first breeding season coverage Bulls are guaranteed to be sound and healthy breeders. All bulls selling for $3500 or more will be covered 50% minus one-half salvage value by Mike Sitz Angus and Joel Johnston Angus if they are injured during their first breeding season. First breeding season is defined as the 60-day period following the first turnout of the bull on injuries that occur in the breeding pasture. 50% of the value of the injured bull, minus one-half salvage value, will be given as a credit in a future sale or toward a replacement bull if one is available. As a two-year-old bull, the minimum salvage value will be valued at $2000. Salvage value will be split equally between Mike Sitz Angus or Joel Johnston Angus and the buyer. A veterinarian must diagnose all injured bulls. Please notify us as soon as possible should an injury occur and prior to the injured bull being sold for salvage. All claims must be made by September 1, 2026. This is not mortality insurance. This does not cover poor management or neglect. heifer and cow management After weaning, the heifer calves winter graze in the hills, have salt and mineral, and are supplemented with a distiller’s cube to gain one pound per day. They will receive prairie hay when the winter grazing is short or covered with snow. In June, heifers are synchronized, heat detected, and artificially inseminated. A calving ease bull is turned in for 30 days. After pregging, all open heifers are sold. Once calves are weaned, the cows are wintered on range and meadow regrowth supplemented with distiller’s cubes. Prairie hay is fed in January, once the native range is short. At calving, cows are on pasture, and supplemented with cake and prairie hay. At birth each calf is caught and hand- weighed with a scale for their actual birth weight. In June, the cows are synchronized, heat detected, and artificially inseminated. Cows and first calf heifers are sorted into bunches of sixty, and each bunch has a bull turned in with them for forty-five days. At the end of October, females are preg-checked and all opens are sold with no exceptions. Throughout the year we constantly evaluate feet, udders, disposition, and performance.
bull management In mid-October, the bull calves are weaned, and go back on native range with salt and mineral. Their ration is distiller’s cubes and winter range, to gain two-pounds per day. Later, the bulls are put on a high roughage ration of ground prairie hay, modified distiller grain, and a little corn, to gain two pounds a day. As yearlings, the bulls graze native range and bottoms of cool-season grasses, supplemented only with salt and mineral. In mid-October, pre-sale, they have plenty of room to run, and begin a high roughage ration consisting of prairie hay, modified distiller’s grains, and a little corn.
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Joel Johnston Angus Bull Sale
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