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The sale averaged $5850. That's incredible! We're having our inaugural bull sale in December and I'll do cartwheels if I get half that as a sale average. I really liked lot 23, he sold for $17,500. I didn't get to watch the first few lots to see how they sold.

Not my cup of tea

A proven Calving ease EPD is #1 for me. I put a little emphasis on BW EPD but not near as much as CE. And I completely agree Maternal CE is just as important. I'm not looking for my first calf heifers to have a humdinger in their first calf. I want them to calve early and unassisted. If I can...

Check out this video of one of my goofy cows I posted to youtube. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onsFqH9q2oY&context=C3f6a0aeADOEgsToPDskIeIvPWRMyh8j36oNWkQr_S

We used an AK 47 and a 12 gauge shotgun.

Here's a bull that hasn't been mentioned yet and is a great female maker...Nichols Blk Destiny D12.

The ranch hands will go pick up a couple that don't have too many holes in them :) But they populate so fast that there's no reason to worry about the lost meat.

As of when I got off the chopper 60 hogs and 8 coyotes were dead. There's still more acreage to cover this afternoon. http://www.youtube.com/user/lntom02?feature=mhee

I use Min max II as part of my pre breeding regimen and I'm a believer in how it works. You'd have to read the label but on min max II the injection takes a month to take effect.

I was in Denver and got the down low on the EPD base change. Growth, milk, birth weight and yield grade EPDs will go up for Simmental cattle. EPDs that will go down are CE, and marbling. And the opposite effect on Red Angus cattle. As of now the associations haven't agreed on where the CE EPDs...

A best for me is a vaccine I tried this year that is a combined 7-way and pinkeye vaccines. Last year we had a tough time with calves getting pinkeye so used a combined vaccine this year and not a single pinkeye case yet...

It's a recessive trait and works like horned/polled and red/black. For it to show up in the phenotype both parents must pass on the recessive allele.

Here's some that weren't on the previous list. Foundation flush - 10k 2-8000 7-4250 7A-2200 10-40k 11-17k 12-5000 15-7000 16-15k 17-10k 18-6000 19-4750 I totally agree on lot 38. From where I was sitting she was one of my top picks of the open heifers. If I had a way to get her home and my...

$4750 It was a great sale. Averaged $10,000. I can post more results later when I get home.

He sure did have some super heifers sell this past fall. I'm toying with the thought of flushing him to one of my cows however I'm disappointed that his milk EPD is so low and I've already been using Upgrade. Has anyone seen calves or used him?

Club King and Dual Focus don't surprise me on the list because they're heavily used by the commercial oriented producers. This will be my third year using Dual Focus and he makes just flat good cattle. They're not flashy by any means but they look good enough, are sound, big bellied, adequate...

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I never said everyone reports honest and accurate data, I'd be a fool if I believed that. I just said the ASA is weeding out the data that looks "too good to be true" to calculate EPDs.

The ASA even instituted a new policy last year that if data submitted by producers looks too good to be true, then it will be thrown out of the genetic evaluation. And there is such a thing as accurate EPDs when thousands of progeny from almost as many producers is reported.

Take a look at WS Beef Maker.