*UPDATE* We are close to having our new 2021 list of bred females for sale put together. We have our second pregnancy checking day scheduled for October 13th, and once we have those results we will get the official list posted as quick as we can. If you would really like to get a head start on studying the offering, contact Dan and he should be able to get you a copy of the rough draft of the sale list. Thanks for your patience!
We are offering another set of bred females for sale by private treaty again this year. This year’s offering is composed of 16 bred cows and 2 bred heifers. As usual, we had to find some females to sell in order to keep our herd size stable and make room for the new crop of bred heifers that we are keeping. The majority of these cows are ones that got bred later than we would like for our preferred breeding season, but due to a successful AI season, we were able to include a few earlier, AI bred cows as well. There are also a few cows that we had been using as recipients for our embryo transfer program who didn’t settle with an embryo pregnancy this year and find themselves on this list (25C, E86 and F69). Those cows we feel can make productive commercial cows, but didn’t make our criteria to be seedstock quality. To learn more about the service sires they are bred to, check out our Herd Sires page, and feel free to reach out to Dan to learn more about any of the females offered.
The Red Angus Association of America recently revamped their selection indexes, changing the formulas for how they are calculated, as well as adding a new third index, called the Profitability and Sustainability Index (abbreviated ProS). The new ProS index is a multi-purpose index, combining the traits that influence the Herdbuilder (maternal) index and the Gridmaster (terminal) index. If you have questions about these indexes and how to use them in your selection decisions, feel free to reach out to us. Also, to get a feel for where these animals’ indexes and EPDs rank within the Red Angus breed, click on the following link to go to the Red Angus Association’s EPD percentiles chart.
Also, with the new BOLT EPDs, the EPDs will be calculated and published every week instead of twice per year, meaning that the animals’ current EPDs might vary slightly from the EPDs listed here. These EPDs are current as of Nov. 8, 2020. For the most up to date EPDs, click the following link to the Red Angus Association’s database and search with the animal’s registration number (Reg #):
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Click on the following link to download a copy of the data sheet as an Excel spreadsheet file. (it prints best on legal size paper)
The following pictures were taken in early October.
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X58
32F
F96
F103
G09
SOLD
C11
SOLD
25C
SOLD
C32
SOLD
E09
SOLD
E19
SOLD
E21
SOLD
E86
SOLD
F28
SOLD
F55
SOLD
F59
SOLD
F62
SOLD
F69
SOLD
G71
