Golden Meadows Ranch
50 animals · Brahman, Beefmaster · Cotulla, Texas
Traditional Values, Modern Genetics, Superior Cattle
Registered Beefmaster and Brahman herd sires, donors and females bred to hold up in the pasture and stay feed efficient. A family ranch in Cotulla, La Salle County, Texas, since 1961.
Why Golden Meadows Ranch
AI, Flush and Sexed IVF
From artificial insemination to conventional flushes and sexed IVF, every mating aims for cattle that hold up in the pasture and are feed efficient, with consistent phenotypes.
Two Breeds, One Standard
Registered Beefmaster and Brahman seedstock built for registered herds, commercial use and the show ring, with outside genetics bought regularly to widen the choices.
Stewards of the Land
Modern grazing, improved buffel grass pastures, pivot-irrigated Tifton bermuda and rye, and fenced wildlife sanctuaries along the Nueces River.
Beefmaster Herd Sires
The bulls behind the ranch's red Beefmaster program, with EPDs and ultrasound data as published.
Brahman Herd Sires
Manso, TE and ranch-raised CL bloodlines, including GMR Mr 184 Manso from the Cattle for Sale page.
Donors and Foundation Females
The flush and IVF donors and ranch-bred females of both breeds.
Our Story
In 1961 CL Lehman of Corpus Christi bought a 2,600-acre ranch outside Cotulla in La Salle County and started a herd of V8 Brahman "Sugarland Co" cattle bought from Sloan Williams. His daughter, Michael Lehman Budd, kept raising registered Brahmans into the early 2000s.
In the mid-1990s Michael and Mark brought Beefmasters to the ranch, under Beefmaster Breeders United number 411, one of the first issued. Since then Mark and Chris Cooley, CL's grandsons, have rebuilt both the Brahman and Beefmaster herds around modern genetics, using AI, flushes and sexed IVF.
Today a 175-head herd runs on improved buffel grass with modern grazing and brush control, backed by two pivots fed from a 2,200-foot well CL drilled in 1971. The Nueces River and Harris Lake form the ranch's two-mile northern border, where riparian areas are fenced off for wildlife, and the family's motto still holds: Traditional Values, Modern Genetics and Superior Cattle.
Our Journey
The ranch in Cotulla
CL Lehman buys the 2,600-acre ranch in La Salle County and starts a V8 Brahman herd bought from Sloan Williams.
Water for the pivots
CL drills a 2,200-foot well that still feeds the two pivots growing Tifton bermuda hay in summer and rye grass in winter.
Beefmasters arrive
Michael Lehman Budd and Mark Cooley add Beefmasters under BBU breeder number 411, one of the first issued.
First place in San Antonio
Golden Meadows Ranch wins first place in Beefmaster/E6 Certified Open Heifers at the San Antonio Livestock Show All Breeds Sale.
Houston Magic Sale XXVI
Chris and Mark Cooley consign three GMR heifers and CF Creedmoor semen to the March 6 sale at NRG Arena, Houston.
LOBBA Spring Sale
Chris and Mark Cooley consign three GMR open heifers to the Live Oak Beefmaster Breeders Association sale in Three Rivers on May 9.