Our Program

Birdsong Angus is a registered Angus cow-calf and seedstock operation in Bryan County, Oklahoma. We started in 2016 and run about 50 breeding females across four places — just under 600 acres around Bokchito, Caddo, and Bennington, in the far southeast corner of the state a few miles north of the Red River.

Double rainbow over pasture at the Rodeo Road place near Durant, Oklahoma — The Rodeo Road place, near Durant.

Built on the cow

Everything here starts with the female. The backbone of the herd is the Erica cow family — ten years of breeding deep — running alongside Beatrice, Blackcap Empress, Heather Bloom, Emblynette, Peg, and Pride cows. The herd has been built the slow way: by keeping our own best replacement heifers, year after year.

Birdsong Angus cow with calf at side in tall spring grass — A pair on spring grass.

We breed a little differently than most. Instead of chasing the newest high-number sires, we go back to older, proven maternal bulls — the kind whose daughters made somebody's cow herd for twenty years. Some of our favorite cows trace to greats like EXT, Right Time, Resource, and Identity. That choice means our EPDs won't always top the charts, and we're fine with that: the goal is long-term functional cattle — sound, fertile females that breed back every year, and bulls that sire more of them.

Birdsong Right Time 129 — a Right Time son out of CF Lady Ten X 616, a Pathfinder cow. Raised here, working today.

The cow herd is bred AI to those proven sires, with herd bulls of our own raising cleaning up. We report performance data on the whole calf crop through the American Angus Association's AHIR program: weights and ratios on every calf, not just the ones that flatter us.

Retained Birdsong Angus heifer calves on summer pasture — Retained heifers on summer grass.

MSC Alice of 720 156

Bought in the spring of 2020, already eight years into her career: eleven calves without missing a year, a lifetime weaning ratio of 112, and milk, teat, and udder EPDs in the top 1% of the breed. She's off the place now, but her family runs it: four daughters (MSC Alice 854 and B A Ericas 020, 127, and 308), two granddaughters (B A Ericas 219 and 423), and two sons working as herd bulls (Birdsong Homestead 410 and Birdsong Resource 432). When we say the herd is built on the cow, this is the cow.

Bulls that earned the tag

Our current sire lines include Koupals B&B Identity, Stevenson Turning Point, and Penz Merger, along with herd sires we raised ourselves out of our own Right Time and Net Worth lines.

Birdsong bull 935 on green pasture with the herd behind him — 935 — 129's half brother, out of the same Pathfinder cow. Herd sires here get raised, not bought.

Bull calves are developed on a moderate growing ration alongside forage — enough feed to measure growth honestly, not enough to melt when they go to work on pasture.

Birdsong Angus bulls at the feed trough on development — Last year's bull crop on development.

This past season, 23 bull calves hit the ground. Twelve kept their tags as bulls. The rest were steered. If a calf doesn't measure up — structure, feet, disposition, and data — he doesn't get sold as a bull to somebody else's cow herd. That's the whole quality program in one sentence.

Numbers you can check before you drive out

Every sale bull on this site is published with his complete, current EPDs — updated from the American Angus Association's weekly evaluation — and his price. No catalog to request, no “call for details.” You'll know what a bull is before you ever come look at him.

And every bull sells with a first-season breeding guarantee. If he doesn't do his job, we'll make it right.

Come look

Data tells you what a bull should do; his feet, his mind, and the cow that raised him tell you the rest. We're glad to show you the bulls, the cow herd, and the records behind both — start with this year's bulls, then call or text Derek Birdsong at 580-916-5539 or email derek.birdsong@birdsongangus.com.