34th Annual Sale of Bulls RICHARDSON RANCH

2nd Online Bull Sale with DLMS

March 3 4, 2023

We are proud to team up with DLMS to bring our customers a cutting edge sale service. Key to this service is that you, the customer, can bid on any of our posted lots, at any time, throughout the sale. No traditional sale order means customers are never left without an option to bid on their second choice, should the price of their first choice lot move out of their budget. At the posted time of the sale end the program is designed to allow all last minute participants to get in their final bids. The extended time finish means you, the customers, control the end of the sale. The sale will close only when all customers have finished bidding. When no bidding activity has occurred on any lot in the sale for a pre-set period after the posted time of sale end, the computer will declare the sale closed on all lots.

How to Participate in this DLMS Farm Gate Auction with Extended Bidding :

1. Visit https://farmgatetimedauctions.ca , click the LOGIN/REGISTRATION button. First time users will select the REGISTER button from this page. Fill out the registration form to sign-up for a free user account and it allows you to select a username and password for use on all Farm Gate Timed auctions. This program will send you text and email messages whenever there is activity on your favorite lots or someone challenges your proxy bid and this is why you will be asked for both your current email and cell phone number. If you are a past participant in the Farm Gate Timed auctions simply enter your user name and pass word to continue. This takes you to a list of both current and upcoming Farm Gate Auctions. Please click on the Richardson Ranch 2nd Online Bull Sale .

2. Lots, pictures, videos and links to a catalogue will be posted by February 20th. On March 3, Friday morning, the sale will go live and you can begin bidding. Opening minimum bids will be posted for each lot plus any up to-date catalogue information & changes to the sale offering. Go to the sale page and click on lots of interest to view the up to-date sale lot info, pictures and videos on each lot selling.

3. The program allows you to place a proxy bid on any sale lot. This in fact protects your interest in any lot of interest for you to a specified dollar value you set, when you may not be able to give 100% attention to the sale. If the lot has a $2000 bid on it and you place a proxy bid of $3500 into the system, the computer will bid $2100 for you but if some one else bids $2200, the computer will again bid for you, this time at $2300. The system will look after your interest to a maximum of $3500. If another bidder is on at $3600, your proxy will no longer be effective and you will no longer have the winning bid on this lot without once again logging in and bidding again or moving your attention to a second lot of interest.

4. You can choose your favourite lots in this sale at this time and the program will allow you to open either all sale lots or just your favorite lots on your screen. Any time there is active bidding on a lot you have identified on your favorite list you will get a text and/or an email noting this activity.

RACEHORSE STYLE CLOSE-OUT with extended bidding time at DLMS.ca

Sale lots will open for bidding at 9:00 a.m. Friday, March 3rd, 2023.

Sale Close-Out begins at 7:00 p.m. BC time, Saturday, March 4th, 2023. Contacts : Don Richardson 250-557-4348

5. The sale will close by entering a 5 minute extended bidding time Saturday, March 4th at 7 PM BC time. Any bid received after 7 PM will extend the sale by 5 minutes from the time of that bid. If bidding continues past 7:30 any bid after that time will extend bidding time by only 3 minutes and if bidding continues past 8 PM any bids will then only extend the deadline by one minute. When no bidding occurs in any of these extended sessions the computer will declare the sale finished.

6. Within 24 hours of the sale close Richardson Ranch will contact all winning bidders to arrange payment, transfer of pedigrees and the buyers choice as to where they wish to pick up their bull.

7. Richardson Ranch will move the sale bulls, including those wintered in Tlell, to either Olds College, Alberta, or a BC Livestock Yard in Vanderhoof or Williams Lake as directed by the buyers choice at the time of settlement.

8. Buyers will be notified when and where their bulls can be picked up. Richardson Ranch will cover board charges at these sites for up to 72 hours.

If you require assistance with using the DLMS Farm Gate web site, if you don’t understand how to create a favorites list, if you can’t figure out the proxy bid or you just plain want to bid via phone, please talk to any of our sales team listed below. We can help you make DLMS Farm Gate Auctions work for you!

Jamie Richardson 250-699-1406

Craig Flewelling 403-556-0515 flewcc@xplornet.com

Mark Shologan 780-699-5082 mark@dlms.ca

BULL SALE HISTORY:

Seven generations of the Richardson Family have been raising beef cattle on the Tlell River estuary here on Haida Gwaii since 1919. Early on all cattle where marketed as beef processed on farm. The transition from a commercial cow herd to 100% registered cows started in early 80’s and took nearly twenty years. So began our foray into the business of breeding and selling seedstock under the Tlell Polled Hereford herd name.

Registered Richardson Hereford bulls have been sold to the commercial cattlemen at the Vanderhoof Bull Sale every year since 1986 and at the William’s Lake Bull Sale since 2000. In 2012 we held our first Annual Online Sale to sell our Registered Polled Hereford females and a few elite bulls to fellow Hereford Breeders every September. We have produced exportable embryos and semen allowing us to sell Tlell genetics to customers across Canada and overseas to Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Argentina and Uruguay as well as USA and Mexico. With twelve consecutive Annual Online sales we had established a comfort with the online sale format while the pandemic forced many of our customers to become proficient with online shopping for their bulls. It seemed only logical last year to consolidate our bull marketing to a single early spring date using the DLMS Farm Gate Timed Auctions.

Welcome to our 2nd Online Bull Sale, AKA, the 37th Annual Sale of Tlell Bulls !

Feed Efficiency Testing with GrowSafe Pens

In 2011 we sent our first bulls off to Olds College to participate in the Residual Feed Intake research trials. The NSERC (Natural Sciences and Research Council)funded project was competed with the cooperation of the University of Alberta, Olds College and Cattleland Feedyards. RFI is a measure of the variation in feed intake that remains after the requirements for maintenance and growth have been met. Efficient animals eat less than expected and have a negative or low RFI, while inefficient animals eat more than expected and have a positive or high RFI. RFI has good heritability at 0.36 (36%) and little influence or correlation with other traits. Research has shown that selecting for RFI may result in as much as a 9-10% reduction in cowherd maintenance costs, a 10-12% reduction in feed intake, a 25-30% decrease in methane emissions and a 15-20% decrease in manure production. Following the research trials in 2015, Richardson Ranch and other interested Hereford breeders have continued to collect Feed Efficiency Data at Olds College every year. This past winter bulls enter pens equipped with GrowSafe feeders on November 28th. After their 21 day warm up period the 50 day RFI test started on Dec 19, 2022 with final end of test weigh scheduled for Feb 8, 2023. Data collected includes feed consumption, weight, hip height and ultrasound results for backfat thickness, ribeye area and marbling score. After final measurements, data is submitted and EPDs generated.

Nine of the yearling bulls in this sale are currently enrolled in the Feed Efficiency Trial

TOTAL HERD EVALUATION: Total Herd Evaluation or THE Program came to the Ranch with the Registered Hereford seed stock. It is a set of tools provided Hereford Breeders by our Association. THE allowed us to carry on the selection process we started in the Federal ROP program but now EPD’s were available. We learned quickly that the use of EPDs allowed us to make seven times faster genetic progress than simply using performance records alone. Unlike performance records which generated indexes and adjusted weights and ranks which only allowed for in herd comparisons, computer generated EPDs built on the performance records of large numbers of animals related to each other in the pedigree data base allowed for comparison of animals between herds. The recent addition of DNA analysis, or Genomic Enhancement of the EPDs, has added even more data and hence more accuracy. Today the Hereford breed publishes some 20 EPDs and Indexes. These are updated every week as new data is collected. Tlell Polled Herefords are recognized as “Seven Star THE Breeders”, meaning we record seven or more traits on every animal in our herd every year. This includes actual measurements like birth, weaning, yearling & cow weights as well as scrotal measurements and Ultrasound carcass data. We also record observations such as calving ease, body condition scores, teat and udder scores as well as exact breeding dates and calving dates.

In the early years of the THE program Richardson Ranch was one of the Hereford Pilot Herds involved with the joint Canadian Hereford Association and Agriculture and AgriFood Canada’s Lethbridge Research Centre (LRC) to investigate the maternal characteristics of the breed and produce an objective measure of maternal ability. The results of this research have led to the Maternal Productivity Index or MPI. The MPI combines various traits of economic importance into a combined maternal value.

Which bull here will make me the most money when used on my cows?

How do you use EPDs to answer this question? Simple answer, “Indexes”…. Indexes have been used for a long time in poultry, swine and dairy and now Beef producers have access to what are arguably the most powerful genetic selection tool. Indexes are a combination of multiple EPDS, weighed by their influence on prices and costs- of feed, the value of weaned calves, price grids on quality grade and yield grade – are all factored in. The important indexes for Canadian Herefords are the Maternal Productivity Index (MPI) and the Feedlot Merit Index (FMI). These allow for a balanced trait selection.

Maternal Productivity Index (MPI)

The MPI combines factors which impact productivity and profitability of Hereford cows in a herd that retains replacements and sells calves at weaning. The index uses 6 EPDs that go into identifying low cost, long lived productive females, producing calves born easy, that grow quickly, all things that make a beef cow profitable in a commercial setting. The MPI selects for smaller framed, more efficient cows, with higher stayability, over cows that excel in calf performance.

Feedlot Merit Index (FMI)

The FMI combines the economically relevant traits affecting profitability of feeder cattle: calving ease, weaning weight, average daily gain, feed intake, yield grade and marbling score. A difference in FMI between two bulls represents a difference between the progeny of the bulls in terms of profitable feeder cattle. FMI is an excellent tool to increase carcass potential of the progeny of bulls used in a terminal sire program where all calves are shipped as feeders and replacement females are purchased from outside sources.

There is a challenge for those breeders who want to the best of both worlds. If you raise your own replacements but want calves that will perform in the feedlot and grade at the packer then a more moderate selection for both MPI and FMI can be used to produce progeny with desired maternal and carcass traits. Note: Lots 1, 3, 5 & 12 score extremely high on both MPI and FMI

The reason they are so useful is that Indexes balance all the important traits which prevents producers from getting caught up with single trait selection. Some traits are counter-productive when selected for in the extreme. Too much milk might give you bigger calves but it likely will also result in more open cows and higher feed bills! Check out the MPI and FMI indexes on our bulls in the chart above to find which ones will work best for your production model.

Calving Ease EPD (CE),

If you are looking for that heifer bull which will let you “sleep easy” next spring, please consider putting your attention on the calving ease EPD first to identify the “Heifer Bull” candidates in the pen. The qualifying candidates can then be sorted by what else they can bring to your program using their MPI and or FMI to make your final decision. Find a list of the heifer bulls on page 19.

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84 lbs. 205 Days: 759 lbs. 365 Days: 1384 lbs

Behm 100w Cuda 504c

• No other sire comes close to matching CUDA's combination of Calving Ease, growth, maternal and carcass merit.

• Offers an elite EPD profile ranking in the top 5 percent of the breed for ten different traits and both MPI and FMI indexes

• This powerful, stout, rugged, short-marked sire is emerging as a true breed leader.

LOT # 1

BEHM 100W CUDA 504C progeny

This bull checks all the boxes! use on both heifers and mature cows to increase calf and yearling weights. Expect breed leading ribeye, marbling and carcass weights. He will improve udders and teats while increasing Sustained Cow Fertility and both his Feedlot Merit Index and Maternal Productivity Index are in top 1% of the breed. Used in our herd last summer, enough said 9 generations deep in Tlell breeding.

LOT # 2

BEHM 100W CUDA 504C progeny

Wintered at Olds College

Heifer Bull deluxe

In most herds he will improve milk, udders and teats while also increasing rib eye, marbling and carcass weights. His dam is a 2 yr old ! His BW, CE and Feedlot Merit Index are in top 3% of the breed! 5 generations deep in Tlell breeding.

Polled

LOT # 3

BEHM 100W CUDA 504C progeny

Heterozygous Polled

Wintered at Olds College

Herd Bull type

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When compared to the average Hereford bull, he will improve calving ease, lower birth weights while also increasing weaning and yearling weights, rib eye, marbling and carcass weights. Both his Feedlot Merit Index and Maternal Productivity Index’s are in top 3% of the breed. 5 generations deep in Tlell breeding.

INNISFAIL WHR X651/723 4013 ET <<< Sire of Lots 4 to 10 >>>

• Now a proven outcross sire, 4013 has differentiated himself as one of the great sires in the Hereford population. He sires progeny with extra dimension and power

• He is siring calves with added growth and superior carcass traits without sacrificing visual quality and maternal function.

• His calves are in great demand. .