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Hinman/Rollin Rock Sale

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Anonymous

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I just came in for lunch and caught a Hinman bull sell on their sale on RFD-TV-- Lot 110 (a HA Future Direction 3540 son) sold for $41,000....

We're still getting a little snow here- altho none's sticking now- temps only up to 30 degrees, but not much wind today :) -- sun tries to peak out every once in awhile- which if nothing else would brighten the spirits...

Had 5 calves come during the night- but they all seem to be doing well...
 
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Anonymous

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Maybe its a good thing they had the $40,000 bull- and a $10,000 one, along with some $5000-6000 bulls-- because they had quite a few no sales this year- and a lot of $1250-1500 bulls... :roll:

We've got the only area Charolais (Anderson Charolais) sale this week- and a small angus breeders (Galpin Angus) sale...Maybe I can get a better idea on the local sales after them- as I've followed them for years...Gotta take in the Galpin Angus one as the kid has a few of their registered heifers picked out he'd like to buy.....
 

IL Rancher

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I watched for a while OT.. Saw a few go for 1250 or 1500.. Was a bit surprised, I don't think that last year you would have seen them going that low but maybe I am wrong.. I am not familiar at all with this operation and didn't have a sale catalog to see much information on the lots but something about the sale itself bothered me... Can't explain it.
 
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Anonymous

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These are both outfits that used to be over west- until land got worth too much over there for cow raising...I think Hinmans were from the Bozeman area...They now have a place near Malta- Davis's moved to Sidney area....

I don't remember them having any no sales before- or cheap bulls--- they have good cattle- and used to have a big following out of the Nebraska country...Hinmans daughter got a couple of pups from me over the years...
 

Faster horses

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Bill Davis is the son of legendary Montana Angus Breeder, Dale Davis.
Dale's cattle all have the PaPa Prefix. He was a Pioneer breeder
in Montana and was an honest man with honest cattle.

Bill Davis cattle are the Rollin Rocks, RR prefix and Hinmans
are HA prefix.

Performance Breeders used to have 4 members. One was
John Hamilton of Cedar Hills (CH prefix) and I don't recall who
the fourth person was. Their sale was held at Bozeman. John
Hamilton also moved east and his place is south of Miles City.
He no longer is in the seedstock business. Too bad, too, because
he had good cattle. I always remember Larry Leonhardt would only
use CH cattle as outcrosses on his linebreds because he trusted
John Hamilton and his cattle so much.

Performance Breeders offer some good cattle, always have,
always will. But not all are that good. And I do not like
Hinmans Imagemaker bull. But that is only my opinion. I think
they sold the heck out of the Imagemakers. He is a heifer
bull.


FWIW
 

BRG

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PERFORMANCE BREEDERS
April 3, 2007 on 8:42 pm | In SALE REPORTS | No Comments
The Program with a Purpose!

Annual Bull Sale Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Sidney, MT

458 Yearling Angus Bulls $2,700

TOPS:

Lot 110 - $41,000, a son of HA Future Direction 3540 to Harrison Land & Livestock, Belt, MT

Lot 112 - $16,000, a son of BR Midland to S & V Livestock, Hay Springs, NE

Lot 206 - $10,000, a son of E&B 878 New Design 435 to Whitworth’s Silver Bit Angus, May, ID

Lot 100 - $10,000, a son of HA Image Maker 0415 to Redland Black Angus, Manderson, WY

Lot 300 - $10,000, a son of HA Future Direction 4506 to S & V Livestock

Lot 120 - $9,500, a son of HA Image Maker 0415 to Stevenson’s Diamond Dot Angus, Hobson, MT

Lot 413 - $9,000, a son of HA Image Maker 0415 to S & V Livestock

Lot 118 - $8,000, a son of HA Image Maker 0415 to Lund’s B Bar Angus, Wibaux, MT

Lot 108 - $7,500, a son of ER Broadcast N305 to Nissen Angus, Chinook, MT and Corey A Ranch, North Plains, OR
 
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Anonymous

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Spent the day at the bull sales-- The Charolais one was not good--Had about 60 bulls and took 26 No Sales home with them...Sold a lot of $1200-1300 bulls...Good charolais cattle that normally has a much bigger following--Since this is the only local Charolais sale- it sure looked like the demand was down for Charolais....Seats everywhere in what is usually a packed house....

Angus sale was a small longtime local breeder that sold 22 bulls for an average of $2000- took one home that came in the ring on the prod- and he wouldn't sell as he prides himself in his quiet cattle.....About the same price as last year....

The kid was able to get the 2 heifers he wanted but had to pay more than he wanted to get first choice-- price dropped about $100 a piece after he picked out the two he wanted-- and by the time they got picked over he could have bought the last 3 for what he paid for 2...
 
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Anonymous

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I spent this afternoon at the Spear J/Bowles J5 Red Angus Joint Production sale...Sold about 90 bulls -20 registered heifers- and 35 commercial heifers...

Spear J did pretty good with their top bull selling for $7000- and quite a few bulls selling between $2000-3000-- but they had some $1000 bulls and a half dozen or so No Sales...The cousin that neighbors me picked up 8 or 9 real nice bulls of theirs....I don't think I've seen another set of red angus bulls as quiet as the Spear J ones-- pretty impressive....

Bowles J5 did not do as good tho- No Saling about 1/2 of their bulls..Their top end sold for $2800- with a couple selling for $2600...I don't know much about red genetics, but it seemed like some good genetics being sold awful cheap...They had a lot of calving ease and heifer bulls that a guy could have picked up for $1000-1200...
A guy could have picked up a whole string of bulls without spending over $1000 a piece......

Bowles registered heifers sold for between $900- $1125-- commercial heifers averaged around $800..
 

Faster horses

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Thanks for the report OT.

Would Bowles be Jim Bowles that used to own Bozeman
Livestock Auction? If so, he is a good man. We have done
business with him at the sale barn and I did advertising
business with him as well. He always did what he said he
would do.

Seems like I heard he was raising Red Angus somewhere,
so just wondered if he was one and the same.
 
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Anonymous

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Faster horses said:
Thanks for the report OT.

Would Bowles be Jim Bowles that used to own Bozeman
Livestock Auction? If so, he is a good man. We have done
business with him at the sale barn and I did advertising
business with him as well. He always did what he said he
would do.

Seems like I heard he was raising Red Angus somewhere,
so just wondered if he was one and the same.

It is Jim Bowles- and could be the same fella (tall slim guy probably in his 50's- thats always wearing a baseball cap)....He did come from that part of the country- didn't know he ran the Livestock Auction- bought and moved to Chinook place about 2000 his flyer says...They bought a pretty little place down on the Milk...This is the second year they went in with Spear J and had a sale here...
Like I said, I know little about red genetics- but from his description of where each cow came from (Beckton, Buff Creek, Bieber, Redland, Leachman) and from the red bull names I know that stick out, it looks like he has some good genetics-- and they looked good to me--just a tough game to break into...
Spear J's bulls looked just fantastic-- quiet, well trimmed up, well fed- but not fat...Bowles bulls probably needed a little more feed- altho they were in good shape to go breeding they just didn't show as good...

And then 90 bulls is just too many to sell at one time in this area- just don't get that many buyers on the seats....
 

Denny

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Around here 50 bulls is more than enough,40 would be better then sell the extra 10 private treaty a month later.I know a guy who held his leftovers out of the sale sold all of them about 2 weeks after turnout. Guys in a bind will pay what a bull is worth and you dont need to gouge them but you dnot loose money either.
 
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Anonymous

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I spent this afternoon at the Eayrs black angus yearling bull sale- old outfit that runs cattle near Glasgow and Fallon Mt and sold private treaty for years- but at auction the last 5 years or so.....
They did quite well- averaging close to $2200, which was better than last year...Sold a couple $4100 bulls and some $3000+ bulls- selling all 40 bulls they had at the sale...I talked to buyers from as far away as S.D...

Like I said they are an old herd (50 years) that has a lot of Shoshone and Wye breeding in their old cows with a history of very moderate framed, maternal, and calving ease......And again- a really quiet bunch of bulls- I don't think you could have riled them up :) They used to be a Leachman cooperator on some Gelbvieh/angus compostite bulls...

I think they may be one of those "sleeper herds", kind of like Diamond D was, as more folks look at the truly moderate frame, more maternal, easy keeping cattle....

I have one of their bulls I bought a couple years ago that goes back to 6807 on top and bottom-- that like I was telling them, I don't know what kind of diet to put him on to keep him from being fat enough to butcher- been feeding him only grass hay and he's fat as a hog....

Next week is the sale that usually tops the local market- McRaes Big Dry Angus Ranch-- the power bulls that has a big following of repeat buyers....
 
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Anonymous

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rainie said:
OT: Do the Earys (spelling) have a website, or do you have any contact info.

Monte ( the son) can be reached at 406-486-5684-- Fallon Mt... Dorothy (mother) is at 406-367-5327- Glasgow Mt...

Mailing address:
Eayrs Angus Ranch
1238 Highway 24 N
Glasgow, Mt. 59230-2872
 

Faster horses

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That be the same Jim Bowles that owned Bozeman Livestock.
We always thought a lot of him.

The Earys cattle, I have heard of. Moderate framed as you
say and just good cattle. I have never seen them, however.
 

Horseless

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I bought some of bulls from them several years back, I am not sure they sold them as registered (correct me if I'm wrong) I know I never got any papers. After I had the bulls for several years I wished I had papers, I even lost sale info, that was when they still sold private treaty, good bulls but not sure what pedigrees they had. Anymore, with so many bulls around, if you can't provide more info and register the bulls, I won't even bother.
 
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