History
My grandfather came to America in 1957 as a Hungarian refugee fleeing the Soviet invasion. Growing up, he would tell me about his life in Hungary and the struggles he overcame. He instilled a pride of our family’s Hungarian roots in me. In high school, I followed in my sister’s footsteps and showed Charolais heifers and in the process, gained a passion for raising cattle.
When my family moved back to central Texas in 2016 and bought a hundred-acre ranch, we began looking for a breed of cattle to run on the property. I was looking up Hungarian Gray cattle and learned that these cattle had made it to the Americas. I purchased my first heifer, Zsa Zsa in the fall of 2018. On December 31st 2018, with the assistance of Hoofstock Genetics, I became the first person to aspirate Hungarian Gray Cattle in the Western Hemisphere.
In 2019, I purchased all six foundation cows and one of the five foundation bulls. In addition, I have straws from the other four foundation bulls. In March of 2020, we welcomed our first calf born on the property, a bull calf named Lugosi, out of Zsa Zsa and Agilulf. Since then, our herd has grown to 32 head, though that number varies depending upon calving and sales.
The Name
The name of the ranch comes from the Hungarian for “Hungarian Gray Ranch”
Magyar - Hungarian
Szürke - Gray
Tanya - Ranch
The Brand
Our Brand comes from the old Hungarian Runes, the two triangles stand for M and the vertical line for Sz.
owner
Béla Hahn
I am a graduate of Texas A&M and I live in Round Rock, Texas with my wife Liz. I work towards the preservation and propagation of Hungarian Gray cattle in the Western Hemisphere.
I theorize that these cattle can offer the American beef industry a combination of hybrid vigor, disease and parasite resistance, higher utilization of poor forage, and ease of calving.