Bred Heifer Offering
WHY ARE WE SELLING?
We are getting older (which is great) but we are also getting slower, so some chores need to be cut back a bit!
Why do you care? Well, we have been raising Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle for 30 years and have not offered many of our females to other breeders throughout those years. We have always AI’d, using leading Gelbvieh AI sires and a wide range of Top Angus sires – mostly to improve marbling and tenderness. (We have even bought semen on a few of those Angus sires and had it DNA tested for Tenderness before using it!) We also kept a strict eye on phenotype, disposition, and foot & udder structure while using DNA and ultrasound testing to bring in the carcass and tenderness traits. All the while – we tried to keep the EPDs in the top 30% for all! Of course, EPDs change… And that is true not only in the Gelbviehs, but also in the Angus breed – and not always for the better! So, year by year, we are always working to improve as best we can. We have also always culled heavily to keep our numbers manageable.
I feel we have met our goals of improving carcass and tenderness while keeping most of the other EPDs at or above the middle of the road. Realizing that EPDs provide just one tool in making our choices, we put a lot of importance on ultrasound testing. We have ultrasound tested our heifer calves as well as our bull calves since the beginning of our program 29 years ago. It is worth noting that our purebred Gelbvieh calves are ratioed with our Angus and Balancer calves, giving them lower IMF ratios, but in studying their actual ultrasound IMF averages you will find they are way higher than most purebred Gelbvieh animals!
We do not find the genetically enhanced EPDs to be as reliable as actual measurements and performance, so we only did that type of testing on the ones that required DNA testing to discover if they are homozygous polled, homozygous black, or parentage. If these young heifers remained in our herd, we would eventually test all of them for tenderness and getting their EPDs genetically enhanced once they have proven themselves to be producers. Call me at (406)366-6953 to let me further explain why I don’t trust the genetic enhancement results as much as the other tools available.
With all that said, I feel we are offering you something you can count on and females that you cannot find just anywhere. Yes, it is very hard to part with my youngest females – the ones that are closest to the goals of our dedicated emphasis on quality & performance – but, this is the quickest way to cut back on our work load (and I still have their mamas!)
Please feel free to call with any questions!
Don Danell - Danell Diamond Six Ranch - (406)366-6953
Heterozygous Black Homozygous Polled 82# Birth Weight Tenderness score of 7
Bloom comes from a favored cow family. Her dam, JOB DANELL Cherry Blossom 70J, is a daughter of JOB DANELL Orange Blossom 35B, an active 10-year-old Purebred Gelbvieh Dam of Distinction, is a well-rounded cow that gives us keepers for the heifer pen and our bull pen. Orange Blossom’s performance record – BW Ratio 107 (9 calves), WW Ratio 103 (8 calves), YW Ratio 99 (5 calves), Ribeye Ratio 99 (4 calves), and Marbling Ratio 90 (4 calves) with an avg IMF of 3.64 – quite impressive from a Purebred Gelbvieh dam! Cherry Blossom had a WW of 688# (110 ratio) – due to adverse weather conditions that year, we were unable to ultrasound our yearling animals, so did not get ultrasound or yearling weight data on the J year (2021) females. Bloom had a WW of 685# (100 ratio), YW of 890#, 8.85 Ribeye, and a 4.0 IMF with minimal (.11) fat presence – not really sure why Bloom was not ratioed with the rest of the group for yearling and ultrasound (carcass) data. Bloom’s EPDs show very good calving ease and maternal values with excellent carcass traits – YG top 15%; CW top 25%; Ribeye top 20%; Marb top 35%; and CFAT top 1%!
AI BRED to JKGF All American J109 for a 75% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/9/2025.
JOB Danell magnOlia 06l
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 32% Gelbvieh Balancer
75# Birth Weight (91 ratio) IMF of 5.15 (123 ratio)
Magnolia is also from a favored cow family – directly out of our active 11-year-old Dam of Distinction, JOB DANELL Orchid 30A, with a 100 BW Ratio (10 calves), 104 WW Ratio (9 calves), 102 YW Ratio (7 calves), 104 REA Ratio (6 calves), and 103 IMF Ratio (6 calves)!
Magnolia has an excellent set of EPDs across the board – CED top 35%; CEM top 10%; BW top 45%; WW top 10%; YW top 4%; Milk top 35%; TM top 10%; PG30 top 20%; DOC top 4%; including carcass traits – YG top 20%; CW top 15%; CREA & Marb top 10%; and FPI top 3%! Ultrasound proves the validity of her carcass traits with a 105 ratio for ribeye and an actual IMF of 4.98, adjusted to 5.1 for a 123 marbling ratio! Whether you are raising Balancers or Purebreds, Magnolia provides a stepping stone to improving either.
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Chisel 18K for a 53% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/9/2025.
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 34% Gelbvieh Balancer 74# Birth Weight (97 ratio) 109 ratios for growth
Cleo comes from another exciting cow family! Her dam, JOB DANELL Clementine 07J, is a daughter of our active 5-year-old Dam of Merit, JOB DANELL Mandarin 55G and Mandarin’s sire is JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E (also the sire of JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H)! Mandarin has quite a performance record – 92 BW Ratio (4 calves), 101 WW Ratio (3 calves), 104 YW Ratio (1 calf), with a 101 REA Ratio and 111 IMF Ratio! Her 2023 bull calf sold for $8000 and she is raising another great prospect for our 2025 Bull Sale! Again, we were unable to get ultrasound and yearling data on our J year females (2021) because of the weather that year.
Cleo is my favorite heifer! She is made the way I like them – moderate frame, deep body, and she is a standout! Her growth and maternal EPDs are quite striking with CED, BW, YW, HP, CW, and FPI Top 25%; WW Top 35%; Milk Top 5%; TM Top 10%; CEM & SC Top 15%; and PG30 Top 20%! Her performance backs up those EPD’s – 74# Birth Weight (97 ratio), 681# weaning (109 ratio), 916# yearling (109 ratio) and her ultrasound results 9.98 Ribeye (115 ratio) and 3.67 IMF (91 ratio) – she way outperforms her carcass EPDs!
BRED to JOB DANELL Sparks 71L for a 38% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 3/1/2025.
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Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 41% Gelbvieh Balancer
71# Birth Weight (92 ratio) Tenderness score of 9
Shasta’s grand dam, JOB DANELL Special Recipe 11C ET, goes back to one of my favorite lines with a beautiful udder and carcass traits to build on, along with growth and maternal traits! Special Recipe’s performance records show – 98 BW Ratio (5 calves), 100 WW Ratio (5 calves), 99 YW Ratio (2 calves), 103 REA Ratio (2calves), and 131 IMF Ratio (2 calves) a 6.33 marbling average! Shasta’s EPDs – SC top 30%; DOC top 25%; BW & HP top 20%; CED top 15%; and CEM top 10%! I feel this young heifer could produce some profitable progeny, including the calf she is carrying now, sired by JOB DANELL Sparks, 71L, a young AI sire with a 14-inch Ribeye, a 5.2 IMF (182 ratio), .22 Fat Thickness (101 ratio), and an 8 for Tenderness – a very promising future!
BRED to JOB DANELL Sparks 71L for a 41% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 3/1/2025.
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 50% Gelbvieh Balancer 85# Birth Weight (105 ratio)
Saffron’s dam, JOB DANELL Sassafras 07G, is another young favorite and she is also a Dam of Merit and a daughter of JOB DANELL Napoleon 01E with a 101 BW Ratio (4 calves), 107 WW Ratio (3 calves), 103 YW Ratio (2 calves), 96 REA Ratio (2 calves), and an avg marbling score of 4.37 for a 117 IMF Ratio (2 calves)!
Saffron is a larger framed heifer, is sired by Balancer Futurity winner, BARG Go Time 781J, and she has a great set of growth and maternal EPDs – CED to 35% & CEM top 30%; WW, Milk, HP, & SC top 15%; YW top 25%; TM top 10%; PG30, CW, & FPI top 20%; and Marb top 30%! Saffron’s actual performance is striking – 85# Birth Weight (105 ratio), 720# weaning (115 ratio), 917# yearling (109 ratio), 8.47 ribeye (97 ratio), and 5.02 marbling (125 ratio)!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Salvador
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Hi-Lite’s momma, JOB DANELL Laser 25J, is out of KHR Focus 231Z – another Dam of Distinction with a very good performance record – 100 BW Ratio (8 calves), 111 WW Ratio (8 calves), 107 YW Ratio (6 calves), and 105 IMF Ratio (5 calves)! Laser was one of the first heifers bred to JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H – and what a calf Hi-Lite is! Laser’s 2nd calf is also a Pay Pal, and he will be in our bull pen and, most likely, our 2025 Bull Sale!
Hi-Lite is moderate in frame with a great set of EPDs to move your program forward, whether Purebred or Balancer. CEM, Ribeye, & FPI top 45%; HP top 35%; WW, YW, SC, & YG top 30%; Milk & TM top 25%; Fat top 10%; and PG30 top 5%! She had an 80# Birth Weight (105 ratio), 608 weaning (97 ratio), yearling 843 (100 ratio), ribeye 8.69 (100 ratio), marbling 4.2 (105 ratio), and fat thickness .11 (85 ratio)! This female has what I seek in future mommas – calving ease, growth, milk, fertility, and great ultrasound data!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 53% GV Balancer® DUE ON 2/9/2025.
Homozygous Polled 92% Purebred Gelbvieh 73# Birth Weight (94 ratio)
Lynx goes back to a favorite Donor Dam, JOB DANELL Sally 23Y, a Dam of Distinction with quite a performance record – BW Ratio 92 (10 calves), WW Ratio 104 (10 calves), YW Ratio 103 (8calves), REA Ratio 109 (8 calves), and IMF Ratio 87 (8 calves) with an average 3.63, which is outstanding for a 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh!
Lynx is a Pay Pal daughter with a promising future, EPDs – CED, BW, WW, YW, YG, CREA, & FPI top 30-40%; CEM, HP, & SC top 20%; CW top 15%; and PG30 top 2%! Lynx is moderate in frame and very eye appealing!
AI BRED to JKGF All American J109 for a 96% Purebred Gelbvieh calf DUE ON 2/8/2025. What an exciting heifer or bull calf it will be – the type of purebred I like!
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 84% Purebred Gelbvieh 82# Birth Weight (ET calf) 4 for Tenderness
Juju’s Donor Dam, JOB DANELL Jojo 13Y ET, is the dam of JOB DANELL Josephine 33C – who is the dam of JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H - and she along with her progeny have generated $300,000 in the past 3 years! Juju’s sire, JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E is also the sire of Pay Pal 12H. Juju’s EPDs – YG top 40%; SC top 15%; CEM top 10%; BW top 4%; CED top 3%; and PG30 top 2%! Her ultrasound data shows an impressive 10.2 ribeye and 3.74 marbling scores! As an ET, her scores are not ratioed, but her ribeye would rate her about a 125 ratio and I am always excited anytime one of my purebred Gelbvieh calves shows an IMF above 3! Juju is an eye appealing young female with a very promising future!
BRED to JOB DANELL Stitch 68L for a 74% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 4/10/2025.
Freya’s dam, JOB DANELL TD Frozen 84D, has produced 2 bull calves that averaged $5750 in our sales and has a purebred heifer calf, JOB DANELL TD Alaska 23M, (sired by JKGF All American J109) that is offered in this sale! Frozen’s production data shows BW Ratio 109 (6 calves), WW Ratio 102 (5 calves), YW Ratio 102 (4 calves), REA Ratio 103 (4 calves), and IMF Ratio 86 (4 calves) avg IMF 3.27!
Freya is sired by JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E (also JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H’s sire). Paygrade females have proven to be keepers and some of our best performers (PG30 EPD top 2%)! Freya has great potential to do the same as her dam, which is exacty what I was betting on when I included her in my replacement heifer pen – that and the fact that Paygrade calves just flat work! Take this one home!
BRED to JOB DANELL Sparks 71L for a 57% GV Balancer® calf DUE on 2/25/2025.
JOB Danell Pal 29l
JOB Danell Paygrade 68E (BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C)
JOB Danell Pay Pal 12H JOB Danell Josephine 33C (DLW New Frontier 33A ET)
JOB Danell Sal 9C JOB Danell Sally 23Y (JOB Danell Absolute 21U ET)
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 67% Gelbvieh Balancer 82# Birth Weight (100 ratio)
Pal’s dam, JOB DANELL Sal 9C, is another active Dam of Distinction that has produced some of the great ones – JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E (AI Sire and also the sire of Pay Pal), JOB DANELL Orbiter 29G, JOB DANELL Salvador 69J (AI Sire). These bulls averaged $5500 in our sales and she also has an open heifer, JOB DANELL Dreamer 36M, sired by JKGF All American J109, offered in this sale! Sal has a 104 BW Ratio (8 calves), 113 WW Ratio (7 calves), 102 YW Ratio (6 calves), 108 Ribeye Ratio (6 calves), and 82 IMF Ratio (6 calves) with a 3.03 avg marbling score!
Pal, sired by JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H, is a larger framed heifer that should have an exciting future! We have used Pay Pal on heifers and have not needed to assist at calving with any of his offspring.
Pal has an exciting set of EPDs – Marb top 50%; CEM top 30%; YG & FPI top 25%; HP, PG30, & FAT top 20%; WW, YW, CW, & REA top 15%; Milk top 5%; SC top 4%; and TM top 3%! Her performance backs up those EPDs – 82# birthweight (100 ratio), 658# weaning (105 ratio), 870# yearling (106 ratio), 9.2 ribeye (102 ratio), and 4.785 IMF (114 ratio)! This is the type of female that puts bulls in your sale and heifers in your replacement pen – take her home!
BRED to JOB DANELL Sparks 71L for 54% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 3/1/2025.
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 37% Gelbvieh Balancer
75# Birth Weight (91 ratio) Tenderness score of 3
Wildflower’s dam, JOB DANELL Rosie Posie 99F, has a 101 BW Ratio (5 calves), 100 WW Ratio (4 calves), 95 YW Ratio, 99 Ribeye Ratio, and a 118 Marbling Ratio! She is a female that has given us some replacement heifers, but we are still waiting for that exciting bull calf for our bull sale!
Wildflower has outstanding EPDs – Milk top 35%; CW top 30%; WW & Marb to 20%; BW, YW, & TM top 15%; FPI top 10%; CED top 4%; and CEM & DOC top 1%! Her performance has also been outstanding – 75# birthweight (91 ratio), 628# weaning (101 ratio), 810# yearling (96 ratio), 8.6 ribeye (99 ratio), and 4.738 marbling (118 ratio)!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Chisel 18K for a 58% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/8/2025.
JOB Danell Paygrade 68E (BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C)
SIRE: JOB Danell Pay Pal 12H
JOB Danell Josephine 33C (DLW New Frontier 33A ET)
JOB Danell Innovator 04D (MAR Innovation 251)
DAM: JOB Danell Tyra 82F
JOB Danell Pageant 69C (JOB Danell A. J. 12A ET)
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 54% Gelbvieh Balancer 82# Birth Weight (100 ratio)
Tippy’s momma, JOB DANELL Tyra 82F, is one of my favorite cows – a 10 for Tenderness and she brings home a keeper almost every time! This year is no exception – she is raising a great JKGF All American J109 bull calf that is sure to make the bull pen, her last bull calf sold for $6750; and her first daughter had a JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H son that sold for $8000 and is raising another bull calf that is headed to the bull pen! Tippy has a great set of growth & maternal EPDs – CED top 35%; YW top 25%; PG30 & Fat Thickness top 20%; CEM top 15%; and HP, DOC, & SC top 10%! Since we already know Tippy is homozygous for black color and polled status, as well as her parentage, we did not need to genetically test her. However, since Tyra is a 10 for Tenderness and Pay Pal is a 7 – Tippy necessarily has a 7, 8, or 9 for Tenderness, depending on which alleles are present!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 44% GV Balancer® DUE ON 2/8/2025.
Gelbvieh Balancer
Shady’s dam, JOB DANELL Shadow 59D, is a favorite and she is a daughter of the gentlest and most prolific cow we have ever raised, JOB DANELL Moonshadow 30T! Moonshadow 30T is a Dam of Distinction, has been a Donor cow, and brought in a healthy natural calf for 14 years and maintained a perfect 9/9 udder rating throughout her life! Shadow is following that same pattern – she is a beautifully made cow with a perfect udder, has had 3 bull calves that all made our bull sale and only one of her heifer calves was sold as a feeder (and she was only given up due to herd reduction and the fact that she had some white). *JOB DANELL Moonshadow 41L ET and JOB DANELL Misty 54M (both from this cow family) are also offered in this sale!
Shady is definitely one you want to take home to make Purebreds and Balancers. Shady has great EPDs – CED, Milk, & FPI top 35%; WW, TM, & HP top 25%; SC & CREA top 20%; YW top 15%; CW & CFAT top 10%; and PG30 top 1%! Performance – 84# birthweight (104 ratio), 662# weaning (106 ratio), 917# yearling (112 ratio), ribeye 8.93 (99 ratio), marbling 3.46 (83 ratio), and .12 fat thickness (74 ratio) and let’s not forget she is a JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H daughter!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 50% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/9/2025.
BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C (JOB Danell Joey 7A)
SIRE: JOB Danell Paygrade 68E
JOB Danell Sal 9C (A A R Ten X 7008 S A)
JOB Danell Picasso 18P (XXB Drew 565K)
DAM: JOB Danell Moonshadow 30T
Monarch Alberda M069 (Alberda Traveler 416)
harmOny 42l
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled
59% Gelbvieh Balancer
67# Birth Weight (88 ratio)
Tenderness score of 4
This calf is the ET daughter and namesake of our beloved JOB DANELL Moonshadow 30T – Dam of Distinction, Donor Dam, natural mother to 14 calves while maintaining perfect 9/9 udder and perfect 5/5 foot scores, and the best disposition on the ranch – 99 BW Ratio (20 calves), 101 WW Ratio (18 calves), 100 YW Ratio (12 calves), 97 Ribeye Ratio (12 calves), and 106 Marbling Ratio (12 calves)!
Moonshadow 41L has decent EPDs – HP top 35%; ST top 30%; CED, CEM, & SC top 15%; BW top 5%; and PG30 top 1% - and we expect her to outperform those just like her dam has! If this heifer does half of what her dam has done for us, you will be happy you got the final bid – she is a really hard one to part with!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 46% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/8/2025.
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 51% Gelbvieh Balancer 77# Birth Weight (95 ratio)
Harmony’s dam, JOB DANELL Jazzy 15C, has a decent performance record – 97 BW Ratio (8 calves), 99 WW Ratio (7 calves), 101 YW Ratio (5 calves), 104 Ribeye Ratio (4 calves), 92 Marbling Ratio (4 calves) – 3.5 avg IMF! Jazzy is one of the easiest fleshing cows on the place!
Harmony’s own performance – 77# birthweight (95 ratio), 619# weaning (99 ratio), 758# yearling (92 ratio), 10.02 ribeye (111 ratio), 3.24 marbling (78 ratio), and .07 fat thickness (43 ratio)! Her EPDs – CED top 35%; Milk top 30%; BW & CEM top 25%; and HP top 15%! When picking replacement heifers in the fall, Harmony was Omie’s #1 “must keep” choice!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 42% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/8/2025.
JOB Danell Upscale 26F (Plattemere Weigh Up K360)
SIRE: JOB Danell CD Raven 23J
JOB Danell CD Blackbird 70D (Sitz Upward 307R)
JOB Danell Paygrade 68E (BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C)
DAM: JOB Danell Dancer 65G
JOB Danell Shadow 59D (JOB Danell Toro 31A)
Gelbvieh Balancer 84# Birth Weight
Prancer’s dam, JOB DANELL Dancer 65G, is another amazing daughter of JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E! Unfortunately, we lost her first calf to overeaters – but have kept every calf since and this year’s bull calf will be in our bull sale come spring. Dancer’s performance speaks for itself – 94 BW Ratio (4 calves), 103 WW Ratio (2 calves), 107 YW Ratio (2 calves), 108 Ribeye Ratio (2 calves), and 120 Marbling Ratio (2 calves)!
Prancer is a larger framed heifer with a great set of EPDs – FPI top 35%; YW & Marb top 30%; Milk, HP, & CREA top 25%; CED & CEM top 15%; CW top 10%; and PG30 top 2%! Her performance – 84# birthweight (105 ratio), 664# weaning (106 ratio), 943# yearling (112 ratio), 9.77 ribeye (112 ratio), 3.59 marbling (90 ratio), and .12 fat thickness (92 ratio)! Importantly, Dancer’s momma is JOB DANELL Shadow 59D and goes back to JOB DANELL Moonshadow 30T!
Breeding Prancer back up toward Purebred would have been one of my goals with her in the future, and she will raise incredible Balancers along the way! Rome was not built in a day!
AI BRED to JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K for a 42% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/8/2025.
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 50% Gelbvieh Balancer 84# Birth Weight Tenderness score of 7
Spotlight’s dam, JOB DANELL Moonlight 43B, is another active Dam of Distinction with a great udder out of Moonshadow 30T and production stats – 99 BW Ratio (9 calves), 105 WW Ratio (8 calves), 103 YW Ratio (7 calves), 100 Ribeye Ratio (7 calves), 97 Marbling Ratio (7 calves) 3.79 avg IMF!
Spotlight, sired by BARG Go Time 781J, is another heifer that should put bulls in your bull pen and replacement heifers in your herd. She has a strong set of EPDs – CED top 35%; Milk & HP top 25%; $COW top 15%; SC & CW top 10%; and STAY top 4%! Performance stats – 84# birthweight (104 ratio), 646# weaning (103 ratio), 886# yearling (108 ratio), and 4.4 marbling (105 ratio)! She has been preg tested safe to Tehama Patriarch F028 with a bull calf that will have an incredible set of EPDs! We have several Patriarch females with great udders, dispositions, and calving ease that are producing for us!
AI BRED to Tehama Patriarch F028 for a 25% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/8/2025
MLLC M/L Encore (MLLC M/L Advantage) SIRE: JOB Danell Ol’ Timer 19J JOB Danell Rosa 19F (JOB Danell Rocko 51D)
Sitz Upward 307R (Connealy Onward) DAM: JOB Danell Upbeat 35D Monarch Stella S363 (EXAR New Look 2971)
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Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled 50% Gelbvieh Balancer 78# birthweight (95 ratio)
Tempo’s dam, JOB DANELL Upbeat 35D, is a Purebred Angus cow that has performed very well for us – 104 BW Ratio (7 calves), 106 WW Ratio (6 calves), 101 YW Ratio (4 calves), 91 Ribeye Ratio (4 calves), and 111 Marbling Ratio (4 calves) with a 4.38 avg IMF!
Tempo is moderate framed and has good stats – 78# birthweight (95 ratio), 657# weaning (105 ratio), 837# yearling (99 ratio), and 4.6 marbling (114 ratio)! EPDs – STAY & SC top 40%; TM & FPI top 35%; BW top 30%; MARB top 25%; Milk & PG30 top 20%; CEM top 15%; and CED top 10%! Her sire, JOB DANELL Ol’ Timer 19J, is a 93% Purebred Gelbvieh with a CED EPD in the top 1%, BW top 2%, and PG30 top 5%!
AI BRED to Tehama Patriarch F028 for a 25% GV Balancer® calf DUE ON 2/10/2025.
Heterozygous Black Homozygous Polled 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh 82# Birth Weight Tenderness score of 6
Perfect is a natural calf out of our Top Donor Dam, JOB DANELL Josephine 33C! Josephine is also the dam of our top selling bull, JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H, as well as JOB DANELL Napoleon 01E, JOB DANELL Carcass Plus 97F, and JOB DANELL Top Shelf 38K ET! Josephine’s stats – 96 BW Ratio (10 calves), 111 WW Ratio (8 calves), 101 YW Ratio (6 calves), 96 Ribeye Ratio (5 calves), and 97 Marbling Ratio (5 calves) – avg IMF 3.83 (which is incredible for a purebred)!
Perfect has good maternal EPDs – SC top 20%; Milk top 15%; CEM Top 10%; CED & BW top 5%; and PG30 top 2%! Her stats show that she actually outperformed her EPDs – 82# birthweight (102 ratio), 679# weaning (109 ratio), 873# yearling (103 ratio), 8.66 ribeye (100 ratio), 3.78 marbling *outstanding for a Purebred Gelbvieh (94 ratio), and .12 fat thickness (92 ratio)!
AI BRED to JKGF All American J109 (also a 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh) for a 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh calf DUE ON 2/8/2025. I would sure like to have this calf!
Heifer Calf Offering
They
Didn’t
All Make the Cut!
We advertised that we were going to offer all our open heifer calves, but that is not the case. It sounded good at the time, but we decided they should have at least a 99 Weaning Weight Ratio. We won’t be getting rid of those lower end heifers right away, as some of them would still make good commercial breeders and even some registered herd animals – we just had to make the cut somewhere. If anyone has an interest in some of them after the sale, you can give me a call and I can give you their tattoo numbers and could sell them private treaty. Thank you for your interest and feel free to give me a call with any questions you may have.
Pictures of most of the Gelbvieh sires of these open and bred heifers can be viewed on the AGA website, as well as many of the dams and granddams.
If you have questions about any female or bull mentioned – call me! I truly enjoy talking cattle!
Don Danell
Danell Diamond Six Ranch (406)366-6953
Gelbvieh and Balancer® Breed Average EPDs (Non-Parent Summer 2024)
Homozygous Black (with tiny white) Homozygous Polled 33% Gelbvieh Balancer 62# Birth Weight (83 ratio)
Origami is JOB DANELL Orchard 26K’s first calf and she is just what we like to see from our 1st calf heifers – a light birthweight and a 612# weaning weight (99 ratio)! Orchard’s dam, JOB DANELL Orchid 30A is an active Dam of Distinction that also has a bred heifer in this sale, JOB DANELL Magnolia 06L (78# birthweight)!
Origami has an incredible set of EPDs –Ribeye top 30%; DOC top 25%; CED, BW, & TM top 15%; WW & YW top 10%; PG30 top 5%; CW & Marbling top 2%; and FPI top 1%! This is definitely a heifer I would have enjoyed using as a foundation cow to work her genetics back up to Purebred Gelbvieh. With her EPDs and family background, she has great potential to put some actual marbling in her offspring if bred right! Her dam, Orchard, scanned a 4.9 IMF; grand dam, Orchid, averaged 4.2 IMF on 6 calves; and Origami’s sire, KCF BENNETT Exponential G101, averaged 4.61 IMF on 24 calves! Opportunity is knocking!
JOB Danell Jackie 05m
JOB Danell Bogart 67H (JOB Danell Phoenix 15F)
SIRE: JOB Danell Kickstart 65K
JOB Danell Butterfly 53G (JOB Danell Innovator 04D)
JOB Danell TD Chico Loco 28Y (ELK CK Crazy Horse 138P)
DAM: JOB Danell Jody 31K ET
JOB Danell Josephine 33C (DLW New Frontier 33A ET) )
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Casino Bomber N33 (KM Broken Bow 002) SIRE: K C F Bennett Exponential K C F Miss Southside (K C F Bennett Southside)
JOB Danell Eliot 71H (JOB Danell Shaker 05F) DAM: JOB Danell Milky Way 70K
JOB Danell Moonbeam 20Z (JOB Danell Montana Infusion)
Homozygous Black (with tiny white)
Homozygous Polled 67% Gelbvieh Balancer
73# birthweight
Jackie is out of another first calf heifer who has a light birthweight with a 632# weaning weight (102 ratio). Jackie’s dam, JOB DANELL Jody 31K ET, is a full sister to JOB DANELL Top Shelf 38K ET, an AI Sire that roams the pastures of Dennis Gustin’s Diamond D Gelbvieh. These 2 ET animals are from JOB DANELL Josephine 33C – our TOP money-making cow that is also the dam of JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H!
Jackie has an average set of growth & maternal EPDs, but WOW! – her carcass EPDs are top 45% for CW & FPI; Marbling top 30%; Fat Thickness top 3%; Ribeye top 2%; and YG top 1%!
This is another heifer calf that has top carcass traits throughout her maternal and paternal pedigree. Starting with her sire, JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K – 16.8-inch ribeye (116 ratio), 4.7 IMF (131 ratio), fat thickness .26 (91 ratio), back fat .25 (82 ratio), and a 39.7 adjusted scrotal! Kickstart’s dam, JOB DANELL Butterfly 53G, has an average 4.09 IMF (125 ratio on 2 calves) and 15.98 ribeye (111 ratio on 2 calves)! Kickstart’s sire, JOB DANELL Bogart 67H, has an average 13.34-inch ribeye (104 ratio on 3 calves) and 4.46 IMF (118 ratio on 3 calves)!
Jackie’s dam, Jody, has a 4.76 IMF and she is 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh as is her full brother, Top Shelf, with his 4.29 IMF measurement!
This is a young female that has loads of potential to raise Purebred Gelbvieh calves with real marbling; it is hard to let these young females go!
Homozygous Black (and solid black)
Homozygous Polled
36% Gelbvieh Balancer 84# Birth Weight (111 ratio)
Infinity’s dam is another female that goes back to our Dam of Distinction - Donor Dam, JOB DANELL Moonshadow 30T! Moonshadow 30T’s granddaughter, JOB DANELL Moonbeam 20Z, is Infinity’s granddam and she has produced some great ones – AI Sire, JOB DANELL Torrid 40G as well as several daughters that are producing in our herd. We are also selling Moonbeam’s heifer calf, JOB DANELL Bella 53M – that has the top weaning ratio in her contemporary group!
Infinity has a great set of growth & maternal EPDs, but take a look at her carcass EPDs – Ribeye, Marbling, & FPI are Top 1%! Again, if you want females that will produce Top Balancers or if you want to work your way to high marbling Purebred Gelbviehs, choose Infinity as a foundation female for your program! She comes from a long line of great udders & foot structure!
JOB Danell Bogart 67H (JOB Danell Phoenix 15F)
SIRE: JOB Danell Kickstart 65K
JOB Danell Butterfly 53G (JOB Danell Innovator 04D)
Plattemere Weigh Up K360 (Sitz Upward 307R)
DAM: JOB Danell Everlasting 24F
JOB Danell Lass 44C (A A R Ten X 7008 S A) ) 24
EXAR Stallion 7986 (EXAR Stud 4658B)
SIRE: BIGK/WSC Iron Horse 025F
EXAR Henrietta Pride 5702 (Sandpoint Butkus X797)
JOB Danell Napoleon 01E (BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C)
DAM: JOB Danell Sassafras 07G
JOB Danell Sass 05E (Connealy Black Granite)
Homozygous Black (and solid black)
Homozygous Polled
17% Gelbvieh Balancer
77# Birth Weight (97 ratio) 681# weaning (110 ratio) the highest in her contemporary group!
In true “bunny” form, Bunny has a shorter tail than the rest – lost NOT from freezing weather, but most likely from being stepped on. Her dam, JOB DANELL Everlasting 24F, is a Purebred Angus cow with great eye appeal and good udder & foot structure!
Bunny’s sire, AI Sire - JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K, has semen available at Bull Barn and he has proven himself for calving ease and growth! Several heifer calves in the sale are sired by him and some of the bred heifers are bred to him. Kickstart has exceptional carcass EPDs backed up by ultrasound and DNA testing - 16.8-inch ribeye (116 ratio), 4.7 IMF (131 ratio), minimal fat thickness .26 (91 ratio), and he has a Tenderness of 9! On top of that, he had a 39.7 yearling scrotal!
Bunny is a calf that has always caught your eye in the field and causes you to check her out to see who it is. Of course, as soon as you get close enough, you see her short tail and realize right away that is her again. Take her home to own a great looking female with EPDs you can work with!
Homozygous Black (with some white)
Homozygous Polled
25% Gelbvieh Balancer
80# Birth Weight (100 ratio)
Filly’s dam, JOB DANELL Sassafras 07G, is a Dam of Merit and, strangely enough, has a Bred Heifer in the sale as well, JOB DANELL Saffron 11L. This is when it really hurts, selling the last two Sassafras females – both rate in the top of their contemporary groups for weaning weight. This is a buyer’s opportunity, but we are glad we still have their mama in production!
Filly’s growth & carcass EPDs are exceptional and her eye appeal and udder structure are second to none! I think this calf sells herself. Her sister, Saffron, is a calm easy-going female and we hope that disposition carries on in Filly. It is nice to offer animals that sell themselves,
JOB Danell Paygrade 68E (BBDM Bolton Pay Day 45C)
SIRE: JOB Danell Pay Pal 12H
JOB Danell Josephine 33C (DLW New Frontier 33A ET)
DLW Watchman 2501B (VRT Lazy TV Watchman W023)
DAM: DLW MS Watchman 803F
DLW MS Industry (DLW Industry 301X)
Lot
Homozygous Black (and solid black) Homozygous Polled 66% Gelbvieh Balancer 85# Birth Weight 9 for Tenderness
Pen Pal is from a Donor Dam we partnered with Gary Carlisle from YJ Mountain Ranch Gelbviehs. Pen Pal is another great female sired by JOB DANELL Pay Pal 12H! She is a long made, eye appealing heifer with sound feet and good udder structure. With a great set of EPDs and coming from Pay Pal, this female is a “no brainer” to decide to take her home. There have not been many Pay Pal daughters for sale yet, don’t miss this one!
Black (with some white) Homozygous Polled 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh 75# Birth Weight
Chica is one of the few purebred Gelbviehs offered in this sale! She is a full sister to JOB DANELL Jody 31K ET, the dam of Lot 21, JOB DANELL Jackie 05M!
Sired by JOB DANELL TD Chico Loco 28Y (one of my all-time favorite AI Sires) and out of my all-time favorite Donor Dam, JOB DANELL Josephine 33C, we are hoping to create progeny that are better than either sire or dam. Chica may be that young cow – it is always a gamble, but odds are certainly in her favor! She has a good set of EPDs, exceptional Marbling and minimal Fat and walks on great feet. We are offering our best and most promising!
Lot 6
DLW TPG Frontrunner 2510F (DLW TPG Jackpot 7551B ET)
SIRE: JKGF All American J109
JKGF F109 ET (CCRO Carolina Leverage 3214A)
JOB Danell Lariat 688A (JOB Danell TD Chico Loco 28Y)
DAM: JOB Danell TD Frozen 84D
JOB Danell Black Ice 30P (JOB Danell Diamond Six 41L)
Homozygous Black (and solid black)
Homozygous Polled
87.5% Purebred Gelbvieh 90# Birth Weight 622# weaning (99 ratio)
Alaska’s dam, JOB DANELL TD Frozen 84D, has produced two bulls for our sales and, as a younger cow, had that “show cow” look which she seems to pass on to her offspring!
Alaska is sired by JKGF All American J109 and is probably one of his first daughters available for sale. I can certainly tell you that we would not be selling her if we did not need to reduce our work load. With a good set of growth and maternal EPDs and an exceptional set of carcass EPDs, she should make replacement heifers and solid bull calves for the buyer!
Homozygous Black (and solid black)
Homozygous Polled
87.5% Purebred Gelbvieh 73# Birth Weight
This phenomenal purebred female comes from a mama that has produced a $10,500 Pay Pal son, JOB DANELL Chisel 18K, that went to Galen Geidel and is now an AI Sire with semen available at Bull Barn. Some of our bred heifers are AI’d to Chisel. Luna is an exceptional female that is not only easy on the eye, but has a great set of EPDs all across the board, is good footed, and has great udder potential! There are a lot of females that we don’t really want to part with. In fact, we are not offering anything that we won’t miss, but this purebred is one of my top choices with a 73# birthweight and a 677# weaning weight (109 ratio)! She is another female that I cannot say enough good about!
KHR 03Z (A A R Ten X 7008 S A) DAM: JOB Danell Jazzy 15C JOB Danell Jasmine 57A (JOB Danell Fortunate 47Y)
Homozygous Black (with tiny white) Homozygous Polled
29% Gelbvieh Balancer
77# Birth Weight
Swifty’s dam, JOB DANELL Jazzy 15C, also has a bred heifer in the sale, JOB DANELL Harmony 42L, and she was Omie’s top pick for the replacement pen! Jazzy has put a few bulls in our sales and a few heifers in our replacement pen. As I said in Lot 15’s write-up, Jazzy is one of the easiest fleshing cows we have ever had. Swifty’s sire, KCF BENNETT Exponential G101, is a new Angus AI Sire we used. We are excited about the heifer calves – 3 Exponential daughters are in the sale, one of which was our 3rd highest weaning weight in her contemporary group! Exponential has a 101 weaning weight ratio on 56 calves, 101 yearling weight ratio on 29 calves, and an average ribeye of 14.9 (99 ratio) on 24 calves! Most exciting, however, is his average IMF of 4.6 on 24 calves! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to ultrasound these calves, but I did AI some of the cows to Exponential so I should be able to find out how his carcass traits work in my herd in about a year and a half! Swifty is an exciting heifer with an exceptional set of EPDs across the board. If I was keeping her, I would probably breed her to Kickstart for a 32% Gelbvieh Balancer calf!
Homozygous Black (and solid black) Homozygous Polled
25% Gelbvieh Balancer 71# Birth Weight
Pebbles’ dam, JOB DANELL Sandy 60H, is a young cow that has put a bull in our sale and this fine heifer in this sale! Pebbles has a 91 BW ratio (71# birthweight) and a 108 WW ratio (666# weaning weight), ranking number 3 of 17 in her contemporary group. With an exceptional set of EPDs from CE & BW and WW & YW to top carcass EPDs!
JOB Danell Pay Pal 12H (JOB Danell Paygrade 68E) SIRE: JOB Danell Jocko 41K
JOB Danell Jocelyn 13F (JOB Danell Grand Slam 23D) Connealy Black Granit (Connealy Consensus7229) DAM: JOB Danell Juliet 06E
JOB Danell Capture 32C (JOB Danell TD Chiso Loco 28Y)
(Mytty In Focus)
JOB Danell Sal 9C
JOB Danell Sally 23Y (JOB Danell Absolute 21U ET)
Solid Black Homozygous Polled
62% Gelbvieh Balancer
90# Birth Weight
Rockette’s dam, JOB DANELL Juliet 06E, is a Connealy Black Granite daughter that has an ability to produce some great ones, including a JOB DANELL Paygrade 68E son that sold for $7250. (Paygrade is Pay Pal’s sire.)
Rockette is a very eye appealing heifer with middle of the road EPDs, and her sire is a Pay Pal son, JOB DANELL Jocko 41K.
Homozygous Black (and solid black) Homozygous Polled
75% Gelbvieh Balancer
87# Birth Weight Tenderness of 5
Dreamer’s dam, JOB DANELL Sal 9C, also has a Pay Pal sired bred heifer in the sale, LOT 10 – JOB DANELL PAL 29L! Bringing you these two females, Sal is a Dam of Distinction who has also produced some of our top bulls! Dreamer is one of the first daughters of her sire, JKGF All American J109, that is being offered for sale – and what an opportunity this is! As a 75% Gelbvieh Balancer that has an incredible set of EPDs, she can be bred for a Purebred Gelbvieh or a Gelbvieh Balancer and she comes from a proven dam! Dreamer ranked 2nd of 17 for her weaning weight, which was 750# off mama and has an adjusted 205 of 679#! She should make hitting the BID button an easy decision!
DLW TPG Frontrunner 2510F (DLW TPG Jackpot 7551B ET)
SIRE: JKGF All American J109
JKGF F109 ET (CCRP Carolina Leverage 3214A)
JOB Danell Lariat 688A (JOB Danell TD Chico Loco 28Y)
DAM: JOB Danell TD Frozen 84D
JOB Danell Black Ice 30P (JOB Danell Diamond Six 41L) 34
ELK CK Crazy Horse 138P (GRU ELK DEE Jake 744J)
SIRE: JOB Danell TD Chico Loco 28Y
MCFG TD Mya 210T (JOB Danell Montana Infusion)
DLW New Frontier 33A ET (KCF Bennett U271)
DAM: JOB Danell Jospehine 33C
JOB Danell Jojo 13Y ET (MLLC M/L Encore)
Homozygous Black (with tiny white) Homozygous Polled
50% Gelbvieh Balancer 88# Birth Weight Tenderness of 5
Firefly’s dam, JOB DANELL Butterfly 53G (pictured on the front of the catalog), is a 10 for Tenderness and is one of the most exciting females on the place! Her 1st two bull calves averaged $9875 in our bull sales! AI Sire JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K was her first bull calf and is the sire of many of the calves in this sale and some of the bred heifers are bred to him. AI Sire JOB DANELL Monarch 43L, a Pay Pal son, was her second bull calf and sold for $10,000 and we have used him heavily in our program! Hopefully, semen will be for sale next spring after we have had our first calf crop from him. Monarch actually comes from our top TWO money-making dams (his sire is out of JOB DANELL Josephine 33C)! Kickstart and Monarch both have a Tenderness of 9!
I have already mentioned the great carcass traits Butterfly passes on to her calves when bred to the right sire. She had a 111 Ribeye ratio (15.95 average), 125 IMF ratio (4.09 average), and 39.9 average scrotal on those 2 bull calves! We are keeping the right to one successful flush from this promising female.
Black (with a lot of white) Homozygous Polled 99.9% Purebred Gelbvieh 82# Birth Weight Tenderness of 4
Chosen is another exceptional looking female that will be hard to part with in spite of her white (including 3 white teats). You can read the write-ups on Lots 21 and 26 to find out more about her pedigree, as these two ET females AND the dam of Lot 21 AND the up and coming AI Sire, JOB DANELL Top Shelf 38K ET, are all full sibs!
Solid
Black (wild type)
Homozygous Polled
60% Gelbvieh Balancer
78# Birth Weight (101 ratio)
Tenderness score of 7
Bella’s dam, JOB DANELL Moonbeam 20Z, is a beautifully uddered 12 y/o mama cow that has put many replacement females in our herd and her daughters have put many replacements in our herd as well! That is not surprising, considering the fact that she is a granddaughter of Moonshadow 30T, our most prolific, good mama, good tempered, good footed, and fantastic uddered Dam of Distinction! (Check Moonshadow out on the AGA website to see pictures of her udder at 14 years old! JOB 30T)
Bella’s sire, JOB DANELL Kickstart 65K (sold to Tim Robinson in Pleasureville, KY), has been mentioned several times in this catalog and has a promising future. He is a son of JOB DANELL Butterfly 53G and you might want to go to the AGA site to check out pictures of her udder, as well – and she also the dam of Lot 33!
Bella’s own performance shows a 78# birthweight (101 ratio) and a 708# weaning weight (113 ratio) which ranked #1 of 17calves in her contemporary group! Bella has good growth & maternal EPDs with exceptional carcass EPDs!
If I was looking to buy a future Donor prospect, Bella would have to be considered! Her wild type black gene (EDE+ = Typically Black Hided, Wild Type) means that you should get black hided calves, with some being homozygous black and some being (like her) black hided with a wild type gene. Enough said – take her home!
Homozygous Black (and solid black)
Homozygous Polled
42% Gelbvieh Balancer 78# Birth Weight
Polka’s dam, JOB DANELL Dosey Doe 05D, is a moderate framed, good uddered 8 y/owho has a great track record – 95 BW ratio on 7 calves, 103 WW ratio on 6 calves, 97 YW ratio on 3 calves, 98 Ribeye ratio on 3 calves, and 101 Marbling ratio on 3 calves!
Polka started with a 78# birthweight (97 ratio) and has a 633# 205 weight (102 ratio). With a strong set of growth & maternal EPDs and incredible carcass EPDS, she should make you some great replacement heifers and great bull calves!
Homozygous Black (with tiny white)
Homozygous Polled 42% Gelbvieh Balancer 78# Birth Weight
Moon River also goes back to Moonshadow 30T! Moon River’s dam, JOB DANELL Moonlight 43B, also has a bred heifer in this sale, LOT 17 – Spotlight 52L, and Moonlight is a Dam of Distinction! Moonlight has quite a track record – 99 BW ratio on 9 calves, 105 WW ratio on 9 calves, 103 YW ratio on 7 calves, 99 Ribeye ratio on 7 calves, and 96 Marbling ratio on 7 calves (average IMF of 3.79)! Every bull calf she has produced made our bull sales, which is not an easy feat! Moon River is the youngest heifer in the sale, but made the sale because she grew from a 79# birthweight to a 625# 205 weight! She is another female with a great set of EPDs and coming from two of our strongest female families – Moonshadow 30T and Butterfly 53G! Moon River is very stylish and should make a great mama cow!
