Herdsires
Anthem is quickly become a dominating force in the Simmental world. He impresses all who see and evaluate him in the flesh and is a model of what modern day Simmentals can be. He touts an impressive number profile - a negative BW EPD to top 5% or better for growth, carcass, API and TI. He adds extra frame, yet can still be carefully used on heifers. He offers a wide array of useful improvements and will continue to be heavily used at LCDR. Semen available through owners - Pleasant Hill Farms, Billingsley Farms, or Lazy C Diamond Ranch.
Patriot has always been the outlier for extreme style and extension within the flush brothers. He has that extra "look," coupled with added length, thickness and rear muscle shape! He's an easy choice to use on those soft-made, big bodied females to add that extra style and shape to!
Embrace is a member the impressive 867B/C4 flush brothers - Anthem, Patriot, Embrace and Retro. He offers a solid black underline, added bone and depth/rib shape in a moderate framed package. All on a high quality, big perfect foot. The progeny show to have exceptional growth and muscle shape. He's been heavily used here and we are excited to present his first calf crop in late 2025!
Diligence is an all around unique individual that offers added eye appeal, top 2% of the breed for growth traits, quality foot structure and balanced carcass traits. He's an impressive animal to evaluate in person and producing both quality bulls and females. His sire group will be features in the fall of 2025.
Retro is the sole, solid black brother in the 867B/C4 flush! He's brings lots of body and muscle shape to the table with excellent foot structure and thickness. He's very consistent on the type he produces and works best on extended, more feminine type of females that need some added bone and substance.
A best kept secret of a sleep all night calving ease bull that delivers on a variety of levels! Sweetness will sire you females that will constantly catch your eye in the replacement pen, great growth for his level of calving ease, and added marbling. He was, for a couple years, the only 1/2 blood son out of C4.
Captivate has done everything and more that we'd hoped he could do. He's a rare combination of calving ease and growth that still offers quality structural improvement, docility and scrotal development. He has sired both sale topping sons and daughters across the country and has genetically contributed a great deal of good to our program and the breed.
Reliance is a bit of new and a bit of well proven in our program, his dam 11Z, needs no introduction, you'll see her in many of our red females' pedigrees. His impressive muscle and shape, dark red color and quality foot will impress most everyone, not to mention a balanced EPD profile.
Contribution has been one of the favorite Captivate sons that we've produced - combining Captivate with the potent X200 donor. He offers added frame, performance, and carcass traits. Watch for his progeny and genetic opportunities in the future!
Net Income was our "go to" red heifer bull for a number of years! He exhibits that perfect shaped, crisp Simmental hoof that we love to see. His daughters are now in production and are extremely good uddered, quality milking females.
Venture has proven out to be foot improver with great growth traits.. He produces big bodied, easy doing females that look to have great maternal potential, along with adding the chance for red baldies!
Affirmed is a unique combination of calving ease/growth/carcass in a larger framed, long as you can make one, type of package. He's proven to add eye appeal, sire quality females, all while adding value across the board.
Renegade is an impressive beast! His young dam is one of our absolute favorite C4 daughters and a flushmate to Anthem, Retro, Patriot, and Embrace. She's proving to be a potent young female with multiple bull calves coming up at the top of the pen. Renegade possesses a stylish front 1/3rd with tons of body, shape and muscle! He will see much more usage in our program going forward.
Reserve is one of the multiple 867B sons that we've produced with an impressive following. He's been used heavily across the breed and offers improved docility and foot quality along with great performance and commercial acceptability.
The highlight of the 2019 sale season and high seller of our production sale, Impact impressed all who evaluated him. One of the few purebred bulls that combines real world muscle and shape with a breed leading EPD profile for performance and carcass traits. His dam, WS Ms Sugar C4 has quickly launched herself to the center stage as a female with the ability to produce standout sons and daughters with an EPD profile and production record that is unmatched! We couldn’t be more excited about the upcoming calf crops sired by Impact!
An exciting junior herd sire that offers an outcross Homo Black Purebred pedigree with impressive EPD projections and eye-appealing phenotype. Being backed by the potent WS Ms Sugar C4 only adds to the excitement! When you factor in the total package that Favor offers and look for comparative options, the list is mighty short!
Progressive is an under-the-radar herd sire that due to circumstances early in his life, set him back and prevented him from being a sale feature in our 2020 Sale. He was sold privately to Select Sires/River Creek/Trauernicht/Eichacker and walks at LCDR. The Innovator x C4 cross produces an impressive EPD profile. We expect Progressive to calve easy, produce good eye appeal and breed on genetically from his two powerful parents.
Manifesto is currently the highest selling Proclamation son to date! He was the high selling bull in the 2020 Bichler Simmental Sale, selling for $62,500. His EPD profile very closely mirrors his popular sire's profile. His beautiful 701T dam only adds in another layer of maternal excellence to the already proven pedigree! Use Manifesto to add more body then his sire and improve foot quality! He has that crisp, perfect foot shape that we need more of!
One of our favorite red bulls of our 2019 sale. Fanatic combines the breed leading performance of GW Red Oak with the prolific 11Z donor. Her ability to add body, shape and fleshing ability in a purebred package has been unmatched within our program. Fanatic will be used to make next generation purebreds with added performance, perfect foot structure and added carcass traits.
