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Marketing More Meat Continued from Previous Page Jared went on to explain exactly what those traits are. “We’re looking for heavy-boned, heavily-muscled animals. You want the sheep to be barreled out, not too flat along their sides. We look for a longer body build because that and the barrel shape helps eliminate a lot of lambing problems. “They are a fairly calm breed,” Jared said as he snatched up a lamb and cradled it in his arms. “What I like best about raising the sheep, I guess, is that it is always something new. I like a change of pace and with sheep, I get that. Lambing is my favorite time of year. You work all year on the genetics and it is good to see how they did, to see what we’ve helped to create.” Jared also shows his sheep at Missouri State Fair at Sedalia, Mo., each year as well as the Dorper National Show held
Culling to Out Perform Continued from Page 12 are sold between 18-20 months of age. “Ninety percent of our bulls are black but we do keep some red,” said Brett. Brett explained his choice in raising Gelbvieh, “Gelbvieh are more maternal than any other breed. The right kind of Gelbvieh makes for the best cow for this type of environment. We breed for moderate birth weights and weaning weights. We are focused on carcass traits, but we are not willing to give up maternal traits to get it.” Other positive characteristics include longevity and milking ability. Making sound breeding decisions and diversifying pedigrees is high priority for B/F Cattle Company. “I put in 60 embryos and AI’d about 40 cows this year to get outside pedigrees for future bulls and replacement heifers,” shared Brett. B/F Cattle Company uses synchronized breeding for a 60-day calving window both in the spring and the fall. “I tend to like spring calving better but fall calving seems to get better conceptions rates and is less management intensive.”
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each January in Ft. Worth, Texas. “We do most of the showing in the summer, of course,” he added. “And we sell some at the breed association sale, the Midwest Stud Ram Sale, also in Sedalia. It’s the biggest registered sheep sale in the country. “The meat from these sheep goes primarily to the ethnic market on the East and West coasts and in big cities. Romanians, for instance eat a lot of sheep.” Jared concluded, “I’m going to Ozark Technical College this fall to get general education courses out of the way. I’ll probably major in ag business or ag education, but I’ll keep doing sheep on the side and keep showing.” And with young men, like Jared Frieze raising livestock in southwest Missouri, the future of agriculture in the Ozarks is looking healthy and strong. “All our females need to calve by her second birthday. Our breeding season is 60 days so they need to meet that every season, otherwise she doesn’t stay in our herd,” Brett continued. “If they’re not doing their job and excelling then they don’t need to be here. We have a better cow herd due to the drought because only the good ones survived. The weak went to town.” The cows are rotated to new pasture about once a week or as needed. “From a pasture standpoint I want to incorporate some endophyte-free fescue but because I raise bulls I feel like I need to keep them on fescue because that’s what they’ll end up on,” Brett reasoned. “If you’re not buying bulls from someone who treats their bulls worse than you do, they’re probably not going to work in your pasture.” B/F Cattle Company also raises commercial cattle. “We feed out for the feedlots. This keeps us in perspective as to the types of cattle commercial cattlemen are seeking,” Brett said. Brett is joined on the farm with his wife, Libby, and daughters, Audrey, 6, and Maggie, 5.
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