Oceanbrae Farms

09/02/2026

We are making a full sister to Oceanbrae Generator available in the Fall Colours Online Sale on September 18th.

Oceanbrae TP Gingerbeer-P is polled and the #5 LPI heifer in Canada. We think she would make a great foundation animal for any herd!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be starting to highlight consignments in the Fall Colours Online Sale, taking place on Friday, September 18th. Stay tuned for the full catalogue as well as the sale website.

One of our first highlight consignments is Oceanbrae TP Gingerbeer-ET, a Winter Calf sired by #1 LPI sire Treeton Pingerly out of Oceanbrae Ironman Ginger EX-91-4E (photo).

This calf is a full sister to Semex sire Oceanbrae Generator, and is the #5 PA LPI heifer in Canada in the August 2026 genetic evaluations.

Stay tuned for more consigments in the coming days!

08/21/2026

We had a milk test last week, and here are our current Top 5 projections:

1. Oceanbrae Finn Flame VG-85. Projected to 13,560 kgs M at 301 DIM. Her sire Finnegan was a full brother to Foster.

2. Oceanbrae Pingerly Berry VG-85. Projected to 13,212 kg M at 248 DIM. #1 LPI cow in Canada.

3. Oceanbrae Granite Leann-P VG-85. Projected to 12,662 kg M at 116 DIM. Her sire Granite was a Ovensdale Pixie's Treble son from the Pepper family.

4. Oceanbrae Tribute Latoya VG-88 (photo). Projected to 11,747 kgs M at 110 DIM. Jenny's Tribute in 3rd lact out of Oceanbrae Royal Layton EX-92-4E

5. Ver-Dyk Animate Hyrja EX-91. Projected to 11,596 kgs M at 244 DIM.

08/06/2026

We got quite a few new page followers talking about our Ayrshire ladies, so we also wanted to mention our Jerseys. We are currently milking 3 Jerseys, with 2 more Jerseys in the dry cow pen and a couple of heifers waiting in the wings.

One of our top performing Jerseys is Oceanbrae Barcelona Evelyn VG-85 (center of photo). Evelyn produced 10,345 kgs milk last year (4th lact) at 5.9%F and 4.0%P.

Evelyn has a full sister (Evening VG-86) who is currently projected over 11,000 kgs M at 5.2%F and 4.2%P.

Both cows are out of Shadycorners Petrol Earla VG-87. Sire stack after Barcelona is Barhams Petrol x Three Valleys Chief x Huronia Remake Navaho x Norval Acres Plaudit.

08/05/2026

Oceanbrae Star Tootsie VG-87-2yr (Max) in her working clothes. Tootsie is currently projected for 8266 kgs M in first lactation at 3.9%F and 3.3%P.

Tootsie is from a branch of our Ideal cow family that also produced Ironman-P. Her dam was a GP-82 Foster, then three generations of EX cows. She is sired by Stargazer, who is making some impressive daughters in multiple countries.

08/04/2026

While we are mostly known for our Milking Shorthorn herd, we have added a few Ayrshires in the past few years, as a couple of high-quality PEI Ayrshire herds dispersed and we needed cows post-barn rebuild.

We were delighted to see that Ayrshire Canada recently recognized Oceanbrae as having the 3rd highest herd average for BCA among herds with 14 or fewer completed records. In fact, our herd average of 11,614 kgs of milk in 305 days was the highest average milk production among Canadian Ayrshire herds in 2025.

Of our current Ayrshire herd of 6 cows in lactation, 4 are classified Excellent. One of those is Ver-Dyk Animate Hyrja EX-91 (photo) in third lactation. She is currently projected for 11,625 kgs M, 4.0%F and 3.4%P.

07/29/2026

Great classification round with Jill Nelson this afternoon.

Highlight of the day would be Oceanbrae Star Tootsie getting a max score of VG-87 in first lactation. Tootsie is a Stargazer daughter from a branch of our Ideal family.

Also scoring Very Good in first lactation:

- Oceanbrae Bentley MacKenna VG-86 (Bentley x DJack). She is currently projected over 8000 kgs.

- Oceanbrae Solomon Sinead VG-85 (Cotonhall Solomon x Zumba)

We also had 2 first lactation heifers score 84 points, both by Oceanbrae Brewer.

We also have a new EX cow: Richford St Francis Milly EX-90. She is currently milking 40 kgs per day at just over a month fresh in 4th lactation.

Two cows added Es: Oceanbrae Royal Layton EX-92-4E and Ver-Dyk Volvo Melody EX-90-2E.

Increasing to VG are:

- Oceanbrae Brewer Barbie VG-86
- Oceanbrae Tribute Latoya VG-88
- Oceanbrae Brewer Monica VG-85
- Oceanbrae Steel Zendaya-P VG-85

07/14/2026

Happy Cow Appreciation Day! This is a photo of one of our newest additions, a Generator daughter out of Elizabeth.

Do you have a suggestion for a name for her, starting with E?

07/07/2026

Another cow we recently pictured with Teresa Spek is Oceanbrae Foster Brooklyn VG-86. Currently projected at 9200 kgs M at 4.4% and 3.5%P early in 2nd lactation. From a branch of our Pepper family, she features a sire stack of Foster x Ironman x O Bennett (by Mocha) x Ted x Prince Edward.

07/06/2026

Recently, we got some photos taken of a few current herd favourites, including Oceanbrae Star Tootsie, a relatively fresh Two Year Old sired by Kuszmar Mercury Stargazer. Thus far, we are very happy with our Stargazer daughters, with most of them scoring better than dams in first lactation with good production.

Thank you to Teresa Spek for taking some lovely photos for us!

04/24/2026

We still have a couple of young Simmental bulls available as herd sires for your beef herd. Well muscled from great pedigrees. 20 months old. Contact us for more information and pricing.

Pictured bull is polled, both are Full Fleckvieh Simmental.