Welcome to our 2018 “In Pursuit of Perfection’ Bull Sale. It is gratifying to see one’s breeding plans come together and to be able to offer this great group of Bulls. This will be the first sons of our new feature herd bulls “LFE McDavid 413C’ and ‘Springcreek Spark Plug’ and I couldn’t be more proud of them. The ‘McDavid’ sons are very growthy with exceptional hair and style. This sire group is also leading off the Lewis Farms Bull Sale. I admire the consistent look to both his males and females which I feel is the mark of a breeding bull. His 2017 heifer calves averaged 91 lbs at birth with an average gestation of 281.5. His sons were 98 lbs and 284.5 days. The ‘Spark Plug’ calves are also very consistent in type. His sons are hairy, thick and large scrotalled. His heifers and bulls averaged 88 lbs and 92 lbs respectively at birth. Both sexes averaged 285 day gestations. He also puts blaze faces on a majority of his calves. I believe that short gestations are very valuable and we as breeders need to measure and strive to lower. In my experience, you rarely have calving issues with a short gestation. Gestation and a stop watch are better measures of calving ease than birth weight. This is my best set of Black Angus bulls to date. The top end of these bulls would stand with many of the sale toppers across the country. Chris and Ben of T Bar C felt that they were at the top end of the Angus bulls they had seen this year. You will find many of the better AI bulls in their pedigrees. Again we have a nice selection of hybrid “Bestbeef’ bulls. The feedback on these bulls has been very positive. They offer a nice combination of calving ease and performance while maintaining uniformity. The folks at Lazy Creek have again brought a nice selection of Red Angus bulls to fit all your needs. They also have three strong Black Simmental bulls. We appreciate their support. It has been a long process, but I’m pleased to say that all my purebred bulls are finally Homo Polled. It has been a goal of mine for a long time, and one that I believe is important to our industry. All black bulls are also identified for color status. The bulls are in good flesh and condition. This fleshiness has been accomplished on a ration of rolled oats and a protein/ mineral supplement. This is relatively the same ration that I have been using for over forty years. The feedback that I have received over the years has been that my bulls maintain their condition well through the summer and that their longevity has been very good. We would like to thank all those who have supported us in the past and we hope that you can attend again this year. We are pleased to be working once again with T Bar C and Bohrson Marketing. They provide an invaluable service and we appreciate their professionalism. Feel free to contact them for any assistance you may need. We are, as always – In Pursuit of Perfection! Brian McCarthy
Spring Creek Simmentals/Red Rose Angus Brian McCarthy P.O. Box 467, Moosomin, SK S0G 3N0 www.springcreeksimmentals.com brian.mccarthy@live.ca
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InPursuit of Perfection Bull Sale 2018