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Four D's Angus Bulls

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Anonymous

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I saw this on Facebook the other day Tom-- but been too busy with the snowstorms- mud- sick calves to respond... That GFAR Birch 834 you got from Gary has an interesting pedigree...
I liked your comment:

GFAR Birch 834: Purchased from Gary Funk Angus. Moderate balanced females with sensible milk.
He was purchased as a female maker and looks like I got a carcass maker also.

Because I'm a believer that with the right bloodlines you can have some moderate very good females- and still have cattle that can put on pounds with good carcass results...Gary had a nice looking herd of cows up there last time I looked at them.....

I heard yesterday that there is about a trailer load or so of strong Diamond D- Ohlde bred one iron yearling heifers selling at the Glasgow Salesyard on Thursday... I found out yesterday they are Jeff Swansons- that Iva bought- and is going to turn around and resell ( and probably make a quick profit on them)....
I think before the next snow storm (now they are saying Thursday night)- or the river gets over our road- I'm going to haul some of the old cows that lost calves to the sale while the cull cow market is still pretty hot.......
 

Horseless

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OT, are you talking that these heifers selling this Thursday? Bull 021 dam is from Diamond D angus. Just a beautiful cow, perfect udder. 021 is probably a 5 frame bull. Very interesting listening to comments on the bulls from those that have looked. I am fortune enough that I can have many different breeding pastures. I do like to keep heifers using moderate framed bulls, yet moderate framed bulls seems to be a little harder to sell so haven't kept as many. Regardless if some of them have a little more growth, because they are black, someone will keep replacements from them. So I have tried to emphasis teat and udder qualtiy and fleshing ability in all cattle.
 
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Horseless said:
OT, are you talking that these heifers selling this Thursday? Bull 021 dam is from Diamond D angus. Just a beautiful cow, perfect udder. 021 is probably a 5 frame bull. Very interesting listening to comments on the bulls from those that have looked. I am fortune enough that I can have many different breeding pastures. I do like to keep heifers using moderate framed bulls, yet moderate framed bulls seems to be a little harder to sell so haven't kept as many. Regardless if some of them have a little more growth, because they are black, someone will keep replacements from them. So I have tried to emphasis teat and udder qualtiy and fleshing ability in all cattle.

Advertised on the Glasgow Stockyards web site:
80 Black Replacement Heifers

Yep- Iva gave Jeff a good price that he is happy with when she bought them just a short time ago- but she is a cattle trader and I know with a few phone calls and a little advertising-- she's taken advantage of the demand some folks are putting back into the "more maternal" angus genetics-- and has folks out there with bids of at least $50 a head over what she payed for them.... But if I was a betting man- I'd bet with the green grass looking for this spring- they may go $100 over what she paid... (And don't get me wrong- I love Iva (another neighbor)- and Glasgow Stockyards- and they have always bent over backwards to treat me more than right)..

I know even folks from SD are looking at them......Be a fantastic set of heifers with years of background of maternal breeding that you could breed any which way that tickled you pink....

I'll let you know how far off I was after Thursday (thats if the river road isn't flooded and I can get to town-- or the next predicted blizzard hasn't hit :wink: )....
 

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