WELCOME
Welcome to our fifth annual bull sale. We’ve had some big but exciting changes this year. Kassi and I welcomed our first child, Ryler, into the world in early January. He has been our greatest blessing yet. We then moved up to Rugby to her folks’ outfit and started calving cows the 25th of January. It’s been a lot of back and forth since then, but we are excited for the future of our family and our cattle operation. We feel like this move will set us up the best for future success. This year we are offering 40 yearling bulls. Another mild winter and spring has sure been nice. Couple that with new record high prices for calves, fats, and cull cows, and there is no doubt that now is the time to be in the cow-calf business. With that being said, cows that hold up and last longer in your herd are going to put more profit in your pocket over time. Out of the 40 bulls being offered, every cow has a calf at side this spring with the exception of the Lot 17 bull. His eight- year-old dam we left open to flush all fall and winter. We don’t sell bulls out of young open cows because those cows are NOT profitable! The bulls are developed slowly on a low mega-Cal TMR that never exceeded a 48 mega-Cal this year. We start them out on a 44 mega-Cal at weaning and gradually increase to a 48. We don’t push the bulls hard, because we don’t want them to fall apart during the breeding season. They’re developed to last for many years. The average daily gain data you see is not from a “test” period. It is from the time we record weaning weights, at weaning time, until we record yearling weights at the end of February. We place a lot of emphasis on the mother cow, and that’s why we display their age, MPPA, udder and teat score with their son’s data. Our cows are not pampered and must work for a living. We do not under-stock our pastures in an attempt to boost our weaning weights and keep all the cows in good shape. We run our purebred cows at the same stocking rate as our commercial herd so that the data you’re seeing is legitimate. This also helps us recognize differences in the fleshing ability of our cows in order to cull those that can’t maintain adequate body condition while raising their calf. We cull hard here, especially for feet. We wouldn’t want to buy a bull out of a cow with bad feet or udders and believe that nobody else would either. That’s why we never offer progeny for sale out of cows with those traits and avoid breeding to sires known to produce offspring with poor foot quality. It doesn’t matter how good their EPD’s are. If they have bad feet, they’re culled. Customer satisfaction is our priority. We want to know how the bulls are working for you. Give us a call or stop by anytime, and we can discuss which bulls would work best for your outfit. Our cowherd is open for viewing year-round, and we’d like to show you the dams behind the bulls.
OLAND RED ANGUS Klay & Kassi Oland 5664 149 th Ave. SE Leonard, ND 58052
KLAY 701-238-2492 klay.oland@gmail.com WWW.OLANDREDANGUS.COM
OLAND RED ANGUS
As always, we stand behind our cattle 100%. Thank you for your interest in our program.
sincerely,
Klay & Kassi Oland
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