Bill & Pennie Slovek - Pioneer Review
Bill & Pennie Slovek - Pioneer Review
Bill & Pennie Slovek - Pioneer Review
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Dear Cattle Producers,<br />
Welcome to our annual production sale. This<br />
year, there are 20 two-year-old bulls, four<br />
Angus, four red composites and 12 black<br />
composites. We are backing up part of the<br />
calving season on the cows to be more in sync<br />
with Mother Nature. I’m getting smarter (or<br />
older). These bulls were too young to sell as<br />
yearlings.<br />
There will be about 50 yearling bulls, 10 Angus, four red composite and 30-40<br />
black composites. Most of the Angus bulls will work on heifers or well as a handful<br />
of the composites. They have had all their calf shots at branding, preconditioning<br />
and again in December. They have had PregGuard, footrot, pinkeye and<br />
Wortshield and been wormed.<br />
All of our data is run through the Simmental Association. When they do our<br />
weaning data, they take out all of the crossbred vigor growth so that all calves are<br />
equal as if they were all purebreds. The crossbred number (CBV) is the difference<br />
between the adjusted weaning weight as a purebred, and a traditional adjusted<br />
weaning weight that only adjusts for age of calf and dam.<br />
We will have two-year-old pairs again with A.I. calves at side. These are the front<br />
end heifers out of our clean-up bulls. There will also be a few three-, four- and fiveyear-old<br />
cows with A.I. calves that hadn’t calved yet when they were two-year-olds.<br />
They had their breeding<br />
shots last fall and were<br />
wormed. There should be<br />
30+ pairs.<br />
The sale can be viewed<br />
online at DVAuction.com<br />
under Philip Livestock.<br />
See you April 2nd at<br />
noon. Lunch is on us!<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<strong>Bill</strong><br />
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