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Lazy J Bar Ranch New Year’s Eve Extravaganza
New Year’s Eve Extravaganza
The first three lots in the sale are our choices to start the sale with. Are
they the best heifers in the sale? We think they are good – not sure if they
are the best – but they are definitely going to grab your attention!
Beginning with Lot 4, the heifers will sell in birth-date order. There may
be a heifer that you think is better a little further down the line up. We
feel this is the deepest offering of bulls and heifers we have raised to date.
We don’t chase trends and jump on the next new hot sire every year. We
go out, visually inspect the herd sires, then we go and look at numbers
and see if we can use that pedigree in our herd.
We feel it is very important to look at feet and leg structure and the way
a bull travels prior to buying him. We like to raise growth cattle and
we even breed our heifers to what some may say is too big of a bull for
heifers. We like to see a 78+ pound calf born as they survive in our cold
South Dakota climate much better than the lighter birth weight calves.
You will see some big birth weights on some of the calves and we aren’t
afraid to put that into print in the catalog either.
If you don’t know us, you will soon realize that what you see is what you
get. We don’t sugar coat it for you to make you like the information, and
if you don’t like some of the cattle, we respect your opinions. We hope
you will like our kind of cattle but we realize that we still breed for the
majority of our customer base which is the commercial bull buyer who
still sells pounds of calf at the sale barn.
John started years ago offering every female on the place to you in his fall
sales. Steph grew up raising her own replacements. You can see where
this story is going.
We are offering you all our breeding heifers born this year with the excep-
tion of the free martins (heifers born as a twin to a bull) and four head.
One was an ET calf that our son, Kale, purchased off the recip dam, one
was a June-born calf, one was orphaned as a calf, and one that Steph
decided wasn’t going in the sale. We have no problem showing you these
heifers on sale day so you can see that the offering you are getting is deep.
I don’t think that you will be disappointed when you check out our four
head and then see the sale offering.
I feel as though we need to explain this to you so you know what is going
on and that you know we don’t hide facts. Integrity is important to us.
Normally we write footnotes on every single lot. This year we probably
won’t write as much about every animal. Don’t take that to mean that we
don’t think they are good cattle. We are running short on time and busy
with kids’ activities, winter chores and well, just life. We feel that you
can see what the cattle look like on the video on our website or DVAuc-
tion.com, and from the photos in the catalog. I don’t think we need to
keep repeating over and over what they look like when you can see for
yourself. You have the pedigree info and numbers in front of you in the
catalog.
If you do not have internet and would like a DVD of the video sent to
you, please give us a call. If you would like to talk about any of the lots
and want a personal opinion, give one of us or Dave Kemen a call. You
could also call Jason Frey (ringman) as he has helped work these cattle
many times. He knows the calves well and their mamas!
Justin Dikoff also got to see them all in person on video day. Seth Leach-
man and Stuart Gilbert have seen the calves earlier this year too. If you
need another opinion prior to sale day give one of them a call.
On sale day you can give any of the ringmen, sale consultants, auctioneer
or ourselves a call for more information. Check our website out www.
lazyjbarranch.com for sale updates. Lot order is catalog order. We are
also retaining the right to flush on any of the open heifers in the sale.
Flushing will be at our expense and your convenience and only used for
our in herd use.
We offer the heifers to you but somehow we need to keep our own genet-
ics in our herd and this may be the possibility for us in the future. See
you New Year’s Eve!
LOAD OUT AND DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS
Load out on females will start at 9 a.m. Jan 1. Deliveries will be
coordinated at the least possible cost to the buyer. We will charge
whatever it costs us to deliver from our place to wherever we meet you.
If you are not hauling your own cattle we will collect trucking fees at
time of delivery.
BULL & HEIFER DEVELOPMENT
The bulls and heifers were pasture weaned Sept. 12 on an AccuRation/
corn mix and grass. They stayed at the ranch until October 16 when
we brought them home and put them on a TMR ration consisting of
ground hay, corn silage, cracked corn and a liquid protein/rumensin
supplement.
VACCINATION RECORDS
All the calves have been vaccinated starting at birth, again at grass
turnout, weaning and post weaning poured/dewormed. Vaccinations
include 7-Way clostridial, IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV, mycoplasma,
haemophilus somnus and pastuerellas. If you would like specific details
on products, please give one of us a call.
The bull calves will be sold as guaranteed breeders according to the sale terms and
conditions of the RAAA. We will keep bulls free of charge until March 1, 2016, at
which time they will be semen checked and need to be picked up or delivered. You
can arrange to have the bulls fed at $3.50 per day until April 1, 2016, at which time
you need to come pick them up as we need pen space for cow-calf pairs.
The heifer calves have been brucellosis vaccinated and will be sold as guaranteed
breeders according to the sale terms and conditions of RAAA. Females need to be
picked up or delivered by Jan. 3, 2016.
Bred cows and heifers will be pregnancy checked again prior to the sale. They are
brucellosis vaccinated and on the same herd health program as the heifer calves.
