About Nile Valley
The Hendricksons
Doyle and Alice Hendrickson
John Hendrickson
Julie Sampson
31598 Hendrickson Rd
Sedalia, MO 65301
Ph# (660) 826-7279
John's cell
(636) 795-3096
Our History
Our herd name originated from Doyle's grandfather who had registered Durham cattle in the early 1900's at Cairo, NE. Doyle's father continued the line and maintained a herd of grade Shorthorn cattle. As a young boy, Doyle dreamed of having a registered herd and bought his first registered animals in 1956, shortly after his marriage to Alice. Doyle and Alice moved the farm to Missouri in the early 1970's and have been here ever since. We are located southeast of Sedalia, MO.
We milked, classified, and showed a registered, Grade A herd of Milking Shorthorns until Doyle decided to 'retire' and take time to stop and smell the roses. We used our milking herd as a base for our Dual Purpose cow-calf herd. It is our desire to maintain milk in our brood cows.
We feel that "Milk + Meat = the Weigh to Grow".
"Perform on Predominantly Fescue"
In our part of the country, our cows must perform on predominantly fescue pastures. So the recent trend to Grass Fed cattle, our cow herd is born and raised on grass being Fescue Fed.
Nile Valley Farm's animals are:
Never fed antibiotics. Never fed growth hormones. Never implanted.
Our cow herd is dual purpose. We stress body capacity (depth of body and heart girth) to convert grass roughage to milk and meat. Since we don't dairy any more our cows aren't as high in milk production as they once were, but we still value udders. We don't have meatless wonders or fragile dolls as we once bred. But the cows while milking or nursing will lose flesh (milk the weight off) that was gained during their dry period.
Our cows must work for a living. Over All Volume, Depth of Rib and Length of Body is what Nile Valley cows are all about. We strive to produce super deep sided, big barreled versatile maternal machines.
Why Shorthorns? They are excellent grazers, with high heat tolerance and excellent ability to convert forage to milk. Cows must breed back on time or they don't get second chances. We value docile cows that are easy to work with. Milking Shorthorns overall ease of management saves considerable input costs due to associated health costs and culling costs. Very adaptable to various herd programs. Truly versatile and Dual Purpose breed. Whether out in pasture raising Beef or in the Dairy barn Milking; this versatility is Milking Shorthorn's greatest attribute.
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These docile cows efficiently produce large volumes of nutritious milk each lactation and are large enough to have a high salvage value when their long productive lives finally come to an end. In addition, their healthy calves born each year on regular trouble free calving intervals are spunky at birth, grow rapidly, and those not kept for breeding stock and herd replacement make efficient gains and hang very desirable grading carcasses.
Our cattle must follow a strict performance program to remain in the herd. We weigh and measure everything at birth, weaning, yearling and maturity. We also linear measure all of our herd at all stages of life; thus developing a very uniform group. We maintain 100 breeding females and evaluate reproductive and maternity performance of every cow. Some of our animals are double registered in both AMSS and ASA.
We have carcass and tenderness data on some steer crops from our herd.
We also TH test all calves and use only TH Free Sires, we are a TH Free Herd.