KAKE Nemesis 72N

Born March 23, 2025 @ 85 lbs
Black | Double Polled | F94L: 1
BW Ratio: 102 | WW Ratio: 97

ON HIS PEDIGREE: KAKE Apollo 82A: The maternal grandsire of KAKE Fiat 11F, who ranks #2 in the breed for birth weight (see 13N) and #7 for calving ease on heifers, and the sire of KAKE Keystone 7K (see 33N, 42N, 72N and 148N). We used him on heifers for nearly a decade.
• KAKE Keystone 7K: There's a time to lean on EPDs, and a time to set them aside. When we decided to keep Keystone, it wasn't because of what a set of numbers said about him. The first two generations on his pedigree reached back twenty years, and we had a long history of the bulls and cows on those two generations and beyond. We knew his muscle and performance wasn't a fluke, even though they didn't match his EPDs. He was the kind of calf commercial cattlemen and women are trying to raise year after year. Not to top a sale or a show, but to do well at the sale barn and in the feedlot, with the structure and soundness to be a staple in a breeding herd for 10+ years.
• KAKE 109Z: A JCL Lodestar 27L granddaughter who weaned her last calf at 13.
• L7 Ezra 7085E: This son of IVY'S Bubba Watson HTZ24B was the high-seller on Peterson's sale in 2019. With his performance and EPD profile, Ezra boosted growth, muscle, and carcass qualities in his calves with an extra dose of docility.
• KAKE June Grass 63J: A daughter of one of Allan's commercial Angus cows from Butch and Cody Schmalz in Caribou, Minnesota. She's a framey cow with a perfect udder. She likes a little larger bubble, but has never been aggressive. Of the three calves she's raised, the first was a daughter we retained, and the last two have been private treaty bulls.

ABOUT THIS BULL: For the 2024 breeding season, we decided to use Keystone the way most of our customers use our bulls; on commercial Angus and Angus-cross females of various types.
He's got the thickness and muscle expression of a Limousin combined with the depth and rib of an Angus.
He's a carrier of the F94L myostatin gene.
He ranks in the top 20% of the breed for fat thickness, 25% for dry matter intake, and 30% for yield grade.

HOW WE’D USE HIM: He'd be an excellent fit for any crossbreeding program, especially those focused on feeding to finish.
With Ezra and Keystone behind him, he'll bring measurable growth to a calf crop and predictable efficiency and performance in the feedlot.