Andrew Ranches Online Limousin Bull Sale - DLMS Farm Gate Timed Auction

SALE DAY CONTACTS

Greg Andrew - 403-633-6337

Tim Andrew - 403-854-6335

DLMS/FarmGate

Mark Shologan - 780-699-5082

Jill Renton - 780-603-1636

CUSTOMER SERVICE - Selection of your herd sire is a very important part of herd management. Look to us for presale selection, as well as after-sale service. Tell us what you need and we will help you select a bull for your program.

DELIVERY - Delivery on bulls by April 1at the seller’s convenience.

INSURANCE - We encourage buyers protect their bull investment with insurance.

Cheryl Brown - Stockmans Insurance - 403-601-3460

OUR GUARANTEE - All bulls have been semen tested and are guaranteed to be breeding bulls. If it so happens that your bull does not settle your cows, let us know and we’ll back our programs. .

Welcome to our 2023 sale! We are very excited to be offering our Limousin bulls off the ranch this year through the DLMS FarmGate format. We look forward to displaying this year’s bull group at our open house on March 12, 2023 in the afternoon. We invite you to not only assess the bulls but as well search out their mothers and siblings. Videos can be viewed at CattleVids (scroll to March 14). While Farm Gate is a new sale format to us all, we will make every effort to ensure your purchase is made easily.

We would be remiss not to recognize the support, talent and friendship of Jill Renton. In the spring, Jill juggled her DLMS duties and helped us during calving though Mom’s illness and passing. Her expertise in photography, ad design and seedstock counsel all help us develop our program. Jill’s craft and camaraderie is something we feel blessed to have.

Give us a call if you have any questions about the bulls or the FarmGate format.

The Andrew Family

121Tag

Sire: Dam:

Homo Polled and Parent Verified. A bull that we are very proud to offer. Massively built with extra length, body depth and masculine herd bull presence. 21J is a powerful Oscar son that comes from the SFL 24N family. This is a cow family we treasure.

158Tag

Sire: Dam:

Homo Polled, Parent Verified and 100K genomic testing applied for. 158J is a bull that is hard for Greg and Linnea to part with. Long, deep and thick with extra hip, 158J moves out on a sound foot. He will be the last Tref Zipper bull offered, as at 8 years of age, we retired this cornerstone of our commercial led traditional styled Limousin program.

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Homo Polled, Parent Verified applied for. 13J is the kind of bull that is so friendly he finds you in the pen. While selecting our Ag in Motion string, 13J wandered up for a sniff that turned into a pat, that ended up as a leg lifting scratch. 13J is so docile that he became our single display booth animal at the Ag in Motion Farm Show. This Paynes Cracker son is out of a Tref Zipper cow, he has exceptional length and a big hip to complement his calm demeanor.

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Homo Polled and Parent Verified. Our most complete black hided bull to date. 26J was a pen favorite many times over at Ag in Motion. He is our top ranked bull for weaning and yearling weight, with a 90 lb actual birth weight. Longer than a wet week in the middle of haying season. 26J’s dam has been admired by visitors as one of the most fault free females in our herd.

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Sire: Dam:

8D

Homo Polled and Parent Verified. 12J is the only B Bar Bentley son in the offering. He is incredibly deep, thick quartered and at the top end of the pen in terms of testicle development. His EPD profile puts him above breed average in 9 of the 13 traits tracked by the CLA. He is decent to handle but needs his own space.

117Tag

Sire: Dam:

RICHMOND ZODIAC SRD 29Z B BAR/HAWKEYE OSCAR 1E ET

21B

Homo Polled. A stout, rugged made individual with exceptional bone, foot shape and testicular development. 17J is an impressive light birthweight son of Oscar, out of an Amaglen female we acquired from the Nth Valley dispersal.

154Tag

Sire: Dam:

RICHMOND ZODIAC SRD 29Z

B BAR/HAWKEYE STING 47F ET B BAR FOXTROT 21B TREF ZIPPER 644Z

TRE PANNIE 53F

64X

154J is a Sting son out of a Zipper daughter, a very successful genetic combination for us. This horned, light colored herd bull prospect has a moderate 90 lb actual birthweight and on ultrasound day had one of the highest lean meat yields of the entire offering

139Tag

Sire: Dam:

RICHMOND ZODIAC SRD 29Z

B BAR/HAWKEYE STING 47F ET B BAR FOXTROT 21B B

8D

BETTY LANE 40F

LANE KO 1B

139J is a thick topped, deep ribbed and hipped son of Sting 47F. He had a light 84 lb birthweight and a BW EPD # that ranks him in the top 15% of the breed for calving ease.

122Tag

Sire: Dam:

ZODIAC SRD 29Z

STING 47F ET

21B

8D

22J is a Sting son out of a young Bentley daughter. He had an actual birthweight of 90 lbs and has a birthweight EPD in the top 10% of the breed. We see this soggy made smooth moving prospect a great addition to anyone’s herd bull battery.

138Tag

Sire: Dam:

ZODIAC SRD 29Z

STING 47F ET

21B

38J is a light colored, good haired son of Sting out of a Zipper daughter. Another consistent result of this mating combination. He shows true Limousin muscling and was 95 lbs at birth.

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145J is a Sting son that is impressive with his thick hair coat and huge testicular development. This double polled, easy moving herd bull sports a moderate 93 lb birth weight.

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Sire: Dam:

051F

159J is a Limflex bull with loads of potential. Homo polled by pedigree, 159J is a traditional colored, deep hipped bull with the lightest actual birthweight of any bull offered.

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Hetro Polled and Parent Verified. 36J is a thick made, deep hipped son of Sting out of a Slate daughter. This Hetro polled by test herd bull prospect had a 94 lb birthweight and was above herd average in both weaning and yearling weight ratios.

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Sire: Dam:

19J is a traditional colored, 90 lb birthweight son of the Tref Freewheeling bull out of a first calf Slate daughter. His mom, Andrew Slate 172Y 932G did an excellent job weaning him at an adjusted 657 lbs considering the dry conditions in 2021.

114Tag

Sire: Dam:

Home Polled and Parent Verified. Another powerful Sting/Zipper combination that will work on cows to produce the calves that the eastern buyers demand. This deep ribbed and sound made herd bull prospect should be able to maintain his place in the bullpen for many years.

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65J is a Slate son out of a Greenwood Polled Extra Charge daughter that we acquired out of the Frank Murphy dispersal. Deep bodied and stout made 65J moves easily off a big foot.

166Tag

Sire: Dam:

HUNT CREDENTIALS 37C ET

FERNANDO PYN 704F ET

YOUNG&RESTLESS RPY PAYNES CRACKER 17E

Homo Polled and Sire Verified. Our top calving ease prospect. 66J’s mother was the high seller at the second Qually T Female sale in 2020. This Greenwood Fernando son out of an attractive Cracker daughter brings calving ease from both sides of his pedigree. He follows those genetics up with an 84 lb birthweight. Along with his light birthweight, good growth numbers, he has a long smooth build. 66J is our top contender to work in the replacement heifer pasture. 66J is owned with John and Cindy Dekroon, Dublin, ON.

104Tag

Sire: Dam:

WULFS CAPER 3303C

TREF FREEWHEELING 051F

TREF BREEZE 051B

RPY PAYNES CRACKER 17E ANDREW CR GWENADINE 901G

EVALINE 15E

4J is one of our first black bulls on offer. He is a Tref Freewheeling son out of a Cracker daughter, going back to Clayton’s pet cow, that he bought from our friends at Pinnacle View Limousin. Although 4J sports an 85 lb birthweight and a low birthweight EPD, we think he is better suited to duty on cows rather than the heifer pen.

Sire: Dam:

Homo Polled and Parent Verified. 64J is the kind of bull that will raise the bar on a traditional set of cows. He easily has the largest frame in the offering along with exceptional testicle development. In an industry where pounds pay, 64J will increase your returns.

See you at Ag In Motion 2023 July 18 – 20, 2023. Langham, SK

“I have admired Limousin cattle for a long time. I never thought they could be this quiet.”

-Cattleman, Marvin Dale of Coleville, SK

Reference Sires

B BAR/HAWKEYE OSCAR 1E ET

Oscar is a son of the renown Richmond Zodiac, a cornerstone herd bull of the Richmond Ranch. On the female side is the well known B Bar Foxtrot. The combination of these two individuals raised the bar in the Limousin breed in terms of traditional muscle shape, hair and performance. Oscar is a heavy scurred, rugged breeding bull that will see active pasture service as a 6 year old. Owned with Conner Bros. - Hanna, AB Sire to JDA 17J, JDA 21J

B BAR/HAWKEYE STING 47F ET

In an attempt to make our cow herd more uniform, we partnered with our friends at Pinnacle View Limousin on the Sting bull. During his first breeding season the Oscar bull so impressed us in terms of conception and the way he kept his condition along with his incredible sound structure, we knew we wanted his brother. This hetero polled full brother to the Oscar bull has over 280 half siblings in the CLA handbook, relating to how popular these genetics are withinour breed. Sting offspring are moderate framed, heavily muscled, more traditionally colored and docile. JDA 14J, JDA 22J, JDA 36J, JDA 38J, GJA 139J, GJA 145J, GJA 154J

We are very proud of the way this pair of herd bulls have consistently produced on our Zipper and Slate females.

In this offering there has been a “changing of the guard” in terms of our herd sire pen. Both the B Bar Slate and the Tref Zipper bulls have been retired after active service leading our program.Slate’s influence will live on through the docility and overall exceptional females in terms of udder structure and easy doing ability. JDA 64J, JDA 65J

B BAR SLATE 17C

Reference Sires

Zipper will be remembered in our herd as a rancher bull deluxe. Long bodied, deep hipped on an incredible sound structure and big foot, Zipper sired the traditional Limousin cattle that order buyers fight over at the sale ring. His females are sound uddered and easy fleshing, making them exceptionally functional females. GJA 158J

Freewheeling was purchased in partnership with B Bar Cattle for use in the replacement heifer pen. While his active duty was shortened due to an injury in his second breeding season his offspring are long sided, sound made and docile. JDA 4J, JDA 19J, GJA 159J

TREF ZIPPER 644Z

RPY PAYNES CRACKER 17E

B BAR BENTLEY

TREF FREEWHEELING 051F

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Notes

Mom was born to a coal mine owner’s family in Wayne, Alberta. She was the ninth of ten children in a devoutly Catholic household. Mom and Dad met at the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) dances in Drumheller. While it was not love at first sight, sparks grew to a flame and flame to a fire resulting in their marriage in the fall of 1956.

They purchased that year the beginnings of the ranch in Youngstown in the middle of the Special Areas, half way between Calgary and Saskatoon. The area then and many say still is recovering from the Great Depression. The area had no electricity, therefore no running water, indoor plumbing or telephone. A terrible hardship for us today, but because everyone in the neighborhood was in the same boat, the strength that was built into our community at that time is something that we still have today.

Mom and Dad worked together to develop their farm, building fences, rebreaking homesteaded land, combining crops and putting up feed. They moved in a house when our family outgrew the original 2 room cabin. During the summer that their last child was born an addition was added on, Mom was in charge of cooking for 15 (10 of us, a carpenter crew of 3, hired man and house helper) but the prize of an extension that doubled our living space was a great reward.

The next year in 1970 the European “Exotic” Invasion began and Mom took an AI course to get in on the excitement of improving our herd. We enrolled in the Canadian Beef Sires Program and had the legendary Bob Prestige as a mentor. Through the trials of many different breeds, we found Limousin to be the best suited to our area and management skills.

As Greg and I began ranching and buying properties, Mom was always behind us with her advice and support. Her wonderful cooking was a highlight of any event, be it family gatherings, brandings, weaning, preg checking or trail drives. Her pies were legendary.

Mom raised us in the Catholic faith. Mass on a weekly basis was non-negotiable. Mom’s faith was lived in the way she challenged us every day to do what was right. Her standard of making people welcome, sharing with others and dropping what was important to her to make others successful was just what she did. She lived the gospel every day through her actions rather than words. We are all better because of her example.

Mom had a saying I think of often, “We had each other, and we had a dream. Who could ask for anything more?”

Rest in Peace Mom.