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All right, everybody. So this isn't a typical preview like we would do for an online sale. If y' all noticed. Back in January, we were able to do a sire preview for Mr. Raymond gone there at Competitive Edge Genetics, and we were fortunate enough to cover his display bull there at Denver, Nodding by nature, which was, from what it sounds like, an awesome event that worked out really, really well. And there was a lot of interaction that preview high in terms of downloads and streams, and it seemed as if a lot of people enjoyed listening to that. And so we're going to for this month here in April, especially before Raymond makes his trips for all of his semen routes. And so with that said, Raymond, it sounds like Denver went really well. Talk to me about what your thoughts were about that and maybe some feedback that you got from the preview, and then after that, we'll talk about some other bulls that you. You got up to offer.
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B
Absolutely. Well, yeah, no, the last one we did was prior to Denver as kind of an announcement and. And to give some more information on the new bull that we were going to be displaying. And I thought that was really informational for a lot of people that don't get a chance to maybe talk to me while we're there on display, because it can be kind of hectic. And also for those of them that don't actually get to go to Denver and see the bull and just give a little bit more feedback from people that were able to listen to it, that they liked being able to learn more about the whole generational aspect of everything and not just the bull's pedigree and his picture and stuff like that. So, no, Denver was awesome. The weather was beautiful. Crowds were awesome. We had a lot of positive feedback on the bull, which I expected just because I knew he was something that was pretty exciting to go out and display, and. And it definitely worked in our favor, and we had a lot of fun. So since then, he left straight from Denver, went back to the bull stud at 605 sires, and he started freezing semen. We've had two online sales with it, and those guys were fighting over it. And as of right now, if he freezes here this week, we'll have some available on the open market finally. And so the plan is to have some with me in my travels as I'm making, you know, farm visits here across the Midwest. So we're pretty excited to get as much of that scattered around as we can. And I know so far there's some pretty prolific donor cows that are getting flushed to them and we hope to to gain some more of those as the season goes on as well.
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Yes sir, for sure. Well, that one obviously you're partnered with Thompson on, but there's also two others as well, Ready or Not and Tried and True, which are your two new hot up and coming sires. Both going to be unique in their own right. Talk to me about those two, what you're excited about. Just talk to me about them.
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B
Yeah, absolutely. So those are two bulls that we're, we're going to carry for Thompson showsters as well. They were both raised there and that's a very successful program. Just a lot like naughty by nature. Both are backed by super dominant donor cows that have produced multiple state fair champion market steers, multiple high sellers, Very consistent just from a degree of efficiency of raising high end show cattle. And so we wanted to add those to our lineup just you know, to bring our customers something that's that's new that we think's got some consistency and, and offer some, some different things as far as some breeding solutions like you just discussed. So the Ready or not bull, the red bull, he's a how great out of the 7 over 35 donor that Chad Thompson owns. So that would actually be the same donor cow that would be the mother of like Nelson England's new world order and problem solved. So right there, I mean that cow's already raised two other promotional bulls if that tells you anything. Very, very efficient in terms of just high end show cattle. The red bull we think is kind of unique because he's DS free. And so we've been seeing more and more of that kind of pop up on these breeding females being DS carriers and so finding one that's th carrier but DS free is, is kind of a small pocket there that is kind of a need and I think being used on colored cows, but that will raise black calves on black cows too. I so definitely a cow changer. Super stout, super powerful. Just ests in terms of power and mass. So we're kind of excited about that. I know Chad's planning to flush some donors of his own that way too. He has not froze semen yet. We're hoping soon. It's just kind of one of those deals where it's just a matter of time before they kind of hit their maturity. Right. And so we're excited to, to get some of that here soon. The tried and true bull, he's already freezing semen, very fertile, which is exciting. He's here I am 79B. So that pedigree at Thompson Showsters has been extremely successful. Full sibs to mult State fair champions. Again, a plethora of high sellers and actually Naughty by Nature's Mother is a full sib to tried and true as well. So just that correlation of that pedigree has been very, very consistent. And we, we talk a lot about that because I think it is so important in terms of when we take those genetics and spread them all over the country in a variety of situations. When they're backed by proven donor cows like that, they seem to hit a little bit more often. That bullfer here I am a short backed and chubby your bodied and just really square built and something that I think is kind of a more modern style of what Here I Am is offered. And so we're pretty excited to get that one into production as well. I know Chad's already flushed one donor that way and he's gonna do a couple more that way as well. And there's another cow that actually raised this year that won Fort Worth a few years ago, got flushed to him here the other day. So there's, there's some guys are definitely wanting to dabble on that just because they like the body style and shape that that one offers. For being a Here I Am derivative.
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A
Absolutely. For sure. Well, I think the next bull that you told me you wanted to for sure point out is Feelings. Obviously he's an in game on the Weiss Estella, a main on Jubal. That's extremely unique for the breed that's been able to do a lot of good for the breed as well.
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B
Yeah. So that bull, his second calf crop is just hitting the ground now. The first ones, the bull froze late that first year and so we didn't get a whole lot of it out there, but out of what we did get there was a lot of pretty notable high sellers. Ryman's raised one that brings 94,000 Bronkers in Kansas raised one that brings four. Copeland had one bring 30,000. We had one at the house we sold half interest in for 20 and there was quite more 10,000 plus ones across the country. And like I said, very limited use that first year because he froze so late. So not only was there not very many of them, but they were also later born. And so it's not like they were selling early and all fall they were all over the place. But with that being said, the bull was still popular enough from being on display two years in a row. He was very well respected from just a lot of breeders. And so they dug in last spring, and especially the ones that didn't get to use them the first year, they still charged on just as hard. And so we've been getting an incredible amount of calf reports this spring clear across the country because there was way more of them born now. And that bull has taken off. I'll be honest with you. He's selling semen faster than he can make it, which is a good problem to have, I guess. But we've actually had to raise the price on him just to try to, to curb some of that. Because he's so popular right now. A lot of the major breeders in the main Angie breed are all flushing their top donor cows to him. Another thing that kind of pushed him into that really popular area was he was already Roth PHA and DS free by Pedigree and pure bre red. But then he came back with a red gene carrier. And then we tested him for all the Angus defects and he came back clean for all of that as well. And so in the main Angus thing and also for making these high main cattle, there's a few of these sires that have come back as carriers for some of the Angus stuff. And him being clean, it just kind of solidifies himself as he's got his own lane now and he's clean on everything. Red gene, purebred and obviously quality too. He's, he's making them hairy, he's making them big bone and dense and very consistent at making sellable looking livestock. And he's getting a lot of usage right now. So we're pretty excited about him. We've had a lot of faith in him right from the get go. We thought he was probably, in my opinion, in all the years I've traveled around, one of the most impressive purebred main Angie bull prospects I'd ever seen. When I purchased him, he was only like a five or four or five month old calf, but he, he just, I just couldn't live without him kind of a deal. It was just one of those bulls that just hit you like a ton of bricks. And I knew he was going to be a breed changer and he's definitely followed through on all of that. So we're really, really excited about that. Bu nature. He's getting flushed to some of the most influential cows in the business right now, which is a blessing because obviously from a bull promoter's aspect, when you can get in some of the best cows, it's definitely beneficial, but not only from that perspective, but it's, it's, it's Humbling to be able to have access to some of those cows because of the bulls quality. So it's one of those deals that, like I said, I think the bull's going to last for quite a while just because of the quality he's producing. But also we're getting to have access to some, like I said, some of the best cows in the country, which is really, really exciting for sure.
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Absolutely. Another exciting bull that you have up to offer is the apex bull. He's an in game on the Udale's Queen Ruth 0204. And this is a 3, 8 main Angus, arguably one of the older bulls that you got to offer. Not the oldest, but older. But I think that just goes to show with his ability to knock out a few calf crops. Just goes to show of all the many females that have been extremely sought
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after, for sure, yeah, that one there has definitely caught a lot of steam as well. One of the most popular bulls we've got right now as far as making show heifers and breeding stock. Again used in so many different areas. Whether it's been to raise main Angus, high mains, maintainers, keys, there's guys that used them on purebred cementals to raise half bloods with, you know, just a little extra punch than what you would get on just a straight Angus bull. And he's been knocking out of the park in every avenue. I don't even know how many high sellers he had last fall, but there was a lot of them and they were all over the country in multiple programs. It wasn't just like they were all at one place. And so there was a lot of momentum on that bull last year and a lot of chatter about them just because it seemed like every sale that had one, they were kind of in the top percentile of what you know, the high end ones were at everybody's places. And so they started to get noticed by a lot of people. And that bull is getting flushed to a lot of donor cows. Unfortunately he sustained an injury last August, a stifle injury he got in a bull fight. And so we had to pull the semen off the market. And we've only had a few online sales with it and it's brought a lot of money, which is nice from the perspective of that. You can sell it for more money and sell less inventory. But truthfully, I wish we could have all kinds of it and just have it everywhere. But it's still nice to see that the public notices that that bull is very valuable to the industry and they're willing to pay a premium to get those genetics and use that in their programs on, on their best cows. And so we're hopeful that at some point he will reach a point of recovery where we can put him back on the open market. But as of right now, that stuff's just going to be selling online because there just, there isn't enough of it. But very, very exciting bull, like we said, one that has worked in so many different areas and there's going to be a plethora of winners come out of there. There's already been quite a few that have won at a high level. And so we, we think that's still smooth sailing ahead as far as his success and his path as far as being a bullet's going to leave his mark as kind of a legendary sire in the show heifer world for sure.
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Yes, sir. Well, the next bull I know that you wanted to talk about was claim to fame. And obviously this is a newer bull that you got to offer. He's a Memphis mafia out of the frackings and dory is lot one blood Manon Jew and his full sisters are extremely, extremely good. And they did a lot of damage there at the national level shows as well.
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Yeah. So that there was two heifers that the door sold in their pasture sale there a few years back and they created quite the momentum shift in the breeding cattle world. They came out at over $300,000 and everybody was talking about them. They, they were probably the biggest factor in what created the frenzy over the Memphis mafia semen. And why it, because he was deceased, why it all of a sudden was worth so much? It was because what those heifers did that fall and then they went on to win a bunch of stuff, create a lot of, like I said, a shift and a lot of momentum for those genetics. And so when we were given the opportunity to get in on a full brother with frekings, we jumped at it. Because not only was the bull super high quality, but to be a full sib to heifers that were that successful. And then in the next few years after those first two had sold, there was more of them that sold for 50, 100,000. I mean, this was not a one hit wonder mating. These were all firing off at high prices and then going on and being winners and just that mating has just been so potent that we thought there's no reason why a bull like that would not have value to the industry. And so we displayed him in Denver. Very popular bull as well. He froze a Little bit late last year so we didn't get a whole lot of it out. But the camp reports have been awesome. He was able to get flushed to a handful of donor cows. That definitely helps to get, you know, multiples of stuff. And so we're pretty pretty excited to actually see some of them on the road. We've been getting text messages and Snapchats and stuff of some of them and they've looked very, very exciting. And so we're pretty pumped about what those might look like here this fall. A bull that like I said with a mating like that I have a lot of confidence in. And so we're pretty excited to meet him to. To raise some show cattle as far as breeding cattle side of things and. And some elite show heifers as well.
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A
Yes sir. Well, the next bull that we're going to talk about is Made for this. He's a maid to Oregon Smiling Queen, A bull that goes back all the way to to 2000 and 20s when he was, when he was born. But he even produced in his within first or second calf crop. The other bull we'll talk about made you look. Talk to me about those two.
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B
Yeah. So Drew Miller in Indiana raised made Made for this and that cow, that Smiling Queen cow was kind of a cornerstone donor for his program. She. I don't even know what her gross of income has been on on show Heifers but she clicked to so many different sires including Made to Order, which is the sire made for this. But another really consistent cow. You'll start to see the pattern that we don't like to promote bulls unless they're out that have hit multiple times and generated like that. And so he's so high key. He's 15% key. So we love that about him. Where he's really hit well is on a lot of these Angus sired show heer prospects that were back out of Houdeman bloodlines. He's really clicked on some of that stuff to keep the key percentage up and he'll kind of moderate frame a little bit on some of those because when you throw that much key in them, sometimes they've got a little bit of frame and so he's worked good to blend some of that. The daughters are definitely probably more what a guy's after and we've really really like those. There's been some that are in production that are are generating both on the showster side of things and also on the breeding cattle side of things that guys really really like. And so just a really unique bullet in terms of being that high key, being th and pha free and having some older school pedigree on the bottom side that's kind of out cross to some of that stuff. And so he's been fun and. And now we've got the sun made you look. Which was out of a very successful key show heifer for the Podmic family. She was actually two times in the top five at junior nationals. Once as a fall calf and then came back the next year as a big senior bred and was in the top five as well. And so adding those genetics in there and and just another layer of consistency. He's also a high percent key and so I think those two bulls could kind of be used similarly in terms of higher percent key. And like I said on some of the Angus side key type show heifer stuff where I think made you look offers maybe a little bit of different stuff in comparison to his dad is he's probably a little more extended. He's probably got just a shot more frame than what is what his dad had. And just having that extra layer where there's a little shot of main Angie in there as well definitely helps. But those two bulls for being high percent key, there's not a whole lot like them out there on the market. Most of the key influence bulls are very low percentage or they're Angus sired. And so these two have kind of created their own little pocket there where if you're looking to keep your Kenny in a percentage up, those two definitely could fit that spot for you for sure.
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A
Well, you mention posmic family and you're distributing some semen for them on a bull called Paramount which would be essentially a 24 carat on the UDL's proving queen. Talk to me about the bull why he decided to distribute semen on and what you think that he can provide as a solution for the breed.
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B
Yeah, so we don't carry a lot of Angus bulls over the years we've had a few calving ease deals that we've kind of had. But this bull here we definitely wanted to add to our lineup because of the fact that he was such an outlier. The bull was actually supreme champion overall breeds at the South Dakota State Fair. And that's when we first really took root on that that this thing was definitely of the level of caliber that we need to be to raise high end show cattle. He is just so stout featured for an Angus. He's so big footed and so big boned and he's so hairy. Truthfully, if you went to the bull stud and saw him and the sign said that he was a purebred mane or even a half blood mane. I don't think anyone would would doubt that. He is just so different for an Angus because he's got so much punch and so much ESTs. And so we really look forward to getting some more of that scattered out. We had a few calves that we sold late this year out of them that were just clean up on some of Podsmix donor cows. And they were very high quality. And I've actually had a few reports already this spring of guys that tried it last spring because that was the first year we had it. And they're like, they're some of our best calves. And so pretty excited to see what he can do just in terms of a crossbreeding situation or in the purebred Angus world. He's a 24 karat. That cow is an insight person class from Udell's. That was a show heifer that we'd sold that was very successful as well. And just if you want to look at an Angus that doesn't look like an Angus, if you're into that kind of thing, that bull definitely needs to be utilized in your breeding program because he can. I think where he's really going to shine is using him in the reverse to make main Angus that are Angus sired on main cows because you're not going to sacrifice and lose some of that hair and bone and and stoutness that that you normally would on most Angus genetics when you're infusing that. I think he's going to maintain some of that and it'll be really exciting to kind of see what he does there for sure.
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A
Yes, sir. Well, another bull that you wanted to talk about was the Empire Charlemale bull. And honestly, he's arguably one of the younger ones of the entire one grouping we've talked about. But I don't think that works to his demise. I think the bull's extremely unique for the breed and I think he for being PA negative I think is also unique for sure.
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B
Yeah, that was another one that we carry for Efflings and Jackson and and Pratt's own part of that bull as well. And his sire was Force of Nature, which is a very popular bull. But. But semen's hard to come by. And so when that one came around, we definitely wanted to carry him just for the fact that there's not a whole lot of force in nature sons available that are that quality especially. And so the bonus was he came back PA negative, which is a. The defect that the Charolais are kind of testing for and needing to avoid right now. And so that kind of put him in his own lane in that breed. And very exciting first calf reports we're getting here this spring. They're hairy, they're big boned, they're good looking. And we've actually had a few guys that had some purebreds that they said, yeah, you question if there are composites because of how hairy and kind of tricked out they are, which is very exciting. And so I think that bull's going to catch some steam here. I know we've been moving quite a bit of it here lately just to try to get those genetics people are trying to find that force nature bloodline. And. And the PA negative thing is definitely a huge bonus for him as well. That bull's going to get some more usage for sure in that breed.
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A
Well, I also know that you distribute semen for Rogers there out of Missouri and they, I mean, bulls like Tricked Out, Chosen One and Next man up have all been extremely high or sought after, especially the Next Man Up. There's been a lot of awesome that have come to fruition and online sales out of that bull. But I also know Chosen One and Tricked out have produced multiple, multiple champions. So talk to me about those, why you decide to distribute for Rogers.
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B
Yeah, so Blaine and I have, we've done a lot of stuff together. I was pretty well at the ground level on all those bulls as far as when he promoted them. I, I was there in Denver. We helped get Chosen One ready. I was there in Oklahoma City when we just played Tricked Out. Next man up was one that we definitely were involved with right from the start when he got him. And so Blaine does a great job. He's very integrated in the showstier side of things. Don't get me wrong. He's got some, some maternal bulls as well that are very successful. I just kind of wanted to pair some of his better club calf bulls with what I thought was already a nice maternal lineup that we already owned. And it's worked out great. We've had multiple state fair winners. I'd have chosen one that we've sold ourselves. We've sold a lot of tricked outs and Blaine's had a lot of success with tricked outs. This kids have shown plenty of those as well. That X Men hub thing has been very hot. I want to say. There was a Texas major steer that just won this year that was an X Man up as well. So he's also worked in the slick sheer and the herd sector. And so those bulls, they've kind of proven themselves. They complement our lineup really well. And like I said, we do a lot of stuff with blaine in general, and so it just worked out great. We all kind of just have the same mindset that when we're traveling around, if we think that there's stuff like that that needs to be utilized, that we would definitely want to get it scattered around. And so they've been a nice addition to the lineup Just to provide some more club calf stuff to kind of fill some of those slots as well.
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A
Well, the next one we're going to talk about, I think, is a really intriguing story, but from my end, I life's a triple. I just gotten. I think it was instagram, and I don't know where I saw it, but you posted a sneak peek on the bull, and I was like, oh, this is gonna be really cool. And then to be a second to none on a dakota Dakota gold mab cow. I think he compliments a lot of these in God we trust daughters for sure, but not just that. I'd also like to know just how the people who are involved in him Got to be involved with him as well. I think the bull's extremely versatile for what he could be used on. I do like him a whole lot.
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B
Yeah. So that was one that I actually had found in my spring breeding travels that. That I'm currently on right now. That's. That's when we've definitely scouted some of these bull prospects. And I found him in southern Ohio, and. And that bull's mother had worked really well to in God as well. And so I thought, hey, there's an option where I can then take that bull. Because we actually had him tested and he was th and pha free. And I thought when that would be kind of unique to use on some of these dirty in God daughters, Since I know that that bloodline worked on his mom. And that's definitely where we've taken them in a lot of situations. And it's worked really well. He's worked on a variety as well, but definitely kind of more so on the colored side of things. Just because he was yellow. I think guys used him more so for that. It's a bull that'll kind of frame them up a little bit, make him real good looking. And that thing had hair hanging off of him For a th free bull that was really, really cool about him. And so we've had some really nice calves. We've sold out of them. We've had some guys that have flushed some donor cows and sold some pretty nice litters of those. The bull actually passed away here last January, Sustained an injury, and just. We had to kind of get rid of him, unfortunately. So there's some limited semen on him, but still a bull that gets utilized where he works well. And definitely there's a spot for him for sure. He probably lost just a little bit of steam once we kind of came up with told you so when he had the red gene. And because he was not DS free as well, a guy kind of had to watch a little bit. But like I said, where that bull works, he works as good as any clean bullet that we've had. For sure.
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A
Yes, sir.
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B
For sure.
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A
Well, told you so is one that has been extremely prominent in your sire dispersals. But he's obviously knocked it out of the park. I mean, he's so versatile in terms of making show heifers and years. The bull is extremely unique. Talk to me about how you acquired him, the type of cows he works on, and what he provides.
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B
Yeah, that one's been a fun one. Brad Linton in Nebraska actually raised that bull, and he's a very dear friend of mine. And I remember seeing him as a baby calf when I was out there doing my spring semen sales tour, and he kind of walked out from around the resip, and he had hair hanging over his eyes, and he was just humongous bone, and you could just tell he just looked like a bull. And I told Bryce, we probably need to keep, Keep, keep that one intact, don't you think? And he's like, ah, he's probably dirty there, ain't you think there's, you know, another th carrier out of here? I am like, I don't. I'm like, we'll just test him and see. You never know. And he called me a couple weeks later. He goes, hey, you ain't gonna believe this. That bull came back triple clean. And I'm like, there's no way. He said, I know. There's no way. We gotta retest him. There's no way he's triple clean. So we ran it again. He came back triple clean again. And we're like, whoa, we got something here. So it was at that moment that we realized that we're gonna promote the bullshit. We ended up getting another friend of ours, Darren Young from Ohio, involved in the bull as well. We took him to Denver that year. It was an absolute blast. I don't know that I've ever promoted a bull that had that much steam coming out of Denver. It was just like all anybody could talk about was that bull clear across the country. He took the whole country by storm. Very, very exciting times. Because we worked a lot of years to have a bull that finally kind of reached that. That point where it didn't seem to matter whose team you were on or where you were from or what you had going on. That bull was just looked at like, like if you got a carrier cow, you need to breed it to him. Because we've never seen a triple clean bull look like that before. I guess the quick story about, about his name, part of the reason we called him that was I was, I was told by multiple people that there's no way you can get them big enough, boned, hairy enough and stout enough unless they got at least one of them defects. And when he come back triple clean and looked like a triple dirty one, we said, told you so. I told you we could do it. So it kind of. He kind of broke the barrier as far as what a clean cow changer, club calf bull could look like. And then it just kept getting better. Obviously he was very well received. So we sold a lot of semen that first year. There was a lot of calves. He came back with a red gene. The calves looked phenomenal. They started selling well, then they went on to start winning. And it's just like one thing after another. The bull has just done everything we've asked and everything we could have hoped for and more. He's kind of been a unicorn as far as a once in a lifetime type individual that has really changed the game for us. It opened up a lot of doors. It got us in a lot of places that, that we had never been in before, as far as, you know, different producers that we finally got access to some of their genetics and they were using the bull. And it's just been really, really fun. And the bull's been very well respected right from the start. And it's just, it's continued to grow as success. And then like you just said at the start of this about him, he's not only raised good steers, but like, the females have been good. We had a breeding heifer that we sold to a family, Wisconsin, the Tibbets family, that campaigned her last year. I don't remember how many jackpots she was in the top five, but there was a lot of them. And then she went on to. To win Kansas City and be reserve in Louisville, which those are huge, massive shows that are tough to do and to have a club calf sired one, kind of giving all the breeding cattle guys a run for their money was pretty cool. And so we've actually got sexed female semen that we made on him as well. For some guys that wanted to use him to make daughters, we've got sexed male semen, we've got conventional semen. And it's just the bull's very popular. He's a bull that you can utilize on a large variety of cow types and he makes a high percentage of sellable livestock. There's always going to be a scale of quality on them because depending on what type of cow and what the pedigree was and all that. But for example, if a guy bred a cane of it, bred 10 units of it, and you got, let's say you got eight cabs on the ground, nine times out of 10, you're going to sell all of them. They're very sellable as far as being utilized in the show world. So for me it's, it's just been really fun to be able to go to customers, houses, say, you know, on your carrier. Cows use this bull with confidence and when they do, it works out for them and they're like, yeah, that worked awesome. It was consistent. It's everything you said it was going to be. He's just never disappointed us. He's never, never created a situation where we've been like, man, that just, that was a wreck. You know, it's always been positive or really exciting news every time. And just it's, it's helped his momentum just continue to build. For sure.
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A
Yes sir, for sure. Well, I know the last thing that you wanted to talk about was these Highlanders. I don't know nothing about Highlanders. I'm gonna let you take the wheel. I just know they look cool.
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B
So that's definitely something that we've kind of gotten into the years we would showing some highland cattle on the side and, and what that created was an opportunity to find some really elite bulls. And in that breed, not everybody's going to breed stuff like that, but where we've really utilized them in the competitive edge genetics lineup is from a calving ease situation and so on. Some of these dirty or clean club calf bred heifers that we all know are a little more terminal than we'd like them to be. They're a little tricky to get calved out the first year. There's a lot of calving these bulls out there that, that, that we try, but these have been the most consistent that we've seen to get these things out of these first calf club calf heifers. And so last spring we sold a pretty good jag of it to guys across the country and had a lot of good results. A lot of guys were like, you know what? I could have bred into a slick haired Angus bull and maybe got it out. Probably not going to like what the calf looks like a whole lot. But we're just trying to get them out, right? So if that's the goal and the bonuses that they, they've got some hair and they've got some quality, that's a bonus. And so not to mention they can all be papered as half bloods. And so if they are nice enough to where you could sell them for a show calf. Those cattle, a paper is a breed and they can show as aobs and it gives some of these families something to, to kind of work with as far as a breed calf. So they've been fun to have and, and they've definitely created some conversation, but they've, they've definitely provided a solution to that calving east situation that a lot of guys run into for sure.
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A
Honestly, extremely smart move on your end, for sure. But what I will say is this has been extremely fun and the fact that I get to represent bulls of this quality is truly an honor and I do appreciate you allowing us to represent you. I know right now you're currently on your, on your semen tour and so you're going place to place and knocking it out right and left. And so I know you're staying busy and I'm glad that we were able to do this with you. But is there anything else you want to tack on to this and let everybody know about before we end this episode?
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B
Yeah, I just encourage anybody that, that that is wanting to inquire about any of the sires that we carry or wanting me to stop by for a farm visit, look through your cows, try to help you mate them, try to find some breeding solutions that you might be looking for. If you've got calves that you want me to see, that would potentially be something we might want to merchandise in the fall. We're open to all of those things. It's a revolving door here with me. So obviously reach out via Facebook or text or call and let us know because we, we're out on the road right now. We're going to be on the road for a solid two months here. We travel all across the Midwest, we see a lot of cattle and we definitely like you to utilize some of our sires because we think there's some.
- [28:40]
A
And.
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B
And not only that, but I genuinely do treat this as a way to create livestock that are marketable, whether it's for me or for others. And so even if they're not out of our sires, we'd love to look at the calves, but definitely, if we think that there's something that we've got that can help you, we want to do that. And so I encourage anyone to reach out because we would love to be of service, for sure.
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A
Absolutely. No, I'm very grateful for the opportunity once again, and. And I hope that the semen tour goes well, and I hope that you sell a lot of it, and I hope that be able to provide more calf crops here in the near future to be just as competitive as years prior. So, with all this said, I'm extremely happy to do this and can't wait to see what the future looks like. It's with all the said empowerments here, and we'll see y' all next time. How do you like how that went?