KAKE Notorious 66N

Born March 23, 2025 @ 97 lbs
Black | Double Polled | F94L: 2
BW Ratio: 113 | WW Ratio: 109

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 to 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, and 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.
• KAKE 56U: A long-lived, high producing Lim-flex. She weaned KAKE Griffin 10G, one of the best calving ease bulls in the breed, at 11, and her last calf at 13.
• KAKE 27Y: A granddaughter of JCL Lodester 27L who contributes significant longevity to the pedigree. At 14 years old, she weaned her last calf in 2025 with a 109 WW ratio.

ABOUT THIS BULL: He was an early favorite. He's thick and long, with all the good things you can hope for from the breed.
If you make your selection on EPDs alone, you'll miss out on an exceptional bull here. When there's this much old blood on a pedigree, the performance of the animal in front of you is often more accurate than the numbers on their papers; this bull is no exception.
The three females in the first two generations of his pedigree have produced 8 bulls that are working all across the Midwest, and 10 replacement hefiers - with no embryo transfer involved. All three females raised calves here until they were 13 or older.

HOW WE’D USE HIM: His calves will have a head start with a few extra pounds at birth, but we would not anticipate any calving difficulties from him.
He's got some great carcass and feed efficiency qualities that would especially complement an Angus-based herd.