Special:
If you make a purchase at the KCK Leadore Angus March, 2010 sale, Karl Tyler will
give you a $500 coupon for your next truck deal at his Chevy dealership in Missoula, Karl Tyler Chevrolet.
Address:
KCK Leadore Angus
29 Tyler Lane
Leadore, ID 83464
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Welcome to KCK Leadore Angus at LeadoreAngus.com |
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Opening Greeting for Our March, 2010 Sale
Welcome to our 45th Annual Production Sale.
This is a great set of bulls. Again over one-half the bulls are sons of just three
bulls Sitz Alliance 431N, Sitz Upward 307R, and RR 2418 Hero 0616. There are also
groups of bulls by Sinclair Extra 4X13 and Connealy Thunder. Our focus remains the
same calving ease, growth performance, muscling, and moderate size. As a group,
these bulls average in the top third of the Angus breed for light birth weight
and weaning and yearling growth. We think this pretty clearly demonstrates that
we are achieving our objectives. You will drive a long ways to find a better set of
bulls throughout a catalog.
We are quite optimistic about the cow business. The general economy is showing some
signs of life and the cattle market has caught fire this winter. As this deal
improves, cow-calf guys are going to be in the drivers seat. Cow numbers are at
their lowest level since the early 1950's. As the cattle market improves,
replacement females are going to be in great demand. This is the time to have the
best maternal genetics that you can afford. You can buy them in this sale. No one
in Idaho has a maternal history on their cattle that will match this herd. From Bob
Adams through Rodger Swanson and Mark Castor and the last eight years on this ranch
with Carl Lufkin, we have always expected cows to produce under commercial
conditions. That is how you find the cows that really work.
The strength of our breeding program is really shown in our young herd sires. Each
year we keep the top 3-5 bulls to use to clean up behind our AI program.
Unfortunately, their calves are always born later in the calving season, so few
make the bull sale. It does, however, allow us to identify some top young
genetics. We currently own two outstanding young bulls Leadore Epoch 6159
and Leadore Upward 737. We have collected these bulls and will use them hard
AI in 2010. We will have 15-20 sons by each next year and a bunch in 2012. One
other young bull deserves mention Leadore High Country 81, the high selling
bull in our 2009 Sale. We bred the bull to about 100 cows last spring and the
calves look great. We have been unable to purchase herd sires that work better
under our conditions than the bulls we are raising. We will continue to test
outside genetics, however, at this time we are going to focus on the genetics that
we are producing internally.
We look forward to seeing all our old friends at the sale and hope to make a lot of
new ones. We'll again have displays in the sale barn from some of our friends and
suppliers. Plan to be with us sale day and we'll feed you a great lunch. If you get
over our way before the sale, the cattle are available any time. We would love to
talk cattle with you.
--Carl Lufkin, Karl Tyler, Rod Swanson,
Bob Loucks, and Kristine Marxer
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