About Us
History
Founded in the late 1800s, Wooden Cross Cattle Co. is located in South Central Kansas just west of Hillsboro. The fifth generation of Schlehubers is now active in the cattle business. From seedstock production to starting calves and managing them to harvest, our family has always been in the cattle business. It is important to us to do business in such a manner that will ultimately build long-lasting partnerships based on actually doing what we say we will do. Through good and bad times we measure our success not by our bottom line but by trying our best to do good business and continually adding to our list of friends and customers.
Philosophy
In all of creation the cow is the most efficient of all creatures. She has the ability to freely walk rangeland harvesting forage not palatable to humans and turn it into the best-tasting most-nutritious consumable protein know to man. We will not produce cattle that compromise the purpose and natural efficiency of beef production. Working with nature’s plan, we strive to reproduce females that are sound in structure, easy doing, fertile, with good udders and milk to raise their calves on their own.
Our goals are to duplicate and continue to improve our females overall maternal values for our own replacements and also to provide these positive traits to other registered breeders. Most importantly we will work hard to raise the kind of bulls that will add value at weaning, yearling, or all the way to harvest for our commercial customers. We understand that you are in the cattle business to make money and we will provide you the kind of cattle that will help you get that done.
Our Herd
The favorable “bottom line” results that we have experienced over the years using our Charolais bulls on commercial cows has brought us the confidence that we needed to continue building our Charolais female base. We are growing internally paying very close attention to the details that have gotten us to where we are today.
We are able to provide large groups of bulls to our customers that help them improve the consistency of their calf crop passing along the traits that are most important to each individual producer. We are also in the process of moving rapidly towards proving efficiency and carcass merit in our cattle through dna markers and actual harvest data. It is our belief that these two forms of information will replace the inconsistent and unproven present day epd’s that so many have wrongly put their faith in resulting in lesser quality carcass values then predicted.
We use embryo transfer on a limited bases only flushing aged females that have proven themselves in herd. We believe in controlled mating through in herd AI and natural cover. What would you really rather own, a bull produced from several generations of semen being carried to a cow in a straw creating test tube calves out of a cow who has never walked further then the flush barn, or bull progeny from cows being live covered by sires that need to be sound in order to reproduce in a ranch environment?
We will continue to believe in what we actually see, not in what someone tells us we see. We will not be easily influenced by the “next new” concept but instead we will build our herd, our program and our customer base built on the sound common sense fundamentals of beef production.
Welcome
We welcome you to our website as well as welcome your calls or visits anytime. I believe that given the chance to talk the cattle business with you we would be able to add you to our list of customers and friends. Please consider our program when looking for Charolais genetics.
Thank you.
Merle, Marolyn and Maci Schlehuber
620-381-1712