Quick-Sort Program Sorting Criteria
We now have the ability to help you quickly sort out the bulls that fit your wants and needs. This program will save you hours and hours of time and frustration. We have an easy, do-it-yourself version available in our online (internet) catalog. Just enter the criteria you want to sort for, and before you can go get a cup of coffee the sorting will be completed. If you prefer, we can do the sorting for you. Call us at 800-311-0995. We suggest you DON’T select for any more criteria than absolutely necessary — unless you have an unlimited bull-buying budget. If your budget has some limits, however, we strongly urge you to keep your list of potential bulls as long as possible. Please keep in mind that more is NOT always better.
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Breed Sire Base Price Registered or Not Age Frame Size Disposition Calving Ease Overall Rating Fleshing Ability Thickness Score
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Muscling Score Masculinity Score Grass Efficiency Score Hair Coat Score Fly Resistance Score Scrotal Circ. Marbling Ratio Tenderness Score High Altitude Score Dam Udder Score Dam Age
NO ONE ELSE provides as much useful information as we do.
Call us at 800-311-0995 If we are unable to help you with your Quick Sort, we’ll give you $1000 to use toward your bull purchase.
Grass Efficiency
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e’ve come to the conclusion that our grass efficiency score may be the most important score for cow-calf producers to select for. What is grass efficiency? Johan Zietsman, a rancher/consultant from Zimbabwe, says, “Grass-efficient animals will look like eight pounds of sugar in a 5-pound sack.” In other words, they can put a tremendous amount of weight in a relatively small package. For the most part, the formula we use to score grass efficiency is based on early maturity. Early maturity is of utmost importance to cow-calf producers. Unfortunately, the status quo beef industry’s incessant selection for more and more lean growth for the past 50 years has had a very detrimental effect on early maturity. When sexual maturity takes place, muscle and skeletal growth slow down and the animal is able to start storing up energy in the form of fat. Fat deposition is critical to reproduction. Based on university research, we are able to use the adjusted hip height of young bulls to predict their mature weight at a body condition score of 5. An animal that is 60% of its predicted mature weight is better than one that is 50% of its predicted mature weight. Bulls with a 4+ or 5 -star rating for grass efficiency will be the very best at producing early -maturing, highly-fertile, long-lasting replacement females. They will also be the very best at producing steers that will excel in a grassfed beef program. 10
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