COCHRANE, Alta. — A polled red cow was the high seller at the Rocky Mountain High Holstein sale in Cochrane July 2.
Westcoast Ladd Aspen sold for $197,000 to West Coast Holsteins of Chilliwack, B.C., after active bidding in the sales tent, where more than 90 prime Holsteins were on offer.
“We think she will be a big-time show cow,” Jeff Kooyman of Westcoast said after the sale. “She is one of the top cows in our barn.”
Her first major show will be at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, this fall.
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The two-year-old was bought as a three-month-old calf for $17,000 as part of a five-way partnership that included British Columbia breeders Jeff and Darren Kooyman, Win and Chad Kloot and Art Postma.
The partners decided to offer her for sale at a public auction, and Westcoast now owns her outright.
Postma raised the heifer at his farm at Deroche, B.C., and its first calf was born at the Westcoast farm. That calf sold for $9,000 at the Rocky Mountain sale.
Other high sellers included:
- A choice of heifer calves from Oconnors Pepper Lively, born in 2014 and consigned by the Vogue Cattle Co. of Ontario, sold to Golden Oaks Farms of Illinois for $76,000.
- Peak Exotic Dav 905, born in 2014 and from Scott Culbertson of Wisconsin, sold to ABS Global of Wisconsin for $45,000.
- Westcoast Supershot Winter, born in 2015 and from Westcoast Holsteins, sold to Siemers Holsteins of Wisconsin for $32,000.
- Pol Butte McCutchen Barble, born in 2015 and from Rocky Mountain Holsteins and T & L Cattle of Chilliwack, B.C., sold to Westcoast Holsteins for $31,000.
The sale offered 111 lots to total $1, 007,150 and averaged $9,000.
