100% SOURCE VERIFIED AMERICAN BEEF
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Hughes Ranch is focused on raising high quality, safe beef for you and your family. We can assure you that all beef we produce is born and raised on our ranch with exceptional genetics free of hormones and antibiotics. Better Genetics equals Better Beef!
Hughes Ranch Beef is focused on source verified beef that’s why we choose McKellar Angus as our seed stock for our beef program. McKellar Stunner 0212 pictured below is the foundation of our genetics for high quality, efficient beef. He has great rib shape, body mass and rib eye EPD’s. He scores 150 ($B) That’s in the top 5% of the Angus Association beef value index score. Beef value ($B) facilitates simultaneous multi-trait genetic selection for feedlot and carcass merit. $B is a terminal index representing the expected average dollar-per-carcass difference in the progeny post-weaning performance and carcass value compared to progeny of other sires. This index assumes commercial producers wean all male and female progeny, retain ownership of these animals through the feedlot phase and market these animals on a quality-based carcass grid. EPDs directly influencing $B include: weaning and yearling weight, dry matter intake, as well as carcass weight, marbling, rib eye area and fat. (Source: https://angus.org/) |
McKellar Stunner 0212 - Our Angus Bull
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The McKellar family started in the registered cattle business in 1960 near Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Since then we have been involved in multiple breeds. In 2002, we decided as a family to focus solely on Black Angus genetics. Our initial purchase of 425 weaned heifers exclusively from Connealy Angus, between 2002 and 2005, formed the base of what our cow herd is today. These females were bred to breed leading A.I. sires, adapted very well to Northeast Texas and are very efficient mother cows even with the hotter, more humid climate.
In 2006, we began an aggressive embryo transfer program, focusing on top cow families within our operation. These efforts were further intensified from 2009 through 2012 and again in 2015 & 2016 with the addition of more donor cows from Connealy Angus, Whitman, NE. Today our core donor program is made up of daughters and grand daughters of these foundational females. Our mission continues to be to use all the tools available to produce the highest quality bull for the commercial cow/calf operator, and the highest quality female for fellow registered Angus breeders. Our goal is for our cattle to cover all the bases of fertility, calving ease, growth, maternal ability and carcass traits, and to do so in a visually attractive, efficient package. |
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