SELECT Colorado
MARCH 15, 2025
SATURDAY 1 pm mT
Fort Collins, Colorado Centennial Livestock Auction
Welcome to the sale
Welcome to the Colorado Select - Triangle J Ranch – Altenburg Super Baldy Ranch – 33rd Annual Bull Sale! In 2022 we made the decision to sell our cowherd in its entirety to Triangle J Ranch, Miller, Nebraska, Annette and Darby Line family. Triangle J was the #1 registration herd in Nebraska in 2021. Altenburg was the #1 registration herd in Colorado in 2021. These bulls are a blend of breeding of both cowherds. We want to offer you the best of both! And how similar they are, the philosophies of good Simmental and SimAngus, black, baldies, and red. No matter the origin of the cows, we think you will find bulls you will like!
All the bulls have been PAP tested – Simmental and SimAngus work well at altitude. On February 21, 2025, Dr. Tim Holt of Colorado State University tested our bulls at the ranch at 5,315 feet elevation. Our attempt is to show you which bulls are better risks to take to the “high country” and perform well. Those scores will be provided on each bull. Dr. Holt predicts spring yearling born bulls with scores of 42 or less and fall born bulls of 45 or less will work well at high altitude. Simmental and SimAngus can help solve your PAP - Brisket problems!
We are selling at Centennial Livestock Auction in Fort Collins!! Centennial Livestock Auction is a great facilities, and the Kruse family and their crew provide excellent service. We will be selling on DVAuction.com. Please register ahead of time to assure proper bidding on sale day.
The sale starts promptly at 1:00 PM, so come early so you can view the bulls and join us at 11:30 AM for our complimentary lunch. But come early, eat lunch and talk bulls!
We look forward to seeing you at the sale, Saturday, March 15, 2025. Please call if you have any questions regarding the sale offering or leave a bid on a bull.
Remember, this is not just another sale . . . this is a crossbreeding program.
Sincerely, Willie Altenburg 970-481-2570
As most of you know by now, we are offering our 2024 bull crop for sale in 2025 in two large auctions. The 1st sale was held at our ranch in Miller, Nebraska in January. We want to thank all of our customers for making that sale a great success!
This second sale is held at Centennial Livestock Auction in Fort Collins, Colorado the 3rd Saturday in March each year. In order to bring you some of our very best herdsire prospects, we have decided to split many of the sire groups for each sale. All of the bull calves raised at Triangle J sired by Progressive, Resource, El Dorado, Ranger, Highlife, Jackson, Patriarch, Chief, Windfall and Franchise are for sale in Colorado. This gives our customers in Colorado a chance to buy some of our very best bull prospects and allows you to buy half brothers in volume and full brothers from our elite embryo program.
Under the direction of Dr. Holt, the bull sale offering was taken to Colorado in December. This allows the bulls plenty of time to adapt to the environment and give us the most accurate PAP score possible. There is NO breed like Simmental to help solve your high altitude brisket issues!
We are fortunate to have an outstanding group of employees who work hard to improve the quality of this bull sale year after year. They spend countless hours recording data such as birth weights, weaning weight, and yearling weights. They pull tissue samples at two months of age in order to provide you with genomically enhanced EPDs. Our crew puts in extra time during the spring improving an already intensive AI program and we add more embryos every year to continue improving genetic quality.
I want to thank Willie Altenburg and everyone in Colorado who has taken such quality care of our bulls since they arrived in December. It has taken a great team to PAP score, video and fertility check this offering. Bulls are available for viewing in Colorado at your convenience. As always, call anytime if you have any questions. We would love to help you find the bull most suitable for your operation.
Sincerely, Darby Line 308-627-5085
The Darby Line Family
Willie and Sharon Altenburg
SALE LOCATION
SELECT Colorado
Centennial Livestock Auction, 113 NW Frontage Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80524
SALE DAY PHONES
Willie Altenburg 970-481-2570
Darby Line 308-627-5085
Dillan Line 308-293-9241
Jeremy Cast 308-293-2003
Susan Russell 719-469-0020
John Clatworthy 970-768-7500
Justin Warren 970-367-0035
Ryan Large 308-340-9859
Marty Ropp 406-581-7835
Corey Wilkins 256-590-2487
Jared Murnin 406-321-1542
Joe Spanel 970-631-6921
AUCTIONEERS
Tom Frey 970-632-4583
Shawn Siverberg 970-219-3561
Dusty Kruse 970-908-9432
INSPECTION OF THE SALE CATTLE
The cattle are at the Colorado ranch. We welcome you to come view the cattle and visit with us prior to the sale. Contact Willie Altenburg 970-481-2570.
SALE CONSULTANTS
Marty Ropp 406-581-7835
Corey Wilkins 256-590-2487
Jared Murnin 406-321-1542
SALE ACCOMMODATIONS
Quality Inn 970-568-0444
7860 6th Street, Wellington
Best Western 1638 East Mulberry St., Fort Collins - next to Charco Broiler
STORM DATE
Monday, March 17, 2025
Centennial Auction, Fort Collins, CO
ONLINE BIDDING
Bid live online at www.dvauction.com. See page 26 for more information.
MARCH 15, 2025
SATURDAY 1 pm mT
Fort Collins, Colorado
Centennial Livestock Auction
SUPPLEMENT INFORMATION
Supplement sheet will be available on sale day with PAP scores, frame scores and scrotal measurements. Sale order will also be available on sale day. Sale order and supplement will be posted online and on FaceBook prior to the sale.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Terms of the sale are cash. Every animal will be sold to the highest bidder. Announced changes on sale day take precedence over printed material in this sale book.
All cattle are the buyer’s property as soon as sold and will be cared for a reasonable length of time at the buyer’s risk. Any person attending the sale does so at their own risk. Neither the sale management, owners, not any person connected with this sale, assumes any liability, legal or otherwise. All animals listed in the sale book as homozygous black or homozygous polled are done so to the best of our knowledge. We are not liable for any inaccuracies. Announcements made on sale day will take precedence over any printed material.
LIABILITY
The Altenburg family, Line family, sale staff and/or Centennial Livestock Auction are not responsible for sale day accidents.
LUNCH
Complimentary lunch available at the sale facility at 11:30 am.
ALTENBURG SUPER BALDY Willie and Sharon Altenburg 570 E. County Rd. 64, Fort Collins, CO 80524
Cell: 970-481-2570 willie@rmi.net www.altenburgsuperbaldy.com
TRIANGLE J RANCH
Darby and Annette Line 35355 Arrow Rd., Miller, NE 68858
Phone: 308-457-2505
Cell: 308-627-5085 www.trianglejranch.com
About the Bulls
PAP TESTING - SCORES AVAILABLE SALE DAY
Bulls were PAP tested by Dr. Tim Holt, CSU, on February 21, 2025 at 5,319 feet elevation. PAP scores are provided to indicate differences between bulls and how they may work at higher elevations. Dr. Holt indicates yearling bulls with scores of 42 or below should work at higher elevations. Fall born bulls with scores of 45 or below should work at higher elevations.
REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER
Registration certificates will be transfered to buyers upon request at the seller’s expense with 45 days of the sale. When making settlement, buyers must give complete written name and address information for making transfers.
ABSENTEE BIDS
Anyone wishing to bid who cannot attend the sale may place phone or mail bids by contacting any of the Line family, Altenburg family or sale staff.
HEALTH
All cattle have health papers and are ready for interstate shipment. Bulls were semen tested by Dr Sina Parsaye, Fort Collins, and are guaranteed breeders. Scrotal circumference and semen test results will be available on sale day. Some bulls (due to their age) may require additional time and be retested in 30 days. Those bulls will be designated on sale day. We will keep those bulls and retest them and guarantee as breeders. All bulls are free of known genetic defects.
SEMEN INTEREST
Retaining 1/2 semen interest on bulls selling for less than $20,000. Retaining 1/3 semen interest for bulls that sale for more than $20,000.
DELIVERY OPTIONS
At the buyer’s option and risk, we will feed the bulls until April 15, 2025 at no expense to the buyer. Or take your bull home the day of the sale and we will deduct $75 from the selling price.
LIVESTOCK INSURANCE
James Secondino 812-208-0956
American Livestock Insurance, a division of Market Service Incorporated
CALVING EASE RATINGS
Ratings are based on birth weight, birth weight ratios, Calving Ease EPD and Birth Weight EPD.
** A bull who should be used on cows with minimal assists expected
*** A bull who can be used on heifers with minimal assists expected
**** A bull who is an excellent candidate to be used on heifers with minimal assists expected due to the combination of bulls calving ease, birth weight, ratio and EPDs
1501M Sells as Lot 1.
Our largest herd sire group for our 2025 bull sale. The bulls supply incredible genetic value and provide wonderful phenotype. We used him on Purebred, SimAngus, and Angus cows and no matter the type of cow the end result is high quality bulls. The wet daughters of bold ruler are some of our favorite cows. If you want an extra shot of genetic potency the bold ruler sons should be high on your list.
3 553M
2 M137
4 815M
Homozygous
KBHR BOLD RULER H152 Sire of Lots 1-25.
M137 Sells as Lot 2.
5 552M
6 992M
7 M141
8 817M
9 447M
622M Sells as Lot 11.
11 622M
12
777M
13 M142
14 900M
15 953M
16 765M
789M
18 757M
19 1014M
20 M125
24 M123
22 M149
23 M135
25 M133
559M Sells as Lot 26.
559M
LCDR PROGRESSIVE 106G Sire of Lots 28-29.
558M
29 561M
Homozygous
The Progressive sons will sire fault free cattle that excel in almost every category. He is a bull that is top 10% for API and shows positive calving ease numbers without sacrificing growth. Daughters are moderate framed and show almost perfect udder quality. Use progressive sons to improve cow quality without sacrificing pay weight on your steers.
1652M Sells as
BRIDLE BIT RESOURCE G9117 Sire of Lots 31-37.
33 528M
Use Resource sons to add mass, fleshing ability, and improve total dimension. He stamps his progeny with an undeniable power herd bull look. The resource sons are some of our favorites in the sale and we have big expectations from the progeny.
Selection for good feet.
529M Sells as Lot 34.
ASA QUICK REFERENCE TO EPD s, INDEXES AND $VALUES
EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCES (EPDs ): EPDs are the most accurate and effective tool available for comparing genetic levels. In using EPDs, the difference between two sires’ EPDs represents the unit difference expected in the performance of their progeny. For example, if sires A and B have EPDs of +10 and -5, a 15-unit difference would be expected in their progeny (moving from -5 to +10 yields 15 units). Key to using EPDs is knowing in what units they are expressed. For example, if the above case referred to weaning weight EPDs, sire A would be expected to sire 15 pounds more weaning weight than sire B. If calving ease was the trait, sire A would be expected to sire 15 percent more unassisted births in first-calf heifers; in other words, if sire B sired 30 assists in a group of 100 heifers, we would expect sire A to require 15 assists. A percentile-ranking chart is required to determine where a bull’s EPDs rank him relative to other bulls in the breed. For more detailed information about EPDs and $ indexes, visit www. simmental.org.
Listed below are the units in which ASA EPDs are expressed:
ALL-PURPOSE INDEX (API): Dollars per cow exposed under an all-purpose-sire scenario.
BACK FAT (BF): Inches of carcass backfat at 475 days.
BIRTH WEIGHT (BW): Pounds of birth weight.
CALVING EASE (CE): Percent of unassisted births when used on heifers.
CARCASS WEIGHT (CW): Pounds of carcass weight at 475 days.
DOCILITY (DOC): Percent of offspring receiving a disposition score of 1 (docile).
MATERNAL CALVING EASE (MCE): Percent of unassisted births in first-calving daughters.
MILK (MLK): Pounds of weaning weight due to milk.
MARBLING (MARB): Carcass marbling score at 475 days.
MATERNAL WEANING WEIGHT (MWW): Pounds of weaning weight due to milk and growth.
RIBEYE AREA (REA): Square inches of carcass ribeye at 475 days.
TERMINAL INDEX (TI): Dollars per cow exposed under a terminal-sire scenario.
WEANING WEIGHT (WW): Pounds of weaning weight.
YEARLING WEIGHT (YW): Pounds of yearling weight.
YIELD GRADE (YG): Carcass yield grade score at 475 days.
$ INDEXES: Though EPDs allow for the comparison of genetic levels for many economically important traits, they only provide pieces of the economic puzzle. This is where $ indexes come in. Through well-conceived, rigorous mathematical computation, $ indexes blend EPDs and economics to estimate an animal’s overall impact on integrated commercial production. The same technology that led to the dramatic progress in swine, poultry and dairy genetics over the last several decades was used to develop the following $ indexes:
ALL-PURPOSE INDEX (API): Evaluates sires for use on the entire cow herd (bred to both Angus first-calf heifers and mature cows) with the portion of their daughters required to maintain herd size retained and the remaining heifers and steers put on feed and sold grade and yield.
TERMINAL INDEX (TI): Evaluates sires for use on mature Angus cows with all offspring put on feed and sold grade and yield.
For more detailed information about EPDs and $indexes, visit: www.simmental.org
821M Sells as Lot 35.
35
821M
36
784M
EL DORADO SONS
582M
39 587M
CCR THR EL DORADO 4142J Sire of Lots 40-41.
This is the debut for our bulls sired by El Dorado and we couldn’t be happier with the results. The bulls are sensible in their size, big bodied, and have all the makings of being elite breeding pieces. The El Dorado sons are fault free cattle that are very sound and functional. This will be outcross genetics for old customers.
41 653M
Once again, we are extremely pleased with our Ranger sons. They continue to be some of the most powerful herd bull prospects that we raise year in and year out. His daughters are continuously raising high dollar progeny which includes high quality udders and fleshing ability that is unmatched.
TJ MS 38W Grandam of Lot 43.
43
869M
44 891M
GIBBS 8025F RANGER Sire of Lots 42-53.
626M
889M
47 793M
48
639M
49 872M
679M
52 965M
Sells as Lot 54.
51 909M
53 1004M
54
933M
642M Sells as Lot 55.
922M
59 860M
60 914M
61 1012M
62
M136
63
M121
M121 Sells as Lot 63.
M136 Sells as Lot 62.
Highlife has been our go-to purebred baldy bull for numerous years. He adds an extra amount of growth and length of body without sacrificing rib shape and quality. The consistency and quality highlife transmits to his progeny rivals any baldy bull that we have utilized in the past. If you go through the bulls, we know that you will like them, and we expect them to be crowd favorites.
64 663M
790M
67
978M
MR SR HIGHLIFE G1609 Sire of Lots 64-74.
856M
69 801M
618M
71 906M
72 919M
73 915M
Broadcasting Real-Time Auctions
776M Sells as Lot 75.
75
776M
76
989M
550M Sells as Lot 77.
78 549M
77 550M
81 936M Heterozygous
The next step in the relentless effort to advance beef genetics is to combine genomic excellence with the phenotypic excellence-and Five Star Jackson represents that progress. And he does so as an outcross to many today’s popular pedigrees. Jackson’s genomically enhanced EPDs are off the charts. He is attractive phenotypically without sacrificing power and performance.
644M
568M
86
512M
FIVE STAR JACKSON J10 Sire of Lots 82-87.
Stockmarket has to be the most proven herd sire in the red angus database. It’s not hard to keep using him year after year because he sires fault-free cattle. A stout, attractive genetically advanced bull that will improve looks and a broadbase of numbers-an elite balance bull. Look at most of these Stockmarket bulls to utilize on yearling heifers. An outcross pedigree with the opportunity to make multi-trait improvement and add phenotype in one package.
91 937M
92 798M
93 575M
BIEBER CL STOCKMARKET E119 Sire of Lots 89-94.
721M
904M
95 973M
98 881M
99
448M
COLORADO SELECT RED BULLS
Joe Spanel, taking one home.
101 401M
102 408M
516M Sells as Lot 103.
516M
TJ 92C Dam of Lot 103.
Patriarch is one of the most proven Angus bulls in the business. He has proven to be really good for almost every genetic trait possible. No other Angus bull shows calving ease with the added growth and maternal characteristics like patriarch. Every patriarch son came to Colorado for you to analyze. Many of these Patriarch sons are out two of our best donor cows.
105 518M
106 519M
Homozygous
TEHAMA PATRIARCH F028 Sire of Lots 103-111.
578M Sells as Lot 107.
107 578M
S S NIAGARA Z29
TEHAMA PATRIARCH F028 ASR MS JOSIE C5168 TEHAMA ELITE BLACKBIRD D826 ASR JOSIE W965
of Lots 26-29, 107, 108.
ASR MS JOSIE C5168 Dam
108 576M
109 678M
110 902M
111 949M
TJ CHIEF 460G Sire of Lots 112-115.
The Chief sons have been really well received in our past bull sales. The bulls are easy to like with their added length and balance. Genetically the Chief sons offer a balance of calving ease and growth with exceptional maternal predictors. None of the Chief sons were held back from for any other sale, they are all in Colorado for your evaluation.
787M Sells as Lot 112.
797M Sells as Lot 113.
114 838M
115 859M
116 825M
117 M131
118 M144
M144 Sells as Lot 118.
M131 Sells as Lot 117.
No baldy bull we have ever used has added as much performance, mass, and stoutness to a set of calves like war paint does. Uniquely, the War Paint sons study with unprecedented growth combined with top tier maternal traits. If you are looking to market added pay weight while keeping higher quality replacements to keep you in the business, the War Paint sons will excite you.
120 M143
TJ WAR PAINT 759J Sire of Lots 117-120-.
707M Sells as Lot 121. Elk at the Ranch when gathering cows in December.
Windfall is the power, high-performance bull that you have been waiting for. A halfblood bull with outcross genetics that will add pounds and performance to your next calf crop. This group of windfall bulls will sire steer calves that will top the market for years to come because of their added quality and pay weight. 736M Sells as Lot 122.
122 736M
123 814M
124 733M
125 452M
844M
127 999M
128 690M
129 834M
COLORADO SELECT BULLS
131 L3501
L3537
133 M102
134 M101
135 M100
136 M103
137 M130
Dr. Sina Parseye on semen test day.
Arrowhead has established himself as one of the best SimAngus heifer bulls in the industry. He offers a giant spread from birth weight to yearling weight which always appeals to commercial cattleman. He stems from the highly prolific 22x donor who is known for producing genetic horsepower and breath-taking phenotype. The arrowhead sons are truly the cattleman’s kind.
138 M115
140 M147
139 M113
141 M127
TJ ARROWHEAD 263G Sire of Lots 137-141.
Franchise has continued to do an excellent job for us for many years. The cattle have modest birth weights with big time growth potential and have the added look and mass that made him one of the most used bulls in years past. If you are looking for phenotypic excellence with strong maternal traits, take a look at the Franchise sire group.
145 864M
146 643M
147
1010M
TJ FRANCHISE 451D Sire of Lots 144-150.
149 624M
150 826M
151 946M
152 754M
153 773M
COLORADO SELECT BULLS
830M
155 911M
648M
159 954M
PROVEN.
Triangle J Ranch and this sale offering is backed by the most proven sires in the Simmental breed. Triangle J Ranch bred or owns 8 of the Top 50 Sires in the ASA database. As of January 31, 2025. #1 Hook’s Eagle
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