Oceanbrae Farms

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.

04/24/2026

Oceanbrae Farms is looking for an Assistant Herdsperson to join our team. Please consult this posting for additional details and application information.

We are looking for someone energetic, ambitious and responsible who is a team player and is interested in working for a modern, progressive dairy farm. Please feel free to contact us for more details.

03/17/2026

We had a great classification visit with Classifier Paul Tree today!
Apologies for the quality of photos, as most of Team Oceanbrae has had the flu recently and there wasn't time for clipping!

Some highlights:

Two new EX cows:
Ver-Dyk Animate Hyrja EX-91 (AY)
Oceanbrae IM Angela EX-90 (by Ironman)

Four VG-2yr olds:
Oceanbrae Bessie Joe 75 VG-86-2y (by Stargazer)
Oceanbrae Star Fortune VG-86-2y (by Stargazer)
Oceanbrae Brewer Fifi VG-85-2y (by Brewer)
Oceanbrae Brewer Imogen VG-85-2y (by Brewer)

New VG cows:
Oceanbrae Royal Belinda VG-87 (2nd lact, #8 LPI)
Oceanbrae Foster Brooklyn VG-85 (2nd lact)
Oceanbrae Conrad Lucy VG-85 (2nd lact)
Oceanbrae OJT Fonda VG-87 (3rd lact by Tribute)
Celtic Foster Emily VG-85 (4th lact)

MS herd is now 10 EX (4ME) 37 VG 18 GP 2 G

We scored 3 Stargazer heifers, and all three scored 85 or 86 for mammary system, and improvement on dam in each case of at least 3 points. Very happy with first returns on Stargazer daughters...and they are also milking!

02/01/2026

This "blast from the past" is Hauxwell Princess 6th EX-95-5E (born 1996), the highest classified cow we have owned at Oceanbrae Farms. Princess was a Meriville Prince Edward daughter that was bred by Hauxwell Farms after purchasing their dam from us when they moved to PEI in the early 1990s. The cow family goes back to the Cheapside herd in Caledonia, ON, home of dozens of RAWF Grand Champions over decades.

Princess 6th was purchased from the Hauxwell herd shortly before the Hauxwell dispersal in 2003. This was after she was Reserve Grand Champion at the RAWF in 2000, the last Milking Shorthorn show at the Royal. Princess would go on to produce over 87,000 kgs milk in her lifetime.

Unfortunately, Princess was not a great producer of daughters, and the daughters she did have primarily also had bull calves. Her last daughter sold to the Lady Grove herd in Manitoba, founding a cow family there continues to this day and includes a former Class Leader. We also used two sons of Princess (Pierce and Belmont) as herd sires, with several members of the herd having these bulls in their pedigree.

01/25/2026

Another blast from the past: Oceanbrae Princess Irma EX-91-7E (born 1994). Sired by Meriville Prince Edward, this photo was taken in late lactation...being in PEI, the professional photographer only came to PEI once a year in the 90's.

Irma is a grand-daughter of a cow imported from the Krause Herd in Minnesota in the early 1980s. The pedigree features Sunny View Little Princess 30 multiple time through multiple sires.

Princess Irma placed 2nd at the RAWF as a 3 year old and was also Grand Champion at some local shows. While we have no descendants of Irma in our herd, grand-daughters of this cows sold to at least six different Canadian herds.

01/21/2026

Another stand-out cow from the past that has left her mark in our herd and beyond is Oceanbrae Joe 36th EX-91-4E (born in 1997). Joe 36th's pedigree features a wide array of Shorthorn/Red ancestry. Her sire, Kingsdale Peri's Champ, was a Pacesetter son who sired better udders than Pacesetter and was widely used in the UK and Canada. Her dam was sired by Oceanbrae David, a Krause's Edith Edsel son of Oceanbrae Broom 1S, who was 100% imported British genetics from the Maxton herd in England. Her maternal grand-dam was sired by K Schie, who brought so much productivity to North American Milking Shorthorn herds.

Joe 36 was an above-average producer in our herd, producing ~67,000 kgs milk in 7 lactations, with a top record over 11,000 kgs. She was the dam of Oceanbrae Diamond Jack, the first Canadian bull marketed by Semex as part of the CMSS Syndicates program. Diamond Jack (a Prince of Diamonds son) produced productive daughters with strong health traits but only breed average conformation scores. Perhaps his most widespread impact has been siring the dam of Circle B Lucky Strike-PP, who has been widely used in the USA and Australia.

Joe 36th had 6 daughters for us, with the two most influential being daughters of Meriville Prince Edward. Princess Joe VG-88 produced 74,000 kgs in 8 lactations and had 5 daughters, one of who was sold to New Brunswick and in turn produced an EX daughter for the Freeze family. In total, 4 of Joe's daughters were sold to Maritime herds!

Oceanbrae Princess Josie only lasted two lactations and provided us with one daughter (by Famous), who in turn gave us Oceanbrae Ironman Julie EX-90, who we just recently lost at 12 years of age. Julie produced 73,000 kgs milk with above average components and has 3 daughters in our herd.

01/18/2026

Once in a while, it's nice to look back into the photo file at cows from yesteryear.

This is Oceanbrae Bessie Joe 14 EX-92-5E, born in 1988. She was twice named All Canadian, placing second at the RAWF twice as well. She was a purebred cow, sired by US sire Krause's Roxie Rodd (a Prince Bicenten son). Her dam was also a class winner at the RAWF sired by imported British sire Maxton Tourist.

Joe 14 only had two daughters, but the second of those daughters was Oceanbrae Joe 34th VG-85 (by K Schie), who set a national record for milk production at 15,815 kgs milk and produced over 90,000 kgs milk in 9 lactations. There are a number of Bessie Joes in the herd that trace back to Joe 34th, as well as progeny in other Canadian herds. The Bessie Joe family is our oldest cow family (dating back to the early 1970's) and one of our most productive.

01/11/2026

Oceanbrae Beacon Joyce-P is our first heifer calf of 2026, born on New Year's Day!

01/04/2026

We were excited to supply embryos of our Oceanbrae Ironman Ginger to the Morin Family under the Embryo Expansion Program. Good luck with Genesis!

Today, we highlight the Society's Embryo Expansion Program, where new breeders can get access to high-end genetics at a subsidized price.

Thomas Morin and his family were one of the first farms approved under the EEP. The heifer that they got from these embryos just calved for the first time over the Christmas holidays. Here are some comments from Thomas about why they chose to participate in the program:

"We found out about the Embryo Expansion Program through the website. I had been keeping an eye on the Sale Barn page for a while hoping to add a Milking Shorthorn to our herd. The Embryo Expansion Program provided us access to top tier genetics.

I had wanted a Milking Shorthorn since I was young. Recently, as we're expanding our herd and running short on barn space we've considered having some animals on land that we can't crop on. The Shorthorn's robust build and efficiency in forage conversion is suited to that grazing program."

For more information on the Embryo Expansion Program, please contact the CMSS office or download the application form on the website under "Services."

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Aujourd'hui, nous mettons en lumière le Programme d'expansion embryonnaire de la Société, qui permet aux nouveaux éleveurs d'accéder à une génétique de pointe à un prix subventionné.

Thomas Morin et sa famille ont été parmi les premières fermes agréées dans le cadre du Programme d'aide à l'agriculture (PAA). La génisse issue de ces embryons a vêlé pour la première fois pendant les fêtes de Noël. Voici quelques commentaires de Thomas expliquant leur choix de participer au programme :

"Nous avons découvert le Programme d'expansion embryonnaire grâce au site web. Je consultais régulièrement la section « Vente d'animaux » dans l'espoir d'ajouter une vache Shorthorn laitière à notre troupeau. Le Programme d'expansion embryonnaire nous a permis d'accéder à une génétique de premier ordre.

Je rêvais d'une Shorthorn laitière depuis mon enfance. Récemment, avec l'agrandissement de notre troupeau et le manque d'espace dans nos étables, nous avons envisagé d'élever certains animaux sur des terres que nous ne pouvons pas cultiver. La robustesse et l'efficacité de la Shorthorn en matière de conversion du fourrage sont parfaitement adaptées à ce type de pâturage."

Pour plus d'informations sur le programme d'expansion embryonnaire, veuillez contacter le bureau de la SCSL ou télécharger le formulaire sur le site Web dans la section « Services ».

01/02/2026

We have some Simmentals available for those interested in adding some Full Fleckvieh genetics to their beef herds. Our Full Fleckvieh Simmentals have great maternal instincts while also having great muscling and growth rates.

We have two young bulls (18 months old) as well as one older bull (over 24 months) available. All are primarily Western Canadian genetics and can be registered. Contact us for pricing.

We also have a small number of open and short-bred heifers available. While we have 6-7 to choose from, we can only part with a couple. Contact us for more information or to arrange to come and see the heifers for yourself.