Thank you to Diamond Z Livestock for purchasing Natalie in Function & Finesse 2.0.

Natalie 22Z is a name becoming well known in our breed. It’s rare we come across anyone who has followed our program at all and they aren’t well versed in this prolific and ideal mother cow’s accomplishments.

At each step of her life, Natalie has exceeded and surpassed our expectations. She was a beautiful heifer calf and then a commanding bred heifer. She entered production and immediately found success producing Big Time who worked for JSJ Livestock and whose influence is later in this offering. She then raised a son who sold to a commercial customer before a daughter in 2016. It was then we halter broke her and showed the pair together. That heifer calf, Natalie 1D, would be among the most talked about heifer calves in any breed that fall and was calf champion at both Farmfair and Agribition before selling to Cranview Gelbvieh in North Dakota. Her next test was donor cow and it was perhaps this exam where she impressed us most, averaging over 20 embryos a flush.

Her first flush to The Boxer yielded huge results including the 2018 bull and heifer calf Agribition division champions. That heifer calf, Natalie 19F, was selected by Goodview Gelbvieh and the bull calf just happened to be Mayweather who went on to win Agribition last fall and now lives at Ledgerwood Gelbvieh in Washington. Also in that flush was one of our most favourite two year olds here, Natalie 53F. She also produced the high selling female in last year’s Function and Finesse, Natalie 116F, to Towerview Ranch. We are thrilled to have two new, unique black matings coming next spring. That said, Natalie is in her prime with years of continued breed leading production ahead of her.

To be honest, we aren’t sure we’ve done the right thing in offering our treasured Natalie here. Likely, she should live out her days here in comfort after all she’s done for us. We have a bank of embryos and so she sells in her entirety! It will be a sad day for us when she leaves TVL but you can bet we’ll be cheering you on when you find success like we have with your own Natalie babies!