Hidden Hill Farm Shorthorns

 

In 1994, we were fortunate to have born on our place, two Marellan Super Dazzler sons that proved to be a terrific one-two punch. On March 31 of that year, a Mollies Defender Adair granddaughter, TS Winning Leah, gave birth to a very promising son, HHFS Leah's Legacy x3937624. Not far behind, on April 14, TS Jeanie Marie BC, a granddaughter of Deerpark Improver 57, gave birth to what would prove to be an exceptionally outstanding son, HHFS Dream Weaver x3937622.

The quality of Weaver and Legacy prompted Lovaas to begin a line breeding program with them, and the bulls were initially used on the each other's daughters. The quality of the resulting progeny spurred Lovaas on to even closer matings and the result of joining a half brother, HHFS Dream Weaver, to a half sister, HHFS Lassies Lustre, was HHFS Shadowfax, who sired show winning offspring.

While a great many of his contemporaries pursued the show arena, Lovass put his stock to the test in university sanctioned feedlot trials and carcass competitions. In the 1999 - 2000 Minnesota Carcass Merit Program, out of twelve groups, the Lovaas bred steers, predominantly Weaver and Legacy sired, captured the highest return of profit per head. When the National Cattleman's Beef Association sponsored the unprecedented Carcass Merit and Tenderness Project, HHFS Dream Weaver was nominated for a test sire and HHFS Leah's Legacy was nominated as a reference sire by the American Shorthorn Association.

Though HHFS Dream Weaver was never shown except as a calf with his mother at the county fair, his achievements include being the second ever Pacer Performance Sire of the Shorthorn breed, to proving to be able to sire "fork tender" beef in the NCBA's Carcass Merit Project, where DNA markers were compared with actual Warner/Bratzler sheer force and taste panel results, to siring one Champion and two Reserve Champion carcasses in back to back years at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky, to having a Canadian bred son, PL Unforgiven, win the Royal show at Toronto, Canada, and still being able to naturally service and settle cows into his thirteenth year of age, as well as siring functionally sound daughters that continue to work well into double figured age. HHFS Dream Weaver has without doubt, upheld the par excellence standard in superb fashion.