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Desire Red Lowlines

Locality: Rockhampton, Queensland

Phone: +61 407 952 372

Address: Alton Downs 4702 Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

Website: https://www.desireredlowlines.com

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24.01.2022 Desire Red Mini had a big day today. She had her first bath and blow dry and got to dress up. It is "pink week" at school and we are raising money for breast cancer research. So today the Lowlines all proved they were tough enough to wear pink....

21.01.2022 Latest Fashion in Red

20.01.2022 This heifer 5.5 months old Yarra Ranges Equator x McIntosh Creek Latest-Fashion-In-Red. Her name is Desire Red Prada

19.01.2022 This little chunky monkey is Janarlis heifer calf.. you will see photos of her mum on this page - and of this one on the day she was born! Video take on Jan 20 when this heifer was just 7 months old. Very happy with my Myall calves!

18.01.2022 An excellent research report from North Dakota State University.. this kind of data is amazing and shows the validity of the lowline breed in a true commercial situation https://www.ag.ndsu.edu//beeftalk-time-to-get-serious-smal

18.01.2022 McIntosh Creek Janarli is confirmed 10 weeks in calf today to Camdon Myall. We have had an 80% pregnancy rate within 8 weeks of the old boy being in with the girls. Gotta be pretty happy with that!

18.01.2022 We had a great day out at The Caves Show today. Ribbons galore!! Desire Red National Pride, who turned 1 just 3 days ago, won her class, then champion calf female, then went on to win the grand champion. Desire Red Meleoka won her class, and went on to win Champion junior female. School owned Gigi Lilac won champion senior female. We also had a win with McIntosh Creek Mondaroo, taking out champion senior male and then grand champion male, and he only had his 2nd birthday 2 days ago. The school girls won ribbons in both parading and judging events.

15.01.2022 So proud of our lovely red girls who performed well in the Lowline showring at the Toowoomba Royal. They were expertly presented and paraded by the wonderful girls from Rockhampton Girls Grammar School.

14.01.2022 Super impressed with this heifer... 1 year old today. Amazing length and depth for such a young animal. Happy birthday Mirror Image!

14.01.2022 How lucky are we?? Black mum and dad have given us a beautiful red boy.. Neon Red:)

13.01.2022 Big day today bagging up meat from two 2 year old steers that were hanging all week. 430kg of saleable cuts. Beautifully packed in vac-sealed bags... what wonderful meat these Lowline cattle produce. Nicely marbled and tender all from a grass-fed animal. These are 2 T-Bones. 30cm ruler for size comparison. We got 66 pieces of 20mm T-Bone from the two steers

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13.01.2022 We are super excited to announce the registration of Camdon Myall II in the American Aberdeen Association Herdbook. This magnificent red-gene carrier is now registered in the ALCA, CLCA and AAA herdbooks. We have his semen available for purchase already in the USA (Stored at Integrated Breeding Services in Texas). His pedigree can be found here: https://abri.une.edu.au/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll If you are interested in a semen purchase send me a message!!

12.01.2022 How Big is Big Enough?

10.01.2022 Fantastic to see some of our Australian bull Fiddleleaf Red Ivans calves in the showring at NAILE.

10.01.2022 Desire Red is very excited that our Red gene carrier embryos are on the way to Switzerland!! We hope to see some lovely Lowline calves from there in the near future as recips are already programmed for them. We are also super happy that our plans for filling a large embryo order for another European client are well underway with 5 cows and 2 Bulls in the mix. Its exciting to see Australian Lowline Cattle expanding in other areas of the world!

08.01.2022 278 days since Camdon Myall II went into a paddock of 27 cows. Mix of heifers to older cattle. My calf count today is 6. Not bad for an old bloke! 4 first calf heifers and 2 cows. 2 heifers, 2 bulls and 2 unknowns at this stage!

08.01.2022 Desire Red Power Ranger (DOB 1/8/18)

08.01.2022 Fly Control By Kit Pharo [email protected]... The hottest topic within the beef industry right now is fly control. When confronted with a problem, most producers are quick to spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money treating the symptoms while they totally ignore the problem. Folks, if we never work at solving the problem, we will never get rid of the problem and it will continue to get worse. I have always believed many of the problems we encounter in the cow-calf business have a genetic factor. Genetic selection, though quite slow, can provide a long-term solution to many of our problems. Horn flies are no exception. It doesnt take a genius to see that some cows have a fraction of the horn flies that other cows have. For one reason or another, some animals have a genetic resistance to the dreaded horn fly. Dayton Steelman, a retired entomologist at the University of Arkansas, believes the heritability for fly resistance is 58% which is very high. With this in mind, I believe fly resistance is a trait all seedstock producers should be monitoring and selecting for. Steelman studied horn flies and their effect on beef cattle for over fifteen years. His research led him to the following conclusions: Some breeds, such as Brahman, are much more resistant to horn flies. They have three times the number of hairs per unit of surface area than do most British and Continental breeds. Within a breed, some individuals are much more resistant to horn flies than others. Smaller framed animals have significantly fewer flies than larger framed animals within the same breed. Cattle of the same breed seem to be born with approximately the same numbers of hairs. When you enlarge the frame size, you have fewer hairs per square inch. The bigger the animal, the greater the distance between hairs. Every hair follicle has two sebaceous glands that secrete a substance that reflects sunlight (heat) and provides a natural resistance to insects. The more hairs, the more secretion. Cattle that have a very slick and shiny summer hair coat seldom have much in the way of fly problems. Horn flies have an anti-coagulate factor in their saliva that prevents blood clotting while they are feeding. Some beef animals have a higher level of a natural chemical called thrombin that works to counteract the flys anti-coagulate. Simply by selecting for animals that have a higher level of thrombin in their blood, we can effectively select for horn fly resistance. Bulls, because of their testosterone, will typically have two to four times more flies than cows. Flies are attracted to testosterone. Bred-in parasite resistance is one of many areas in which Pharo Cattle Company has assumed the leadership position. We want to continue to be different for all the right reasons. We have evaluated and scored hair coat for many years. We have been evaluating and scoring the bulls we sell for fly resistance for the last 10 years. As Steelman suggested, there seems to be a relatively high correlation between hair coat score and fly resistance score. Research has shown that horn flies can reduce daily gains by as much as pound per day. That could amount to 50 to 100 pounds per calf at weaning. Do the math! At $1.80 per pound, whats a bull worth that can genetically improve the fly resistance of your herd? Do you know of any other seedstock producers who evaluate and score their cattle for genetic fly resistance? Most (if not all) use toxic chemical insecticides to cover up inferior genetics. How is that going to help anyone? The end result of using chemical insecticides is the creation of superior flies and inferior cows. Chemical insecticides are also responsible for killing a multitude of good bugs and organisms. Dung beetles, for example, are nearly extinct on most farms and ranches. Are you ready for a change? Pharo Cattle Company represents the future in beef production. We have the philosophies and the genetics you will need to prosper in the 21st Century. If you would like to receive a catalog for our two Fall Bull Sales, call us at 800-311-0995 or send your request to [email protected]. Our fall bull sales will feature over 350 grass-developed PCC Solar Bulls that will be evaluated and scored for hair coat and fly resistance.

06.01.2022 Some interesting reading: CATTLE:(iowafarmerThursday.com) -- "Would a herd of 120 smaller-framed cows be a better fit than a herd of 100 larger-framed cows?" is an often-asked question throughout the beef industry. The number of cows will vary, but for the sake of answering the question, lets set the herd size as 120 smaller-framed cows and 100 larger-framed cows. The Dickinson Research Extension Center has explored the question since the mid-90s....Continue reading

06.01.2022 The Herd Quitter Concept By Kit Pharo [email protected] From the inception of Pharo Cattle Company, we have always been very different from the status quo... beef industry. In the late 1980s, we realized the beef industry was headed in the wrong direction at a high rate of speed. While nearly everyone else was focused on increasing the size and individual performance of their cattle, we said, It doesnt matter how big your cattle are or how fast they can grow if they are NOT profitable. We decided to provide an alternative to the bigger is better way of thinking. You cant get something for nothing. It was not difficult to increase size and performance but most producers failed to realize that as individual animal performance and size increase, production and profit per acre decrease. At the time, the land grant universities and seedstock producers were leading the way. Unfortunately, they still are. Within a few years, most cow-calf producers had substantially bigger cows. This forced them to reduce their stocking rates and/or increase supplemental feeding to keep their so-called new and improved cows in production. Being different is seldom easy but we knew in our heart that we were different for all the right reasons. Therefore, we persevered. Slowly but surely, more and more commercial cow-calf producers understood our philosophies and broke away from the status quo way of thinking. We went from selling six bulls at our very first bull sale in 1991 to selling over 900 bulls per year 20 years later. We have cowherds in 12 different states. We are developing bulls, mostly on grass, in four different states. We have proven that our philosophies and our genetics can increase profit per acre in every environment they have been placed in. When I came up with the Herd Quitter concept in 2008, it was not well received within the PCC organization. Although everyone understood the message I was trying to convey, very few wanted to be called a Herd Quitter. I wondered why. I soon found out that most ranchers have experienced the frustrations of dealing with a herd-quitter cow. You know the type. Whenever you are gathering the herd, the herd-quitter cow is always looking for an opportunity to escape usually at a high rate of speed. She will wear out a good saddle horse. I have dealt with several herd-quitter cows in my lifetime and I know how frustrating they can be. Moving or gathering a herd of cows would be an easy job if it was not for the herd-quitter cows. If a herd-quitter cow suspects something is up, she will do everything she can to get away. She can make you so mad that you want to rope her and drag her back to the herd. Consider this, though out of the entire herd of cows, the herd-quitter cow is the ONLY cow thinking for herself! I have developed a tremendous amount of respect for those herd-quitter cows. We use the term Herd Quitter to refer to people who have enough courage to break away from the status-quo, herd-mentality way of thinking. It is more about thinking for yourself than anything else. If you follow the crowd (herd) and do what everyone else is doing, you will never be above average and you will never have a competitive advantage. Dare to be a Herd Quitter.

05.01.2022 August 2017 marks the first dispersal sale from Trangie of our amazing breed the Australian Lowline !

05.01.2022 This little beauty was born to our amazing mummy Janarli today. Janarli calved for the first time as a 28 month old heifer and gave us the cheeky boy Lawbreaker on 30 Oct last year. So just under 1 year we have her second baby. She is a lovely little girl. Welcome to Desire Red Malia.

05.01.2022 Weaning day for this lovely 10 month old heifer. Her mum has certainly put a lot in to her! After being in the yards, a swim was in order.. its pretty warm at 33 degrees and humidity that makes it feel like 37!

03.01.2022 With El Nio raising its ugly head and further talk of drought here in Australia, this is very sound advice from Kit Pharo.. More Drought Thoughts By Kit Pharo... [email protected] As expected and as shown in the latest Drought Monitor Map, the northern-plains drought is increasing in intensity and size. From what I have read and heard, many of the drought-stricken cow-calf producers have procrastinated to the point that they are behind the eight ball. They should have sold or relocated cattle two or three months ago. They still have time to take action but the longer they wait, the greater the damage. Drought is a normal part of life for most cow-calf producers. Therefore, we should all have a drought plan. Last week, I shared a favorite Bud Williams quote that said, "You will never go broke having too much money or too much grass but going broke is easy if you have too many cattle at the wrong time. Your drought plan should tell you when you should start turning your cows into money to save your grass. Jim Gerrish, a longtime friend and grazing consultant, says, It takes grass to grow grass. The absence of healthy grass plants makes it impossible to get the most out of the solar energy and rain that falls on the land you control. During a drought, those who have implemented a good rotational grazing system will have healthy grass plants long after their neighbors have little or no grass. Most of the 13 years prior to 2015 were severe drought years for us in Eastern Colorado. During this teenage drought, we practiced rotational grazing and destocked when it was necessary. It wasnt fun, but we were able to get by. Our average annual precipitation (if there is such a thing) is 12 inches. In 2015, we received an amazing 12 inches of rain in the month of May and it continued to rain in a timely fashion throughout the summer. We ended the year with a total of 24 inches of precipitation. We had very little runoff in our pastures and we grew a tremendous amount of grass. Our neighbors, who overgrazed their grass during the drought years, had a tremendous amount of runoff. They did not have enough grass to keep the rain where it fell and they grew very little grass It doesnt matter how much rain you receive. What matters is how much of the rain you receive is utilized. Even with double the average annual precipitation, most of our neighbors were still suffering from drought a man-made drought. CAUTION I know from personal experience that it is easy to succumb to depression during a severe drought. When that happens, we often stop thinking and planning ahead. If you allow yourself to fall into that dark hole, things can quickly go from bad to worse. Dont be afraid to seek help. Those who are unable to get back on track may find that they have no grass, no cows and no money when the drought ends.

02.01.2022 Its so dry here in Rockhampton but as I write this it is raining.. so we are hoping for lots but will be happy with what ever we get!!! This is the lovely Latest Fashion In Red.. just 1 more month until her 2nd birthday. We think she is pretty special

01.01.2022 Red Jacket is the cute red calf featured on the lowline 2016 calendar. The second photo is him taken on Saturday. He is a lovely bull at just over 3 years of age.

01.01.2022 We are pretty fond of this big fella.. He comes home from Rocky Repro tomorrow. The staff there have enjoyed his company. He now needs to come and enjoy the company of some girls in the paddocks at home!