We welcome you to our annual bull sale. We feel fortunate to be in ranching this year with the wonderful moisture and great hay crops. The outstanding cattle prices have been amazing as well. With cattle numbers at an all-time low, selection of your future sires is extremely important to maximize success of your calf crop. Wicks Cattle bulls have brought customers top dollar on their calves and will continue to do so. This is part of our commitment to you. We are striving to improve our program to bring you sires that produce calves that top the sale, calves with wide top, heavy muscle, adequate rib depth along with a great hair coat and great disposition. This is the first year our offering is entirely advanced age bulls. We have truly enjoyed the process of moving our calving to May and keeping the bulls long enough to mature them without pushing them on feed. It’s a great feeling to bring you the cream of the crop by weeding through and removing anything with a disposition or conformation problem. We keep asking ourselves “why didn’t we do this sooner?” We truly feel there is a difference in the hybrid SimAngus cattle and it’s even more apparent seeing these bulls at an advanced age. It has been a rewarding process to bring them to the point they are at today. There are so many advantages to using advanced age bulls, their age ensures they will cover more cows and have greater longevity. This offering is a quality set that is ready to go to work for you with a perfect balance of calving ease and performance. The SimAngus breed provides the hybrid vigor that heterosis provides and the performance side definitely shows at the scales, and your replacement heifers will have great maternal traits and adequate milk. We have a very uniform set of bulls from a few different sire groups. The bulls are naturally thick and big topped with great depth. They have good legs and feet, and they travel well. They were weaned mid-November 2024 and were only in the feedlot for 10 days to get started on weaning ration. After that they were in a 40-acre pasture and started on a grower ration. In mid-April, they went to grass and rotated in 3 different pastures throughout the summer. On October 1st, 2026 they were moved to a 20-acre pasture until sale day. The bulls’ feet and leg structure are genetically good and being out in the pastures rather than in lots they have been able to exercise to develop and mature slowly and soundly. Our focus was to bring you bulls with muscle and not fat, they are hard, and ready to go to work. We are very proud to have been one of the ranches named “Dedicated Performance Advocate” by the American Simmental Association. We have reported traits on our calf crop for many years and began DNA tissue sampling for the last three years. In 2024 we became involved in the Cow Herd Roundup Program. We have tremendously improved our accuracy of our EPD’s through parentage testing. The higher the accuracy (ACC), the lower the possible change (PC). This has brought us so much useful data to use in our decision making improving your herds profitability and performance. It also helps you make a more informed choice of your herd bull prospects. We do the 100k test, which checks markers to provide detailed genetic information as well. The Simmental breed is considered “The Science Breed” with heavy focus on performance data, genetic evaluation and genomic testing, this basis along with hybrid vigor/heterosis of SimAngus, there is typically faster growth, superior carcass quality and maternal excellence with good milk and earlier puberty than purebreds. The bulls are eligible for registration, if you wish to register your animal and/or have transferred to you in the American Simmental Association, please let us know. This is typically desired if you plan to use the bull for a seedstock operation. Please note that all of our black bulls are homozygous black and homozygous polled. The reds are homozygous polled as listed. One sire group, Shamwow, didn’t have polled status testing. The offering are virgin bulls except for three of them, Lot 28 (M65), Lot 5 (M38), and Lot 35 (M154) that we trialed on a few cows. They have been trich tested and are negative. You are welcome to stop by the ranch anytime and take a look at the bulls. Our customers are our top priority and we are happy to answer any questions to help you find the next sire for your cowherd. The Wicks Family Zane, Mary Jo and Mya Wicks Josie and Shane Forster
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