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Franklin Nash Herefords

10/12/09

Big Muddy,

The AHA Membership Directory lists a Franklin L. Nash Hereford operation in Otis, CO.

Otis is up in the northeast section of the state. It appears that they relocated from the Canon City area.

Dave
MAPLE EDGE HEREFORDS
Bloomfield, Connecticut
 
Franklin Nash was in Canon City. Franklin has passed away, and I believe they are out of business. Can't say for sure. He had a daughter named Sylvia, but no idea as to her married name. She would be in her late 50's or maybe 60. I just remember she was hard to compete with in 4H.
 
Interesting link BMR, I see that their cattle are more or less a closed herd going back to cattle they bought from Gudgell and Simpson in 1914. That would make them from the same Anxiety 4th gene pool as Jim Lents herd. I wonder how the two herds compare? Great bull pictures on the old website pictures anyway.
 
They are basically another branch of line ones. Most are heavily linebred the the bull "The Arrow" which was a Carlson Bull. They go back to Advance Domino 20.
 
I bet the old boy would of been interesting to visit with-the picture of the old Arrow bull taken at nine years of age looked pretty good to me. I haven't been through alot of Hereford herds in the U'S but Oschner's in Torrington, Wyoming had a real good set of cows-the sorry cows got bred Charolais. I saw probably the worst set of Hereford cattle I've ever seen down there two-lots of show banners and a cowherd that looked like a dog from every town.
 
Thanks for the welcom Purecountry!

I found this site by accident. Comments are interesting. My Dad Franklin was a master line breeder. He told me he knew when he was 5 yrs old what he was going to do the rest of his life and he did. He wans't afraid to breed cows back to their son and did on various occasions with good results. One such was the bull he called Fuzz Kitty. It's kind of funny reading some of the ads today. People advtise yearling bulls as the best they have ever raised. Dad always said you never how good a bull is until you've calved his daughters and sometimes he,s no longer around by then. Dad insisted on strong backs, smooth, but heavy muscle, clean front, thick bodied and good legs. He never cared what everybody else was doing, he did what he wanted to do. My sister and brother-in-law have carried on the same program.

Franklin Nash at Otis is my son. I have two of those. My Dad Franklin was one tough son of a gun. If he was in the mood to talk, he always told you exactly what was on his mind-no words wasted and he did not much care of you agreed with him or not. He had huge impact on my boys which has a lot to do with their work ethic today.
 

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