BRED HEIFER SALE || SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025 AT 1:00 PM || MAPLEHILL AUCTIONS, HANOVER, ON BEN WRIGHT: 519-374-3335 CARL WRIGHT: 519-369-7489 BRIAN DUDGEON: 519-270-2500
In its 11th year, the Dudgeon family has built a program that commercial cattleman from far and wide annually rely on for their replacement females within their respective herds and have solidified a repeat customer base in volume that no other program has in Eastern Canada. This family has the closest ties you will find with deep agriculture roots located just outside Dobbinton Ontario and or just north east of the hamlet of Paisley in Bruce county. Growing up and being involved in all sectors of the cattle business is just the way of life for the Dudgeons. Backgrounding in excess of 1500 head per year, calving nearly 200 mother cows and also raising one of the top purebred black angus herds in the province. The nearly 300 bred heifers that will be on offer on November 1st have been sorted down from the original 550 that were gathered between their own cowherd and purchasing only the best from respective herds in western Canada and from buyers of the Top Cut heifers in previous years. This operation is the true testament to a family run business that lives and breaths for the cattle industry . Please don’t hesitate to contact any of the crew here at Dudgeon Cattle Co for a tour before hand or to answer any questions you may have .
519-270-2149
Now more then ever shows the importance of what a mother cow can do. Not only that, but to have the discipline and maintain the quality of the stock available. We’ve seen over the years multiple times people who breed heifers with limited research think “it’s just easy, throw a bull out and it will be all good”. Not the case here. The bull power used on all these sale heifers have to not only be labeled “heifers bulls”, but have a pedigree that is proven to be lighter birth weight and from programs who kept a gestation tally of days of the bulls to prove they are literally “lighter birthweight”. Of course, as always, visual is always the first thing and you’ll be quick to notice smaller heads and smooth shouldered bulls are what is being used.
Our Top Cut Guidelines
• TEMPERAMENT — The number one thing when buying replacement females or really any cattle. We are around these heifers a lot, walk through them all the time and move them on pasture. We’ve sorted the crazies. These girls are calm.
• GOOD LOOKING — We take a lot of pride in our cattle and can’t stand to look at poor ones. We love heifers with stature, thickness and body that will lay down and calve on their own and have enough to them to a raise a top cut calf on the first year.
• BRED FOR PROFIT — We take bull buying serious. Theres no reason why these first calf heifers can’t raise a top selling calf on the first year. We know exactly where all these cattle come from and to the day when the bulls went in and pulled.
• VIDEOS — The day before the sale or if not before, we will run every group how they will sell on November 1st and have video of them posted on social media and DLMS.
• BUYING MADE EASY — In all cases we want everyone to attend the sale if possible. We do offer internet bidding, but we know these cattle in and out. So if your unable to attend contact any of the consignors or Ben and let them handle it. Time and time again we order buy cattle out of this sale with satisfaction better then if they did it themselves. Don’t be afraid to call us.
The day before the sale posted online and available at the office is the exact sale order of how the heifers will sell. Generally we sell them in groups of 2, 3 and 4 in one shot. Sorted to size, shape, colour and calving .
DUDGEON CATTLE CO.
150 Black White Faced and Solid Black Sim-Angus Heifers
All bred to calving ease Black Angus Dudgeon bulls
Always a sale feature, these Sim Angus heifers always sort up pretty darn nice once they get to town. Bred with maternal instincts, that shot of Blk sim adds pounds and insures a big calf come fall. Developed in a commercial environment, we can’t say enough about the quality in this years offering. Of course we’ve always had a soft spot for the baldies, but some of the top sellers last year were on the solid Blk group. This year we have more then ever and we’re sure proud of them. Starting to calve the middle of January / February with designated held back for spring calving in March / April.
SHE SELLS!
DUDGEON CATTLE CO.
100 Red & White Faced and Solid Red Sim-Angus Heifers
All bred to calving ease Red Angus bulls from LLB , U2 Ranch, Wilbar, and Walsh farms
There’s probably been more people ask about the red influenced heifers all summer then any other group. An exceptional group designated for the long haul and bred to some of the best good looking calving ease heifer bulls we could find. These heifers are salty good. Again that shot of Sim lets you have that milk advantage with power that you can breed any way for their 2nd calf. Majority starting to calve the middle of January/ February with a group held back to calve in March/ April like the rest. Make sure you log on and watch the videos on dlms.ca before the sale on this group. We probably can’t stress enough how quiet and easy to handle this set is. Excellent replacement quality that will last for a long time.
HADDIE SIMMENTALS
Brandon Ernest & Ashley Fairminer • 519-881-9911 • Walkerton, Ontario
2025 Ontario Simmental Commercial Producer Of The Year
20 RED/ RWF SIMMENTAL & SIMANGUS BRED HEIFERS ALL BRED RED SIMMENTAL
75% are checked safe to CIDR Synch AI to calving ease red simmental Wheatland Affinity (pictured) due Jan 31/26. Remaining 25% sell checked safe to our proven RWF Sim bull from Wheatland (pictured)
Bred and raised exactly how you’d want ‘em,
Haddie annually brings stock that cattlemen demand. Big, quiet and from a superior cowherd. These are the right kind as the pictured ones are their offering this year. Weather it be a big steer calf or a replacement heifer, expect the best from the resulting offspring from these heifers.
Check DLMS prior to the sale for videos, and don’t be afraid to contact Haddie to talk or see the heifers ahead of time at their beautiful farm just outside Walkerton.
SIMMENTAL SERVICE SIRES
SHE SELLS
DUDGEON CATTLE CO.
35 straight Char and Char X Sim Heifers
Bred to our low birth weight calving ease Red Angus bulls Groups due in January/February and also March/April
MIKE DEWEERD - ALMA, ON.
15 straight Char heifers with some bring Full French. Bred to calving ease Red Angus bull and due March / April
Everyone always wants to know what do the white ones look like. With even more then in years past, rest assure the goods are here. Mated to low birth bulls, expect tan calves that will be sale toppers. The research and quality matched with very good temperament make this all an easy choice. The haircoats alone will impress, but knowing how these girls are bred and where they are from is worth a lot.
THE
KIND THAT ARE ALWAYS IN FASHION!
THE GOAL
Pictured here is an example of a two year old this past summer purchased from last years Top Cut from Dudgeon. As a past high seller, she represents exactly the kind that we strive to produce and continually raise as the “Top Cut” of replacement females in Canada.
HERD HEALTH
All the heifers are either home raised or specially selected in fall and backgrounded. They are all double vacinated, preg checked safe and ultrsounded by Dr. Rod Wieringa.
300 Over head sell
Your one stop shop and Ontarios largest annual event
We appreciate your interest . Please don’t be afraid to contact us and get all the info and help you need. The cow business is a serious business and we are so excited for the future and the cattle sector in general. We are here for the long haul. Everyday of the year we are striving and planning for this event.
