| Deep South Rodeo Genetics By Marcia Bennett Deep South Rodeo Genetics, owned by Keith Strickland, is located in the southwest corner of Louisiana, North of Lake Charles, LA. He resides in the community of Gillis, La. Up until 2002 Strickland pretty much raised commercial beef cattle. Then he decided to change his program up and move towards breeding and raising bucking bulls. He was introduced to the Rodeo Stock Registry (RSR) site and the Breeder’s Connection sites by Matt Dillon and became hooked. He sold his beef cows and went to Jerry Nelson’s yearly sale. He bought 5 RSR cows at the sale. Two months later he purchased #420 Gusto, a Broke Back V son from James Harper. After his purchase of Gusto, the bull made it to the PBR Finals two more times. In 2003 after the finals, Strickland retired Gusto. Strickland’s main herd sire is #420 Gusto, who has a pretty impressive record. He was the 1999 PBR High Money Bull, 5 times a PBR Finals Bull and 3 times a NFR Bull. Again he is a Broke Back V son, Strickland is very high on genetics from Broke Back V. He also has genetics in his herd from Gunslinger, Mudslinger, Hot Spot, Grasshopper, Outlaw Willie, Bo, and other breeding programs. Since he started in 2002, he now has about 40 cows. 20 weanlings, 6 coming 2 and 3 year old bull calves. This past breeding season he has bred some of his cows to #415 Cool Spot, who is out of the bull Harley and a Broke V daughter, also with a bull #611 Overstreet who is a son of Jesse James, and a bull Little Da Jose, who is owned by Keith Nabours and whose calves are showing much promise as buckers. In spring of 2009, Strickland is expecting about 35-40 calves hitting the ground. Strickland has done some AI’ing and traditional flushes, but prefers to live breed. Currently Strickland is partners with Jeff Tosh out of Wyoming on a bull that Tosh has, Snot Slinger. He has done well over this past year and will be going to the ABBI Finals in Vegas. Strickland said he and Tosh will continue to partner this next coming year and see what the future will bring them in the bucking arena. We asked Strickland what his future plans are and he said “ I’m in it for the long haul, I will be retiring from my day job soon, I’m in law enforcement, and then I will be able to dedicate more time to my program.” Strickland said “ I hope to see Gusto proving him self as a great sire.” I am putting together a PBR bull team for the 2009 season. Strickland will continue to introduce new bloodlines into his herd. He also wants to continue in participating in ABBI and NBBA events. We would like Deep South Rodeo Genetics the best with their program and we thank you for taking the time to share your program with us. Featured in Humps N Horns, Dec. 2008 |
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