Bull Selection Simplified. Follow these simple steps to match bull power to your program’s goals. 1) Know your target markets: feeder calves, yearlings, value based grids, replacement females. 2) Have a true appraisal of how close your cow herd is to those targets; always understanding your cows have to continue to live and reproduce in your environment. 3) Identify bulls whose EPDs predict the ability to move your cow herd in the right direction for the traits required to hit your market endpoint.
What is your breeding objective? 1. Building a cow herd? ■ Combine low expense traits (ME EPD) with acceptable revenue traits to breed efficiency into the cow herd. ■ Improve fertility with selection pressure on HPG EPDs.
Gentlemen’s Auction This is not a typical Auction. There will be no hired Auctioneer or ring men. Leonard will run a “Gentleman’s Auction”. We introduce each bull by sale order, offer additional information or answer questions you may have. We then proceed in Auction format with $100 increments from the base price. High bidder will take title of the bull and we proceed to the next bull. This will allow everyone to have a chance at each and every Bull. The Bulls are all penned in like kind groups.( Price range, frame size, calving ease, etc.) You will have an opportunity to walk through the pens with the bulls, and look them over prior to the sale. If you can’t be with us on Saturday March 16, 2012, you can place a written bid or call us and place a bid on any bull prior to Sale day. You may put a maximum bid on a bull and if there is no bidders close to your bid, you will get title to the bull at the next $100 increment over the last bid. Phone bids are kept strictly confidential. We guarantee all sight unseen purchases. Early bidding is advantageous to ensure that you get the bull that fits your program and is within your budget. Bulls are available for viewing at anytime at the ranch or on Sale Day. The Sale will start at 1:00 pm. Lunch will be served at noon. So come early to view the bulls, ask questions, Visit with friends and family and enjoy the camaraderie
■ Sleep through the night by selecting high CEM EPDs. ■ Improve longevity and lower replacement rates by selecting higher than average STAY EPDs.
2. Breeding virgin heifers? ■ Select for CED EPD as the most meaningful predictor of calving ease. Red Angus’ CED combines birthweight and other factors
affecting calving ease scores.
TERMS & CONDITIONS 1. Terms of the sale are cash, settlement must be made immediately after the completion of the sale. 2. The seller will settle any dispute on bids and his decision is final.
3. Selling calves or yearlings? ■ Heavier payweights may be achieved by selecting higher WW EPDs, but...make sure heavier is what you want. Heavier weaning
weights mean heavier payweights for calf feds. However, for those who background their calves, too much weaning weight could translate into yearlings that are too heavy when they enter the feed yard, and finish too heavy. Overshooting performance goals can be just as detrimental as falling short. ■ Enhance your reputation - improve traits that impact feeder profits, such as carcass traits and post-weaning gain (YW).
4. Retaining Ownership? ■ Docile and fast starting, Red Angus are easy to start on feed and keep on feed. ■ Balance YW EPD of potential bulls with the existing cow herd to pinpoint needed improvement for post weaning gains. ■ Increase payweight with selection for improved CW EPD.
5. Selling on a Grid? ■ Fine-tune marbling (MARB), rib eye area (REA), and back fat (FAT) EPDs to target value based grids. ■ Target YG 1 & 2 premiums and avoid YG 4 discounts by applying selection pressure on YG EPD. ■ Optimize carcass weights to increase payweights while avoiding discounts for heavy weight carcasses. ■ Balance Carcass EPDs against existing cow herd genetics: • Cowherds of higher continental influence may require additional selection pressure on marbling EPD to improve quality grade. • High percentage British cowherds typically benefit from selection pressure to reduce YG and increase CW.
Please feel free to contact the Red Angus Association of America if you have further questions about EPDs or the selection of new herd sire(s).
HOW THE SALE WORKS -
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3. Any announcements from the seller on sale day will take precedence over printed material. 4. Health certificates and brand inspections will be furnished for shipments anywhere in the U.S. 5. Each animal becomes the risk of the purchaser as soon as sold. Bulls will be delivered in a timely fashion. 6. All cattle are guaranteed breeders. We reserve the right to test any bull for 90 days after it is returned at the buyer’s expense. 7. Everyone attending the sale does so at their own risk. Owners, clerks, or other helpers do not assume responsibility, legal or otherwise, for damage of any kind. 8. Bulls will be delivered free of charge within 200 miles, any distance further at cost.. A discount of $50.00 will be credited per bull, if taken home on sale day. 9. A certificate of registry and transfer will be furnished for each bull sold, after settlement has been made. 10. The above terms and conditions constitute a contract between the buyer and seller of each bull sold.
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