Diamond K Cattle Co.

Diamond K Cattle Co. Ltd. lies on the picturesque north slope of the Cypress Hills and consists of vast grass lands cradled between the east and west blocks of Cypress Hills 18 miles southwest of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. This ranching operation was established in 1997 when the individual operations of Ken Weiss, Lance Weiss and Bryce Weiss were amalgamated. The Diamond K brand is now under the ownership of Bryce and Dena Weiss. The cow herd was developed with a goal of producing a premium female with the foundation herd being Simmental - Red Angus cross. We breed those cows to Simmental and Red Angus bulls to produce the ½ and ¼ blood bred heifers

that we offer for sale in the Rock Solid Bred Heifer sale.

We went back to using Charolais bulls on a group of our own cows a few years ago so that we could continue to offer some of our top-quality tan bred heifers.

Many of our sale heifers are bred to Charolais bulls by our customers to produce a top quality cross bred calf. This red cow, white bull combo produces offspring that is hard to beat at the auction market.

We guarantee our heifers to perform, if there are any problems, we stand behind them 100%. If for any reason you are not happy with your purchase, we will refund or replace.

We offer complementary delivery, don’t worry about bringing your trailer to the sale.

We have been breeding select groups of heifers to Charolais bulls and Simmentals bulls to calve in February. This year we exposed the early bred heifers for only 21 days. Heat detector patches were used to record breeding dates. This has resulted in 30 head bred Charolais to calve in a 21-day window in February and 35 head bred Simmental to calve in that same 21-day window. Any Charolais exposed heifers that did not conceive in that early 21-day window were given a 21-day break from exposure and then exposed June 10th to Red Angus bulls. Any Simmental exposed heifers that did not conceive in the early window were given a 21 day break from exposure and then exposed June 10th to Simmental bulls. We have 52 head bred red angus to calve starting March 19th and 11 head bred Simmental to calve starting March 19th.

The heifers have received Express pre-breeding and Ivomec in the fall. All heifers were preg checked by ultrasound and the measurements along with our breeding date data were used to sort the heifers into their calving groups.

30 – bred Charolais – due February 7th-27th

35 – bred Simmental – due February 7th – 27th

11 – bred Simmental – due March 19th – April 11th

48 – bred Red Angus – due March 19th – April 15th

4 – bred Red Angus – due April 15th – May 8th

Rock Solid Bred Heifer Sale.