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             A. W. Thorne

                 Land & Cattle, Inc.

           Adair, OK

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Black Icon H27  PB25994

Homozygous Black & HOMOZYGOUS Polled  Braunvieh Bull  

93.75% Braunvieh 6.25% Angus.    

Still the "Only"  Proven Black Purebred Sire in the Breed! 

Date of Birth Sept 27, 1998

Birth Wt: 85#

205 Day Weight: 705#

365 Day Weight: 1260#

Yearling REA: 15.3 in.

REA/CWT: 1.27

Yrlg IMF: 5.83

Yrlg Scrotal: 37 CM

Yrlg Height: 51.5 inches

Frame Score: 6.3

Black Icon H27  Black Icon Pedigree

  Quality Grade   Tenderness Gene Black Icon progeny have set new standards for Purebred black Braunvieh sales, shows and in carcass contests.   The progeny are averaging 83 pounds at birth on bull & heifer calves "Black & Polled" Gestation has been 272 to 282 days from Fullblood & Purebred Donor's..    You can safely use him on first calf heifers.  He works beautiful on angus too!  They are thick and he adds milk.  Plus he gives them a great disposition.   We are using Black Icon daughters exclusively in the Club Calf Program.  TLCC Turk  goes back to a Black Icon daughter named TLC Black Bev K2386.  She is the Dam of Donor TLC Whoa Girl N3100 Turk's dam.  

 

  • Black Icon steers have been tested in Sterling Colorado's Great Western Beef Expo and OK Steer Feed Out with outstanding performance.  

  • The Steers in the OK Steer Feed out were tested all VERY TENDER with a 7.520 Score.  The only pen in the test to do so!  See the info below!

  • In the 2001-2002 OK JR Cattleman's Assoc Steer Feed Out, a Black Icon sired steer was 2nd in a pen of 86 steers for the highest Individual Index of 109.84.  He dressed 686 Hot Carcass, .30 12th Rib Back Fat, Rib Eye Area 14.0  KPH: 2.50, Quality Grade: Choice Yield Grade: 1.88

  • Hall Ranch in Clarendon Texas loves the Black Icon blood lines in their replacement females and steers sent to the feed yard!  They did their own test and Black Icon progeny do it all for them in their dry panhandle area.  They have also reported that Black Icon son's and grandson's were tested 1-2 Star Quality Grade and 3 to 5 Star Tenderness Gene.

  • Brown Farm in Nebraska is very pleased with their calves born of first calf heifers.  Easy calving and growing fast is only one of their comments.

  • The Meyer family in Nebraska loves their Black Icon females.   Their repeat purchase of semen has been the answer to whether they like them or not!

  • Black Icon sired females  breed back quick after delivery and consistently wean 550-625# calves at 205 days.  

  • Semen available in volume discounts for commercial herds.  Give us a call.  918-783-5477  CSS and Domestic semen!  We can ship over seas!

Black Icon sired Steers all test VERY TENDER in the

Warner-Bratzler Shear Test   The only pen of steers in the OK Cattleman Test to do so!

Feedout and core NO

IND WBS Total Average

Ind WBS Value

QUALITY GRADE

TLC 221 STEER

7.281

VERY TENDER

CHO 3

TLC 222 STEER

7.363

VERY TENDER

CHO 2

TLC 223 STEER

7.546

VERY TENDER

SE-2

TLC 224 STEER

7.888

VERY TENDER

SE-2

AVERAGE

7.520

VERY TENDER

 

 

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 A. W. Thorne Land & Cattle, Inc.

Albert & Joan Thorne

435707 E 370 Rd,  Adair, OK. 74330

918-783-5477 Office/Home

918-284-0175 Cell  Joan

918-527-2002 Cell Albert 

joan@thornecattle.com

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