Our Story...

Our story began in 2008 with a desire to buy a few acres of land and provide healthy, all natural beef for our family of four teenage boys. We both came from several generations of farmers and ranchers in the Southwestern US, but lived in urban areas for most of our adult lives. Every weekend for over a year we drove around north and central Texas looking at property... searching for the place to build our dreams. We found it in the summer of 2009. Sometimes you need a very strong vision to overcome the obstacles.....Our dream ranch needed a lot of work! For the next several years our family cleared brush, built fences and corrals, dug ponds, cleaned up debris, improved pastures and began building a headquarters.

Pictures from the beginning (2009)....

And now in 2018.... the grass is improving, our herd is growing, and our ranch cabin is finally finished!

Murray Greys... the Natural Choice for Grassfed Beef

The best decision we ever made on this ranch was to select Murray Grey's for our breed of choice. Murray Grey bulls and cows are docile and easy to work. Calves are small at birth and grow very quickly. Seeing them happy and heathy is our reward for all the years of hard work. They integrate very well with our passion for a holistic management of animals and land, and our vision for providing all natural beef for our customers and family.

Through personal experience, we have found every element of the Murray Grey breed characteristics listed below to be accurate. There is nothing quite like the feeling of building a dream from the beginning and finally watching our vision become reality!!

History

The Murray Grey breed was developed from an initial chance breeding of a black Aberdeen Angus bull and a roan Shorthorn cow in 1905. The resulting calves were bred on the Thologolong property along the Murray River n New South Wales by Peter and Ena Sutherland. These unusually colored cattle grew quickly, were good feed converters and produced high quality beef.

Breed Characteristics

The Murray Grey is known world-wide for the economically important traits of calving ease, feed efficiency and carcass quality. Naturally polled and will pass this characteristic along to all offspring.

Size

Murray Grey cattle are a true medium-framed animal able to maintain body condition easily without consuming large amounts of forage. They performed well in the historic Texas Drought of 2011.

Calving Ease

Calves are small when born, grow quicly and are adaptable to all climates...even the scorching heat of Texas summers.

Temperament

Docile to work with, although cows are very protective of young calves.

Color

Hair color ranges from very light silver to dark gray. Their skin has a dark pigmentation which helps prevent cancer eye, photosensitivity reactions and sunburned udders. In heat stress trials they outperformed other breeds by producing the highest average daily weight gains over specified perionds, primarily attributed to their lighter colored coats.

Beef Quality

Many butchers prefer Murray Grey beef for the consisent reliability of quality and tenderness. We focus on constantly improving our genetics to produce the best marbling and tenderness for cattle in our breeding program. One of two breeds highly desired internationally.

Cross breeding: Our customers are reporting excellent results when breeding purebred Murray Grey bulls to other breeds such as Wagyu, Angus, Hereford, Charlois and crossbred commercial herds.