Mohican West Bull Sale Laurel, MT

HEREFORD AMERICA • September 2022 are synchronized with a two week CIDR program; registered cows are AI bred for 30 days. Heifers and registered cows start calving around February 1 and commercial cows start March 1.

“You can’t make mistakes in fertility since it is such a low heritability trait,” he said. “We use many of our commercial cattle as recips in our embryo transfer program, and we ask a lot of them. They have to move up a cycle when we put embryos in, so that’s one reason we limit heifers coming into the herd to the ones that breed in that 21 day window. We don’t synchronize the cows because we can get some pretty good storms and we don’t want them all calving at the same time. We do generally have 80% of them calving in the first cycle.”

Harrell Herefords’ production sale is held the first Monday in March every year, so that only compounds the busy calving season.

“We sell about 150 bulls every year,” Bob said. “Most are yearling bulls but we do offer 35-40 ‘age advantage’ bulls for customers who are looking for two year olds. We also feature 30-40 registered heifers, 40 unregistered Hereford heifers and 40 commercial black baldy and brockle faced heifers. Someday we will start offering some black Angus bulls as well.”

Harrell/Mackenzie Quarter Horses are also offered at the bull sale. Beth Mackenzie is Bob Harrell’s sister, and the two

Harrells sell both polled and horned Hereford bulls and plan to eventually sell some Angus bulls. A beautiful band of pairs on the Harrell ranch. Harrell/Mackenzie Quarter Horses are a part of the production sale with 20-25 started two years olds that will have 60 rides each by sale day. families have partnered to bring 20-25 started two year olds with about 60 rides apiece to the sale every year.

“We each own our mares separately and we partner on the studs,” Bob said. “It got started because we wanted to raise the kind of horses we like to ride, and we wanted horses that were started with a good foundation. It has worked really well for us. Most of our buyers are repeat customers. One ranch in Colorado has over 20 horses that came from our program, and there’s a ranch in Washington that has close to that many. They have gone on to be good ranch horses, rodeo horses, team roping and barrel horses, even some snaffle bit competitors. We want them to be very athletic, good minded, and have as much cow as we can get into them.” Harrells do everything with their cattle horseback, including sorting off hot cows for AI’ing and sorting pairs out in the spring. “That’s one reason we AI over 30 days,” Bob said. “It makes for a good horse. It’s also why we brought some registered Angus cattle into our program; we ended up with some bulls that could be pretty testy. We need cattle who will respect a

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