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We hope that you have had a profitable year. The last 19 years in the registered angus business has provided some of the most rewarding experiences of my life. We have seen our program and our cowherd improve with each year, and we hope that our successes have also helped with our customer’s successes.
It can be difficult to find a selection of two year bulls that are true two year olds---in other words, bulls that weren’t picked over as yearlings, or weren’t good enough to sell as yearlings! The quality will be outstanding.
Finally, the pendulum is swinging back. After several years of single trait carcass breeding that wasn’t always complimentary with fertility, many advertisements are once again boasting about strong cow herds, yet the pedigrees don’t always show it! Rest assured that we never did go down that single trait road. Really Windy and Travel Power, both pathfinder bulls, are in the top 10% in scrotal and fertility. Along with HARB Outcross 1000, they have set the standard for my herd as “cow producers.” It is always good to know there is a solid base on the bottom side of the pedigree.
ABOUT THE SALE
This year, in our 17th annual sale, Godley Angus Ranch will be offering approximately 35 head of two year old bulls in the Cowboy Classic Sale on Saturday, April 17th, 2012. The sale will be held at Buffalo Livestock, Buffalo, Wyoming.
Godley Angus Ranch would like to again welcome you to the Cowboy Classic sale. Thank you to all of our past buyers.
This represents our 18th annual sale, and we feel this is as honest a set of bulls as we’ve ever had. Please read the sections about the bulls, and how they have been fed. A big thank you to Forgey/Smith Angus and Swenson Cattle Company for inviting us into this sale, and a special thank you to Mike and Julie Cushman for all of their help. We hope that this sale format will provide a
large selection to meet your needs. The Godley bulls can be viewed at the ranch in Kaycee until sale time. Give Gary a call at 307-267-2683 and I will be happy to show them.
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ABOUT THE BULLS
The bloodlines Godley Angus has followed for the past 19 years has not varied much. Consistancy in calving ease and maternal is what we strive for. Basically, the blood lines have stayed within the Traveler, Windy Ridge Commodore, and Quantum sire groups, and lately we have introduced Alberda Right Time. This also includes using sons and grandsons within these groups. We feel this provides consistancy in our bull offering as well as consistancy for our customers calf
crop and replacement females.
A DIFFERENT FEED PROGRAM
In the past years we have focused on developing a solid calving ease and maternal base in the cow herd . In switching to two year old bulls, we decided to feed and condition our bulls in the same manner that the western cattleman would run the bulls on his ranch. The first year, as yearlings, the bulls are wintered on hay, mineral, and protein tubs. They are then summered on pasture grass, and then as two year olds, again wintered only on hay, mineral, and protein tubs. They have never been fed grain in their life. What you see is what you get, without a bunch of fat covering up potential defects. Also because of this program, their size and weight is a little smaller than in the past, but the genetic base remains the same, and with this test is perhaps even stronger. The bulls can be taken home and turned out on hay with the rest of your bull battery, and they won’t have to be “put on a diet” for the upcoming breeding season. They have already had a test in the “real world.” The bulls were fitted by Jim Scheirmeister and Alecia Cushman, and were semen tested and scrotal measured by Dr. Dwayne Christensen.
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