Flying High Rodeo

HIGH FAMILY

High Ranch and Rodeo Co. is located at Elnora in East Central
Alberta, Canada. The land is very rugged with willow brush
covering the rolling hills, your either going up a hill or down a
hill. The High family consists of Lorne, Kelly and our kids,
Shaelyn, Logan and Jacey and about 150 – 200 head of bucking
cattle.

Our first rodeo cows were purchased from Wilf Girletz in 1979
and run along with the High family’s ranching operations which
included commercial cow/calf and purebred Limousin and
Brahman beef cattle. We custom fed Wilf Girletz’s young rodeo
bulls until his passing in 1995, giving us access to Wilf’s great
knowledge and bloodlines. That same year, we sold all our
bucking horses and left the family beef ranch to pursue our
dream of raising great bucking bulls. Since then, Rodeo Cattle
has been our only business.

In 1997 a purchase from Bob and Kristen Tallman got us
started in the RSR (now the ABBI) and gave us the genetic
boost we were looking for as well as creating a life long
friendship. From this calf crop came High 807 Bo Howdy and
811 Kellys Kat, as well as some of our now foundation cows.
This same year we started bucking all our females and DNA’ing
and registering all our keepers in the RSR. Our cows are
handled only twice a year and tend to be on the wild side, they
calve on their own in April and May and our only calving tool is
a set of binoculars. Thus we have strived to produce a tough
set of females that will function without our help. We expect a
lot out of our cows, good feet, udders, fertility and mothering,
and they have the pedigree and performance to throw more
“Buck” into their calves.

Over the next 10 years we have had quite a roller coaster ride
in the rodeo cattle business. Flying High Rodeo Co. was
created to produce events, such as Buckers of Canada -
Registered Rodeo Cattle Sales, Bucking Bull Futurities, and
Professional Bull Ridings. Our kids have lived their entire lives
helping with the feeding, flanking, secretary and timing at
these events.

In May of 2003, a BSE positive cow was found in Canada,
shutting the borders to exporting cattle and decimating the
cattle industry in Canada. We culled hard, pinched pennies,
refinanced and refinanced again. We give credit to our parents,
Larry and Joyce High for helping us through, and for the
sacrifices of family holidays, school trips and sports that our
kids made to keep these cattle fed. We’re proud of how our
family has stuck together in these hard times and show the love
for the family ranch and these “Brammer” cows.

2007 was bitter sweet as we had 2 of our top 4 year olds killed
in separate bull fights and had to start hauling a couple of our 3
year olds. Well, they rose to the challenge, both X427 Krime
Spree and 404 I’m A Gangster qualified for the WPB Finals and
the PBR Finals. I’m A Gangster was named WPB Bull Of The
Year and was also runner up Bull of the PBR Canada Finals,
Krime Spree placed within the top 5. November 19th, 2007 the
border finally opened to Canadian cattle. November 20th we
had a deal with Tom Teague to send both these bulls south.
They are both sired by our home raised herd sire #007 Yippy
High Yea.

We have been in “the business” for almost 30 years – we don’t
have all the answers but we’ve heard all the questions. We
have strived to produce a set of females that anyone could be
proud to own and bulls that can buck at the highest level.

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