Welcome to Hamco Cattle Co.
2008 Manitoba Purebred Breeder of the Year!
Hamco Cattle Company is located south of Glenboro, Manitoba,
50 miles southeast of Brandon, Manitoba, and 100 miles west of
Winnipeg, MB and 30 miles north of the North Dakota border. We
run 275 Red Angus and 275 Black Angus
cows. We have developed our herd
through aggressive use of Embryo Transfer and A.I. striving to
produce strong functional cattle that perform well and are
problem free. The foundation of our herd were top donor
cows we purchased from several top
seedstock herds in Canada and from the US. We have always used
top A.I. sires and have raised or
purchased some very outstanding walking herd
bulls.
Hamco has had an indoor bull sale on
the farm for the past 23 years. We will be holding our
26th Annual Angus Bull Sale on Saturday, March 16, 2024
. We have sold a number of
bulls into purebred herds but the
bulk of our customers are commercial cattlemen. We have been
very pleased with the acceptance and popularity of our Angus
bulls in our customer's commercial
herds. Glen, Carleen, Larissa and Kyle and hired staff manage
the cattle herd and also a large grain and alfalfa hay
operation. They sell hay throughout Canada and into the United
States.
David is a veterinarian and is a partner in the Morden
Veterinary Clinic, a 7 person practice in Morden and practices
in Pilot Mound, Glenboro, Killarney and Winkler. David and his
wife Shelley, an Animal Health Technician, also own and
operate Embryo Genetics Ltd., a full service Embryo Transfer
company that provides ET services throughout Manitoba,
south-eastern Saskatchewan and northern North Dakota. David
enjoys the challenge of assisting with the management and
breeding decisions in the Hamco Angus herd, and it gives him a
chance to practice what he preaches.
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Our breeding program focuses on producing cattle that will be
widely accepted by the commercial beef producer. We screen and
cull our bulls at least 3 times
through their production phase, and end up selling from the
top 50%. The bulls are selected based
on performance, structural soundness, temperament, breeding
soundness evaluations and calving ease. The
bulls are developed on a high forage
ration and evaluated on a 112 day home performance test. We
rank our bulls for calving ease and
sell a good selection of
bulls suitable for heifers,
bulls that would work well on heifers
or cows, and some we recommend only
using on cows.
A Hamco Angus bull will provide
performance and desirable carcass traits to your herd while
maintaining calving ease, high conversion rates, maternal
strength, easy fleshing ability and Angus vigor at birth. The
sold red color of the Red Angus will cross very well with
almost any colored herd or crossbred herd. The Black Angus
bulls will contribute their dominant
Black hair coat color and Angus traits that are in demand in
the marketplace.
Updated
March 17, 2023
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