Broken Arrow Kaptain Midnight

BA Kaptain Midnight (aka Midnight) is an Erica-type
Angus bull bred by Greg Rhodes.

This site seeks to identify and publish the complete
pedigree of this bull who turns 13 this year.  Click
here to see
Midnight's current online pedigree.

Currently (we are still adding to the Midnight-Erica
dataset), there are 6,800 unique animals in
Midnight's pedigree.  Erica 843 appears over 200
million times (and counting).

Please feel free to send any questions via our
Contact Us page or email me directly.

Jack Russell
Webmaster
BA Kaptain Midnight
MEDS - The Midnight - Erica Data Set

The Midnight Erica dataset was initiated by Greg's brother in the mid 1990's as a series of
maternal line pedigrees.  The original intention was to merely trace the various dam-lines
back to their Scottish source.  Last year we decided to establish a database to store the
information Broken Arrow had collected in the 1990's.

We chose the Herd Keeper software developed by Wild Systems, an Australian business,
(
http://www.breedmate.com/), in part because it was able to produce a wide range of extended
pedigrees - as well as performing both Coefficient of Inbreeding and Coefficient of
Relationship data.  This software also enables us to produce the ancestor count information
on a regular basis.

The Pedigree Chart produced by this program can show more than 100+ generations of
ancestors and the Descendants Chart (Reverse Pedigree) can show eight generations of all
offspring.
Click on these links to get an impression of what Midnight's extended pedigree looks like at:

5 generations - 10 generations - 15 generations - 20 generations - 25 generations
Kaptain Midnight at 19 months. Click on image to see
a larger version.  Photograph by Neale Edwards.
From a Broken Arrow promotional brochure.
From the same brochure.