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  • Welcome to Cloverleaf Cattle Company’s website and blog!

    Cloverleaf Cattle Company Ltd. is a family owned backgrounding and cow/calf operation located in Elgin, Manitoba. The company is owned and operated by Randall & Alva Farough, Rylan & Jennith Farough, Neil & Ashley McDougall and Morgan & Amber Moore. Randall began operations in 1980 with a backgrounding and finishing lot, later saw the addition of a cow/calf side-component. Cloverleaf has more recently focused it's attention on the development of large packages of high-quality, first-cut bred heifers with heavy Red and Black Angus parentage. With 30 years of cattle feeding, breeding and selection experience, and a new generation of enthusiasm, we at Cloverleaf are excited to provide a one-stop-shop where commercial cattlemen can source high quality, consistent and honest replacement heifers.

    Check back often for more information on the development of a large set of Red and Black AI bred heifers for sale in 2011/2012.

    Calving Season 2012

    The posts have been pretty scarce lately, and you may have guessed the reason – Calving!  We are well into the calving season with close to 500 of 1500 calves on the ground now.  We have had a fair amount of interest in the bred cows/cow-calf pairs that we have offered for sale.  We have had about half of the black pairs spoken for, but still have excellent selection of Reds/Red Blazes and Charolais/Simmental pairs or breds.  I have grabbed a few pair shots to show you the kind of young cows and breeding that we are talking about.  If you are in the market for good, honest young cows that have full potential to be a $2800 – $3000 pair come fall time, talk to us.  From a buyers perspective, these cows have way more margin as  a “grass cattle” option than stocker steers do or any other class of cattle for that matter.  Give it some thought!

    Morgan (204)741-0748.

    Young Cows for Sale!

    We have sold all of our bred heifers, and given the great demand for them have decided to sell an elite group of breeding cows.  We have 500 cows sorted up into the following groups:

    200 Black Angus x cows bred Black Angus or Black Simmental.

    150 Red Angus x and Simmental x cows bred Charolais or Red Simmental.

    150 Charolais x and Simmental cows bred Simmental, Charolais or Red Angus.

    Most of the cows will calve April/May.  There are a few cows that are calving now and some pairs will be offered with the groups.

    Will sell in complete groups or gate run smaller groups.  Price is $2000 per cow.

    You will not find a better sort of young cows anywhere for sale.  Ages of cows range from 2nd – 5th calvers.  There are approximately 30% 2nd calvers in the Red and Black cow groups.  Great foundation females here!

    I have posted alot more pictures of the groups here (Cattle For Sale Page).  Call Morgan if you want more information on the cattle or to see them.  204-741-0748 cellular

    Here are some shots from the 3 groups!

    Last Heifer Progress Report from 2011 bred heifers!

    The bred heifer vacuum seems to be wound up to full throttle.  We sold 750 heifers in 2 weeks this year!  That was something even beyond our optimistic expectations.  We are completely sold out of black heifers, but will breed 1,000 of them again next year!

    We have 1 package of red baldy heifers left that are your last chance to grab a uniform set of working mommas.  There are 24 red baldies that are all bred to Feddes Big Sky R9 for April calving.  Check out the picture of a few of them, I have also posted more pictures of them under “Cattle For Sale” (on the menu bar at the top of the page).  We also have 10 Charolais and CharxSimm heifers left, they are bigger framed than the baldies and will make powerful cows.

    If you are still in the bred heifer market, don’t wait to call us because these girls just aren’t hanging around this year!!

    Flashback!

    One  of our heifer customers picked up his cattle this week and brought us a neat little surprise.  It turns out he bought heifers from us 18+ years ago, and still had in his posession the sales flyer for the cattle.  So I thought it would be neat to share it for others to see.

    Heifer update: At present we have a package of 35 tan and white heifers remaining.   For anyone looking for a set of strong heifers that are weighing around 1200 lbs, come and see these heifers.  I will post some pictures of them next week.

    Fresh Pictures of Heifers

    We have had a flurry of interest in our heifers, keeping our cell phones hot and our cell batteries low – but we’re not complaining!  We have moved quite a few heifers in the last week, but there is still a great selection with 400+ heifers to choose from.  There are 100+ Blacks and Black Baldies, 125 Red Baldies/Brockles, 110 Reds and 75 Whites/Tans remaining.  Here are some fresh pictures to show you how powerful these heifers are!