Towaw Cattle Co. 45th Annual Bull Sale

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S AT U R DAY, M A RC H 16 , 2024 • 2:00 PM AT T H E R A N C H • S A N G U D O , A L B E R TA

TOWAW CATTLE CO. LTD. 45 TH ANNUAL BULL SALE SATURDAY

MARCH 16 2024

SALE 2:00 PM SHARP

Lunch will be served at 12:30 pm MAYERTHORPE

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3 MILES TWP RD 562

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SALE SITE

AUCTIONEER Robert Lind 780-542-0123 RINGMEN Dory Gerrard 403-302-1016 Bryan Wolters 780-581-8396 BUYER REPRESENTATIVE OPTIMAL BOVINES INC. Mark Holowaychuk 403-896-4990

SALE DAY PHONE NUMBERS

Kirk 780-305-1661 Jill 780-305-1146

INSURANCE SH #757

ENTWISTLE

SALES STAFF

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CANADIAN FARM INSURANCE Jill Wildman 780-305-1146

ONLINE BIDDING

DIRECTIONS: • 4 miles South of Sangudo on Secondary Highway #757

Mark Shologan 780-699-5082 Dacie Przekop 780-656-5513

• 3 miles West on Twp. Rd. 562 • 1/2 mile South

VIDEOS

Videos will be posted two weeks prior to the sale at www.cattlevids.ca

Dave & Gail Wildman (780) 785-2091 | (780) 305-1145 Kirk & Jill Wildman Thomas, Reese & Ryder (780) 305-1661 | (780) 305-1146 SANGUDO, ALBERTA www.fb.me/TowawCattleCompany towawcattle@gmail.com

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WIN A $500 SALE CREDIT

Visit us to view the bulls anytime prior to the sale, up to and including March 15th, and you will be entered in a draw for a $500 2024 Sale Credit to be drawn the night before the sale.

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to the 2024 45th Annual Towaw Bull Sale

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with the idea that the only constant is change. We certainly have had some changes around here as our longtime Sale partners, Rainbow Red Angus, dispersed their herd last December and have retired from the Seedstock Business. The Bablitz family had a tremendous sale with their genetics highly sought after across North America.

That is a testament to their hard work and the genetics that both of our outfits have made available for our customers over the years.

Another change is our family and the paths they are taking as Dave and Gail slide into retirement and Thomas is away at his broadcasting job in Lloydminster.

Reese and Ryder will both be off to College next Fall so Jill and I are going to have to get used to quite a bit less labour around here.

The thing that hasn’t changed is the fact that, even though the sale will have less bulls, our commitment to supplying the best maternal Angus genetics is still our #1 priority. We will be celebrating 50 years this summer at the ranch south of Sangudo. We have been selling bulls here the entire time, probably 75% of the bulls within a 60 mile radius. We appreciate the support from our friends and neighbours and thank you all for welcoming our family into the area so long ago.

I was visiting with a prominent order buyer the other day and asked him why certain groups of calves sell for more than others at the auction mart? He talked about hair and bone and frame but it also came down to large, consistent groups of calves that are the same size, type and kind. He knows where he can place calves, and pay more for them, if he knows what they are going to do in the feedlot. One way to do that is to source your genetics from suppliers that have a consistent, predictable product.

We feel we have a program that has consistently tried to stick to one type and breed, and line breed our cattle with that thought in mind. We use a lot of our own bulls; if we won’t use them why would we expect our customers to? Another way to have that consistent, profitable set of calves is to tighten your calving period and get more calves born in the first cycle. We feel by not overfeeding our bulls to achieve inflated weaning and yearling weights, and giving them plenty of exercise, they are ready to breed more cows as soon as they are put in the breeding field. We have written up a few paragraphs that will be scattered about the catalog that go more in depth on our breeding philosophies.

This year we will be working with the good folks from Optimal Bovines Inc., OBI, as sale consultants for our sale. We have known and been friends with Mark Holowaychuk and his family for over 40 years and are excited to work with him and his crew this year. Robert Lind will once again be our Auctioneer; you won’t find many ranchers and farmers in this area that Robert doesn’t know. Dory Gerard will be here taking bids as well as having our good friend Bryon Wolters back in his familiar spot as Ringman at Towaw. Mark Shologan and the DLMS crew will be here broadcasting the sale online and the details to sign up for that platform will be posted later in the catalog.

Videos of the Sale Bulls will be available for viewing at Cattlevids.ca a couple of weeks before the sale, and we encourage everyone to check them out. We are always available to show you the bulls at the farm, or we can go through the bulls with customers beforehand. We have a sight unseen program where we can either bid on bulls on your behalf or use any of our capable sales staff. Our number 1 goal is to get the right bulls into the right situations. The bulls will all be semen tested before the sale and the bulls must all pass before going in the sale. We don’t sell deferred bulls and we cull them pretty hard, so subsequently we deal with very few sale credits in the sale. We know cows don’t get bred by credits and “sorries” so we do our level best to mitigate potential problems before they leave Towaw. Having said this, things do happen, and we keep spare bulls if problems arise. Please let us know of problems while we can fix them; we know we can help you better than the guys at the coffee shop!

Please come early on Sale Day, have lunch with us, and plan to stay after the sale for hospitality and a good visit.

After a long winter it is good to catch up and see all our Customers and Friends On Sale Day. Sincerely,

T he Wildmans

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SALE INFORMATION

VOLUME DISCOUNTS

• Buy 3 - 4 bulls - 5% discount on each bull • Buy 5 or more bulls - 7.5% discount on each bull

DELIVERY & BOARD

We will deliver bulls free of charge within 200km of the sale site. Delivery will be at cost after 200km. A rebate of $100.00 per bull will be offered to buyers who bring their trailer and truck their bulls home themselves within one week of sale day. Bulls may be kept at Towaw, free of charge, until April 15, 2024. If bulls are left longer a fee of $4.00 per day will be charged. Bulls are left entirely at the risk of the purchaser and we recommend that insurance be taken.

RETAINED INTERESTS

We are selling some bulls in this sale as 2/3 interest and full possession. The 2/3 interest part means that the seller wishes to retain a 1/3 interest in the bull entitling him to use the bull through artificial insemination and sharing in any future drawing expenses and revenue of semen on a 1/3 basis. Full possession entitles the new owner to all physical rights to the bull. As in any other information, announcements from the block take precedence over any written information in the catalog.

GLOSSARY OF BULL DATA

ABBREVIATIONS

AOD: The actual age of the dam when she calved the bull offered for sale.

CE: Calving Ease, U =Unassisted BW: Actual weight at birth WW: Weaning weight in lbs. Adjusted to 205 days.

WI: Weaning Index - Weaning weight as a % of average WW of contemporaries.

YW: Yearling weight in lbs. - calculated as adjusted 205 day weight + (ADG on feed x 165 days) YI: Yearling Index - Weight gain from Weaning to Yearling as a % of average gain of contemporaries.

NOTE: All Indexes are calculated within herds, as management may differ somewhat.

EPDS: EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCES

EPDs are a powerful tool that is available for making genetic progress. EPDs incorporate the performance of the individual, along with the performance of all its relatives.

CE: Calving ease - the higher number predicts more calving ease.

BW: Birth. A lower EPD predicts lower birthweights.

WW: Weaning. High weaning EPDs predict higher weaning weights.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

TERMS: Unless otherwise previously arranged with Towaw Cattle Co., terms of this sale are cash or cheque, payable in Canadian funds. As soon as an animal is sold it becomes the responsibility of the purchaser.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Errors in the catalogue will be corrected by announcements from the stand at sale time, and such corrections will take precedence over the printed matter in the catalogue.

DISPUTES: In case of disputes, bidding will be reopened between the parties involved. If no further bid is made, the buyer will be the person from whom the auctioneer accepted the last bid. The auctioneer’s decision in such matters will be final.

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY: A certificate of registry duly transferred will be furnished to the buyer by the seller for each REGISTERED animal after settlement has been made.

DELIVERY: We will arrange delivery of the bulls to central points in western Canada and closest U.S. Port of Entry. Delivery within 200km is free of charge, outside of 200km will be at cost.

YW: Yearling. Higher yearling EPDs indicate greater expected yearling weights.

MILK: Milk EPD should be used to predict the milking ability of the daughters of the bulls in question.

Higher milk EPDs project more milk.

REA: Rib Eye Area in sq. in. Describes difference in rib eye size.

MARB: Marbling. Describes marbling potential of calves expressed as difference in grade score.

FAT: Fat thickness in inches. Predicts difference in fat measured at the 12th rib.

CW: Carcass weight in lbs. Predicts differences in hot carcass weight of progeny.

Percentile Tables have been added to take some of the confusion out of the EPDs. A trait listed as 5% would mean that bull is in the top 5% of the breed for that trait. 49% would be slightly higher than breed average, while 51% would be slightly lower than breed average.

BREED AVERAGE EPDs

RED ANGUS

PERF. CE BW WW YW MILK EPD +2.8 +1.2 +43 +74 +25 CARC. REA MARB FAT CW EPD +0.38 +0.23 +0.003 +26

BLACK ANGUS

PERF. CE BW WW YW MILK EPD +3.5 +2.0 +54 +95 +23 CARC. REA MARB FAT CW EPD +0.53 +0.49 +0.018 +43

CURRENT WEIGHTS AND SCROTAL MEASUREMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE SALE DAY

AUCTION FORMAT

We will be working with Mark Shologan and broadcasting our sale online on DLMS.ca.

The bulls will be videotaped prior to the sale and on sale day we will have large TV screens set up with the bulls video running while they sell. Two weeks before the sale, videos of every bull will be available at www.cattlevids.ca.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Robert, Dory, Bryon or any of our buyer reps to represent you at the sale. If you intend to bid online make sure you sign up with DLMS and get your buyer approval for our sale.

As always we have our sight unseen program going and are ready and willing to help you with your needs. Hopefully all the bases are covered whether you can make it to the sale, want to bid online, or use the sight unseen program.

REGISTER To view this sale, visit dlms.ca, Fill out the registration form located under registration and sign-up for your free user account and select a username and password.

BIDDERS To be approved as a bidder, Log in to dlms. ca and click BUYER APPROVAL tab, select the sale you are interested in bidding at and click sign up.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL DLMS

Mark Shologan 780-699-5082 | Dacie Przekop 780-656-5513

SIGHT UNSEEN PURCHASE PLAN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE A BULL, BUT CANNOT ATTEND THE SALE, CONTACT US: Kirk’s Cell ������������������780-305-1661 Email ������ towawcattle@gmail.com

Call or email us prior to the sale and let us know your specifications and your price range. We will select animals which would fit your program and arrange for an independent buyer to attempt to purchase one for the agreed upon price. We will call you after the sale, and inform you of the results.

ALL SIGHT UNSEEN SALES ARE MADE WITH A SATISFACTION GUARANTEE.

TOWAW BULL WARRANTY

Towaw Cattle Co. guarantees to sell you a bull that is structurally sound, and a bull that has passed a semen test conducted by a licensed veterinarian.

In short, we guarantee to provide you with a sound breeding bull. If he hasn’t passed a semen test, he doesn’t sell.

Should any animal fail to be a satisfactory breeder, he will be replaced with a bull of equal value. Should this not be possible, an adjustment will be made to reflect the bull in question, as a credit towards the purchase of another bull. In no case shall credit exceed the purchase price of the bull.

We however, will not provide replacement or adjustment for physical injury or mismanagement. Bearing this in mind, we stress the importance of insurance on your bulls. Should you have a problem with your bull, please call us right away, and we will work with you to make sure you are satisfied with your bull.

BULL VIDEOS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE PRIOR TO THE SALE: www.cattlevids.ca

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Reference SireA

RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF RED SIX MILE PRIDE 902S RED JENSEN SKY 611X

RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B

RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 731T

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 75 881 1313 100 100 6 0 35 66 21 25 27 78 67 84 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

We were able to purchase Warrior as a 3 year old from Brett and Traci’s Wildman Livestock herd. Kirk had been following him since he was a yearling and once he saw yearling progeny over there, we made a deal to get him bought. His dam was the CAA 2016 Show Female of the Year and traces back to the same Stocky 82K cow that is the dam of Smoke Signal. Add in the excellent footed Jensen Sky bull and this herdsire is one that excels at a lot of the traits we require at Towaw. Look for the Warrior cattle to be easy fleshing, early maturing, muscular and maternal. These terms might get repetitive; it is what we have been stressing for 50 years and will continue to pursue in the future. We are not a big box store; we just want to produce our kind of cattle that produce profit oriented genetics for our customers.

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C RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E NHF RED 5L NORSEMAN KING 2291AMF OSF MAF OSF MAF CROWFOOT KURUBA 4033P OSF

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T

RED SOUTH VIEW NO EQUAL 28H

RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K

RED 77 MISS STOCKY 5G

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

BGW 704E | 2006858 | FEBRUARY 20 2017 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 90 774 1247 107 100 11 -0.2 31 60 21 5 24 88 79 84 REA MARB FAT CW 0.37 0.09 0.006 24 52 80 56 57

Smoke Signal came to Towaw as a mature bull after we had seen him at Brett and Traci’s Wildman Livestock herd. His dam was a past Agribition Champion Female and lived into her 20s. His sire, Redman 1T, was also the sire of our Lazy MC Kingman bull so we knew he would add fleshing ability. He calved really well and leaves quality females and bulls.

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RED SVR TORNADO 167C

SVR 167C | 1879677 | APRIL 08 2015

RED XO CROWFOOT 817U

RED CROWFOOT 187X

CROWFOOT LADY ERICA 5728R RED GEIS HI HO 180’04

RED SVR CHRISTY 19U

RED SVR CHRISTY 19S

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 86 792 114 2 2.2 57 101 24 54 67 7 5 54 REA MARB FAT CW 0.56 0.2 -0.015 38 10 57 13 12

Tornado is a long bodied, deep red coloured bull that we purchased a ½ interest in from Duralta Farms as a three year old. He sired the high selling bulls for a number of years for both Duralta and Towaw.

His daughters are milky, feminine and good footed. His sons have the herdbull look, are long bodied and powerful, and should add performance and maternal quality to our customers calf crops.

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Reference Sires

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RED SSS GRANITE 74H

DBB 74H | 2187543 | FEBRUARY 10 2020

RED SSS CONTENDER 121B

RED SSS GRIT 503F

RED SSS SCAARA 382Z RED SSS SOLDIER 365W AMF NHF OSF MAF

RED SSS REBELLO 368Z OSF SSS REBELLO 623X

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 90 712 1340 95 110 -1 1.3 36 62 30 75 50 74 75 6 REA MARB FAT CW 0.52 0.19 -0.011 10 16 60 19 93

We put on a lot of miles every spring looking at herdsire prospects to add to our herd. Basically we look to add new genetics to further produce our type without jeopardising our cow herd. In 2021 that bull was Granite 74H from the famed SSS Red Angus program. The bad news was our pockets weren’t quite deep enough at the sale; he sold for $65,000. The good news was we were able to procure a 50 straw semen package. He has made a big impact with very high quality females and bulls. We have sold 3 heifer calves at the last two Red Roundup sales at an average of $10,000. Look for his sons to be eye appealing, stout muscled and good footed.

D RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F

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DSH 465F | 2045044 | MARCH 24 2018

RED TOWAW KINGMAN 157Z

RED TOWAW KINGMAN 467B

RED TOWAW SYBIL 127Z CAF NHF RED BIEBER MAKIN HAY 9913 AMF OSF MAF DDF

RED HAMCO MIMI 78C

RED HAMCO MIMI 76S

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

RED SIX MILE TRAVELOCITY 318X OSF MAF

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

BGW 828F | 2059260 | MARCH 05 2018

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Ref

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 73 644 1251 108 119 1 1.5 47 92 29 62 54 32 13 9 REA MARB FAT CW 0.33 -0.03 0.015 33 63 93 77 24

We bought Kingman 465F, a bull we nicknamed Selkirk, from Hamco Cattle Co. as their leadoff two year old in their 2021 Sale. He is a larger framed version of the Kingman line; still easy fleshing, big nutted, and deep. He is sired by a bull that Hamco bought in our sale that Kirk gave a perfect foot score to, a feat only achieved once since we have been scoring bulls feet.

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F RED U2Q WORKING CLASS 59H

CUA 59H | 2149852 | JANUARY 23 2020

CAF NHF RED U-2 RECKONING 149A AMF OSF MAF DDF

RED U2 BLUE COLLAR 295E

RED U-2 ANEXA 439A AMF CAF NHF RED U-2 RECON 192Y DMF OSF MAF DDF

RED U-2 MISTY 350C

RED U-2 MISTY 60Z

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

A RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR 828F

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK 82 762 1301 96 91 6 -0.6 32 53 29 25 19 86 89 9 REA MARB FAT CW 0.45 0.05 0.018 33 30 85 82 26

We purchased Working Class as a long yearling from Anchor 1 at Mayerthorpe after observing him at the tail end of his first breeding season. He was an $18000 purchase earlier that spring from the U2 program. He has bred for both of us in two breeding seasons and always maintained his fleshiness. He is a consistent low birth, easy calving sire that sires early maturing growth and moderate mature size. His dam has also become a donor cow at U2 as well so the maternal end is top shelf as well.

Lot RED TOWAW GENTRY 401L

WDV 401L | 2318602 | JANUARY 09 2023 | AOD: 2

PEAK DOT ATTRACTIVE 186F

RICHMOND JENTRY SRD 4J

RED RICHMOND BRANDINA SRD 20G RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F

RED TOWAW LAKIMA 408J

RED TOWAW LAKIMA 407E

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 73 691 1260 106 108 5 0.4 54 101 29 31 33 12 5 9 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

401L is a very thick, big bodied bull with a good hair coat. He is correct and attractive and carries his meat down into his leg. He boasts an impressive pedigree with him being the first red son of our Schiefelbein Attractive grandson, Jentry 4J, and his maternal grand dam being a direct daughter of Indeed 104H. She is a full ET sibling to the Lot #7 Bull. 401L’s dam was the Junior Heifer Calf Champion at Farmfair and is a good uddered, feminine female.

Lot

2 TOWAW ORORO MUNROE STORM 403L

WDV 403L | 2347660 | JANUARY 19 2023 | AOD: 6

RED WILBAR HURRICANE 806C

TOWAW STORM 469H

TOWAW SYBIL 5X RED TOWAW INDEED 104H OSF

RED TOWAW SYBIL 444E

RED TOWAW SYBIL 485A

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

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CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Lot

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 91 687 1158 103 100 1 1.2 46 75 31 62 48 36 46 3 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier This bull is hairy with good performance and extra heel. He has a pedigree stacked with maternal goodness as he has Indeed and Tiger up close. His paternal grand dam, 5X, was a picture perfect cow that is also the dam of Red Towaw Jive 468E that did such a great job both for Thistle Ridge Red Angus and ourselves.

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Yearling Bulls

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RED TOWAW QUARTZ 404L

WDV 404L | 2318603 | JANUARY 31 2023 | AOD: 2

RED SSS GRIT 503F

RED SSS GRANITE 74H

RED SSS REBELLO 368Z OSF RED W SUNRISE BANK NOTE 284G

RED LAURON MISS 34J

RED LAURON MISS 37Z

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Lot

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 83 664 1263 100 114 -2 2.7 48 86 30 80 76 29 23 6 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

404L is a bull that does a lot of things right. He has good performance, is good headed, good footed, and has ideal scrotal shape and size. His dam was a purchase from the good Lauron herd at Red Roundup as a heifer calf. This guy adds a different pedigree for our customers with Granite and W Sunrise Banknote, in his pedigree.

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Lot

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4 RED TOWAW MAHOGANY 405L RED SSS GRIT 503F

RED SSS GRANITE 74H

RED SSS REBELLO 368Z OSF RED TOWAW INDEED 104H OSF

RED DMM LEAH 44C

RED GLESBAR LEAH 029U MAF

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 405L | # PENDING | FEBRUARY 11 2023 | AOD: ET TRAIT CE BW WW YW MILK ACTUAL U 91 552 1005 INDEX N/A N/A EPD -6.0 3.4 42 68 30 TOP % 95 85 50 60 8 TRAIT REA MARB FAT CW EPD N/A N/A N/A N/A TOP % N/A N/A N/A N/A

Embryo Transplant Calf This bull is an embryo transplant calf from the Miller Wilson donor cow, Leah 44C. She is a powerful female with a great udder and foot. 405L’s full sister was one of the high selling heifer calves at last fall’s Red Roundup Sale at $12,500 to Hein and Nelson in Iowa and Minnesota.

Registration applied for, EPD’s are based on parental estimates and weaning and yearling weights are actual, not adjusted numbers - updated numbers will be available sale day.

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RED TOWAW GRANITE 411L

WDV 411L | # PENDING | FEBRUARY 22 2023 | AOD: ET

RED SSS GRIT 503F

RED SSS GRANITE 74H

RED SSS REBELLO 368Z OSF RED TOWAW INDEED 104H OSF

RED DMM LEAH 44C

RED GLESBAR LEAH 029U MAF

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Lot

TRAIT CE BW WW YW MILK ACTUAL U 88 696 1115 INDEX N/A N/A EPD -6.0 3.4 42 68 30 TOP % 95 85 50 60 8 TRAIT REA MARB FAT CW EPD N/A N/A N/A N/A TOP % N/A N/A N/A N/A

Embryo Transplant Calf 411L is a full sibling to Lot #4 in a bit more powerful package. He is dark red and good footed with thickness and an attractive front end.

Registration applied for, EPD’s are based on parental estimates and weaning and yearling weights are actual, not adjusted numbers - updated numbers will be available sale day.

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Yearling Bulls

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TOWAW SANTIAGO 410L

WDV 410L | 2350929 | FEBRUARY 22 2023 | AOD: 11

RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B CURA 4925 CLASSIC HEADLINER

TOWAW ARG PRIMAVERA 7Z

PASTORIZA 954 PRIMAVERA

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Lot

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 88 663 1203 99 102 8 -0.1 32 54 22 14 25 86 89 84 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier 410L is the natural born son of the Argentine donor cow, Primavera 7Z. He is a maternal brother to Lot #10 and is powerfully made with a stout hip and large testicles. Don’t let his short ears scare you, he is good headed and full of easy fleshing genetics.

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RED TOWAW CLASSIC 408L

WDV 408L | # PENDING | FEBRUARY 20 2023 | AOD: ET

RED CC EXPANSION 5E

RED TOWAW INDEED 104H OSF RED TOWAW MOLLY 67C RED CC EXPANSION 5E

RED TOWAW LAKIMA 28G

RED TOWAW LAKIMA 136C

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

Lot

TRAIT CE BW WW YW MILK ACTUAL U 93 632 1085 INDEX N/A N/A EPD N/A N/A N/A N/A TOP % N/A N/A N/A N/A TRAIT REA MARB FAT CW EPD N/A N/A N/A N/A TOP % N/A N/A N/A N/A

Embryo Transplant Calf Pretty interesting mating with this fella as he is a product of a mating between a cow born in 1997 and the sire born in 1998. This half brother/half sister mating has already produced a donor dam, 76M, that ended up at WildCat Creek in the US, and one of our top cows, 407E, that is the grand dam of LOT #1. She in turn is the dam of our best young Jive daughter, Lakima 411G, that will be flushed this spring. He is really attractive, good footed and should turn out to be a prepotent, predictable, maternal stalwart! We would like to reserve the right to draw semen on this bull for in herd use only.

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Registration applied for, weaning and yearling weights are actual, not adjusted numbers - EPD’s will be available sale day.

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RED TOWAW CITATION 412L

WDV 412L | 2340605 | FEBRUARY 22 2023 | AOD: 6

RED PIE QUARTERBACK 789 OSF MAF

RED PIE CAPTAIN 057 OSF MAF

RED PIE BONNE BEL 852 RED WINDY HILL ZEPPELIN 1240Z OSF DDF

RED TOWAW MONIQUE 410E

RED TOWAW MONIQUE 407C

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 86 674 1212 101 102 4 0.3 47 89 31 39 32 32 18 3 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

412L will be one of the first sons of the PIE Captain 057 bull that sold for a long dollar in the Pieper Sale in 2021 to a US syndicate.

He is extremely deep bodied with a good set of testicles. His dam is possibly the deepest bodied and easiest fleshing cow on the ranch.

Her mother, and her two full sisters, are some of the best producing cows in the winter calving program.

Yearling Bulls

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Red Towaw Mc Gregor 601J SIRE OF LOT 9

2023 Canadian Red Angus Show Bull of the Year

Lot

9 RED TOWAW MC GREGOR 419L RED SSS CONTENDER 121B

RED TOWAW MCGREGOR 601J RED TOWAW COPPER 27W RED TOWAW KINGMAN 467B

RED TOWAW MONIQUE 406F

RED TOWAW MONIQUE 411D

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 419L | 2318608 | MARCH 04 2023 | AOD: XX TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 102 754 1119 100 100 -5 2.8 41 61 33 92 77 55 77 1 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

First Mcgregor son to sell and he shares his sire’s extra length and performance. He is dark red and good footed. McGregor 601J had quite a run on the show road last fall being named Champion Bull at Olds Fall Classic and Reserve Champion Red Angus Bull at Lloydminster Stockade. He also earned the titles of Canadian Red Angus Show Bull of the Year and the Alberta Hi Point Show Bull of the Year.

Who is Jan Bonsma?

We often reference Jan Bonsma and Bonsma principles when talking about our cattle and our breeding philosophies.

Jan Bonsma was a South African animal scientist that spent decades developing and studying beef cattle. He developed the Bonsmara breed and wrote the book, Man must Measure, to let the cattle world in on his principles for breeding cattle. In the 60s and 70s he spent countless days putting on seminars around the world.

When Dad started breeding Red Angus Cattle in the early 70s, one of the can’t miss events was the Beckton Stock Farm Cattlemen's Seminar and Sale every fall in Sheridan, Wyoming. Jan Bonsma was speaking at these events and Dad and his fellow breeders, new to the purebred cattle industry, took it all in.

Fast forward about 30 years and Kirk went to a

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short course in Lloydminster put on by Gearld Fry, a student of Bonsma. He taught the Linear Measurement program of physically measuring cattle and comparing hip length/heart girth/topline length and the relationships of those measurements.

Kirk came home and eagerly went to measuring some cattle and quickly found that all of our best cows measured really well on this system.

The lightbulb went on that Dad had been teaching us Bonsma principles for years and we just didn’t know it. For cattle to be functionally efficient, bulls need to look like bulls and be full of testosterone. As well females need to look like females and be full of estrogen. If the cattle are hormonally balanced, structurally correct, and fertile, everything else falls into place.

A good place to learn more about Jan Bonsma is the Facebook page Bonsma All Breeds Cattle Group.

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10 TOWAW COMPOSITION 405K

WDV 405K | 2285802 | FEBRUARY 13 2022 | AOD: ET DMFDWFAMFCAF

SITZ STELLAR 726D

DMF DWF AMF CAF M1F NHF OSF DDF SITZ PRIDE 200B OSF

CURA 4925 CLASSIC HEADLINER

TOWAW ARG PRIMAVERA 7Z

PASTORIZA 954 PRIMAVERA

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MOHNEN SUBSTANTIAL 272OHFM1FNHFOSFDDF

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 70 579 943 87 94 8 -0.4 52 83 16 15 9 56 73 95 REA MARB FAT CW 0.51 0.55 0.041 27 54 35 84 89

Parent Verified | Embryo Transfer Calf Composition 405K is a structurally correct, attractive calving ease sire that is homozygous black. He is part of a very successful Embryo mating with the Argentine donor cow, Primavera 7Z. His full sister, Ryder’s show heifer from last summer, just calved and she is easy fleshing, correct, and has a perfect udder. We kept him as a spare last year and bred a few heifers to him.

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TOWAW SELKIRK 428K

RED TOWAW KINGMAN 467B

RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F

RED HAMCO MIMI 78C OSF DWF AMF CAF OHF SAC CONVERSATION DMF M1F NHF OSF DDF

TOWAW CAITLYN 404G HAMCO CAITLYN

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 70 577 1094 104 104 6.0 -0.4 51 94 30 30 20 20 10 8 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier 428K is one of our top calving ease herdsire prospects this year.

He is very correct structurally, and good footed, with a big bodied, masculine, herd bull look to him. His pedigree is full of the Hamco program as his sire was the high selling two year old in their 2020 bull sale and his maternal grand dam was purchased as “the pick of the herd” as a heifer calf. This stout Red Carrier definitely is an outcross on the bottom side of his pedigree!

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RED TOWAW SELKIRK 431K

WDV 431K | 2350792 | MAY 04 2022 | AOD: 2

RED TOWAW KINGMAN 467B

RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F RED HAMCO MIMI 78C RED TOWAW STOUT 403F

RED TOWAW PRIMAVERA 433H TOWAW PRIMAVERA 410F

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK E 90 630 1135 N/A N/A -5 2.5 44 82 28 92 73 43 30 15 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

431K is a powerful, hairy, top end bull that would do a great job bred to mature cows. He is good footed and strong hearted with an outcross dam. She traces back to the SAC Conversation bull and the Argentine embryo donor, Primavera 7Z. Weaning and yearling weights are actual, not adjusted numbers.

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RED TOWAW GRANITE 432K

WDV 432K | 2295813 | MAY 19 2022 | AOD: 3

RED SSS SCAARA 382Z

RED SSS GRANITE 74H

RED SSS REBELLO 368Z OSF RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW MABEL 507G

RED TOWAW MABEL 438B

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 86 637 1204 114 114 2.0 1.2 44 82 29 60 45 45 30 10 REA MARB FAT CW 0.52 0.19 -0.004 13 15 60 30 85

We really like this bull with his extra performance, masculinity, depth of body and muscle shape. He is good footed, good headed, and has a look to him that really grabs your attention. His sire has done a great job here; his first daughters are calving now and they are feminine, good uddered and big bodied. His dam comes from a line of cows bought from Six Mile and the Mabels have always been productive and full of longevity.

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Scar on left eye due to pinkeye as a calf. Sale terms to be announced sale day as we plan to use this bull in our program.

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RED TOWAW WARRIOR 445K

WDV 445K | 2295833 | MAY 23 2022 | AOD: 3

RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW SYBIL 437G

RED TOWAW SYBIL 100Y

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 81 587 1091 104 101 7 0 41 77 23 19 27 55 41 66 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

445K is a long bodied, smooth shouldered bull that should calve quite well. His dam is an attractive, deep red coloured beauty that traces back to our Sybil family. The Sybil’s have been a mainstay in Reese’s show career and she plans to show another one in the bred and owned classes at the Junior Shows this summer.

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RED U2 BLUE COLLAR 295E

RED U2Q WORKING CLASS 59H RED U-2 MISTY 350C RED SVR TORNADO 167C

TOWAW DUCHESS 443H

SIX MILE DUCHESS 746A

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WDV 435K | 2296196 | MAY 22 2022 | AOD: 2 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

1 7 TOWAW SMOKE SIGNAL 444K

WDV 444K | 2296194 | MAY 23 2022 | AOD: 9

CE BW WW YW MILK U 66 546 994 99 90 8 -1 35 56 27 14 15 78 86 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E

RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K CONNEALY COMPLETE 8454 AMF CAF NHF

SIX MILE DUCHESS 746A

SIX MILE DUCHESS 847U

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier This guy is a very complete heifer bull prospect that is very eye appealing. He is moderate framed and has a very strong top. His dam is a direct daughter of Sixmile Duchess 746A, making her a maternal sister to Thomas’s Duchess 412D that was the Supreme Champion Female at Lloydminster Stockade in 2018.

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 80 576 1017 102 89 8 0 38 63 24 14 27 67 73 54 REA MARB FAT CW 0.41 0.25 0.006 28 40 44 56 42

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier This fella is a bigger framed bull with a good foot and extra length of body. He is a direct son of the Duchess 746A cow we spoke about in the previous lot. Her good son sold in last year’s Bull Sale to Morgan Rosaduik, who ranches just across the river from Towaw, just north of Evansburg.

Towaw Duchess 412D

MATERNAL SISTER TO LOT 17, MATERNAL SISTER TO DAM OF LOT 16

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RED TOWAW WARRIOR 449K

WDV 449K | 2295835 | MAY 23 2022 | AOD: 4

RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED TOWAW JULIAN 430D

RED TOWAW LAKOTA 526F

RED TOWAW LAKOTA 442D

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 77 568 1034 101 94 7 -0.4 33 58 27 19 21 83 83 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

This heifer bull prospect has a bit of extra growth, is very smooth fronted and hairy. He has good testicle development and should sire good males and really good replacement females. His pedigree and ideal nipple placement predict great uddered females.

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RED TOWAW WARRIOR 609K

TRW 609K | 2295882 | MAY 24 2022 | AOD: 3

RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW CARLA 466G

RED TOWAW CARLA 424D

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 64 595 1048 110 91 9 -2.1 40 68 27 10 6 59 62 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Definite heifer bull in this moderate framed, dark red package. He ranks in the top 10% for birth weight, calving ease, and maternal calving ease. This bull can be a mainstay in your heifer pen for multiple years as he won’t have a large mature weight.

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TOWAW WARRIOR 455K

WDV 455K | 2296191 | MAY 25 2022 | AOD: 3

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K K THREE OZARK 5D

TOWAW UCOLA 440G

TOWAW UCOLA 7X

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 78 548 1024 97 96 8 0.6 40 74 22 14 36 59 48 76 REA MARB FAT CW 0.46 0.2 0.002 34 27 57 45 23

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier Moderate BW Warrior son with big testicles and a touch more frame. Note that his dam is also a direct daughter of the good old matriarch, Ucola 7X. Her dam, HF Tiger 5T, turned into a great sire after being named Champion Black Angus Bull at the 2009 World Angus Forum in Spruce Meadows.

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Low birth weight bull here that is long bodied, attractive, and smooth made. A little different pedigree as his dam came in to heat at the All Breeds Show in Bashaw as a heifer. Our good friends at Miller Wilson Angus set us up with a straw of semen and a sleeve and this good bull is the result. His dam has a beautiful udder and is a direct daughter of our Ucola 7X cow that has been a great producer. She had her 14th calf last summer and had 4 high selling bulls through the bull sale with 2 going to Churchill Land and Cattle at Rich Valley.

RED U2 MISSION 61W

RED DMM MISSION 94A DMF AMF NHF RED BAR-E-L GLORIA 31R RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW UCOLA 441H TOWAW UCOLA 7X

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CARCASS PERFORMANCE

RYD 611K | 2350681 | MAY 20 2022 | AOD: 2 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 67 530 1057 96 106 0.5 2.4 53 94 21 68 71 16 11 84 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

TOWAW STELLAR 458K

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WDV 458K | 2296190 | MAY 26 2022 | AOD: 7

SITZ STELLAR 726D

XO CROWFOOT CHALLENGER 354A

RED TOWAW SYBIL 539C

RED TOWAW SYBIL 424A

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

DMFDWFAMFCAF MOHNEN SUBSTANTIAL 272OHFM1FNHFOSFDDF DMF DWF AMF CAF M1F NHF OSF DDF SITZ PRIDE 200B OSF

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

23 TOWAW SMOKE SIGNAL 492K

WDV 492K | 2296187 | JUNE 01 2022 | AOD: 5

CE BW WW YW MILK U 78 567 1068 101 101 5 -0.4 49 89 28 31 21 25 18 15 REA MARB FAT CW 0.41 0.37 0.035 42 40 19 98 7

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K TC OUTSIDER 101B

TOWAW FAYETTE 507E

RED TOWAW FAYETTE 433C

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier Long bodied bull here that is smooth made and should be a good heifer bull. He is a direct son of the highly proven Sitz Stellar; a bull known for really good growth, good udders and great feet. We put on a lot of miles trying to source different genetics that we feel will make a difference. We feel Stellar is one of those bulls.

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 84 593 1024 105 87 4 1.3 41 73 25 39 50 55 50 42 REA MARB FAT CW 0.5 0.22 -0.003 31 20 54 35 30

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier 492K is a very heavy muscled, masculine bull. His Fayette cow family traces back to a heifer purchased from SSS Red Angus back in 1996.

ALL LONG YEARLINGS WERE ON GRASS FROM MID-MAY UNTIL MID-DECEMBER, AND STARTED ON TMR RATION ON DECEMBER 1 ST.

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RED TOWAW SELKIRK 462K

WDV 462K | 2295843 | MAY 26 2022 | AOD: 6

RED TOWAW KINGMAN 467B

RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F

RED HAMCO MIMI 78C RED TOWAW JIMMY PAGE 448B

RED TOWAW QUIN 485D

RED TOWAW QUIN 491B

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 94 541 1046 92 102 -3 3.7 46 84 26 85 89 36 26 31 REA MARB FAT CW 0.36 0.16 0.013 29 55 67 73 37

This bull is big bodied, strong topped, smooth and stout. He is powerful and attractive and should add some pounds to a calf crop.

He is big testicled, which is a trait the Kingman line always came through with. His dam is feminine and good uddered.

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25 TOWAW SMOKE SIGNAL 466K RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K RED BLAIR’S STOUT 825B

TOWAW PRIMAVERA 433E

TOWAW ARG PRIMAVERA 7Z

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WDV 466K | 2348779 | MAY 27 2022 | AOD: 5 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 74 547 931 98 77 11 -1.7 28 44 22 5 9 93 97 76 REA MARB FAT CW 0.38 0.07 0 20 49 83 41 70

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier Low Birth Weight bull that is very complete and structurally correct.

His dam is another daughter of the Argentine cow, Primavera 7Z. The Primaveras add depth of body, rib and fleshing ability.

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RED TOWAW LUCKY 7 477K

WDV 477K | 2295856 | MAY 29 2022 | AOD: 6

RED CROWFOOT 187X

RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED SVR CHRISTY 19U RED TOWAW JIMMY PAGE 448B

RED TOWAW ROSE DORA 466D

RED TOWAW ROSE DORA 540B

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TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 77 606 1146 109 109 6 -0.4 48 87 28 25 21 29 21 15 REA MARB FAT CW 0.47 0.29 -0.006 35 26 34 28 21

We used this bull on our replacement heifers last summer. He is stout, with extra length of body and has very good foot structure.

His dam is a moderate framed, model cow with the correct udders that Jimmy Page was known for. This guy is the fourth straight bull from this cow in the sale with last year’s bull going to Matt’s Red Angus from Smithers, B.C.

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RED U2Q WORKING CLASS 59H

RED U-2 MISTY 350C RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E

RED CCC TOWAW ESSENCE 490H CCC ESSENCE 456E

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 487K | 2350795 | JUNE 01 2022 | AOD: 2 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 82 602 1147 107 110 6.5 -0.1 36 62 27 25 27 78 75 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

This bull is long bodied, good footed, dark red and hairy. He has very good performance numbers and traces back to the Essence family that has been the main cow family for Miller Wilson and countless other Angus herds around the world.

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28RED TOWAW SMOKE SIGNAL 504K RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW GEORGINA 449G

RED TOWAW GEORGINA 59X

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 504K | 2296533 | JUNE 05 2022 | AOD: 3 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 73 567 1114 102 110 9.0 -0.6 46 88 23 10 15 35 20 75 REA MARB FAT CW 0.45 0.01 0.002 34 25 90 45 20

Calving ease prospect with good growth and eye appeal. He is big bodied, complete and structurally sound. There should be lots of longevity in this guy as his dam lived in to her twenties and her sire has reached legendary status as a maternal sire.

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RED HAMCO KINGMAN 465F

RED HAMCO MIMI 78C XO CROWFOOT CHALLENGER 354A

TOWAW MELTE 474C

HAZEL BLUFF MELTE 146A

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 508K | 2296539 | JUNE 07 2022 | AOD: 7 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 81 596 1053 106 92 4 0.2 37 70 30 39 30 71 58 6 REA MARB FAT CW 0.33 0.01 0.015 23 63 91 77 61

508K is a stylish, well put together bull. He has a moderate BW and his dam goes back to the $40,000 XO Crowfoot 0102X bull.

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30RED TOWAW WORKFORCE 515K RED U2 BLUE COLLAR 295E

RED U2Q WORKING CLASS 59H RED U-2 MISTY 350C RED TOWAW ZEPPELIN 466F

RED TOWAW RUBY 484H

RED TOWAW RUBY 549F

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WDV 515K | 2296575 | JUNE 08 2022 | AOD: 2 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 86 625 990 111 73 3 0.4 35 55 30 46 33 78 87 6 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

515K is a big bodied, hairy, easy fleshing, top end herd bull prospect.

He is moderate framed, and easy fleshing with good testicle size.

His sire, Working Class, breeds a group of cattle for both us and Anchor 1 each season and stays in good shape. Fertility plus with this one!

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WDV 517K | 2296671 | JUNE 10 2022 | AOD: 7

REICH 28B

K THREE OZARK 5D

REICH BETTY 6W RED TOWAW MALBEC 14Z

RED TOWAW RUBY 536C

RED TOWAW RUBY 46Y

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 88 584 1079 102 100 0 3.8 54 91 20 69 90 12 15 90 REA MARB FAT CW 0.52 0.24 -0.001 37 17 47 39 16

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RED CROWFOOT 187X

RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED SVR CHRISTY 19U TOWAW TENACITY 16X

TOWAW COUNTESS 22Z

RED TOWAW COUNTESS 92X

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier 517K is a moderate framed, early maturing bull with good hair. He is correct and muscular, a trait his sire Ozark was known for.

Unfortunately, in the purebred world, some traits that make cattle worth more are not really aligned with the commercial world. Extra feed to make a calf weigh more at weaning

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 88 568 953 99 77 5 0.4 38 64 19 31 33 67 71 94 REA MARB FAT CW 0.42 0.17 -0.005 24 37 65 30 57

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier Moderate framed bull that will represent the last group of Tornado sons. The Tornado bull did a great job for us and Duralta Farms.

Why do we cull?

First and foremost, we take the responsibility of being a seedstock and genetics provider very seriously.

The decisions we make, and the policies and tendencies we use to make breeding decisions have an exponential impact on our customer’s bottom line. In a commercial setting a cow must have a marketable calf every year, all while doing it without incurring extra labour, feed, or health costs. The difference between a top end cow and an average cow might be an extra $100 in profit at the end of the year.

TOWAW TORNADO 521K

WDV 521K | 2296670 | JUNE 12 2022 | AOD: 10 CARCASS PERFORMANCE

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and yearling time is exponentially rewarded in a purebred setting.

Same goes with extra feed to prop up a cows milking ability or her ability to breed back.

Keeping an open cow around for an extra year is ludicrous to a commercial herd but often happens in a purebred setting if that cow has cranked out a $20,000 bull. So, even though cattle that need to be culled might not affect our bottom line as much as it does a commercial breeder, we must cull our cattle ruthlessly to avoid passing on future economic problems to our customers.

We sell a lower percentage of bulls born here than a lot of outfits, not because of the quality of the cowherd but because we refuse to make

any excuses for the cattle or prop them up with uneconomic feed and practices. We do our best with the young cattle but every year there are some that hit the cowherd and then need to be culled. We go through our cows every spring and a group ends up being bred to terminal bulls and culled from the purebred herd.

Those male calves, while still purebreds, on those cows are all castrated, no matter how good they might look. The heifers are also marketed as commercial. We also believe in our customers taking advantage of hybrid vigor when they use our purebred, registered bulls on their crossbred cows. You won’t see half blood bulls sold from our program.

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RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR 828F

RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B DMF DWF AMF CAF RED TOWAW ORAZI CALIDAD 130YNHF OSF MAF DDF

RED TOWAW COPPER LADY 566F

RED TOWAW COPPER LADY 68Y

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TRW 523K | 2349725 | JUNE 12 2022 | AOD: 4 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 81 578 1070 103 99 1 1.2 34 65 24 62 47 83 71 65 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

This Warrior son is big bodied, and stout with a good masculine head and a strong top. He comes from Thomas’s good Copper Lady cow family that also brought us the McGregor and Jimmy Page herdsires.

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RED TOWAW CARLA 424D

RED TOWAW CARLA 438A

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RED CROWFOOT 187X

RED SVR TORNADO 167C

CE BW WW YW MILK U 85 596 1115 105 105 3 1.5 49 84 28 46 54 25 26 15 REA MARB FAT CW 0.38 0.18 0.001 27 51 63 43 48

614K is a bull of Thomas’s that is dark red and really long bodied with good performance. His dam is a beauty of a cow with a very good udder. Her cow family originated with a heifer calf Thomas purchased in the 2003 Northern Select Sale from Cajun Angus.

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K HF TIGER 5T AMF CAF OHF NHF OSF DDF

TOWAW UCOLA 7X

RED TOWAW UCOLA 181L

With simple traits like the polled gene or colour genes, there is only a pair of genes involved so it is quite simple to be homozygous for a gene and therefore be guaranteed of passing that gene to their offspring. For complex traits like correct feet, udders, body condition etc., many genes are involved and things get complicated.

For this reason we try to breed like traits in animals from cattle that are related so that they are more likely to be “homozygous” for those traits and be more prepotent in passing them on to their offspring.

Line breeding was used to great suc-

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WDV 557K | 2297709 | JULY 06 2022 | AOD: 5

RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K RED FLYING K JULIAN 72Y

RED TOWAW RENEE 578E

RED TOWAW RENEE 162T

TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 92 598 1069 104 95 2 2.2 41 73 26 54 67 55 50 31 REA MARB FAT CW 0.34 0.23 0.006 28 62 49 56 45

Larger framed bull with larger testicle size. His Renee cow family traces back to a bred heifer purchased from Brylor Ranch in 1984

by Kirk. Her first daughter, 7T, was the same age as a group of 6 year old cows that Dad had offered to That’ll Do Ranch. Elvin Kopp said there was no deal unless she was included. Kirk did not want to let 7T go, but after a couple of weeks at Olds College decided he was going to need that $2500 more than he needed 7T. Those cows did a great job for That’ll Do and then sold as part of a package, at 11 years old, to form the nucleus of U2 ranch.

cess in the first half of the 20th Century and helped to establish some of the best lines of predictable genetics in many of the breeds. So why did it fall out of favour? All populations of breeds carry harmful recessive, non dominant, genes known as genetic defects. When cattle are homozygous for these defects they are mostly born as non viable animals and eliminate themselves from the gene pool. If they only carry one copy of the gene, however, it stays hidden and the animal shows no ill effects of having said gene. When you have related animals, the likelihood of these genetic defects becoming homozygous is heightened.

Up until the last 20 years or so the only way to “prove” a sire was defect free was to breed him to a number of his own daughters and hope there

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Notify is a larger framed bull with a nice low BW. His dam, Ucola 7X, has been a great producer with 4 other sons selling through the bull sale.

What is line breeding?

At its core, line breeding is the planned breeding of related animals in a population with the goal of making them more prepotent or likely to transmit hereditary characteristics to their offspring.

RED TOWAW NOTIFY 525K

WDV 525K | 2296580 | JUNE 14 2022 | AOD: 12

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E

TRW 614K | 2295884 | JUNE 15 2022 | AOD: 6 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

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were not any calves displaying the homozygous traits of the defect, say dwarfism. Now we can DNA test suspected animals and have pretty much eliminated known genetic defects from the registered gene pool, as most of the Associations now flag defect carriers in pedigrees and make testing readily available.

On a side note that is another darn good reason to use registered bulls!

We are using more of our own bulls and utilizing line breeding as a tool to make our genetics more prepotent and predictable. We are not into producing Outliers and Unicorns here, but predictable genetics that are more likely to pass on to their calves and make your calf crop more uniform and your replacement heifers more likely to last for many years in your cowherds.

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37 RED TOWAW WARRIOR 528K RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED FLYING K JULIAN 72Y

RED TOWAW LAKOTA 463F

RED TOWAW LAKOTA 32X

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 528K | 2350794 | JUNE 16 2022 | AOD: 4 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 77 586 105 5 0.8 33 62 22 31 40 83 75 76 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Nice low BW on this long bodied, smooth made, complete bull. All the Warrior sons are good headed and easy fleshing, much like he was himself.

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RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED SVR TORNADO 167C

RED TOWAW ROSE DORA 496G

RED TOWAW ROSE DORA 540B

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 530K | 2297653 | JUNE 18 2022 | AOD: 3 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 78 607 1106 109 101 3 0.8 41 80 26 46 40 55 35 31 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Nice 77 lb BW on this big bodied, good footed bull that is strong hearted, with a level strong topline. His pedigree combines Warrior with some of our best cowmaker bulls, Tornado, Calidad and Indeed. The Rose Dora family traces back to our original purebred cows purchased in the early 70s.

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TOWAW OZARK 534K

WDV 534K | 2297819 | JUNE 22 2022 | AOD: 7

REICH 28B

K THREE OZARK 5D

REICH BETTY 6W DWF AMF CAF RED TOWAW ORAZI CALIDAD 130Y DMF NHF OSF MAF DDF

RED TOWAW FAYETTE 433C

RED TOWAW FAYETTE 78Z

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CE BW WW YW MILK U 94 648 1252 114 122 -5 4.3 59 112 26 92 94 5 2 31 REA MARB FAT CW 0.63 0.17 -0.016 39 6 65 11 12

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier Possibly the most heavily muscled bull in the offering, this guy is masculine and deep ribbed. His dam has also produced a top selling bull in the 2021 Bull Sale to Brewin Angus Farms of Taber.

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40 RED TOWAW WARRIOR 537K RED SIX MILE WARCRAFT 254Z OSF

RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F

RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B DWF AMF CAF RED TOWAW ORAZI CALIDAD 130YDMF NHF OSF MAF DDF

RED CCC LAKIMA 477F

RED TOWAW LAKIMA 88W

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 537K | 2297655 | JUNE 22 2022 | AOD: 4 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 90 626 1202 110 116 -3 2.6 48 92 27 85 74 29 13 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Very good performance on this bigger framed, powerful cow bull.

His dam is a powerful, heavy milking female that really produces pounds. She has had a 114 average Weaning index on her first three bull calves.

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41 TOWAW SMOKE SIGNAL 545K RED RMJ REDMAN 1T OSF MAF

RED WILDMAN SMOKE SIGNAL 704E RED SVR MISS STOCKY 82K RED BLAIR’S STOUT 825B

CCC ESSENCE 456E

TOWAW BLACK ESSENCE 60W

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 545K | 2299552 | JUNE 27 2022 | AOD: 5 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 84 600 1106 107 102 6 0.9 37 69 25 25 42 71 60 42 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Black Hided / Red Gene Carrier This smoothly constructed bull has a little extra muscle shape than the pen average. His dam traces back to the really good Essence cow family.

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RED WILDMAN BLAIRS WARRIOR828F RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B RED FLYING K JULIAN 72Y

RED TOWAW UCOLA 431F TOWAW UCOLA 7X

CARCASS PERFORMANCE

WDV 548K | 2297703 | JUNE 29 2022 | AOD: 4 TRAIT ACTUAL INDEX EPD TOP % TRAIT EPD TOP %

CE BW WW YW MILK U 78 570 987 101 84 9 -1.6 32 57 27 10 9 86 84 22 REA MARB FAT CW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

This heifer bull prospect is moderate framed, muscular, and masculine with a good set of testicles. These earlier maturing bulls ooze fertility traits and subdue frame size making them very good calving ease candidates. Once again we see the very productive Tiger daughter, Ucola 7X, close up in the maternal side of his pedigree.

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If you are in the market for an Angus herd sire this year mark your calendar for this years sale highlighting some of the industries best coming from Towaw Cattle Co. We tested the forages on farm and from there were able to develop balanced TMR’s for both the bulls and cows to ensure proper growth and development. The cow herd utilizes a custom mineral program based on their annual forage results.

This supports bull calf development from a young age. The bull feeding program is built to maximize forage utilization and gut health. These bulls are developed on grass with their moms

and then moved onto a balanced TMR ration. Organic mineral are used to ensure proper immune function and overall health. The operation uses a total nutritional program ensuring optimal cattle performance. If you have any questions about the nutrition of the sale bulls, please feel free to call.

Best of luck on sale day!

Doug Roxburgh Beef Consultant

(403) 392-4541 doug.roxburgh@bullseyefeeds.ca © More Than Just Feed

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Since 2019 more than $300,000 has been INVESTED in member education, awards, bursaries and youth scholarships.

We are proud to support the Canadian Angus Foundation Future 15 Program With YOUR help we will continue to further our mission and the breed. $265,000 invested in ANGUS research over the last six years leveraged an additional $400,000 in grant funding.

$70,000+ has been invested in history and archives, including the 2019 Canadian Angus history book.

The Canadian Angus Foundation functions to preserve and expand the Angus breed for future generations through education, youth development, scientific and market research, and historical preservation and restoration. The Canadian Angus Foundation was incorporated in 1993 and is the charitable arm of the Canadian Angus Association. Donations are tax deductible.

If you are interested in giving back or learning more about this initiative, please contact Belinda Wagner, Canadian Angus Foundation Executive Director at 306-537-1518 or email bwagner@cdnangus.ca.

You can also visit the Canadian Angus Foundation website at www.cdnangus.ca/foundation

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to the Tbuyers hank You from our 2023 sale Blayne and Sandra Meier Wm, Huppertz & Sons * Travis Reay

Kidd Bros. * Kevin Karpyshyn * Darrin Hannis Greg Blahun *

Blairs West Land & Cattle

Ivan Gerhardt

Plummer Land & Cattle *

Tom Govenlock *

Ruch Land & Cattle

Matt Weiss * Rod English Floyd Lauer

Bill and Sandra Hughes *

Preus Farms *

Jay Coulson

Wegewitz Family *

Ted Commandeur*

Kendra & Willie Waldner *

Calvin Christman * 2V Ranch Ltd

Ray Knudson * Paul Letts *

Horn Valley Trucking *

Rosadiuk Ranches

Wild Farms *

Frans Bouius *

Anderson River Ranches

Poverty Paradise Ranch Ltd *

Murray Bell *

Matt’s Red Angus *

Kevin Spreen

Jim Scott

Rafter 2M Farms

Lyons Cattle Co. *

Kyle Schwab *

Doug & Deb Koloski *

Churchill Land & Cattle *

Gerald Maljaars* * REPEAT BUYERS

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