Our Bull Sale Pics

[PureCountry]

Our bull sale is coming up on April 17th at Olds College, in Olds, AB. Rkaiser posted the link in another thread, I thought I'd make it easy and post a sampling:

Purebred Galloway bull, coming 2 the end of May.

Purebred Galloway bull, also coming 2.

And one more:

Purebred Red Galloway, coming 2.

One of Rkaiser's Welsh bulls, a red polled model, coming 2 also.

The bulls were 100% hay/grass fed until going to the college @ 15-17 months of age in September. They went on straight silage, but the college was running low, so they went 50% silage, 30% straw and 20% DDG. By January the college felt they could spare some more silage, so we cut back on the straw and DDG, 70% silage, 15-15 straw/DDG. They've done really well over all, we're pretty happy with them.

 

[Yanuck]

PC...they look good, what are the average weights? also wondering why you shaved heads and left the rest? ( not trying to start anything!! )

 

[jeff in ca]

Yanuk, Because dingleberries don't look good on the heads

 

[jigs]

Yanuk, Because dingleberries don't look good on the heads

careful Jeff...in Texas, dingleberries are considered 'bling'

 

[Big Swede]

Do they shed off in the summer or are they always that furry?

 

[leanin' H]

I like those boys! Soggy son of guns and really put together. Hope ya do well! According to BMR I am a pretty fair hand with a set of clippers so holler if ya need help! :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

PC...they look good, what are the average weights? also wondering why you shaved heads and left the rest? ( not trying to start anything!! )

If you torched all the long hair off like they do for many bull sales- you'd have a bar-b-que :wink: :lol:

 

[Yanuck]

PC...they look good, what are the average weights? also wondering why you shaved heads and left the rest? ( not trying to start anything!! )

If you torched all the long hair off like they do for many bull sales- you'd have a bar-b-que :wink: :lol:

not if you you're any kind of good you wouldn't...!!!! 8)

 

[PureCountry]

We leave the hair on the body because most breeders want to know that the bull has a true Galloway/Welsh hair coat. It's undesirable to have a slick bull in a breed that is supposed to have hair.

Kaiser likes the shaved heads, and I do too, but I'd most times rather sell them untouched. Either way doesn't matter to me. The bulls look great, but it is interesting to see how different they look with their faces peeled down. You wouldn't recognize some of them if we had done before and after pics.

As for shedding out in the summer, some do and some don't. The ones that don't certainly feel the heat in July/August. I like bulls that shed out in the summer, then hair up again come fall. Almost all of our cows do that, but the bulls tend to get slicker as they get older.

Here's Navigator, the sire of the first 2 bulls I posted, in March when he was 2:

Here he is at the age of 5 on pasture in a hot summer:

 

[Grassfarmer]

Good looking bulls PC but I hate the shaved heads. I think it reduces their masculinity to the eye and you can't see what the hair quality on the face is which is very important. I know the practice is widespread and I guess had it's origin in trying to make all cattle look like "good cattle" ie of the Angus type with the smooth polls and sleek shiny hair :roll: You'd think when people in other breeds talk the Angus down sometimes they wouldn't feel the need to emulate their type. The last comment isn't directed at you PC just at breeders in general.

 

[WyomingRancher]

Nice looking bulls . Do you have any pics you could post of Navigator's daughters in production?

 

[Northern Rancher]

They are looking good-I've got a shaved head not sure it improved my looks any lol. I'd rather see them unshaved myself.

 

[PureCountry]

Nice looking bulls . Do you have any pics you could post of Navigator's daughters in production?

Yup, just heading out to work, I'll try and remember to post them tonight.

 

[katrina]

I really like these bulls... I would really be interested, but the hair thingy really concerns me with hot summers and breeding in July and August.. But if I lived where it stayed cooler I would go for them...

 

[gcreekrch]

I would sincerely like to own a whole herd of Galloway x cows as they really fit this country but our markets just will not pay for the feeder cattle over here.
When I questioned some of the buyers who have purchased our cattle over the years they told me to let them know when I had crossed Galloway into the herd and they would quit buying them.

They really make good, tough cows.

 

[Grassfarmer]

I would sincerely like to own a whole herd of Galloway x cows as they really fit this country but our markets just will not pay for the feeder cattle over here.
When I questioned some of the buyers who have purchased our cattle over the years they told me to let them know when I had crossed Galloway into the herd and they would quit buying them.

They really make good, tough cows.

You could find a Galloway breeder who is tired of breeding them pure, get him to pick up a reasonable Simmental bull and buy the replacement heifers. They will be brown with blaze/spreckle faces. Breed them Charolais and I guarantee the buyers will pay top dollar for them. You will have a very efficient F1 mother cow, we ran them for years in the old country.

 

[PureCountry]

I would sincerely like to own a whole herd of Galloway x cows as they really fit this country but our markets just will not pay for the feeder cattle over here.
When I questioned some of the buyers who have purchased our cattle over the years they told me to let them know when I had crossed Galloway into the herd and they would quit buying them.

They really make good, tough cows.

Not sure where they formed their opinion, but to each their own. :roll:

Galloway-sired steers have dominated the Olds College Steer-A-Year trials alongside Limo's for 20+ years, always ranking in the top 2 or 3 for rate of gain, conversion and youngest ready for slaughter. What else would it take to impress a feedlot owner?

The only downside to Galloway in a feedlot is if they're purebred, the hair tags up so bad. But as you said - get Galloway in the cowherd where it will save YOU alot of money, then cross them back to whatever.

Some guys have bought Galloway bulls from me to cross on Simmy X Angus cows for replacements. They all said the same thing, they want to slowly replace the Sim-Angus with the Galloway F2's, then cross them back Angus or Simmental. Makes alot more sense to have efficiency in the factory, and use the bull to provide the performance in the product.

 

[hillsdown]

Bulls look really good PC and RK.. Good luck at the sale.

BTW you guys ,Alberta does get fairly warm in the summer. We have been known to reach temps as high as 39-40 celsius in the summers for a couple of straight weeks.. :wink:

 

[PureCountry]

Here's some of Gator's daughters, pre- and post-calving.

Crossed on a baldy:

Gives a fairly slick heifer calf:

I thought I had more pics on here of his girls, but I'll have to download some more, and take some recent ones of more of his bred heifers we'll be calving in May.

 

[Faster horses]

Wow. You'd have to be blind not to like them.
Great looking cows, Pure Country. I LIKE 'EM.[/b]