Sires used at Rouse Red Angus for the 2026 calf crop
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EPDs current as of 8/9/2025, for most up to date EPDs click their name.
Paycheck K102 was the high selling bull in the 2023 Bieber sale. He has a remarkable set of data, combining high calving ease with breed leading growth, and both breed leading marbling and REA. For all that growth, he is surprisingly moderate framed, but thick, deep, and long. He is very sound made and has an excellent disposition. His dam is one of the top cows in the Bieber herd; she is a moderate framed, thick bodied cow who is very easy keeping and ranks very high in the $Profit system. Our first K102 calves came light birth weight and confirmed his calving ease projections, but they hit the ground running and are keeping up well on growth.
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Dynasty is our resident herd sire. As we searched through the bulls in the 2021 Bieber Spring Sale, Dynasty was the one that really stood out to us from all the rest, checking the boxes that we were looking for. He offers a pedigree that is different enough for us to be able to use him as a clean-up bull, and his data puts him right where we want to be as far as calving ease, growth, and carcass (both marbling and ribeye area). His dam is a top young Gladiator daughter who descends from the same Basin Rose 710P cow that excited us so much about the In The Black bull. Dynasty offers a 6+ frame with awesome feet, and he has a very high libido with a gentle disposition. He has been a very easy fleshing bull and we expect him to make some very productive and easy keeping daughters. He has been a very good calving ease sire for us, with calves that are slender and aerodynamic at birth, but they fill out as they grow. The Dynasty sons have been very well received, including Empire, who was the high seller in the 2024 Bieber sale and who we used in our AI program instead of Dynasty in 2025.
Empire is a Dynasty son that we raised who was the $41,000 high seller in the 2024 Bieber bull sale. His dam is a Hard Drive daughter out of our Abigrace donor who has a great disposition. Empire really grew and scanned well and was a real standout phenotypically. As happy as we are with our Dynasty calves, we have moved on to Empire as the next generation in our AI sire line-up, but Dynasty will continue to be used natural service.
Leverage was the $130,000 high selling bull in the Ludvigson 2025 Big Sky bull sale. He is a son of the deceased but highly sought after Brown CRSB Confidence G1410, making him a half brother of the $400,000 PIE Hollywood 222. His dam is one of the top donor cows in the Boot Jack herd. He has a terrific set of EPDs, particularly excelling at calving ease and carcass. We think Leverage will be a great compliment to the main Bieber sire lines we have been using.
Improver was the $155,000 high selling bull at the 2025 Niobrara Red Angus bull sale. His sire, STRA Ranch Hand 2010 is one of the hottest sires in the breed with semen off the market. His dam is sired by John Wick, one of the most popular phenotype bulls in the breed and a complete outcross to our herd. Improver has terrific across the board EPDs, with an emphasis on maternal traits, as seen in his top 1% Herdbuilder Index and Stayability. With his performance, carcass scan, and impressive phenotype, we are really excited to see his calves hit the ground in 2026!
American Freedom is a bull with a little different pedigree that we are excited to add to our lineup that will provide some more mating flexibility without taking a step back on quality and productivity. Our American Freedom calves came with more birth weight, but they were well shaped and we didn’t have any calving problems with them. He also passes a very good disposition to his calves. After a life-threatening injury in the spring of 2024, American Freedom semen has been pulled from the open market, and we feel very fortunate that we were able to purchase some of the very limited amount of semen that was available. We had a good number of calves born in 2025, but will only have a few in 2026 after using up the last of our semen supply.
L30 is an Energize son that we used as a clean up bull on one set of our cows. He is a very deep-bodied and thick made bull with a great disposition, and comes from our highly productive Lena cow family.
M92 was the last calf we got from our Stormy D49 clean up bull that we used for years. We used him as the clean up bull for our yearling heifers this year.
Additional sires represented in the Rouse Red Angus 2024 and 2025 calf crops
Jumpstart grabbed the Red Angus breed’s attention in the spring of 2022 when he sold for $185,000. It is not too often that you can find his combination of actual performance and EPD data along with his incredibly thick, powerful, deep bodied and attractive phenotype. And then throw in his terrific feet and soundness and it was a no-brainer to plug him into our breeding program in a major way. We really like our Energize calves, but this Energize son has taken his sire’s place in our AI line-up. He adds more growth and mature size than his more moderate sire. We really like our Jumpstart calves; they came easy, have grown very well, and have the looks to go with it. Ideally, we would love for him to be higher in marbling, but when a sire does so many other things so right, we can handle a bull that is still around breed average there.
After four years of Stockmarket dominating our sire line-up, it finally came time to move on, but in 2023 we didn’t move too far. Blue Chip was our pick of all the great Stockmarket sons out there. He offers the same do-it-all EPD profile of his sire, with an extra emphasis on calving ease. We certainly appreciate his high marbling, with his EPD at the top of the breed and his ultrasound ratio of 137. He is very long bodied, with extra muscle and style.
Paycheck is a bull that Biebers bought from Lundgren Angus Ranch in Kansas. He offers a different pedigree that is unrelated to most of our lines. We seriously considered using Paycheck several years ago, but ultimately went another way. His first set of sons sold at Biebers’ 2023 sale and they were the standout sire group of the entire sale. In fact, the top four high sellers were all Paycheck sons. We didn’t want to make that mistake again, so we made it a priority to use him in 2023. Unfortunately Paycheck is deceased and there is a very limited amount of semen left, but fortunately, we had excellent luck with our limited use, getting 17 pregnancies from 20 straws. Paycheck is one of the very highest WW and YW EPD bulls in the entire Red Angus breed, but is able to do that while keeping frame size in check. He also boasts both marbling and ribeye area at the top of the breed.
Stockmarket is the leading son of Stockman who was the second high seller in the 2018 Bieber Spring Sale. He is a grandson of our Bieber Adelle 297Y donor cow. Stockmarket posts the kind of do-it-all EPD profile that we are striving for in our herd, with heifer safe calving ease, top of the breed growth, strong maternal predictions, and high end carcass traits. We just love our Stockmarket calves and now that we have some daughters in production we like him even more. His sons have been some of the most sought after bulls in the breed the last few years. He was our most used AI sire for four consecutive seasons. We still feel like he is as good of a bull as there is in the breed, but we have had to move away from using the Stockmarket line of sires just because many of our customers need some unrelated bloodlines to use on their Stockmarket influenced cattle.
Energize is our favorite Atomic son who was the high seller in the 2019 Bieber Spring Sale. Like Stockmarket, he is a grandson of our Adelle 297Y donor cow, but his dam is a Hard Drive daughter. He is a moderate framed bull with tremendous depth of body and thickness. We really like what we have seen from our Energize calves, they really stand out for being wide made and heavy boned despite having excellent calving ease. Energize is another sire who is quickly becoming one of the best and most widely used bulls in the Red Angus breed. As much as we like our Energize calves, we decided to move on to his son Jumpstart for the 2023 season.
Additional Sires which have impacted the Rouse Red Angus Herd
Hard Drive proved himself to be one of the best bulls in the Red Angus breed in the 2010’s. He is an outcross to most of our herd, while providing breed leading growth, marbling and REA. He has tremendous depth and spring of rib, with above average bone, great feet and an excellent disposition. His sons were really in high demand in the Bieber production sales when he was in use. His dam really did a great job as a donor for Biebers, producing Hard Drive, Deep End and Gladiator, and sold in Denver to Twedt Red Angus for $30,000. We have daughters in production now, and they are doing a great job. Hard Drive semen is very rare, and we are only getting Hard Drive calves through our ET program currently.
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Spartacus is a son of Samurai who was the high selling bull in the 2014 Bieber Red Angus Production Sale. Spartacus is a stout boned, thick, deep bodied bull with a great disposition and feet. He has been a very good calving ease sire for us. His calves have great vigor at birth, which is a hallmark of the Samurai calves as well. We used Spartacus for 5 years, but have moved on to the next generation, using some of the many great Spartacus sons available, including Trojan, Maximus, In The Black, and Gladiator. The only thing keeping us from using this sire line any harder is the number of females in our herd who are already related to him, but rest assured that the Spartacus line will continue to be well represented in our herd.
We feel that Atomic may be the best son of Andras Fusion out there. He is a deep bodied, soggy made bull who has a terrific combination of calving ease, growth, maternal, and carcass traits. We really like the soft structure and easy moving design he transmits to his progeny. After using Atomic as a full fledged sire group for four years, which is rare for a sire in our program, he has been replaced by his son Energize. Despite the fact that we have moved on to Energize, we still think very highly of Atomic, and really like the daughters we have in our herd.
We purchased Deep End as the high selling bull in the fall 2015 Bieber sale. Deep End is a Rollin Deep son who is out of Hard Drive’s dam, combining one of the all time great sires at Bieber’s with one of the most productive cows to come out of their herd. Deep End puts together an impressive combination of breed leading growth and carcass traits. He provides added frame size and length to his progeny, is heavy boned, and has dark red color with a terrific disposition. We have used him both AI and natural service, but unfortunately he suffered a breeding injury while covering cows in 2020 and his natural service career has come to an end.
Rollin Deep was the high selling bull in Biebers’ 2012 sale. He is the leading son of Roosevelt, and his dam is one of the very best cows to come out of Biebers’ herd. Rollin Deep has tremendous depth of body, thickness and a great overall phenotype. His calves have excellent growth and carcass, and his daughters make top notch cows. Much like his sire, Rollin Deep’s sons have been very well received by commercial cattlemen and purebred breeders alike. Rollin Deep semen is hard to come by now, and going forward we will only have a limited number of Rollin Deep progeny coming from our ET program.
Samurai is a Cheyenne son that we raised in 2010 and was purchased by Select Sires. Samurai calves have been doing a great job for us, as well as for Bieber Red Angus and breeders around the country. Nothing makes us happier than seeing the footnote in the Select Sires catalog calling him “one of our best for customer satisfaction”. Samurai has a tremendous spread from low birth weight to high growth. His calves are thick and deep and have excellent structure and movement. His dam was the best cow in our herd for years, and Samurai’s daughters look like they will carry on her maternal success.
