Town Creek Farm – Page 8
Our primary purpose is to create profitability
for our customers and profitability for ourselves.
Town Creek Farm is committed to producing and
proving genetics that are
profitable
for our
customers in real world environments.
Our responsibility is to breed sustainable
genetics that provide long-term value and
profitability. Actions we take ensure and protect
profitability are benefits of doing business with
Town Creek Farm.
FERTILITY
We believe the single most important trait to
profitability in beef production is fertility.
Proving fertility begins with heifer
development. Our heifers are developed on grass
with minimal supplementation. At 12 to 14 months
of age heifers are A.I.’d, then pasture bred, for total
exposure of 55 days. Any heifer not conceiving in
this environment is culled.
For a female to remain in the herd past calving
at two-years of age, she must breed back and then
bring a calf to the weaning pens every year there
after. These rules are enforced and there are no
exceptions.
BULL DEVELOPMENT AND AGE OF BULLS
Town Creek Farm is one of the few seedstock
providers offering a set of full two-year-old virgin
bulls. Many bull sales offer coming two-year-olds,
but they are six months short of a full two-year-old
at sale time.
The industry as a whole is shifting toward
younger and younger bulls. These bulls are
typically developed at an accelerated rate with
tremendous stress on joints, feet and claws that
compromise integrity.
Town Creek Farm developed bulls are more
mature bulls that last longer and breed more cows
over their lifetime. Our bulls are hard, muscular
bulls without excessive fat who have the ability to
go out, hustle and get more females bred in front
ends of breeding seasons.
Bulls are developed at a slow pace in a forage-
based environment on a forage-based haylage
ration. Our bulls are matured in 40 to 50 acre traps
with 20 to 30 bulls in each trap so grazing habits
are never broken. The environment promotes
rumen function, long-term feet and leg soundness,
longevity, and slower and permanent weight gain.
PERCENT ANGUS DECLARATION
Percent Angus blood is revealed on bull lots to
provide a level of certainty of Angus and Brahman
percentages to ensure that our customers can make
correct breeding decisions for their respective
cowherds
.
DISEASE PREVENTION – QUALITY ASSURANCE
Town Creek Farm has invested resources and
time into disease prevention and eradication. We’ve
created a system of management protocols, annual
herd testing and eradication to establish a safety
net for our customers and for us. Every bull selling
has tested negative for Trichomoniasis and BVD-PI
within 30 days of the sale.
CERTIFIED JOHNES-FREE BULLS
In 2006, Town Creek Farm began aggressively
testing annually every cow for Johnes. Johnes
disease is a fatal gastrointestinal disease that was
first clearly described in a dairy cow in 1895. A
Town Creek Farm Difference
Si ce 1993
Total Commitment
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