01/01/2025
Wow what a year 2024 has been!! We are blessed to live on the most beautiful property raising an amazing herd of Hereford cows! There are so many things to be thankful for this year, and we are looking forward to new opportunities in 2025.
This fall we had to make the hardest decision imaginable. My beloved Prim was faced with the inability to nurse her calf due to contagious mastitis. I already starting to question what I was going to do after she suffered through foot rot most of the winter. Now I was faced with a heartbreaking decision. In the end I chose to butcher her instead of taking her to auction. This may sound crazy, but for me it was a guarantee that she would spend her last days at home and that was so important to me. Prim’s beef was served at our wedding where she blessed over a hundred people with a meal celebrating Ryan and I’s marriage. I thought this was the best way I could honor such a great cow. Prim is truly a legend at Krueger West Cattle Company.
I brought Prim with money from selling my horse Comet in 2014. From the start she immediately became a favorite because of her sweet disposition. She was always the tamest cow in the pasture.
You know how some people have that dog that was with them through the years growing up in their 20s? Well that was Prim for me. She spent time on 10 different properties while I was establishing my herd. I’m proud her last 3 were where we are now.
She had 10 calves over her life, two set of twins. She went to countless fairs all over Oregon and Washington. She even won Supreme Cow at Clackamas County beating an Angus one year.
Prim touched so many people over her ten years, and I will always love her. Prim left us with two beautiful daughters Princess and Meredith who will remain in the herd to carry on her legacy. Prim I will love you forever and ever. Thank you for the best 10 years. I hope there are endless green pastures on the other side. ❤️❤️
Krueger Cattle Company LLC began on a small farm in Eagle Creek OR.
