Vermilion Irish Whiskey

NUMBER 1 for $Weaned calf value index, Number 5 for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Number 8 for Calving Ease Direct score EPD, Number 9 for $Maternal value index and Number 10 for Weaning Weight EPD. Replacing his record setting sire as the NUMBER 1 $Weaned calf value index sire now available from ORIgen, Irish Whiskey was the top-selling bull of the 2025 Vermilion Ranch spring bull sale when two-thirds interest sold for $75,000 to make him the top-selling Jameson son from his first two calf crops. Vermilion Irish Whiskey was the headliner of an impressive and valuable sire group and this powerful young sire will see extensive use in the Vermilion and J & L purebred and commercial breeding programs that set the standards for the Big Sky state and the Northwestern United States and Western Canada. Produced by a Vermilion Ranch Pathfinder Dam whose first three calves have an average weaning ratio of 116, this powerhouse combined an adjusted weaning weight of 971 pounds and an adjusted yearling weight of 1,417 pounds. His productive dam that has earned the right to be a cornerstone Vermilion Ranch embryo donor stacks the Vermilion Pathfinder Sires the $190,000 Casino Bomber and Sitz Conformation 689A, and she makes this exciting young sire a great candidate to be the next step forward from his $600,000 Basin and Montana record-setting sire who is one of the truly RARE Angus sires whose EPD profile improves with age as more phenotypic data from his progeny is added to the American Angus Association database! Ultra-elite top 1% for $Weaned calf value index, elite top 5% for $Maternal value index, Weaning Weight EPD and weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD and better than breed avg for Functional Longevity EPD, Hair Shedding score EPD, percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, Docility score EPD, hoof Angle score EPD, Calving Ease Direct score EPD, Birth Weight EPD, reducing Mature Weight EPD and Udder suspension score EPD.