Co-owners of Rendezvous Farms
David Maguet
Gerald Maguet
Laurent & Lorraine Maguet
Herd Health and Fertility: All sale cattle have been treated twice with Ivomec and are on the Pfizer Gold Program: Bovi-Shield Gold 5, One Shot & Ultrabac7/Somubac. All sale cattle were vaccinated for foot rot with Fusoguard. All bulls will be examined, scrotal measured, semen tested & palpated by a licensed veterinarian prior to the sale.
Sight Unseen Purchase Program: If you are unable to attend the sale but are interested in a bull or heifer, give any of the Transcon Team, Wilf, or David a call and they will personally go over the sale cattle and your program and recommend bulls or heifers that will meet your needs.
Sales Management Comments Welcome to another edition of the Rendezvous Farms Simmental Bull & Female Sale. This herd is built off the principles instilled by three generations of Maguet Family breeding livestock. This is a reputation program that, as mentioned, has a long established foundation backing it up. However, it appears the “cream has risen” and as it should be, the product should be improved upon from one generation to the next.
red sons) will initate Rendezvous to the Black Simmental bull market. A feature to the bull sale will be lot # 33, “Specialist”, who along with his “get-of-sire”, both male and female included in the sale is a “no-brainer’ to see this easy doing mature herdsire’s breeding attributes through his progeny alongside him. These opportunities are not found often and I do have to admit that I am a little responible for this decision after seeing “Specialist” in December that with a little arm-twisting he ended up in the sale. Herdbull for sale!
This is exemplified by the extra attraction that the public bull buying community has gained in large steps for the past few years. We at Transcon are very pleased to have been working with Rendezvous Farms while this modern day success has come to fruition.
When Darren and I saw the heifer group that was sorted for the sale, it was crystal clear that there was a strong attempt to offer a stronger group than ever, combined of Fleckvieh Fullbloods and some real fancy, deep-bodied Red Simmi replacements.
A lot of the success at Rendezvous has been because of the never-ending search for new herdsires. This practice has been seen as the main ingredient for success in so many of the most successful herds ever. But directly relating it to Rendezvous Farms, the high quality sets of brothers incorporated into sire groups will be outstanding. The Fullblood bulls will be sired by SU Paramount, Draco, IPU Nero, Double Bar D Legend and MFI Jahari. Some pretty impressive prefixs on that list! The red bulls will be sired CMS Icon, Rendezvous Red Caesar, IPU Red Hummer and IPU Rubicon. These are true performance Red Simmental bulls that are created from foundation Fullblood pedigreed cows. This will be the first year to ever sell Black Simmi bulls with a Rendezvous tattoo, they being a sire group all their own. IPU Black Shamrock (who also has some top
Rendezvous Farms has become a very impressive agriculture establishment, operating 250+ registered Simmental cows and continually growing their grain farm base to now over 3800 acres, total all in, more than 6000 acres including hay and pasture land. I think it’s good to know that when you are buying Rendezvous bulls you are buying from an operation that is cognizant of the food supply around the world and are doing their small part to contribute and thusly make a living from being food producers. See you in Ste. Rose, Jay Good,
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Darren Paget
Glenn Norton
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