Rafter P Livestock

20/04/2026

Getting to be a pile of them around here anymore!

05/04/2026

04/04/2026

We began just a couple days ago. 6 does in so far.

04/04/2026

Seems like a great place to hide from the wind and take a nap, don't you think?

24/12/2025

We raise registered Savanna seedstock, and these 2025 kids are being culled from our registered program, and we only keep registerable animals. They don't meet either breed-standard benchmarks, or our growth benchmarks.

These are high-quality meat animals—thick, healthy, and ready for processing. Accordingly, going for meat market level (can weigh with our scale on site).

Breed: Full Blood Savanna (no registration papers).
Weight estimate: 4 - does 55 lb avg (3.15/lb) and 7 - bucklings 65 lb avg (3/lb).
Location: Hazelton

If they don't move in the next two weeks, we'll be taking them into the auction, so get them now while you can.

05/08/2025

Introducing GS Chisum. When we rotated out Shootout, we were given the opportunity by the Stearns to replace him with this fella. Looking forward to his first breeding in a couple months!

25/07/2025

Our most recent buck addition...

13/07/2025

Snagged a couple pictures of the big bruisers (RPL 538 Kronoz and PF Big Country) out grazing today. Looking good on the summer pasture!

06/06/2025

PF Big Country was posing last night. Strutting his stuff and showing off. One of our four bucks we have right now. Will be weaning a bunch of his kids here in a couple weeks. Then sit back and wait and see how they turn out over the next few months!

20/05/2025

Shootout is still available! If you have an interest in a buck that has lots of data behind him and is an easy keeper, give us a holler!

These pictures are from tonight. Located in southern Idaho.

29/04/2025

We received these results the end of 2024. I'd never paid real close attention to the overall charts that are shared until recently. We've always been very focused on the individual results, instead of the overall trends. While we definitely have some ups and downs along our journey, and have a really long ways still to go, it is neat to see the progress that can be made by selecting based on data, and using data in your herd. Again, we highly recommend folks utilizing NSIP to calculate EBVs on your animals. It takes time, effort, and patience, but finally starting to see some fruits of our labors.

Shared in the photos are our SRC Index, Wean weight EBV averages by year, and Maternal Wean weight EBVs by year. We also shared the weighting for the SRC index, in case you were curious.