13th annual
Edie Creek Angus
RUGGED 2YR OLD BULL & Female SALE
MARCH 14 2020
ASHERN AUCTION MART Saturday 1PM
Moderate - Maternal Easy Calving - Easy Fleshing
THE BOUW FAMILY
Marilyn and Herman Bouw
Stefan, Kendra, Jaxon(10), Mikaya(8), Alexa(6), Micah(4)
Jonathan, Eileen, Lucie(8), Karis(5), Lukas & Kian (3) 1
EDIE CREEK ANGUS two-year-old BULL & BRED HEIFER SALE SATURDAY MARCH 14TH 1:00 PM
Location:
Ashern ICCA Auction Mart: On Auction Mart Road just south of Ashern off Hwy #6.
On Offer:
55 TWO yr. OLD BULLS and 30 BRED HEIFERS - 45 Black Angus Bulls - 10 Red Angus Bulls -3 FleckAngus Bred Heifers -25 Black Angus Bred Heifers - 2 Red Angus Bred Heifers
Auctioneer:
Lorne (Buddy) Bergner : (204) 768-2669
Bid Arrangements &“Sight Unseen Purchase Plan”
If you can’t come on sale day, please make arrangements with us for pre-sale or phone bids. We would be happy to help make it work for you to own an Edie Creek Bull! We’ve
had a 100% success rate in the past 12 Years! Jonathan: (204) 471-4696 Stefan: (204) 232-1620 Buddy Bergner: (204) 768-2669
Insurance
The animal becomes the responsibility of the purchaser after it is sold. Insurance will be available sale day. Any animals returning to Edie Creek for a later pickup or delivery MUST HAVE INSURANCE while on our farmyard for peace of mind.
Come on Down Early!
Get a real good look at the Bulls and enjoy a Complimentary Hot Lunch ** SPONSORED BY UNION FORAGE! **
For More Information On or Before Sale Day, Please feel free to give us a call! Jonathan Bouw- (204) 471-4696 Stefan Bouw - (204) 232-1620
**Please Note** Sale order is the SAME as the catalog order. 2
Welcome to the 13th Annual Edie Creek Angus 2-Year Old Bull & Female Sale **Featuring 30 Bred Heifers!**
A HUGE thanks to all who made our 2019 Sale such a success. We were grateful and humbled by your bidding and buying that resulted in one of the best sales we’ve ever had! 2019 will be otherwise remembered as a year with huge weatherrelated challenges: from a 3rd year of Extremely Dry conditions early on, changing to near-flooding conditions locally in the Fall. Our Bale Grazing paddocks were the only ones that had any significant growth of pasture forages, which further highlights the benefits of bale grazing that we hadn’t fully realized until this dry weather—Carbon addition to the soil builds RESILIENCE and improves soil health. We used Union Forage blends to add protein & energy-rich species to traditional Silage crops, which at the same time established dynamitequality annual grazing species that extended our grazing season & increased our carrying capacity. This is a real benefit to us because improving our stocking rates/carrying capacity means we harvest more forage from the same land base, essentially like purchasing more acres for “FREE” or simply for the cost of additional management, which is more and more rewarding as the price of land increases! We stretched our grazing late into fall by feeding Timothy grass straw on alternating days and strip grazing our high-quality Union Forage Double Down Blend regrowth.
Our Breeding Goal is to make the cow-calf enterprises of our customers as profitable as possible per acre, by creating cows that efficiently raise calves, are reliably repeatable & require minimal replacements (longevity). We are confident in the low-input genetics that we are offering. The pedigrees are filled with tried & tested, long-living cattle. Instead of using the newest “genomically-acclaimed” individuals validated by computer generated formulas, we will continue to stack fertile, sound and profitable cattle in our pedigrees that have produced into their teens. This is the ultimate proof of functionality and fertility as opposed to forecasted, man-made numbers. All the main black Herdsires with sons on offer in this sale have dams that raised calves trouble-free into their teens. In our pursuit of improved fertility in our customers cowherds, we have added another selection pressure to the bulls selling in our sale: they have all been selected from the FIRST 30 DAYS of the calving season. This means our most reproductively efficient cows offer sons in this sale. 86% of our 2018 “F” Calves were born within the first 30 days, which demonstrates the fertility of the Edie Creek Angus cowherd with zero grain, pellets, or DDGs in their ration. We are very excited to present the first sons offered from Howrey Angus females in this sale! In 2016, we toured through some excellent cattle from the Sinclair program in Wyoming, Cole Creek in Montana, and JAD Angus in Nebraska. Each program is well-respected as being their own unique maternal strains/bloodlines within the Angus breed. They are grassbased breeding programs with real-world conditions & tough selection criteria. In 2015 & 16, we also visited Howrey Angus and learned from Monte Howrey how he has taken the strengths from each of the individual Strains of OCC, Cole Creek, Shoshone and Sinclair (Emulation) Programs, and has blended them together for over 30 years to design cattle that can thrive in the harshest of conditions with a forage-only diet. Our Howrey Angus females combine well over 100 years of collective breeding programs into one disciplined, functionally efficient set of females which is a real complement to our breeding objectives and goals. We were fortunate to select a core group of females from the heart of Monte Howrey’s herd in 2016, and now their first sons sell March 14th , 2020. We invite you to come take a look at the Cowherd behind the Bulls & Bred Heifers selling. Feel free to call if you have any questions about our breeding program. We appreciate your interest in Edie Creek Angus! With much gratitude, - Jonathan Bouw
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2019 at a Glance
Edie Creek Big Time 848C Annual Genetics & Grazing Tour at ECA Fleckvieh bull went in on Day 31 of Breeding Season
Cole Creek Full Bore 730
Grass really grew well on Bale Grazing sites!
MH Titan 752 Daughter MH Mina 029
U of M Agro-Ecology tour at last winter’s Bale Grazing Site
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“Why use an Edie Creek Angus 2-Year Old Bull?”
We are 20 years into the journey of genetic progress and have learned many lessons along the way. There is no such thing as a “free lunch”: not in physics, economics, or in producing beef cattle. The math is simple. The more time and money you invest into your cattle the more you must get out of them. Solar Energy and Hybrid Vigour are the closest things we have to a “free lunch”, so we need to maximize their cumulative benefits, with cow herds that efficiently turn low quality forages (grass) into high quality protein (beef). Winter or summer, our cows take care of their own daily needs on a zero-starch, forage-only program. They are fertile, moderate and have excellent udders. They calve on pasture and take care of their own calves. If an individual does not fulfill these criteria they are culled. To build on a foundation of longevity, we try to use Herdsires that have dams and grandams that have produced calves well into their teens. The oldest dam currently would be 17yr old OCC Dixie Erica 693N and her dam was productive until she was 19yrs old. Reproduction is the most important factor affecting profitability. We have tightened the screws on reproductive longevity by shortening the breeding seasons and using multi-sire breeding groups. heifers only saw a bull for 42 days, and the cows saw bulls for 50 days. The cows had Angus bulls for the first 30 days, and a Fleckvieh bull for the last cycle—thus ensuring only the most fertile females produce offspring that we select purebred parent stock from. Multi-sire pasture groups ensure that the most fertile bulls get the job done — another step in improving fertility. After all, reproduction is 5x more important than growth rate, and 10x more important than carcass quality when it comes to profit. Our gene pool stems from proven descendants of renowned maternal bloodlines such as Traveler, Emulation, Quantum, Shoshone & Wye that have thrived in low-input environments across the continent. We have been using A.I., & E.T. to help us move ahead with our gene pool, not making it wider, but deeper. This enables us to offer a more consistent pen of bulls every year: prepotently bred bulls which stamp a consistent pen of calves, including daughters that can be counted on to become reliable mama cows. We have come to believe that creating a maternally efficient cowherd is the foundation of beef production. Matching your cowherd to the resources in your environment is another key step to reducing your inputs/costs. Edie Creek Angus bulls can help you with both of those, creating more profit within your cow herd. Our bulls are bred with generations of fleshing ability, fertility, capacity, correct feet, longevity and they sire beautiful udders. Our bulls will sire calves that are born easily and nurse quickly. They will establish an efficient, maternal “Cowherd Factory” for you which can then be mated with terminal sires to add hybrid vigour performance and the "flavour of the day" in hide colour. Doing this will create a functional, long-living cowherd able to wean calves with maximum efficiency in your commercial ranch environment. When you buy 2-year-old bulls from Edie Creek Angus, you get a carefully developed breeding machine. You can turn them out and expect them to breed more cows than yearlings and come back in better shape. They are more durable and last under real-world breeding conditions. Longevity is as important in your Herd Bulls as it is in your cowherd! By developing them for an additional year it allows us to sort them in our pastures instead of yours. Increasing the profitability of the commercial cattle producer is the focus of our breeding program. We really enjoy talking about beef production, so please give us a call or stop by for a tour and we can talk about our breeding program or any of the cattle for sale. — Stefan Bouw
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S I R E S
COLE CREEK FULL BORE 730 15/02/2010
Reg#2064227
IMP 0730X CE Sire: COLE CREEK BLACK CEDAR 46P ** HBR ENCORE 0544 Udder Dam: COLE CREEK S G JUMBOLEEN 76P *** Forage COLE CREEK JUMBOLEEN 876 **** EPD’s: bw: +2.3 ww: 46 yw: 77 milk: 26 ced: +2 Cole Creek Full Bore is a totally new genetic line for us here at Edie Creek. In 2016, we visited Cole Creek in Montana, and knew their strain would compliment what we were already working on in our herd. We purchased Full Bore as a 7-Yr old. Former owner Ryan Neiman says “His sons are masculine, wide based massive cattle with added length and muscle. The bulls cover cows with lots of libido and athleticism while maintaining good ßesh. More impressively his daughters are extremely productive calf raising machines with good udders, maternal instinct and fertility”
Pictured at 9yrs old
MH TITAN 752 18/04/2007
Reg#1945581
Sire: OCC GREAT PLAINS 943G OCC HOMER 650H Dam: MH MELISA 357 MH MELISA 1147 EPD’s: bw:
IMP 752T CE **** Udder ***** Forage ***
+0.8 ww: 27 yw: 47 milk: 20 CED: +9
MH Titan 752 will increase fertilely and longevity in any pedigree he is in. He bred 40+ cows as a 11yr old bull, and is going into his 13th year. His breeder, Monte Howrey, said “Titan: the older he gets, the more I appreciate him. Just no holes in him: feet are great, Athletic, incredible disposition. Fertile and highly intelligent...he's probably the most USEFUL bull I have ever bred." Titan comes from the same cow family as DDA Emblazon 27C. We don’t think you’ll find better feet on a mature bull than Titan’s, they are impeccable. Titan also tested “TT” for Leptin in the Quantum DNA test, for those of you who track that.
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OCC EASY RED 868A 05/09/2013 Reg#1895053 Sire: RED OCC EASY RED RED OCC RED ROCK 864U Dam: RED OCC VANESSA 797Y RED OCC VANESSA 929T EPD’s: bw:
-2.2 ww: 15 yw: 41 milk: 16 CED: +8
OCC Easy Red 868A is a one of a kind bull in Canada.We CE have found that Easy Red does phenotypically what we are **** trying to do with our Black Angus program in a linebred, Udder genetically prepotent RED package! Easy Red will fix what **** the Red Angus breed needs fixing: udder and foot quality, as Forage well as natural muscling ability & ease of fleshing on forage ***** alone. He traces 9x to Dixie Erica 1019, the foundation cow of the black program at OCC and 5x to PCC Colorado Hobo. Co-owned with Myhre Land and Cattle, now deceased. Also Leptin Genotype tested as “TT”.
sire:
OCC Big Time 746Z
EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C 20/06/2015
Reg#1693232
Sire: OCC BIG TIME 746Z OCC HEADLINER 661H Dam: OCC DIXIE ERICA 693N OCC DIXIE ERICA 907C EPD’s: bw:
ECA 848C CE ** Udder **** Forage ****
+3.8 ww: 44 yw: 66 milk: 20 ced: -2
We can’t introduce 848C without telling the story of his now 17-yr old Dam, 693N, the top Headliner daughter raised at OCC, from whom Ohldes used numerous sons and daughters. 693N epitomizes maternal efficiency in a structurally sound package: her Dam was 19 and Granddam was 21. Going forward, we intend for every Edie Creek Angus pedigree to contain 693N at least once, she is that good. 848C has been a stellar breeder, stamps functional forage-efficient cattle with classic Angus heads, and is carrying forward the OCC strain at Edie Creek Angus.
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OCC Legacy 839L
EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C 23/04/2015
Reg#1879627
Sire: OCC Legacy 839L OCC HUNTER 928H Dam: OCC JUANADA 633M OCC HEROS JUANADA 700Y EPD’s: bw:
ECA 34C CE ***** Udder **** Forage ****
+-2.1 ww: 6 yw: 20 milk: 21 ced: +14
Legacy 34C is a bull that we couldn’t help but keep home in 2017. Being a Legacy son out of the 14-yr old Juanada 633M cow who was an OCC Hunter daughter, we were selecting for muscle & depth, but with a good balance of femininity retained on the daughters. This mating also lined up the 960E cow, as she is the dam of both Hunter & Legacy—a great cow in the pedigree takes the guesswork out of the progeny to a large extent. 34C himself was a docile bull but an aggressive breeder. He was correctly made, had a big scrotum, and had excellent slope to his pelvis. Extreme calving ease HEIFER BULL.
sire:
OCC Great Plains 943G
EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y 20/02/2011
Reg#1712064
Sire: OCC GREAT PLAINS 943G OCC HEADLINER 661H Dam: OCC JUANADA 737L OCC JUANADA 856F EPD’s: bw:
ECA 79Y CE **** Udder ***** Forage ***
-2.8 ww: 20 yw: 35 milk: 20 ced: +10
Edie Creek Great One 79Y is a solid calving ease bull who came as an embryo directly from Ohlde Cattle Co. He can be used to add length and tidy up feet and udders on cattle. His two full sisters are great producers for us & beautifully feminine cows- they’ve sold some great bulls through our sale themselves. 79Y is a Great Plains son, making him a half brother to MH Titan 752. He also sires good dispositions and functional females with longevity.
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“ All the Bouw grandkids in one place!! ”
Thank You to Our 2019 Bull Buyers! Mike Slepicka, Minitonis, MB Fred Sirett, Lashburn, SK Joel Lesann, The Pas, MB Art Jonasson, Vogar, MB Mark Good, Alonsa, MB Hans Myhre, Dauphin, MB Kendale Friesen, Arborg, MB Herman Winnemuller, East Selkirk, MB David Ives, Mulvihill, MB Julian Dudych, Anola, MB Kendale Friesen, Arborg, MB Hunter Resources, Neilburg, SK Ken McKay, Fisher Branch, MB James Kebernick, Beausejour, MB Tri-step Ranch, Vogar, MB Etomami Organics, Hudson Bay, SK Stan Ford, Eriksdale, MB Jay Hobbs, Deloraine, MB Darrel Ashbacher, Halkirk, AB Tri-Step Ranch, Vogar, MB
David Yablonski, Fraserwood, MB Rob Nicoll, Rossendale, MB Ted Unruh, Cromer, MB Mark Good, Alonsa, MB
Mark Emilson, Vogar, MB Stan Ford, Eriksdale, MB
Rick Chartrand, Oak Point, MB Jason Borne, McCreary, MB Sirett Ranching, Lashburn, SK
Joseph Omer, Hodgson, MB David Yablonski, Fraserwood, MB Joel Lesann, The Pas, MB Randy Smith, Vita, MB
Kevin Richards, Eddystone, MB
Alvin Dueck, Arborg, MB Kevin Janzen, Winnipegosis, MB Marshall Rempel, Winnipegosis, MB
Gary Richards, Bangor, SK
Taylor Triplet Farm, Mather, MB Leonard Walkin, Fraserwood, MB BRED HEIFERS:
James Kebernik, Beausejour, MB Lane Dobson, Manitou, MB Mark Good, Alonsa, MB
Garhard Rempel, Stratton, ON Hans Myhre, Dauphin, MB
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RETAINING 1/2 INTEREST & FUTURE WALKING RIGHTS (TBD)
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 53F
28/04/2018
ECA 53F CE Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C *** Udder CROWFOOT MACHO 4549P **** Dam: CROWFOOT VALLEY CJ ERICA 7723T Forage CROWFOOT KAWICH 1758L **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042537
BW: 75 Dam’s BW: 74 ced:+7 bw: +0.9 ww: 29 yw: 47 milk: 23
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Maternal Brother was the high selling MH Titan son last year to Kagan Sirett of Lloydminster, SK. Dam has also raised a $10,000 bull that sold to Walter Kehler of Ashern, MB. His dam is the zero maintenance kind of cow: her calves are never sick, she is never lame or temperamental, and calving always goes unnoticed. A very Þne breeding piece, 53F has always looked the part of a herdsire from a young age onwards. He will bear the Edie Creek torch well & covers the important bases of beef production: productive, lowinput, proÞtable & repeatableÑ> Turning Grass into Ca$h.
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 129F
12/05/2018
Reg#2042579
Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C OCC GREAT PLAINS 943G Dam: EDIE CREEK JUANADA 16Z OCC JUANADA 737L EPD’s:
ECA 129F CE ** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 91 Dam’s BW: N/A ced:+0 bw: +2.8 ww: 37 yw: 61 milk: 21
This straight OCC pedigree covers it all. Fleshing ability and fertility. 129F, born towards the end of the first cycle, he has stood out as an exceptionally masculine individual from a young age. Stemming from the same cow family as lot 23, there are a lot of very reliable cattle proven functional from South America up to Canada behind this bull. This bull has a nice thick hair coat, well adapted for Canadian winters.
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 130F
13/05/2018
Reg#2042580
Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C OCC LEGACY 839L Dam: EDIE CREEK 839L PINUP 32Y CROWFOOT PINUP 2701M EPD’s:
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ECA 130F CE ** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 90 Dam’s BW: 87 ced:+0 bw: +2.8 ww: 36 yw: 61 milk: 23
130F is an extremely stylish bull with poise: he has always distinguished himself from the crowd. Not only does he score well in the aesthetics department, he has the genetics on board to create easy-fleshing daughters with excellent udder structure. He will put some muscle in his calf crop, as well as the maternal instincts that allow pasture calving with minimal oversight, while maintaining live calving %, traits that are essential in lowering labour expense at calving time as we compete in a global beef production marketplace!
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 106F
12/05/2018
Reg#2042579
Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C OCC LEGACY 839L Dam: EDIE CREEK KAREN 25Z OCC KAREN 759N EPD’s:
ECA 106F CE ** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 74 Dam’s BW: N/A ced:+0 bw: +3.4 ww: 36 yw: 58 milk: 20
Another good 848C son here. This is a straight OCC Pedigree, if you are looking to add fleshing ability and base width. His dam is a thick, powerful cow with a good udder. Maternal brother sold in 2018 for $9,000 to Black Rose Ranch. Udder quality is top notch in the Karen Cow family. Daughters might have a touch more frame score when mature compared to the ECA herd. Buy these two 3/4 brothers and make progress and profit with a consistent calf crop.
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 60F
29/04/2018
Reg#2042540
Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C OCC MOONSHINE 740M Dam: CROWFOOT PRIDE 5893R CROWFOOT FORKS 723K EPD’s:
S o n s
ECA 60F CE ** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 78 Dam’s BW: 79 ced:+2 bw: +2.2 ww: 31 yw: 55 milk: 20
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If Longevity and Productivity are your goals, this bull will move you in the right direction: his Dam has raised 18 calves and is carrying the 19th at age 15, including having had 5 sets of twins. Moonshine Cows have been long lived and productive for us. Paternal Granddam is 17 yrs old. 60F is a twin to a heifer, and is muscular, eye appealing, & big nutted. He is also gentle.
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EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 135F
14/05/2018
ECA 135F CE Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C ** Udder EDIE CREEK MAGNITUDE 2U ** Dam: EDIE CREEK 2U LOLA 51X Forage EDIE CREEK LOLA LEGACY 100U **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042583
BW: 88 Dam’s BW: 68 ced:+0 bw: +2.1 ww: 36 yw: 51 milk: 23
A nice smooth Big Time son here, Dam is a 1350lb cow that raises big calves, but her udder quality began to decline at age 8, which is why his udder rating is lower than most. The Magnitude 2U bull stems from the granddam of Lot 3, the Pinup 2701M cow. 135F is backed by great OCC Genetics all around: Big Time on top, then Magnitude and our foundation sire Hillfire Legacy 518R on the bottom.
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 20F
29/04/2018
Reg# N/A
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y MH VIPER 81 Dam: MH LUCY 621 MH LUCY 380 EPD’s:
S o n s
ECA 20F CE ***** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 72 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -1.2 ww: 36 yw: 61 milk: 21
HEIFER BULL here, the Þrst offering from our Howrey Angus females, and he has always been an impressive individual, heavily muscled but with generations of calving ease behind him including OCC Homer and Cole Creek Cedar Ridge 1V. His sire Great One is leaving excellent cows in our herd, and has a distinct structure that he stamps his offspring with. Bull sells unregistered because the Viper bull (an OCC Homer son) is deceased and didnÕt have DNA sample on Þle, which is required by the Cdn Angus AssocÕn.
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 65F
30/04/2018
Reg#2064627
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y SHOSHONE FRANZ 419 Dam: MH MELISA 66 MH MELISA 211
ECA 65F CE ***** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 71 Dam’s BW: n/a ced: n/a bw: -0.8 ww: 28 yw: 47 milk: 17 Here’s a really great smooth-headed HEIFER BULL out of a PerfectUddered & Fertile cow. Melisa 66 traces back to the original DDA Melisa 545 cow and has bulls like Shoshone Pivot, Cole Creek Cedar Ridge and PBC Rito F0203 in her pedigree. We used this bull in our Heifer pasture last summer, He brings many useful traits to the equation. With the combination of OCC, Cole Creek & Shoshone prefixes in the pedigree of lot 8, he has the cumulative benefits from a minimum of 100 years of maternal selection progress. EPD’s:
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 63F
29/04/2018
Reg#2064507
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y MH ADMIRAL 34 Dam: MH MELISA 676 MH MELISA 751 EPD’s:
S o n s
ECA 63F CE ***** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 70 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -1.8 ww: 35 yw: 57 milk: 20
Another guaranteed HEIFER BULL here. Plenty of useful OCC Genetics wrapped into a handy cow-making package: his maternal Granddam is an OCC Homer daughter out of a full sister to DDA Emblazon 27C, so the Melissa 545 cow is reliably close up in the pedigree. Again, this good-footed bull was used in our heifer pasture for 42 days. Excellent Maternal genetics in this package, generations of reliable maternal cattle that will produce those low-input females that everyone needs more of.
MH Beauty 036 Lot
Mat. GrandDam
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 76F
30/04/2018
Reg#N/A
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y MH ADMIRAL 34 Dam: MH BEAUTY 640 MH BEAUTY 036 EPD’s:
ECA 65F CE ***** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 74 Dam’s BW: n/a ced: n/a bw: -0.6 ww: 27 yw: 47 milk: 18
Dam is big-ribbed and is a real beauty, in name and in type. 76F has a nice calving-ease type of skull, and will be an excellent HEIFER BULL. He also has the distinct well-sloped pelvic structure of his sire, Great One 79Y. That structure is very similar to that which is common in the Fleckvieh breed, and is associated with functional fertility, since the pelvic canal slopes downward for natural drainage of post-calving fluids, following the natural design & structure of wild ruminants & ungulates.
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 125F
11/05/2018
Reg#2064763
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y OCC WORTHY MAN 967W Dam: EDIE CREEK ERICA 29D OCC DIXIE ERICA 606S
ECA 125F CE **** Udder **** Forage *****
BW: 64 Dam’s BW: 73 ced: +9 bw: -2.9 ww: 36 yw: 61 milk: 17
EPD’s:
Here is a Straight OCC pedigree, going back to one of our foundation cows 606S who is super fertile, easy fleshing and still producing at 14yrs of age. There’s a bit of linebreeding in this mating, since 606S and 79Y are both direct offspring of OCC Great Plains, this will be a very consistent breeding HEIFER BULL, and he is very eye appealing. Deep and smooth, with great structure, the 125F bull will be an excellent maternal bull.
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700 bales worth of netwrap and twine Þt in the truck! The bale pod is ready!
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EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 5F
15/04/2018
Reg#2064274
Sire: EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y OCTORARO BALLOT STO 6 Dam: MH DIXIE ERICA 664 MH DIXIE ERICA 336 EPD’s:
ECA 5F CE ***** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 75 Dam’s BW: n/a ced: n/a bw: -0.8 ww: 23 yw: 38 milk: 16
Another great HEIFER BULL here. He is deep ribbed, long-spined, and exhibits the curly hair that marks a hormonally balanced, masculine bull. Ballot STO 6 is a calving ease bull that Monte Howrey is still using at over 13 years of age & his Dam was 17! Ballot 6 traces back to Rito 054 & Shoshone Viking GD60. The Dixie Erica cow family traces back to the same great cows that helped form the OCC program, and the 336 Granddam is a daughter of the great old Basin Q Bar 163 bull, noted for the productivity & longevity of his daughters.
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WISH YOUR COW HERD WORKED HARDER FOR YOU??
Our bulls are bred with generations of fertility, fleshing ability, longevity & sire beautiful udders. Edie Creek Angus Cow Herd Bale Grazing
Did You Know?
• Reproduction is the most important factor affecting proÞtability • Reproduction is 5X more important than growth rate, and 10X more important than carcass quality when it comes to proÞt. • Body Condition has the greatest impact on reproduction. (“Edie Creek bulls will sire Easier Fleshing Cows that can hold Body Condition”)
• Thin cows are only half as productive as those in optimum condition • Every missed breeding cycle represents a 42 lb loss in weaning weight. Data provided by: Beef Cattle Research Council www.beefresearch.ca
ECA 43F-weaned at 55% of Cow weight - on Grass Only! Sells as Lot 23 16
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 15F
20/04/2018
ECA 15F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ** RED EDIE CRK NORSEMAN KING 91T Udder **** Dam: EDIE CREEK LUCY 18B Forage RED RIDGE SIDE LUCY 13R ***** EPD’s:
Reg#2042507
BW: 92 Dam’s BW: 91 ced: +2 bw: +2.2 ww: 40 yw: 81 milk: 20
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15F is the most muscular Easy Red son we’ve sold to date, and possibly the most heavily natural muscled Red Angus bull to sell in Canada this year. He’s an absolute bodybuilder type, and backed by a productive dam and a granddam who was designated Elite. Thickness, Power & Fleshing ability that you won’t find anywhere else, this bull would make a lot of genetic progress in Registered or commercial herds. Dam is smooth and feminine, with a great udder. You won’t believe your eyes.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 81F
02/05/2018
ECA 81F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A *** Udder RED BUF CRK HOBO 1961 **** Dam: RED RIDGE SIDE MRS BC HOBO 13A Forage RED RIDGE SIDE LUCY 13R ***** EPD’s:
Reg#2042548
BW: 80 Dam’s BW: 84 ced: 6.5 bw: -1.0 ww: 24 yw: 49 milk: 17
Here’s an extremely eye appealing bull: long, smooth & thick. He’s a fantastic breeder-quality bull, and is a 3/4 brother to lot 13 as both stem from the Elite Dam 13R cow. This guy being out of a Hobo 1961 daughter locks in that Maternal legacy since 868A is linebred to 1961. Good calving ease too, he’ll work for larger heifers. Dam 13A is smooth & feminine, with great udder & feet.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 19F
22/04/2018
Reg#2058778
ECA 19F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A **** Udder RED CROWFOOT MOONSHINE 8081U ***** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK LADY 45B Forage RED CROWFOOT LADY 6503S ***** BW: 70 Dam’s BW: 87 ced: +9 bw: -0.6 ww: 32 yw: 68 milk: 17
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Here’s one of the most complete Red Angus bulls we’ve ever raised, hard to fault anywhere, just smooth, powerful and good. His maternal Grandam is our model Red cow, she sold a son (ECA 31D) to Cody McDaniel in Montana, a co-op producer for Pharo Cattle Co. 31D is holding his own, earning fans, and selling semen down there. 19F is a touch longer, and his dam 45B is a beautiful cherry red cow with a perfect udder. You’ll notice this bull. RETAINING 1/2 INTEREST & FUTURE WALKING RIGHTS (TBD).
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 51F
28/04/2018
ECA 51F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A *** Udder RED EDIE CRK NORSMAN KING 91T **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK PRINCETRESS 110B Forage RED EDIE CREEK PRINCETRESS 38S ***** EPD’s:
Reg#2042535
BW: 88 Dam’s BW: 72 ced: +4 bw: +0.8 ww: 27 yw: 52 milk: 19
Here’s another bodybuilder-type of bull that will do a lot of good things. His dam, 110B is an 1175-lb cow who weaned this bull at 49% of her body weight on Forages alone, and he has been doing well ever since. The 38S Granddam was a beautiful cow who sold a very good bull to Hans Myhre & David Yablonski. Excellent udders and perfect feet behind this bull also. This bull will moderate and put easy fleshing in a cow herd. A full brother sold in last years sale for $8,000 to Herman Winnemuller.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 86F
03/05/2018
ECA 86F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ***** RED EDIE CRK NORSEMAN KING 91T Udder **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK RUBY 51C Forage RED EDIE CREEK RUBY 26U **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042551
BW: 59 Dam’s BW: 65 ced: +10.5 bw: -2.0 ww: 19 yw: 40 milk: 18
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Here’s a very good HEIFER BULL. He is a twin to the lot 18 bull below, and his dam is a twin herself, so there’s strong heritability of the twin trait in this bull FYI. Granddam, 26U sold a very good bull in 2018 to David Ives of Mulvihill, MB. 26U was a good calving-ease type of cow and was also a daughter of PCC Colorado Hobo, so we’re stacking that pedigree again here. Expect consistent progeny.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 87F
03/05/2018
ECA 87F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ***** Udder RED EDIE CRK NORSEMAN KING 91T **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK RUBY 51C Forage RED EDIE CREEK RUBY 26U **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042552
BW: 60 Dam’s BW: 65 ced: +10.5 bw: -2.0 ww: 19 yw: 40 milk: 18
Sleep all night HEIFER BULL. Twin to the lot 17 bull. Dam is also a twin. Deep, long and smooth red bull. See previous bull’s notes for further family history.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 149F
22/05/2018
ECA 149F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ** Udder RED PCC COLORADO HOBO **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK MRS TOAST 31C Forage RED RIDGE SIDE MRS TOAST 2A *** EPD’s:
Reg#2042551
BW: 90 Dam’s BW: 94 ced: +1 bw: +2.5 ww: 33 yw: 66 milk: 19
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Here’s a more powerful Easy Red son coming out of a bigger framed, heavier milking cow that is taller than average in our herd. Larger birthweight is better suited for cows, this guy will have calves with a bit more growth, although the daughters should be pretty decent cows. Interesting to note also that the 31C is a Colorado Hobo daughter, which adds consistency to the offspring since Easy Red is linebred to Colorado Hobo as well.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 118F
09/05/2018
ECA 118F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A *** Udder RED EDIE CRK NORSEMAN KING 91T **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK BLACKBIRD 56C Forage RED RIDGE SIDE BLACKBIRD 23T *** EPD’s:
Reg#2042570
BW: N/A Dam’s BW: 87 ced: +8.5 bw: -1.7 ww: 15 yw: 29 milk: 18
Here’s another solid Easy Red x Norseman King combination. Definitely a cow bull, his Granddam was a big powerful cow with consistently large BW’s, so we’re expecting that to carry through. That 23T cow was an Elite Dam, recognized for big production indexes within our herd.118F is a good dark faced, black footed Red bull with a moderate frame size & the depth needed for forage conversion.
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 128F
22/05/2018
ECA 128F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ***** RED EDIE CRK NORSEMAN KING 91T Udder **** Dam: EDIE CREEK DUCHESS 109C Forage CROWFOOT DUCHESS 3129N ***** EPD’s:
Reg#2042578
BW: 69 Dam’s BW: 74 ced: +11 bw: -1.9 ww: 14 yw: 28 milk: 19
HEIFER BULL. Phenomenal opportunity to add some OCC genes in a Red-hided package: Dam has OCC Joker 620J & OCC Hunter 928H behind her, in addition to the generations-deep OCC breeding from his sire. A more moderate framed bull than most in the pen, he will calve easily on heifers and leave behind daughters that will turn into extremely easy fleshing hardy cows!
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RED EDIE CREEK EASY 131F
13/05/2018
ECA 131F CE Sire: RED OCC EASY RED 868A ***** Udder RED OCC EASY RED 868A **** Dam: RED EDIE CREEK DUCHESS 61D Forage RED EDIE CRK CLRDO DUCHESS 29X **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042581
BW: 71 Dam’s BW: 82 ced: +7 bw: -0.5 ww: 15 yw: 38 milk: 17
HEIFER BULL. Here’s a bull for those of you interested in Linebreeding. Check out the pedigree tabulation, and note he is double bred to OCC Easy Red. The 29X cow at the bottom was also a PCC Colorado Hobo daughter, and Easy Red 868A is already intensely line bred to Colorado Hobo. There isn’t much variation in the pedigree of this bull—if you want to lock in functional, deep-ribbed maternal cattle, this guy will get the job done. His offspring will be extremely consistent, and likely more eye-appealing than himself.
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EDIE CREEK FULL BORE 43F
26/04/2018
Reg# 2064243
Sire: COLE CREEK FULL BORE 730 OCC EMBLAZON 854E Dam: EDIE CREEK JUANADA 61Y OCC JUANADA 737L EPD’s:
S O N
ECA 43F CE *** Udder **** Forage *****
BW: 88 Dam’s BW: N/A ced:+3 bw: +1.7 ww: 47 yw: 72 milk: 23
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ECA 61Y constantly produces calves over 50% of her body weight as an 1170 lb cow. Her 2019 calf weaned off at 57% of her wt., and this 43F bull was weaned at 55%. Lot 23 is one of the better bulls we have raised to date, we would be keeping him if he didn’t have a white spot on his navel. His Sire, Full Bore is a more powerful bull that keeps the maternal genes well represented. We acquired Full Bore as a mature sire from a group of breeders in the US. The daughters of Lot 23 will be calfraising machines.
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EDIE CREEK FULL BORE 148F
20/05/2019
Unregistered
Sire: NCC FULL BORE 550 OCTORARO BALLOT STO 6 Dam: MH DIXIE ERICA 660 MH DIXIE ERICA 31 EPD’s:
ECA 148F CE **** Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 78 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: N/A ww: N/A yw: N/A milk: N/A
HEIFER BULL. Sells unregistered due to white hair on his navel. Sire 550 is a Cole Creek Full Bore 730 son out of OCC Blackbird 736K, the dam of OCC Paxton 730P. Dam 660 is a very nice young cow with a perfect udder who goes back to the New Zealand sire Pinebank Waigroup 41/97 out of the MH Dixie Erica 113 cow that produced until she was 17. Younger, moderate framed bull still born within the first 30 days of calving season.
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EDIE CREEK CEDAR 39F Reg#: unregistered
25/04/2018
Sire: QUALITY CEDAR 600 COLE CREEK FULL BORE 730 Dam: MH FRANCES 614 MH FRANCES 720 EPD’s:
ECA 39F CE *** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 69 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: N/A ww: N/A yw: N/A milk: N/A
Sells Unregistered. Lot 25 started with a light BW and never turned back. This was the heaviest calf weaned by a heifer in 2018, and he has always carried himself with the presence of a herd bull. Frances 720 is Monte’s favourite cow, and she is a 7/8 sister to MH Titan, but backed by the Frances cow family instead of the Melisas. His sire combines Leachman Right Time, Traveler 6807 and Cole Creek. Solid proven maternal genetics here. Great bull.
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EDIE CREEK SOLOMON 6F
15/04/2018
Reg#2064275
Sire: SHOSHONE SOLOMON 316 COLE CREEK CEDAR RIDGE 1V Dam: MH FRANCES 329 MH FRANCES 720 EPD’s:
ECA 6F CE ** Udder *** Forage ***
BW: 89 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: +2.3 ww: 33 yw: 56 milk: 21
Here’s an extremely rare opportunity to pick up a bull out of the Shoshone bloodlines developed by Larry Leonhardt of Wyoming. Solomon 316 is a straight Shoshone bred bull that walks at Howrey Angus. The dam of lot 26 stems from the great 720 cow, who goes back to Larry’s Shoshone Frances 6357 cow. Proven functional Maternal genetics. He will make some really excellent cows with a touch more milk than most ECA bulls pass along.
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03/05/2018
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 94F Reg#2042556
Sire: MH TITAN 752 BBAR EUREKA 9466 Dam: EDIE CREEK 38U ERICA 15Z EDIE CREEK LADY ERICA 38U EPD’s:
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ECA 94F CE ** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 94 Dam’s BW: 92 ced: -2.0 bw: +4.5 ww: 28 yw: 56 milk: 21
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Long, long-evity… are the first words that come to mind when thinking of this bull. Dam is 8 yrs old, Granddam is 11, greatgranddam just retired at age 18. Sire is now 13. There are no freeloaders in this breeding program, so these cattle have flat-out worked for a living, and have put together some lengthy careers.
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10/05/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 120F Reg#2042572
Sire: MH TITAN 752 BBAR EUREKA 9466 Dam: EDIE CREEK 22U BETSY 95A 2J BETSY 22U EPD’s:
ECA 120F CE * Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 100 Dam’s BW:111 ced: -9.0 bw: +6.2 ww: 44 yw: 75 milk: 18
Here’s a really stout Titan son out of a bigger, more powerful than average cow in our herd. Despite being born later in the calving season, this bull has stood out as a prominent individual from an early age, and you’ll notice him on sale day as well.
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27/04/2018
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 45F Reg#2042531
Sire: MH TITAN 752 MH TUBBY 56 Dam: EDIE CREEK LADY ERICA 132C EDIE CREEK LADY ERICA 12X EPD’s:
ECA 45F CE *** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 82 Dam’s BW: 79 ced: +3 bw: +1.3 ww: 41 yw: 68 milk: 22
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Here’s a nicely made, bigger-framed Titan son that is quite gentle. His dam is a really productive Tubby daughter out of our great Lady Erica cow family that is the profitable kind. Our Tubby daughters average 1165 lbs, they are as efficient as they get. All built moderate with extra capacity, fleshing and fertility. ECA 45F will make some very good cows with excellent udders & great feet that last a long time.
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27/04/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 47F Reg#2042532
Sire: MH TITAN 752 OCC TREMENDOUS 619T Dam: EDIE CREEK BETSY 41B AWH BETSY 12R EPD’s:
ECA 47F CE ** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 102 Dam’s BW: 78 ced: +2 bw: +4.1 ww: 38 yw: 73 milk: 19
Another good eye-catching Titan son here, and out of a productive cow family. Dam’s sire, Tremendous, is a calving ease bull, so this bull will sire calves that come out easily, but he is recommended for cows, as his maternal grandsire is the power bull GT Maximum.
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Portable panels and a home-made Bud Box make vaccinations on pasture easy
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11/05/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 123F
ECA 123F CE Sire: MH TITAN 752 *** Udder MH TUBBY 56 ***** Dam: EDIE CREEK 56 CAROLINE 105C Forage EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 103X **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042574
BW: 78 Dam’s BW: 74 ced: +5 bw: +1.6 ww: 24 yw: 50 milk: 16
A MH Titan son out of a MH Tubby-sired cow is a locked-in recipe for good-footed maternal offspring. We are grateful to have plugged into the Howrey Angus (MH) program, We see it as advancing the quality of our breeding program in terms of maternal excellence and highly functional cattle in a Forage-only environment. Creating profit through maternal efficiency has been the sole focus at Howrey Angus for over 30 years.
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Fall 2019: 205 pairs were on a rotation of stripgrazing 3rd growth clover & Italian Rye grass one day, next day Grass Straw that they had to clean up.
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14/05/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 134F Reg#2042582
Sire: MH TITAN 752 OCC WORTHY MAN 967W Dam: EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 51B EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 103X EPD’s:
ECA 134F CE *** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 78 Dam’s BW: 69 ced: +6 bw: +0.4 ww: 29 yw: 52 milk: 19
3/4 Brother to the Lot 31 bull through the Caroline cow family— the maternal granddam is the same for both lot 31 & 32. Worthy Man added muscle and fleshing ease to his offspring. The Caroline cow family has great udder structure, and Titan only makes udders better. This bull is very nicely put together, and would be safe for bigger HEIFERS.
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EDIE CREEK LEGACY 22F
22/04/2018
Reg#N/A
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C OCC WORTHY MAN 967W Dam: EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 12B EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 6X EPD’s:
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ECA 22F CE *** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 82 Dam’s BW: 67 ced: N/A bw: N/A ww: N/A yw: N/A milk: N/A
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Here’s an extremely masculine, heavily-muscled bull that is sure to catch your eye. He’s an example of generations-deep OCC breeding, with the 34C Legacy son out of a Hunter daughter on top, and Worthy Man and another shot of Legacy on the bottom, all out of our Caroline cow family known for excellent udder structure and overall functionality. You’ll find this strong topped, big quartered bull on sale day.
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01/05/2018
EDIE CREEK LEGACY 72F Reg#2064283
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C EDIE CREEK GREAT ONE 79Y Dam: EDIE CREEK ERELITE 103C EDIE CREEK 80U ERELITE 3A EPD’s:
ECA 72F CE ***** Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 69 Dam’s BW: 76 ced: +11 bw: -1.6 ww: 20 yw: 43 milk: 18
Here’s a long-spined bull with plenty of muscle and the great pelvic structure that his sire 34C and maternal grandsire 79Y both pass along. He’s a masculine bull that will be an excellent HEIFER BULL as well. Great Granddam 80U put some big powerful bulls through our sale recently, and this guy carries some of the legacy of her bigger frame. Plenty of long-lasting cows in this guys’ ancestry too, indicating a high likelihood of daughters that will turn into productive cows…
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EDIE CREEK LEGACY 121F
10/05/2018
Reg#2064285
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C OCC MISSING LINK 830M Dam: EDIE CREEK KONA 40C EDIE CREEK KONA 83U EPD’s:
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ECA 121F CE **** Udder *** Forage ****
BW: 70 Dam’s BW: 98 ced: 10 bw: -0.7 ww: 21 yw: 41 milk: 21
HEIFER BULL. 121F is probably the most similar to his sire 34C of all the bulls selling: he is stamped all the way from his curly forehead all the way to his well-sloped hips, just like his daddy. Granddam produced until she was 12, Dam’s full sister was 9 when she retired.They were big ribbed, easy fleshing cows that had great udders and never needed help calving—the kind of cows you need for a low-input forage based system like ours.
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Eileen, Lukas, Lucie, Kian & Karis
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18/04/2018
EDIE CREEK LEGACY 10F Reg#2064277
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C MH WINNER 932 Dam: EDIE CREEK PRICILLA 131C RFFL PRICILLA 3W EPD’s:
ECA 10F CE **** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 71 Dam’s BW: 105 ced: +11 bw: -1.3 ww: 13 yw: 28 milk: 21
Lot 36 is a HEIFER BULL with all of the guesswork taken care of for hardy, well adapted mother cows. MH Winner was a Titan son out of a full sister to MH Tubby, and there are plenty of other great OCC sires stacked all along the pedigree to ensure function and longevity in the daughters. 10F is locked-in for good udders, hard feet, and maternal efficiency. Have yourselves an easy calving season and an improved cowherd by investing in this solid package.
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Pairs Crossing the dry Edie Creek to new pasture.
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EDIE CREEK LEGACY 1430F
23/05/2018
Reg#2064288
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C OCC LEGACY 839L Dam: EDIE CREEK 839L ERICA 41W CROWFOOT ERICA 1652L EPD’s:
ECA 1430F CE **** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 82 Dam’s BW: 93 ced: +9 bw: +0.4 ww: 18 yw: 39 milk: 20
HEIFER BULL. Nice bull with lots of muscling & plenty of rib. He is a half-brother, half-sister mating through the Legacy 839 bull being the sire of both parents. If you have followed our Program, you’ll appreciate the impact Legacy has had on building our cow herd, and here’s a chance to lock in the traits that Legacy brings to the table. This line-bred bull will not only add maternal instincts and useful phenotype with higher accuracy due to the prepotency of his genotype, he’ll also add longevity through his 18yr-old Granddam.
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Pairs were weaned November 29th, 2019. Cows are now bale grazing, and calves winter in the yard.
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25/04/2018
EDIE CREEK LEGACY 38F Reg#2064280
Sire: EDIE CREEK LEGACY 34C OCC WORTHY MAN 967W Dam: EDIE CREEK JUANADA 68Z OCC JUANADA 633M EPD’s:
ECA 38F CE ***** Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 76 Dam’s BW: 64 ced: +10 bw: -2.6 ww: 11 yw: 24 milk: 19
Uber-calving ease on this smooth built HEIFER BULL, with plenty of maternal skills also locked in through his close-bred parentage: Sire and Dam are half-siblings with OCC Juanada 633M being the dam of both. She produced until age 14 in our program. She had the broad hips and pelvic structure that her sire OCC Hunter was known for, good teat conformation, and a big forage-converting belly.
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EDIE CREEK ADMIRAL 73F
01/05/2018
Reg#2061084
Sire: MH ADMIRAL 34 DDA EMBLAZON 27C Dam: MH MELISA 39 DDA MELISA 545
ECA 73F CE *** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 80 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -0.3 ww: 26 yw: 38 milk: 25 Here’s a unique chance to dip into the very heart of the Howrey Angus breeding program. MH Admiral 34 is a Cedar Ridge out of his favourite cow, MH Frances 720. Where it gets real interesting is the pedigree of lot 39’s dam. She is sired by DDA Emblazon 27C and is also a maternal sister to the dam of DDA Emblazon 27C: the DDA Melisa 824 cow. Melisa 824 was a foundation cow at Dimond D Angus and lived until she was 21yrs old. This is also the same cow family that our MH Titan 752 bull stems from. Many-times tested, proven genetics wrapped up in this pedigree. This is a hard bull for us to let go.
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EDIE CREEK TIGHT BRED 41F
26/04/2018
Reg#2065301
Sire: MH TIGHT BRED 648 MH TITAN 752 Dam: MH FRANCES 433 MH FRANCES 022 EPD’s:
ECA 41F CE ***** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 61 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -3.4 ww: 15 yw: 22 milk: 21
HEIFER BULL. As his name suggests, there is lots of line-breeding going on in his sire’s pedigree and even more so in his own. ECA 41F traces 3x to Shoshone Frances 6357, 3x to OCC Great Plains and 4x to OCC Homer. If you want a consistent set of daughters that will turn into mother cows, this bull is like a cheat code. He is long, strong topped, and very smooth. His Dam has the good Bonsma-style (Jan Bonsma - “Man Must Measure”) wedge shape, indicating good reproductive efficiency and longevity.
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06/05/2018
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 111F
ECA 111F CE Sire: MH TITAN 752 ***** Udder EDIE CREEK 839L 298 LEGACY 5Y **** Dam: EDIE CREEK DIXIE ERICA 71B Forage CROWFOOT DIXIE ERICA 4895P **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042566
BW: 75 Dam’s BW: 56 ced: +11 bw: -0.1 ww: 27 yw: 53 milk: 21
Really nice looking Titan son here, he’s a HEIFER BULL whose dam defied the odds by being a non-freemartin twin to a bull. She has been an excellent cow, and her brother is working at VeeTee Angus in Lloydminster. Being a twin certainly influenced the dam’s low birthweight, but the 4895P cow also was a reliable calving ease type of cow. She was an efficient, excellent cow who was also the dam of our Macho 895 bull that worked for Townview Farms at Blumenort, MB.
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Alexa, Mikaya & Jaxon
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11/05/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 127F
ECA 127F CE Sire: MH TITAN 752 **** Udder EDIE CREEK 839L 298 LEGACY 5Y ***** Dam: EDIE CREEK KAREN 94B Forage EDIE CREEK KAREN 118X **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042577
BW: 81 Dam’s BW: 65 ced: +10 bw: -0.1 ww: 24 yw: 46 milk: 20
Here is a 3/4 brother to Lot 41, he is smooth headed, with a good hindquarter and overall depth. The Karen cow family has some of the tightest udder attachments we have, so with Titan’s excellent udder structure heritage, you can bet you’ll make daughters that are very functional. OCC sires represented: Great Plains, Homer, Anchor, Legacy, Moonshine, Kiddo & Eureka. HEIFER BULL.
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 83F
02/05/2018
Reg#2042549
Sire: MH TITAN 752 BBAR EUREKA 9466 Dam: EDIE CREEK 1009 DUCHESS 88A CROWFOOT DUCHESS 3129N EPD’s:
ECA 83F CE *** Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 81 Dam’s BW: 87 ced: +3 bw: +1.9 ww: 21 yw: 39 milk: 17
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A good Titan son with moderate birthweight stemming from the Duchess cow family that’s responsible for Lot 45. We kept a 3/4 brother to lot 43, to use ourselves in the 2018 season. Titan x Duchess = good females.
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 80F
02/05/2018
Reg#2042547
Sire: MH TITAN 752 EDIE CREEK EMBLAZON 87Y Dam: EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 86C EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 10M EPD’s:
ECA 80F CE **** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 64 Dam’s BW: 57 ced: +13 bw: -1.5 ww: 28 yw: 51 milk: 18
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Good HEIFER BULL here. 80F is gentle & more moderate and smooth than the other Titan sons, the Caroline cow family strongly transmits calving ease. Dam 86C raised a stunner of a bull calf last summer too: you’ll see him next year! Granddam 10M was easy fleshing, had a perfect udder and was completely sound until she retired at age 14. Great females create great females. Use this tool to make your own!
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EDIE CREEK TITAN 153F
23/05/2018
ECA 153F CE Sire: MH TITAN 752 ** Udder OCC WORTHY MAN 967W **** Dam: EDIE CREEK DUCHESS 56B Forage EDIE CREEK 839L DUCHESS 66W **** EPD’s:
Reg#2042592
BW: 94 Dam’s BW: 78 ced: +1 bw: +2.5 ww: 24 yw: 46 milk: 19
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Another good Titan son, this time coming from a Worthy Man daughter out of the beautiful OCC Legacy daughter 66W, who graced the cover of the bull sale catalog in 2019. 66W recovered from a leg injury and is bred back for a 10th time. 56B raised an embryo calf her first time, & sold a great 90E bull to Ted Unruh in the 2019 sale.
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05/05/2018
EDIE CREEK TITAN 102F
ECA 102F CE Sire: MH TITAN 752 ** Udder OCC WORTHY MAN 967W ***** Dam: EDIE CREEK LUCY 24B Forage EDIE CREEK LEGACY LUCY 154U *** EPD’s:
Reg#2042562
BW: 88 Dam’s BW: 91 ced: +0 bw: +2.9 ww: 31 yw: 61 milk: 18
Here’s a really stylish Titan son out of the good Lucy cow family that is known for excellent udders. He carries his nice Angus skull proudly. Of course he’ll transmit maternal excellence with a high degree of repeatability, as there are lots of functional females standing behind him.
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T i m e
S o n s
Lot
Karis & Lucie
47
EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 147F
20/05/2018
Reg#2042590
ECA 147F CE Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C *** Udder HILLFIRE LEGACY 518R **** Dam: EDIE CREEK 518R 51N ERICA 1Y Forage NEW FORCE ERICA 51N **** BW: 71 Dam’s BW: 74 ced: +6 bw: -0.7 ww: 33 yw: 45 milk: 22
EPD’s:
Here’s a bull that’s just on the bubble in terms of being a heifer bull. His dam is a consistent calving-ease type of cow, so there’s plenty of calving ease built in on his dam’s side. Sire, as much as we love him, can pass along some extra BW.
Lot
Micah
48
EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 99F
04/05/2018
Reg#2064684
Sire: EDIE CREEK BIG TIME 848C HILLFIRE LEGACY 518R Dam: EDIE CREEK KONA 83U GREENBUSH KONA 17L EPD’s:
ECA 99F CE ** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 86 Dam’s BW: 80 ced: -2 bw: +2.9 ww: 34 yw: 52 milk: 21
Easy Fleshing, trouble free genetics at their finest. The 83U Cow has just retired at age 11 this past Fall, and is a deep ribbed, easyfleshing cow with a good udder and feet. She had a bull that sold to VeeTee Angus in Alberta. Great cow there, plus 848C’s dam is a true gem, still pregnant & sound at age 17!
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Lot
S q u i r t
49
S o n s
EDIE CREEK SQUIRT 68F
30/04/2018
Reg#2064630
Sire: SINCLAIR SQUIRT 6TT10 EDIE CREEK EMBLAZON 89Y Dam: EDIE CREEK EMBLAZON 73D EDIE CREEK KONA 83U EPD’s:
ECA 68F CE *** Udder ***** Forage ****
BW: 79 Dam’s BW: 96 ced: -1 bw: +1.5 ww: 43 yw: 81 milk: 23
Lot
Here’s a growthy son of our Sinclair herdsire 6TT10, a long, smooth-calving linebred bull who was brought in for calving ease and the rugged program he comes from. Dam of lot 49 had lots of BW, so he’s not a heifer bull but will calve smoothly on cows because of his structure. He has been a standout in the pen from an early age, and his granddam was a deep, easy fleshing cow that just came up open at age 11 after a very successful career, including Lot 48 just prior. Great Maternal heritage & functionality on this bull.
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24/04/2018
EDIE CREEK SQUIRT 27F Reg#2058786
Sire: SINCLAIR SQUIRT 6TT10 EDIE CREEK EMBLAZON 89Y Dam: EDIE CREEK ERICA 72D CROWFOOT ERICA 1652L EPD’s:
ECA 27F CE ***** Udder ***** Forage ***
BW: 64 Dam’s BW: 77 ced: +11 bw: -2.1 ww: 29 yw: 60 milk: 23
Here’s another guaranteed HEIFER BULL that comes from an excellent young cow—she had him 1st cycle and calved early again on her next calf, which isn’t surprising since her mother is the great 1652L cow who raised 16 calves & produced until she was 18. Very useful genetic package combining fertility, longevity & function, plus adding a shot of OCC genetics with the Emblazon 89Y bull too. FUTURE WALKING RIGHTS TO BE DISCUSSED.
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Lot
P r o m i s e
51
S o n s
EDIE CREEK PROMISE 104F
05/05/2018
Reg#2064688
Sire: SINCLAIR PROMISE 6RE18 OCTORARO BALLOT STO 6 Dam: MH FRANCES 642 MH FRANCES 328 EPD’s:
ECA 104F CE **** Udder **** Forage ****
BW: 70 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -1.0 ww: 24 yw: 46 milk: 19
Sire is a bull that we imported from the Sinclair program in Wyoming, a solid HEIFER BULL with lots of length. This bull has a long spine, nice depth of rib, and has an extra thick hair coat. With 3 generations of calving ease behind him, you can be comfortable putting him in with a group of heifers. The Frances 328 cow is a full sister to the dam of the lot 26 bull. Maternal transmission guaranteed.
Lot
MH Mina 029 Maternal Grandam
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Feminine Bonsma Wedge-shaped Cow
EDIE CREEK PROMISE 110F
06/05/2018
Reg#2064758
Sire: SINCLAIR PROMISE 6RE18 MH ADMIRAL 34 Dam: MH MINA 620 MH MINA 029 EPD’s:
ECA 110F CE **** Udder **** Forage ***
BW: 74 Dam’s BW: N/A ced: N/A bw: -0.5 ww: 30 yw: 49 milk: 21
Nice smooth HEIFER BULL, great footed with a smooth heifer bull type of skull. Sire is a locked-in calving ease bull, and the dam was the prettiest of the heifer calves that we selected from Howrey Angus in the Fall of 2016. We ended up buying 620’s granddam 609 a couple years later and bred her to MH Titan to replicate the 029 cow pictured above, because she is a beautiful productive cow that we’d gladly have more of ! ECA Mina 43G was born this year and is shaping up beautifully as our own version of the Mina 029 cow.
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Lot
S i n c l a i r
53
S o n s
EDIE CREEK QUANTUMS 97F
04/05/2018
ECA 97F CE Sire: SINCLAIR QUANTUMS 6CR2 ***** Udder OCC WORTHY MAN 967W **** Dam: EDIE CREEK ERICA 24D Forage CROWFOOT VALLEY CJ ERICA 7723T **** EPD’s:
Reg#2064683
BW: 64 Dam’s BW: 71 ced: +11 bw: -1.8 ww: 31 yw: 58 milk: 22
Lot
HEIFER BULL here, guaranteed easy calving through the sire’s lineage and dam’s pedigree. He’s really nice and deep, thick and long. Great cow family behind him too, the 7723T cow is the dam of the Lot 1 bull, and is an excellent cow. The only knock against 7723T is that she’s only left us two daughters since we bought her! Pretty great bull to find at the end of the sale.
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EDIE CREEK SQUIRT 107F
06/05/2018
ECA 107F CE Sire: SINCLAIR SQUIRT 6TT10 *** Udder OCC WORTHY MAN 967W **** Dam: EDIE CREEK WM LUCY 116D Forage EDIE CREEK LEGACY LUCY 154U *** EPD’s:
Reg#2064689
BW: 74 Dam’s BW: 99 ced: +3 bw: +0.2 ww: 40 yw: 76 milk: 22
Here’s another good long & smooth Squirt son, and his dam is a maternal sister to lot 55, the great-uddered Lucy 154U cow who’s a daughter of Hillfire Legacy 518R, our foundation sire. You’ve got the great Worthy Man bull adding thickness and ease of fleshing. Some good cows in this guy’s future for sure.
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Lot
E x e c u t i v e
55
S o n
EDIE CREEK EXECUTIVE 46F
27/04/2018
ECA 46F CE Sire: SINCLAIR EXECUTIVE 9XV2 ** Udder HILLFIRE LEGACY 518R ***** Dam: EDIE CREEK LEGACY LUCY 154U Forage ROSEBANK LUCY 87K *** EPD’s : ced:
Reg#2064914
BW: 90 Dam’s BW: 74 -1 bw: +2.9 ww: 37 yw: 66 milk: 16
Here’s a really impressive Cow bull whose Dam has raised 10 calves and just retired because of a stifle injury. She passed extra birthweight on to her offspring, but she had one of the best udder structures of any of our older generation of cows. 46F had a huge (750 lb) weaning weight, partly because his dam was in our pamper pasture due to her injury.
Customer Testimonials “We’ve been using Edie Creek genetics for about 10 years to produce low maintenance replacement females in our commercial herd. The bulls have all been easy keeping, functional and fertile. Their daughters have moved our herd closer to our goal of cows that require no supplement or assistance.” - Hans Myhre, Myhre Land & Cattle, Dauphin, MB “I have been very pleased with the Edie Creek Bulls we have purchased. The Bouw Family has a strong commitment to forage efÞcient Angus cattle and it shows in the progeny.Ó - Don Davies, Vee Tee Angus, Lloydminster, SK
ECA 120B was our 2016 high seller, now working in the Purebred Herd of Vee Tee Angus. OCC Emblazon x OCC Worthy Man
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30 Select Bred Heifers
Born and Raised at Edie Creek Angus We are excited to offer you bred heifers again this year! These heifers have been raised without any grain, corn silage or pellets. We will pull them off the Þeld where they are bale grazing a week before the sale. This year we have 3 F1 Fleck Angus, 2 Purebred Red Angus and 25 Purebred Black Angus Bred Heifers. The heifers will be selling in groups of 3, as commercial heifers. We will only transfer registration papers if heifers sell for $2750 or more. This past summer we turned ECA 2D out for 7 days on his own. Then we gave Estrumate to the heifers that had not cycled yet, & had 4 busy days of AI. After this, they were turned back out to pasture where they were exposed to bulls for another 35 days.The natural service bulls used were ECA 2D (OCC Hunter 928H son) and ECA 155D (OCC Paxton 730P son), out of two of our top donor cows, as well as ECA 63F and ECA 65F, both Edie Creek Great One 79Y sons that are selling in this sale.
Due to start calving April 24th, 2020
Our long term goal is to supply our customers with Purebred and F1 females that can be used to create a proÞtable cowherd factory which you can then cross with terminal sires to capture the cumulative beneÞts of hybrid vigour and the "ßavour of the day" in hide colour. Doing this will create a functional, long-living cowherd that will wean calves at optimum efÞciency in your commercial ranch environment. The Opportunity is yours!
Bred Heifers on pasture in August
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Edie Creek Bred Heifer s EDIE CREEK JUANADA 122F - PB Black Angus Sire
Big Time 848C
Dam
Edie Creek Juanada 20B
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
Sinclair Executive
Sire
Big Time 848C
Dam
Edie Creek Dixie Erica 56A
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
GROUP 1
EDIE CREEK DIXIE ERICA 133F - PB Black Angus
EDIE CREEK PRICILLA 96F - PB Black Angus Sire
Big Time 858C
Dam
MH Pricilla 716
AI
July 24, 2019
Bred to
Sinclair Executive
EDIE CREEK DIXIE ERICA 126F - PB Black Angus Sire
Big Time 848C
Dam
Edie Creek Dixie Erica 38Z
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
Sinclair Timeless 8BA4
Sire
Big Time 848C
Dam
Edie Creek Lola 70Z
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
Sinclair Timeless 8BA4
GROUP 2
EDIE CREEK LOLA 178F - PB Black Angus
EDIE CREEK KONA 31F - PB Black Angus Sire
Big Time 848C
Dam
Edie Creek Kona 30Y
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires EDIE CREEK LADY ERICA 21F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH TITAN 752
Dam
Edie Creek Lady Erica 61B
EDIE CREEK LADY ERICA 35F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Lady Erica 2C
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
GROUP 3
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
EDIE CREEK Flora 103F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Flora 50B
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Emblazon 89Y
EDIE CREEK KONA 9F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Kona 71A
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA EMBLAZON 89Y
Sire
MH TITAN 752
Dam
Edie Creek Caroline 62C
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 89F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Caroline 10A
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
DNA Required
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GROUP 4
EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 18F - PB Black Angus
Edie Creek Bred Heifer s EDIE CREEK Lola 56F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Lola 27B
AI
July 23, 2019
Bred to
ECA EMBLAZON 89Y
Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Allice 21Z
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
GROUP 5
EDIE CREEK ALLICE 84F - PB Black Angus
EDIE CREEK MERLE 140F - PB Black Angus Sire
MH Titan 752
Dam
Edie Creek Merle 82B
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires RED EDIE CREEK EFFICIENT 30F - Commercial RedAngus x Fleck Sire
Abesly 308B
Dam
Commercial Red Angus
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
Sire
Abesly 308B
Dam
Edie Creek Dixie Erica 21B
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Bout Time 32E
GROUP 6
EDIE CREEK EFFICIENT 105F - Black F1 Hybrid
EDIE CREEK EFFICIENT 115F - Black F1 Hybrid Sire
Abesly 308B
Dam
Edie Creek Betsy 128A
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Bout Time 32E
EDIE CREEK ERICA 109F - PB Black Angus Sire
Sinclair Promise Dam
Edie Creek Erica 11D
AI
July 25, 2019
ECA Legacy 54X
Bred to
Sire
OCC Easy Red Dam
Red Ridge Side Blackbird 23T
No AI - Only Exposed to Calvo Red Grazer 8E
GROUP 7
RED EDIE CREEK BLACKBIRD 124F - PB Red Angus
RED EDIE CREEK LUCY 141F - PB Red Angus Sire
OCC Easy Red
Dam
Red Edie Creek Lucy 35C
No AI - Only Exposed to Calvo Red Grazer 8E EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 70F - PB Black Angus Sire
ECA 79Y
Dam
Edie Creek Caroline 97D
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA 248T
Sire
ECA 34C
Dam
Edie Creek Caroline 60C
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires EDIE CREEK ENCHANTRESS 57F - PB Black Angus Sire
ECA 34C
Dam
Edie Creek Enchantress 25U
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Bout Time 32E
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GROUP 8
EDIE CREEK CAROLINE 23F - PB Black Angus
Edie Creek Bred Heifer s EDIE CREEK RACHEL ANNA 62F - PB Black Angus Sire
ECA 34C
Dam
Edie Creek Rachel Anna 18C
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Legacy 54X
Sire
Dam
ECA 34C
Edie Creek Lucy 67A
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires EDIE CREEK ELISEVA 144F - PB Black Angus Sire
Dam
ECA 34C
GROUP 9
EDIE CREEK Lucy 85F - PB Black Angus
Edie Creek Eliseva 123C
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires EDIE CREEK KAREN 69F - PB Black Angus Sire
Sinclair Quantum
Dam
Edie Creek Karen 5D
No AI - Only Exposed to Walking Sires
Sire
Sinclair Squirt
Dam
Edie Creek Tibbie 52D
AI
July 23, 2019
Bred to
ECA Emblazon 89Y
EDIE CREEK REV ROSE 91F - PB Black Angus Sire
Sinclair Squirt
Dam
Edie Rev Rose 3D
AI
July 25, 2019
Bred to
ECA Emblazon 89Y
**Bred Heifers must go home to their new owners** on sale day, unless arrangements have been made prior to the sale.
Service Sire: ECA 2D
Edie Creek Big Time 848C Sire of 6 Heifers
MH Titan 752 Sire of 9 Heifers
GROUP 10
EDIE CREEK TIBBE 90F - PB Black Angus
Edie Creek Angus:
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13-Yr Old Shoshone Ferrall 6340 dtr 2yr old OCC Easy Red Daughter with 4 month old Calf
Bull Development These bulls have been raised on their mothers’ milk and grass. They were weaned in late November, then brought in and fed Grass-Alfalfa silage with 4 lbs of barley and free choice 1st cut hay. In June they were turned out to pasture, with no supplements, where they grew well until the middle of November 2019. With feed supplies tight here this winter, the bulls got a wide variety of feed, with the Þrm goal of developing them into hard muscled bulls, not dough boys. In the bunk they received Barley/Grass Seed Screenings/Flax Screenings/Oat Screenings. Their hay ring rotated between Green Feed Oat/Grass Straw/Alfalfa. They have not been pushed with hard feed so that they will breed longer for you. Bull Program Bulls can be kept at Edie Creek Angus for $2/day until May 1st. After that, the cost will be $3/day. Free delivery available to Ashern Auction Mart. If you haul your bull on Sale day we will give you a $50 discount on each bull. Bulls MUST be insured if they are to be kept on our farm.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The terms of sale are by cash or cheque. Settlement to be made immediately after the completion of the sale. The right of property will not pass until after settlement is made. Bulls will not be released until settlement is made. Bids: Every animal entering the sale ring will be sold to the highest bidder and may be subject to a minimum/reserve bid. Disputes: In case of disputes, bidding will be re-opened 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 on all disputes is Þnal. Announcements and Changes: All announcements and changes made from the auction block will take precedence over the printed matter in this catalogue. Buyers are therefore cautioned to pay close attention to any such announcements. Purchaser's Risk: Each animal becomes the risk of the purchaser as soon as the auctioneers hammer falls for the Þnal time. Liabilities: All persons attending the sale do so at their own risk and sellers assume no liability, legal or otherwise, for any accidents occurring in or about the premises.
GUARANTEE:
The Bulls have been evaluated for breeding soundness and
semen quality by Beausejour Animal Hospital. We guarantee to provide you with a sound, fertile bull at the point of sale. Should your bull fail to be a satisfactory breeder in his first breeding season, he will be replaced with a bull of equal value or a credit will be given towards the purchase of another bull. We will not provide the replacement or credit for a bull that is physically injured or mismanaged. It is the responsibility of the buyer to insure their bulls. The Bred Heifers were preg-checked safe in calf on October 18th, 2019 by Beausejour Animal Hospital. No guarantee is given that a pregnant female will deliver a live calf, nor that she will carry the calf full term.
“ * * ” BUL L R AT IN GS E X P L A I N E D : Calving Ease:
Based on the bull's birthweight, his parents' birthweight, and his own EPD's. Also based on the assumption that the bull will be breeding small-framed Angus/British cattle--if the bull will be breeding larger-framed Continental cattle, a three-star (***) bull may work on heifers without any trouble. These are simply guidelines to help your decision making. You are ultimately responsible for the matings of your own cattle.
Calving Ease Rating:
"*" - Suitable for breeding cows only - 100 lb+ Birth weights possible “**”- Suitable for breeding smaller cows-90 lb+ Birth weights possible "***" - Suitable for breeding cows and larger-framed, mature heifers - 85 lb BW’s "****" -Suitable for breeding heifers & cows too “*****” -HEIFER BULL, easy deliveries with vigorous calves at birth!
Udder Rating:
Based on the quality of the dam's udder structure and teat shape and size. Rated between "1" - "5", a score of "3" would be an average, functional udder, while a score of "5" would be a perfectly level udder with small, shapely teats.
Forage Rating:
Designed to predict the ability of the bull's offspring to thrive in a forage-only environment. The forage rating is also a suitable indicator of the bull's own ability to stay in good ßesh on a low-energy ration ("easy-keeping-ness"). Rated between "1" - "5", a score of "3" would be moderately easy ßeshing, while a score of "5" would be very easy ßeshing and his offspring would Þnish on forages alone.
P a s t
H i g h
S e l l e r s
ECA 54E - 2019 Sale OCC Worthy Man 967W SON
Dam
Slepicka Livestock, Waterhen, MB
ECA 20D - 2018 Sale OCC WORTHY MAN 967W SON
Black Rose Ranch, Beausejour, MB
ECA 43C - 2017 Sale OCC MISSING LINK 830M
Vee Tee Angus, Lloydminster, AB
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