welcome Valued Friends and Customers–
We want to invite you to the 2025 Crooked Creek Annual production sale. Many of you are coming off of selling the highest price calves you have in the history of your respected operations. What an exciting time to be in the cattle industry. Not only the enjoyment of raising cattle but to be able to set ourselves apart with our genetic selections leading up to those rewarding sale days. We are still seeing a low number of heifers being retained in across the country and we are looking to set ourselves up to be a profitable cattle industry for years to come.
The bulls and heifers this year are again being raised on a high forage ration that has them in great breeding shape for your herd. The customer feedback on the condition these cattle are staying in during the breeding season has been great and we are excited to hear your feedback on your experience. We are mixing in a few new sire groups along with a good handful of sire groups that have proven themselves for so many of you in the recent years.
We will start the book with a super stout group of Jameson bulls that seem to do a lot of things right and carry a great look from all angles on these cattle. As many times in recent years we will have some Alternate Route calves out of our CCA record setting bull whom we just can’t away from because he just keep throwing great calves that perform on fescue year after year. We have some nice flush brothers offered by De Su Volunteer who will add length and keep a nice frame score for cattle as well. We again have some very stout Remington Bulls in the 18 month and yearling division that people loved last year and have been doing great in the country. Many other trusted sire groups like Regiment, Armstrong, and those super stout Thedford bulls. We know that when we mention Craftsman and Ashland that those are time tested genetics that seem to always produce.
As always we will finish out the sale with our females whom bring a unique package of combined EPD’s and phenotype like you have come to know from this annual offering. The females may be what we get the most reports back on of customer satisfaction so don’t miss this group. Please feel free to come visit us at the farm and get a game plan together for sale day so that we can help fulfill your needs and wants on your genetic check list for the 2025 breeding season. We hope to see you sale day!
TheWoodFamily
Wes Tiemann (816) 244-4462 mrtiemann@outlook.com
We recommend the Calving Ease Direct (CED) EPD when selecting bulls for use on heifers. We feel comfortable using a bull that is 6 or higher. When mating only to cows, the CED number is irrelevant as this EPD is for the use of Angus bulls on first calf heifers. We feel there is not a bull in this offering that would present calving difficulties in cows.
INSPECTION OF CATTLE
Cattle can be viewed anytime prior to the sale. Call Garrett for a visit.
HEALTH
Interstate health papers will be furnished.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Cattle sell under the suggested terms and conditions of the American Angus Association. www.angus.org/Pub/suggested_sale_terms.pdf
INSURANCE
Will be available for purchase sale day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Information announced from the block or supplement sheet will take precedence over printed material in this catalog.
SEMEN INTEREST
Crooked Creek Angus will retain one half semen interest in ALL BULLS SELLING.
DELIVERY AND TRUCKING
All bull purchases totaling $5,000 and more are eligible for free trucking. Bulls taken home sale day receive $100 off sale price. Bulls receive free board until April 1st. After that date a $5/day charge. Free delivery in a 200 mile radius.
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CCA JAMESON L30
CCA JAMESON L50
CCA JAMESON L66
ANGUS EPD EXPLANATION
Calving Ease Direct (CED), expressed as a difference in percentage of unassisted births, with a higher value indicating greater calving ease in first-calf heifers. It predicts the average difference in ease with which a sire’s calves will be born when he is bred to first-calf heifers.
Birth Weight (BW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit birth weight to his progeny compared to that of other sires.
Weaning Weight (WW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit weaning growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires.
Yearling Weight (YW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit yearling growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires.
Residual Average Daily Gain (RADG), feed efficiency expressed in pounds per day, is a predictor of a sire’s genetic ability for post-weaning gain in future progeny compared to that of other sires, given a constant amount of feed consumed.
Scrotal Circumference (SC), expressed in centimeters, is a predictor of the difference in transmitting scrotal size compared to that of other sires.
Docility (DOC), expressed as a difference in yearling cattle temperament, with a higher value indicating more favorable docility in a sire’s offspring compared to another sire.
Heifer Pregnancy (HP), is a selection tool to increase the probability or chance of a sire’s daughters becoming pregnant as first–calf heifers during a normal breeding season. A higher EPD is the more favorable direction, and the EPD is reported in Calving Ease.
Maternal Milk (Milk), expressed in pounds of calf weaned, is a predictor of a sire’s genetic merit for milk and mothering ability in his daughters. In other words, it is the part of the calf’s weaning weight attributes to milk and mothering ability.
CCA JAMESON L70
Carcass Weight (CW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of the differences in hot carcass weight of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.
Marbling (Marb), expressed as a fraction of the difference in USDA marbling score of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.
Ribeye Area (RE), expressed in square inches, is a predictor of the difference in ribeye area of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.
Fat Thickness EPD (Fat), expressed in inches, is a predictor of the differences in external fat thickness at the 12th rib (as measured between the 12th and 13th ribs) of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.
Maternal Weaned Calf Value ($M), expressed in dollars per head, predicts profitability differences in progeny due to genetics from conception to weaning by decreasing mature cow size and improving docility, foot structure and fertility while maintaining weaning weights consistent with today’s production.
Beef Value ($B), expressed in dollars per carcass, represents the expected average differences in the progeny post-weaning performance and carcass value compared to progeny of other sires. This index assumes commercial pro ducers wean all male and female progeny, retain ownership of these animals through the feedlot and sell on a carcass merit grid.
Combined Value ($C), expressed in dollars per head, which includes all traits that make up both Maternal Weaned Calf Value ($M) and Beef Value ($B) with the objective that commercial producers will replace 20% of their breeding females per year with replacement heifers retained within their own herd. The remaining cull heifer and steer progeny are then assumed to be sent to the feedlot where the producers retain percentage units. ownership of those cattle and sell them on a quality-based carcass merit grid.
CCA ALTERNATE ROUTE L4
CCA THEDFORD L16
CCA THEDFORD L42
CCA EXPONENTIAL K130
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the BULLS
CCA ARMSTRONG L56
CCA ARMSTRONG L58
CCA CRAFTSMAN L20
CCA CRAFTSMAN L22
CCA REGIMENT L52
CCA REMINGTON L40
CCA ASHLAND L96
the BULLS
CCA ACCLAIM L98
CCA GREATER GOOD K1354
CCA SALVATION L72
CCA VICTORIA L43
CCA DIANNA L13
the FEMALES
CCA PEARL L3
Maternal Brother to Lot 72 – CCA Remington K8
CCA FORTRESS L1
the FEMALES
CCA FORTRESS L57
CCA RUBY L55
