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Bow K Ranch is family owned and operated by Dave and Dawn Bowman
and Andrew and Sarah Bowman (newly weds), near Olathe, Colorado (a one and one-half hour drive
from Grand Junction, Colorado). Dave and Dawn have been running Gelbvieh
since 1983 and currently run 140 head of Gelbvieh, Black Angus, and
Gelbvieh/Black Angus cross cows. Half of the herd is black and the
majority of the herd is polled.
The emphasis at Bow K Ranch is to produce moderate sized
(1,100 to 1,300 pound) Gelbvieh cows that excel in maternal qualities --
birthweight, calving ease, good udders, and adequate milk -- not to mention
their docility. (See the female page)
This breeding season (for the 2008 calf crop), we have used AI sires including Impressive 03N and 47R which are black Gelbvieh performance bulls. The black Gelbvieh calving ease bulls used include: Dynamic 07M, Majesty, and COV 0028K. Our red females were AI'd to Moderator (GV). On our purebred Angus and Gelbvieh (used to produce Balancers) cows, we used GAR Integrity 8804, GAR High Design, In Focus, Sexton Northern Improvement, and New Level (all Black Angus). For red Balancers (Red Angus x Gelbvieh), we utilized the Red Angus A.I. sires, Cherokee Canyon and Lancer.
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