We are your Headquarters for slick hided Genetics!

CK Cattle is a 3-generation family operation owned and operated by Chuck and Katie Madaris and their family. CK Cattle is located in the fertile black belt region of Alabama in the Hope Hull community of Lowndes County just southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. CK produces registered Angus, Chiangus and SimAngus cattle.

The operation has grown dramatically since its beginnings. Both children, Charlie and Kathleen have returned home to the farm and started their families. Today, Charlie along with Kathleen and her husband Bradfield work full time at the operation. CK Cattle consists of just over 3000 contiguous acres and a base cow herd of around 650-700 mama cows that are primarily fall calving.

We raise, develop and market over 250 bulls a year that are all born on our operation with no outside cooperators. We host The Headquarters Sale the last Friday in October every year here at our farm headquarters where we market around 130 Two- Year-Old bulls and around 60 bred females. We also host a Private Treaty Kickoff sale in early December where we have pre-priced our bulls at a base value according to quality. We typically market 125 long yearling bulls via private treaty at the farm. Any bulls that don’t sell that first day in December will be for sale throughout the winter and spring at a pre-set price until we sell out of bulls. Most of the year if a customer needs to purchase a bull off the farm, we are able to help them secure what they need.

As for the females we develop and artificially breed around 200 heifers a year. We still heat check all the cattle we are going to A.I. and don’t utilize time breeding. These bred heifers will be used for our own replacements and be sold as bred heifers in our production sale. All the heifers we breed annually are born on this operation and are out of CK females. We are not buying open females and getting them bred to re-sale.

Great genetics has long been a part of CK Cattle’s management program. We strive to breed cattle that work in our fescue dominated deep south environment. Our program puts a tremendous amount of emphasis on breeding cattle that are slick-hided. We hair score all our cattle and post hair scores on our bulls in the production sale catalog. We understand that in our area producers need their calves to shed their winter hair coat and be able to flourish in a harsh summer environment. When buyers are penalizing producers for having too much hair on their calves, we want to offer producers a solution to mitigate the hair problems on their calf crop. We choose to breed cattle with a great deal of emphasis on maternal traits and environmental adaptability to the deep south.

We don’t chase numbers and we don’t chase fads. We breed highly functional cattle and keep ourselves out of the ditches by concentrating on things like hair shedding, maternal value, production records, foot quality and docility.

“One of our greatest satisfactions in this business is seeing our customers succeed and know that we played a role in that success”

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