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All right, everybody, so we got another preview for y'. All. And actually, this is not a club calf indicative preview. I've been fortunate enough to represent some awesome seed stock and commercial guys through avenues of Mike Marlow, some people there in Hempstead, Texas, the Fisher family, they've been able to help me out quite a bit and reaching other people that side of the industry that's led to this connection. Mr. Wyatt Durst, we get to represent him with his cattle company out there in Kansas. He's having a sale on CCI on April 8th. It's happening there till 6pm we're pretty excited to be able to represent y' all and very grateful for the opportunity as well. So, Wyatt, I'd like you to introduce yourself. The primary goal for WD Cattle Company and then after that, we'll dive through the lots.
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Yeah. So a little bit about us. My name is Wyatt Durst from here in north central Kansas, and my wife Taylor and I own and operate WD Cattle Company with our son Walker now. And both of our families kind of come from strong agriculture backgrounds, commercial cow and farming and ranching. And so Taylor and I actually only grew up two and a half hours from each other, but never met until we got to Hutchinson Community College on the livestock judging team. And so had an awesome two years there, met a lot of really good friends and wouldn't change that experience for anything. Went on to Kansas State University, graduated there in 19, and we were married in 2020 and moved back here to my home place. And here on our farming ranching operation, we are mostly commercial cow calf and spring and fall herds and just have a love and a passion for making really good mama cows. And so that's something that certainly drives me in our program is just trying to make females that are good footed, good uttered, and can maintain flesh on low quality forage and survive during the hard times and thrive during the good times. And so I try to take a lot of that same mindset with me from the commercial side to when I go make these matings for making registered bulls to go turn out for commercial guys. It's just kind of that mindset of making no holes, functional cattle that can go out and thrive in several different environments. That's a little bit about our program. We try to make them good and solid and no holes and functional and try to have them still with some look and some presence and some phenotype in them. So excited, excited about this set of bulls and excited to walk through them with you.
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You start off with the WD Stagecoat 513 a bull that is extremely cool looking from profile, bold, ribbed, very dimensional and looks like he's got an awesome set of feet and legs underneath him. Talk to me about him being a maternal brother to the to to the no Progressive 1179 looks and reads to have an incredible side of the bottoms. And in terms of mothers, yeah, no for sure.
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This bull's kind of got a cool story, so bear with me. But I guess going back to his mother, she would have been the highlight out of the Wildcat Creek dispersal back several years ago and Naya Brayer Red Angus would have purchased her as a kind of a lead donor in their program. And I guess probably the last seven or eight years. I've gone up to Niobrara Red Angus there in Niobra, Nebraska for a couple of those years and got to see calves during kind of all, all phases. Sometimes went there when there was calves on grass for a couple times and seen bulls in a lot the two or three other times that I went up there and just always gravitated towards the progeny of 2085 Z. They were always a little bigger scaled cattle that always were good footed and good structured and good bodied cattle. I just thought they were so functional and fun to look at, hyphena type type cattle. And so that's the story on his mother and there was a, I don't know, probably four or five years ago Dane and Allison Ward with Rosebud Cattle Company would have bought the Nile Progressive bull that you referenced there. Nile Progressive 1179. And I saw him as a yearling bull when they got him back home there and thought he was just, just a unique individual that, that we wanted to plug in here. Awesome footage, awesome. Structured with some presence. Just a unique bull I thought. And so again that was a son of 2085z and, and used him, used him extensively and plugged him in and actually just got to buy him back by half of him and run him on cows last summer. So that's been kind of a, a cool deal with him. And so a couple years after that after using the Progressive bowl, we teamed up and bought some embryos from Niobrara. They have a, usually have an embryo sale, a genetic sale and so bought some embryos to make full sibs to Progressive and that's how Rosebud and us ended up with The Bull Johnny Cash 342 and a unique individual that was reservable there at Cattlemen's Congress a couple of years ago. And he ended up selling to the Fisher family and the trademark genetics there in Hempstead, Texas. And I've liked certainly like the calves that we've gotten out of him. And so again another son out of 2085 Z. And so fast forward to two years ago again Taylor and I bought some embryos out of 2085Z and this time out of the ranch hand bull. So he was a pretty rare sire at the time and I think Niobrara had just purchased him. And these were some of the first embryos that they sold out of that stud cra ranch hand 2010. And I thought that ranch hand bull was a unique individual for first of all being Cavanese but not sacrificing some extra muscle and some foot quality. A dark red bull that again I thought just did a lot of things right. And he's pretty impressive on paper as well. So put those embryos in and we went three for four on those embryos. Got this Stagecoach bolt and two heifers in the replacement pen that I think will be a big part of our future going forward. Just the right kind of females that are soggy, easy fleshing and got some length of spine to them. I'm pretty excited about those set of females. But the Stagecoach bull I think is pretty unique for just being out cross on the top side and then out of a really good cow on the bottom side. Individually himself just pumped up with how he's looked all summer and progressed through the spring. A long spine, smooth made, really dense bodied individual that's good footed, good structured and we hope to plug him in here for a long time to come in the future.
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Well then moving on into lot 2 and you mentioned dark red. I noticed that the WD renewed tool 238 is an outlier for his color. And just being as little as I've been in the Red Angus breed that's something that's extremely sought after. But once again he's out of that Neo progressive 1179 but also a maternal brother to like your bull extra 271 along with valor 270 but what's intriguing is for him to be just as unique as he is from the profile. Long necked and it ties at the top side of his shoulder and just reads extremely extremely unique. I do like the bull a whole lot. He's also in terms of his EPDs which I know something that we could touch on just a little bit. But he's in the top 20% for his carcass traits. I think that's awfully impressive. And that correlates to him being, you know, maternal brother to those bulls that we've talked about prior to Jen. They look heavy duty, rugged and dimensional.
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Yeah, absolutely. We'll highlight lots two and three. They're full brothers and a little backstory on them. Their mother, the C Bar, Mimi 8134. I worked for a couple months this summer during college out of Brownell, Kansas for Steve Meyer and really got to get engulfed in some of the cow families and kind of really learned what I liked there. And 8134 would have been a heifer calf, an embryo heifer calf. That was probably my favorite red heifer there that summer out on grass and a couple years later was able to purchase a flush on her and did her to Red Eagle. And that's how we got valor and extra that you referenced there. Both bulls that have done a very nice job. And so a couple years later did another flush on her to the progress aggressive bowl that I mentioned earlier. Thought that would be a very complimentary mating. And several embryos out of those. Last year's sale had five full brothers to lots two and three this year that are both, all five of those still working. One went to a neighbor here close down the road and one went to Nebraska, Mr. Quinn Rutt. And a couple last three went to awesome operations there in Texas and Oklahoma. And so a very fertile cow that consistently gets it done. And she just produced 32 again the other day to a mating. So story is far from over with her and still producing quality stock. Yeah, the lots two and three, I think individuals, specifically lot two, dark red is just ultra, ultra intriguing. He's big footed, heavy, structured, loose built and just like you said, neat. From the profile, I think a bull that does a lot of things right. And lot three, certainly if you watch his video, just a lot of presence to him. His head, neck, shoulder. How it all ties together is, is how he liked to make it. He's really level and square. And both those bulls, I think will do a very nice job of offering low birth weight and probably have for safe options, but still do so with quality. And both of those, like I said, we had a lot of embryos out of those. And so lots 2 and 3 were actually raised at some good friends of ours, Ryan and Abigail Jackson, out in western Kansas. And so had a lot of, a lot of those embryos, sold them to those guys and I begged them to this summer after I saw them, begged them to let me get 2 and 3 back for our sale and. And really happy with how they've developed and progressed and excited to see where they go in the future.
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A
Well then moving on to Lot 4. Talk to me about him.
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He ended up getting hurt and so he's an out in this sale. But yeah, he was. He is certainly a nice individual. Hopefully we'll get him over it and be available at a later date. But for now he'll be out of the sale.
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Lot 5 is next. This is going to be another bull prospect that's out of the progressive 1179. But the bottom side is intriguing, especially being out of that lady Lola female. Talk to me about her, what she's done for your program. The bull reads extremely rugged and dimensional as well. Talk to me about him.
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Yeah, five and six, I think full brothers that offer tremendous quality. Same thing, low birth weight heifer safe options that do so with flesh ability and foot quality. The bottom side of that is from what would be my grandpa Dewey would have raised that cow. He would have bought some several bread heifers for a couple years there in a row from Pelton Simital Red Angus out in western Kansas. And so we bred that cow to and Taylor and I ended up buying this heifer as a bred heifer from my grandpa. But an awesome cow that just does all those little intangible things, right? She's great footed, good uttered, moderate, easy fleshing and we thought that'd be a good mating to progressive and kind of lengthen her out a little bit and worked great. That's a really nice cow. And both of these really like the Domain Domain cattle. We had used Domain there on commercial cattle for a couple years and just again does those intangible things, right? The foot quality and the other quality and the body shape and so 5 and 6, I think good cattle on both sides of the pedigree and really cool heifer bull options.
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Absolutely. Yes sir. Well, I'll pair 7 and 8 up due to the fact that they're both out of the Abber Grace female that you have there or it's from C Bar. Both being out of different two different YouTube bulls but both read alike just in terms of their feet and legs and the way they hold themselves. But talk to me about the differences between them two and why you decide or why one's out of the township and one's out of the Dominion.
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Yeah. The C Bar Abergrace 7104 would have been my pick of Steve Myers open heifer calves several years back when I was in high school and then Honestly she kind of was just ran as a commercial cow while I went to college and then got back and our first mating was to the U2 Township Bull and had an awesome heifer calf that fall and she's a three year old now and just a tremendous female. One of my very favorite young cows decided to flush her that way again and got this. Just only got one out of that particular set of embryos but that's what Lot 7 is. A unique individual I think just an awesome cowbowl that's really bold, really robust, stout and opened up and I think just an awesome cow maker. That 104 has been a main donor for Taylor and I. Her first flush after we got back from college was to the Nile Progressive 1179 bull and produced our high selling bull last year. WD Robust 400 now works for the Borson firm in Canada and we've tagged got that bull, used him back in our program and got some embryo calves on the ground this spring out of them that looked very promising but really good cow family there. And then the township deal is a neat bread option as well. Lot 8 I think he maybe doesn't read it on paper but he was a really low birth weight. Auction I think would be a heifer safe option for sure but the Dominion cattle I had seen several of those that again did the fundamental things right in terms of some functionality and some foot quality and some fleshing ability and so tapped into him. We got three calves out of that deal, got a heifer in the replacement pen and a foal sister to this bull would have went to Robert's cattle up in Montana out of our female sale. But a bull again that's more moderate in stature, he's certainly not going to make them bigger but it just a really good bodied, easy doing type of a bull that again I think will be heifer safety.
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Yes sir. Moving to Lot 9. This would be the complete 580. And what's intriguing about this bull in particular is he's out of the same cow that would have produced the ninety thousand dollar female that sold out of Cody LaFrence's sale that is actually in Hempstead Texas right now. So I'm fortunate to see her on a day to day basis. And I'll just say that there, there is an outlier right there in terms of foot size feature and just presence from the side. But couples that with an awesome rib cage and hip and hind leg posture. Think this bull represents a lot of those things as well.
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B
What do you Absolutely. This bull's got a cool story. I'll try not to ramble on too long, but I think when I'm listening to podcast, I always like hearing about the cows and hearing about the stories. And so absolutely. This bull's mother, first and foremost, the 6H cow, I think is one incredible female and one that I hope her and her, her half sister that we have here as well. I hope they're in a lot of our pedigrees going forward for a long time to come. I was actually with a, a buddy of mine from college, Kyle Cavalli. We were up in, going to North Dakota, look at cows and then on our way to a sale this summer. And Cody, the France would have sent me a video of this heifer. And he said he was at J.D. kirwan's there in Valentine, Nebraska, and he had found this heifer that he liked. Sent me a video just strolling across the pasture, dark red, big footed, heavy structured and just so cowie and good structured. And it's like, man, what's her pedigree? She's a Hollywood out of the 6H. And I was like, oh man, I know this, I know this. Six, eight. She's a domain, which I hadn't had a lot of. Like I referenced earlier, had some familiarity with domain. And Then out of 800 1F and so back to the summer at C bars, there was Steve. The favorite red heifer was the 8134F, the mother of Lots 2 and 3. And my favorite, maybe probably favorite heifer overall was a black red carrier. And that was 801F, the mother of Sage. And so it all kind of clicked and I went out there a couple months later to Brownell, Kansas and was able to purchase each. And then this bull calf, lot nine was at her side and so brought them both back to Washington, Kansas. And so yeah, that's lot nine. But yeah, the female that you referenced, that she went on in Cody's sale and was a high seller in there to the Fisher family. And I got to see her again there at Cattlemen's Congress and just does everything right that I think that 6H can produce just the, the foot quality, the cowiness and so maternal, I think exciting future for that heifer for that firm. And we're sure excited about having the factory here at our place as well.
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Well, lot tens next, which you would call the network 4101. And this is actually an interesting bull just in terms of his feature and in color, like he reads to have A pretty prominent black face and prominent black tail. And I think that in tandem with that being a darker red is extremely sought after for lighter red females. If that's something that's in your herd for sure. But besides color, I do love the bull's proportionality and just depth of rib in tandem with looks and reads to have amplified foot size and feature. Talk to me about him and his pedigree.
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B
Yeah, he's a unique individual. He was actually the result of some embryo calves that a guy had purchased some embryos and he came with a group of heifers that I was able to sell this fall. And so those embryos came from Mann Ranch here in Kansas. And he had bought that really good defender heifer from Nordland Stock Farms there up in Minnesota. And really good uttered cow that and then this out of this Heisman bull. But this bull has always kind of been a standout ever since we got him there late last summer. And just a stout, featured, big, long, high performing prospect. That'll certainly add some pounds and some pay weight to a set of calves for sure.
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Well, lot 11 is next and this would be the validate 5107 out of the bull that we talked about prior to the valor 270 who's extremely robust, opened up and dimensional. And I think this bull took a lot of those pieces. Talk to me about the bottom side as well.
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B
Yeah, I really liked that his sire, the Valor 270 and incorporated him quite a bit. And we'll be able to put some embryos in here this spring out of him as well. But his mother would have been raised by my family, mom and dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt and uncle. Is one of the cows that I was able to use from them a hard drive female. And there's actually three or four of those hard drive females that are all full sisters, all born on the same year. That. But do I think a lot of things pretty unique and pretty right. Those are. Those cows are big, high performance, stout featured, big square hip in them and just cool individuals to be around and so fun ones to mate. And so that's what that 711 is. This Fowler calf is was the natural calf, an April born calf out of that 711 donor. And he matched the pounds down. I think he weighed in the upper 15s or low today when we were semen testing and the vet said he was also the highest quality semen of the day. So pretty cool for an April calf. Again, another cowbow that will certainly add performance and pay weight. Certainly bold and stout, cool individual is lot 11.
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Yes sir. Lot 12's next. And this is the start to a couple of your black red carriers for sure. And what's interesting is he goes back to The C Bar Stoney 320L which goes back to that F from C bar there that you'd mentioned earlier. But he's also out of your youngblood 204 which goes back to the red blood bull there at Duffs, which is extremely prominent. Red angici are in the industry. Talk to me about him. I'm very intrigued by the bull for sure.
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Yeah, I would have. We would have. Taylor and I would have purchased that C Bar Sony 320L a couple years ago. This calf would be her first natural calf, but female that I think offers tremendous future. She's the other one I referenced as 6H's maternal sister again out of 800 1F like you said. But that young cow is awfully cool and plan to. Plan to get a lot of progeny out of her in the future. And then, yeah, youngblood on the top side was a bull that we actually raised. Youngblood horse mother is actually the mother of five and six. That good. Another good domain cow, the lady Lola O11 female. And so yeah, when we turned those heifers out, we didn't have a lot of heifers that year. We just kept a group of 35 and kept it, kept it easy and turned that young youngblood bull out with heifers. And so that was. She didn't get AI'd but got natural covered by the Youngblood 204. And I think certainly a good heifer bull that offers structural quality and female quality for days.
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Yes sir. Lot 13 is next. This would be your WD high range 411 which is out of the C bar Abbergrace female that we've already talked about, but paired to a different sire, which would be the Ellingson's high range. Talk to me about him. I think he's a dense made bull that's dimensional, especially out of his hip, lower quarter and stifle.
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Yeah, this is the lone fall bull in the sale, but was a natural calf out of 7,104. We flushed her, brought her back home and bred her off the next heat that she had. And she was got bred by the. By the red Angus bull and then she was still in heat the next morning by the barn there. So I just decided we'd do a little science experiment and suck a straw of high range in her. And sure enough, she came out with the Black calf and kind of a unique outcrossed pedigree here. We always had a. I've always had a. I thought the Ellingson cattle were very nice, functional, good, utter, no nonsense good females. And got to see High Range's mother this summer and got to see a slew of daughters out of the sire of High Range, the Ellington rangeland bull. And just mouth watering females that are just the epitome of what I want to kind of continue to produce. Just being feminine, angular, good footed, good structure, good uttered and just no nonsense cattle. And so I think this fall bull is, I don't know how the, you know, the black red carriers. I certainly think there's a lot of value in the females and certainly think there's a lot of value plugging this bull in somewhere because he I think offers a lot of good and a lot of cow quality from every angle.
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A
Yes sir. Well then you switch it up a little bit and 14 and 15 are going to be full sibs. One being New Frontier and 14 and 15 being North Star. These are going to be three quarter semis, quarter Angus both being out of the show Remedy St bull that has been so prominent in many different facets of the industry. Talk to me about them.
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Yeah, actually somebody already paired them up for us. A friend of mine and I bought those on embryos on snow. This mating of Remedy back to the Gwin 9073G and so very successful embryos from Eos and man, these guys are just powerhouses. Lead off the scimital division. It's actually kind of pretty unique. They're remedies out of a sister to Casino. So they did Casino's mother to battle cry at one point and got a half blood and bred her back flush her this way to Remedy. And so these are three quarter bloods out of Casino's sister and just set the standard for just power performance. Masculine, rugged bulls that are just all sorts of quality and power. They're powerful but still good structured, good in their joints, good in their feet. I think individuals that are awfully unique. 14 is a little longer, a little neeker, a little more sleek up front. And then 15 is just packed full of muscle. He's robust and stout and powerful and again still, still, still stays square on all four corners. And two unique bulls I think that offer a lot of good and would do a lot of good on a, on a British cow base. Oh for sure.
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16 is next. This will be another three quarter blood semi. But he's out of the on the run 106k on a. The. The gal284 I'm not too familiar with with these type of genetics but when I look at that on the run 106 cable I I think he's a great description of what the simmental breed is trying to strive to make. Yeah.
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No. 16 actually came from my in laws Taylor's family there, the gulls in Nebraska and I was picking up our embryo calves later this summer last fall and and always liked this bull when I would go and look through the embryo calves and so the first thing I did was go and search through and find his mother and the big lot of cows there. And she was awesome uttered and a cool looking cow and so asked if I could grab this bull for our sale. And he's a cool looking wild marked individual that's just so robust and stout and still sound. And so I think that's kind of typical of the on the run cattle. I saw him last fall at 6:05 and just an individual that's good footed, good structured, awesome hip and hind leg and seems like the cattle, the gulls there had a lot of. A lot of calves out of them that just easy doing good type of cattle. And again I think another one that would work awesome on a set of black or red Angus cows.
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A
Yes sir. Well then you mentioned that that come from Taylor's side and what I can see is that on the bottom side of 17 is out of the same prefix but that red bird bull that he's out of which is a $90,000 sire, he is red and he is a baldy and he looks extremely unique.
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B
Yes sir. Yeah, go on the bottom side there. Good friend of mine, Cody Bowden and I bought that female when we were in college and she was another on the mark daughter but thought she was so unique and just wanted to. Wanted to add her. And so this is one of the calves that we got out of that. Out of that on the mark donor, another red red baldy here that's pretty unique just in terms of just his pedigree but also phenotypically moderate and bold ribbed and really really stout. And he's a certainly a masculine rugged maid individual and he's always bellerin and looking at cows. Kind of like the way that the way our pens are set up for developing these bulls on the. On both sets of pens there's a set of fall cows next to each set of them that are getting natural bred all winter long and so they get to get the opportunity to chase up and down the fence and see what goes on. And so he's certainly one that always is leading the pack there and ballading and certainly think a fun one to turn out on a set of cows for sure.
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Absolutely. Well that wraps up all of all of the bull prospects and once again I've stated this happens on April 8th and it is in a diverse but deep set of bulls. So I commend you for putting together that kind of set of bulls. Is there anything else that you'd like to tack on or or mention before we end the preview?
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B
No, I think that about sums it up. I appreciate you having me. Like you said, it'll be April 8th there. 6pm live online on CCI. Excited to excited to see bar these bulls ends up everybody's been semen tested and ready to go and proud of the out of the fact that they're all out of very good cows that I think will take a program forward. Like I said, good footed, good uttered cows that do all the little things right. And so yeah, excited to see where the bulls end up and ready for April 8th.
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Yes sir. Well once again Wyatt's info's on there. There's any additional questions, I'm sure he'd love to pick up the phone and talk to anybody about them. I know that he likes to talk about cow bases and just cattle in general and so so I'm sure that he'd love to as well. So with that said, grateful for the opportunity, glad that we're able to expand just a little bit into the seed stock and commercial side and can't wait to see where the future goes with that. Once again, Wyatt, thank you for trusting us to represent you with all the said empowerments here. We'll see you all next time.