Since our entry in the Texas Longhorn business in 1984, we have used selection, artificial insemination, and embryo transfer to accomplish a small but quality herd.
We have had high selling cattle both privately and at the Horn Showcase Sales, Heifer Select Sale, Top of the Crop, Midwest Invitational, Eddie Wood's Cowtown Sale, Houston Gathering Sale, B & C Sale and Tulsa Time Sale, etc...
Our cattle and Roundup semen have gone all over the U.S. and Canada.
In 2006, we took Roundup and four of his daughters to the Fall Horn Showcase.
Roundup won his class with an amazing 94 3/8" total horn measurement (second largest bull ever measured and surpassed only by his son, Wyoming Warpaint, with 96 1/4".) Also, Roundup's grandson, JBR Cash, set a new standard of horn measurement in his division.
Eleven other cattle bred by us came to the Horn Showcase and made one heck of a showing for Kirkham Cattle Co.
Most of our cattle are sold privately through our own pasture tour videos.
* Dissolving partnership. All remaining cattle will be sold
April 5, 2008, at the 30th Annual B&C Sale, Brookfield, MO.
* ANNOUNCING - Ken Kirkham is available for consulting to new breeders, youth. or someone who would just like ideas to get a program off the ground.
Sixty years experience (Dad bought Ken his first registered cow when he was 3 years old.) in feeding (feed, animal health, and livestock equipment sales), breeding (from Holsteins, Angus, Chiannina, and even Thoroughbreds), and the meat packing industry (Ken was instrumental in Farmland Industries becoming one of the four major beef packers in the world).
Ken has also been a fieldman for a large farm supply cooperative and has been involved in crop and grass production. He took over 2,500 soil samples to the KSU Soils lab in a 5 year period, etc. He has a B.S. from K-State in Animal Science, grad of National Institute of Meat Packing at Chicago, has taught college level animal nutrition courses, and has a "PhD from Sale Barn University." Order buyer, cattle dealer, race horse trader and dealer (claimed several horses out of claiming races), real estate developer and successful Texas Longhorn breeder and judge.
He knows how to make them pay. Reasonably priced consulting fees...call Ken for individual situation. Still available to judge your show. We've made a little money in the business, but more importantly, we've made priceless friends and have worked at treating people the way we want to be treated, with honesty and integrity.
Call Ken at 417-777-1614 for more information!
