Purebred Black Angus Cows

Boundary Ranch ~ Darby and Sarah Delorme

Box 36, Robsart, Sk., S0N 2G0

Phone: (306) 299 - 2006 ~ Sarah's Cell: (780) 837 - 0258 ~ Darby's Cell: (306) 662 - 7993

The Boundary Ranch Registered Angus program began with Darby’s grandparents, Jean (John) and Florence Delorme, of Jay en Dee Angus in 1963. The legacy continued on when Don and Connie Delorme of South Shadow Angus bought Jay En Dee females in 1993. We are the third family generation to raise registered Black Angus cattle.

The Delorme family has always had the same goals when it came to producing cattle; they should be able to survive and flourish in the semi arid area of South-West Saskatchewan where the grass is truly “short grass” and animals have to travel long distances to reach water. As you can imagine the cows have to be moderate framed and easy doing, with meticulously sound feet to travel those distances. Udder confirmation is also important to us, as well as a good hair coat, longevity, and docility while still being a protective mother. Our pastures are located half an hour to an hour away from home and we don’t have time to be checking on the cows on a daily basis.

Above: Even though we had a relatively dry summer in 2007, the cows actually came off pasture in pretty good shape.

There are still a lot of cows from the original group purchased from the Jay en Dee herd in the South Shadow herd and that says a lot for the potential longevity of our own. We strive to produce the ultimate cow, but do not overlook the performance of the breed; a good balance is what we try to produce.

Along with the Akita cow family that we acquired from Darby’s parents, we also had the opportunity to take some cows on share from Terry Knodel of Big Sky Stock Farm to increase our herd and get some different blood lines. We’ve sold a lot of bulls out of these cows in the last few years and some of our customers enjoy the

performance and size that the Big Sky cows provide. The cows we acquired from Terry are from the Dyna, Diamond Mist, Karama, and Beauty cow families and we now have a few females of our own out of these families we are quite happy with.

Most of our cows are Artificially Inseminated and we try to use as many new and exciting sires as possible. Our cleanup bulls are, and for the most part always have been, from the South Shadow Angus herd or our own.

As we raise purebred and commercial cattle, we tend to treat our purebred herd a lot like our commercial, since most of our bulls go to commercial herds or are used in our own herd and will never be pampered. The calves are never creep fed and therefore have to have natural do-ability. We believe the cow should work for you not the other way around.