Specials:
If you make a purchase at the sale, Karl Tyler will give you a $500 coupon
for your next truck deal at his Chevy dealership in Missoula, Karl Tyler Chevrolet.
$50/bull credit to buyers who pick up their purchases
sale day or within one week of the sale.
$50/bull credit to buyers who exhibit their 2011 Idaho
Cattle Association membership card to the sale clerk.
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 18, 2011 Sale
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our 46th Annual Production Sale. This is the best set of bulls ever produced by this ranch. They are thick, meaty rascals from one end of the sale to
the other. The bulls are primarily cataloged by actual weight and hip height. You will find outstanding individuals throughout the sale. The differences in size
are primarily a function of birth date and age of dam.
Once again, we are featuring sons of three great herd sires - Sitz Upward 307R, Sitz Alliance 431N, and RR 2418 Hero 0616. These bulls have the same
phenotype - they look alike. Genetically, each has different strengths. In our breeding program, we have been crossing and back-crossing the three pedigrees to
develop cows that look alike and perform alike. We also have groups of bulls by AAR Really Windy 1205 and Sinclair Extra 4X13. The other herd sires are bulls that
we have selected and tested on the ranch.
We always keep the top 3-4 bulls on test each year. We only keep sons of outstanding cows. We use them the first year to clean up behind our heifer AI program. If
the calves look good the next spring, we assign a breeding group of 50-60 young cows to them the next year. If calves by the bull are outstanding, we collect the
bull and use him AI. When we select a young sire to test, we try to keep our pedigrees diverse. We kept three 307R sons in 2008 - each is out of a different cow
family. We built this herd from three parent herds, so we have a wide variety of pedigrees. Many of the cows are by name AI sires, others are by bulls used only
within that herd. We let cow performance tell us which are the outstanding cows.
There are a handful of known genetic defects in the Angus breed. The Angus Association is to be commended for investing the research dollars to develop DNA tests
for them. Progressive breeders are testing all potential carriers for these defects. You can be sure that in this sale any potential carriers have been tested free
of the defect.
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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