Introduction

My wife, Rose and I, have been involved in the Limousin industry since 1998. While brief, we believe we have been very fortunate in our accomplishments in the full blood polled Limousin program.

When we looked into being part of the fullblood polled Limousin program we were concerned as to the direction the industry was going.  The biggest complaints we heard was that polled fullbloods were lacking in size, milk production, structure and scrotal development. Another concern in the commercial breed was that the purebred Limousin cattle (black or red) lack muscle. With this in mind, we set our breeding program in motion to develop a polled fullblood with size, structure, milk, muscle, performance and scrotal development.  A very tall order, but one we felt was achievable.  Our breeding program was to take polled fullbloods and breed them to horned fullbloods that have high EPDS and proven genetics, or newer French blood lines with proven genetics to create a new outcross animal.  We then planned to take the horned fullbloods and breed them to NEW polled fullblood bulls.

These new polled fullbloods we have already developed are:

Ø      1-Way Polled Justice, Harvest Olympus,

Ø      1-Way Polled Extra Joy – Joyau genetics

Ø      1-Way Polled Kana - first homozygous polled fullblood in North America from STZZ Polled Yukon.

To achieve our goal will take us about 5 years. We feel this program will change the polled fullblood industry as we see it today. We are proud to say that we were voted the premiere breeder and exhibitor at the Edmonton Farm Fair International  for 2002. An accomplishment that stands as a testament to our dedication to this goal.