 7th top weaning weight heifer calf of the crop. From only 9 calves sired by Top Notch in this crop, they did extremely well and were one of the top ratioing sire groups. We are very pleased with the phenotype of these calves.

Donor dam L5 is one of our favorites. L5’s first daughter in production weaned the 9th top weaning weight heifer of her crop. L5 records an average 106 WR on her natural progeny and 25-106 IMF ratio and 25-102 ribeye ratio. L5 weaned an 842 pound heifer calf at Baldridges to ratio 107 in a small contemporary group of donor cows’ calves! 

L5 was the standout heifer of her crop – she was the #1 adjusted weaning weight, #1 adjusted yearling weight heifer at 779 lbs., WR 116, YW 1160 lbs., YR 114. She turned in a superior scan with a 7.05 IMF, ratio 119, and a 14.6” ribeye, ratio 119. Among 88 contemporaries, she had the 5th largest ribeye scan.

A full brother to L5 is Hoover Counselor N29, the $39,000 sire working for Select Sires.

Grandam G366 maintained a perfect 365 day calving interval on her first 8 natural progeny, before we pulled her out of production for a year to flush her. This calving interval even included stealing flushes four different years! At 12 years of age, G366’s udder was still phenomenal! She recorded 9-98 BWR, 9-107 WR, and 7-107 YR.

G366 brought a total of 12 featured progeny to auction. Registered progeny sales have totaled $238,000 to make her the #1 income producing cow in our history!

Several of G366’s progeny have been among the top weaning weight calves of their crop. L5, mentioned above, was the #1 WW heifer of her crop. The very next year, G366 repeated this accomplishment with another #1 WW daughter. To make it three years running, an ET son claimed #1 WW honors over the entire crop (ET and non-ET progeny) in 2015!

G366 has three Pathfinder daughters – two in the Hoover herd, and one owned by JJ Scheckel – this female was purchased as an embryo at the National Western from us. Currently in the Hoover cow herd, the #2 and #3 top indexing cows are a direct G366 daughter and granddaughter, respectively. Two other cows are among the top 15 indexing cows of the herd.

G366’s great grandam V65 is the grandam of Hoover Dam. This Erica cow family has put 9 bulls in 6 different AI studs.

Semen is available through Select Sires at $25/Straw, $40/Certificate.