Our Program:

Ranch raised cattle with proven genetics perfected over the last centrury. These cattle all come from the Noah's program which is now a fourth generation Angus seed stock producer... family owned and operated since 1955. The Heath family is now in its fourth generation of being involved in the Black Angus cattle industry as well.   We believe in:

     1. Strong maternal females with perfect udders, good dispostions, cows that calve unassisted and take care of their calves.
    2. Moderate framed cattle with females that re-breed year after year..... longevity and "repeatablility."
3. Balanced trait cattle with adequate milk, IMF, REA, gain and beef value.
    4. Our cows summer on native "hard grass" ranch under conditions very similar to a majority of commercial cattle operations.
    5. The bulls carry generations of genetic selection for functional traits. We test for pelvic area, scrotal size, ultrasound carcass measurements & feedlot gain. The bulls are fed in Noah's steep, rock feedlot on a high-roughage, low grain ration. We are raising seed stock, not fat stock. Structural soundness, feet, legs & travel are all important.

How We Price & Sell Our Cattle

Important Information our buyers should consider about the data on our cattle weights, ADG, EPD's, actual carcass data and $Beef Values.

Late Fall, even our irrigated meadows are all but done. It’s November and it been freezing every night for two months down as low as 12 degrees in late Oct. We’ll start feeding by Thanksgiving at the latest.

Success! One of our first calf heifers showing her wonderful
natural mothering instincts.
photo taken: 03/25/10

03/26/10
Got one calf processed before it started snowing

Kati takes care of tag preparation and paperwork while Dan & Dustin give the new calf a multi-vitamin shot and a douse of Betadine to the navel. 03/27/10

Winter feeding usually starts around Thanksgiving at Bear Creek Ranch.
The cattle are put on the lowest ground down by the river
and fed hay until next spring. (photo: 11/22/10)

If you have steep country, these cattle will get the job done for you,
like much of the Noah’s Summer turn outs, BCR has a few flat fields
but a whole lot more steep, rocky, forested country. These cows ar
travelers and won’t leave a corner un grazed. They won’t ever
hang out on the low flat riparian’s over grazing it
while the higher country goes to waste.

Dry cows on late fall dry feed. Our forest pastures usually
dry up in August. We then turn the pairs onto our hay meadows
which we have irrigated back up after our one and only cutting.
After weaning we open up the whole ranch and let them graze it
the way they want. This group of cows is a ½ mile from the
irrigated meadows.

We start calving in mid to late March. And usually start turning out the new pairs early April. Then we gather them back up in June for branding, and vacs. and split them up into small breeding herds of about 20 pairs per herd turning them back out with the Herd Sires.

Our own invention for accurately weighing our calves. We call it the
"CATV", Calving All Terrain Vehicle. Calves are suspended in a harness
from a scale mounted to the ATV. 3/23/10

Just another beautiful spring day here... a little snow, sleet, rain and wind! The calves have to be processed no matter the weather, so Dan and Dustin put on their heavy coats and go to work. 03/26/10

Information our buyers should consider about the data on our cattle Weights, ADG, EPD's, actual Carcass Data and $Beef Values.

• Strong maternal females with perfect teats and udders, good dispositions and that calve unassisted and take care of their calves. 
• Moderate framed cattle with females that re-breed year after year……longevity and “repeatability”.
• Balanced trait cattle with adequate milk, IMF, REA, gain etc.  No trait should be over emphasized at the expense of other traits.  Too much milk compromises udder quality and longevity. We believe that  “Extremes eliminate themselves in nature.”
• $EN
  We believe that $EN figures should be considered by cattlemen.  $EN measures differing cow energy requirements, expressed in dollars per cow per year as an expected dollar savings in future daughters of sires.  A larger positive $EN figure means more dollars saved on feed energy costs.  A negative $EN indicates “harder doing”, resource hungry cattle.  Factors that affect $EN figures include basic energy requirements, milk and mature cow size/growth. As a rule, large milk, growth and mature size EPD numbers will lead to negative $EN.  We believe in positive $EN cattle and will be providing that number on our cattle data.  Here is a link to an article on the Angus Association website that has more explanation.