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14 MARKET MATTERS The Boys
A true sign of success for any breed is a demand for bulls. With this, the Wagyu bull is in such demand that many programs have a waiting list for bull buyers. Typically the Wagyu female is in demand but now it’s the boy’s turn to shine and this spring is the time for the Wagyu bull to take center stage a the first US all Wagyu bull sale. >> By Heather Smith-Thomas
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A Texas source for Wagyu cattle is Black Dog Ranch whose small herd not only keeps them busy but also fulfills there passion. >> By Heather Smith-Thomas
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The first few hours and days of a calf’s life are the most important, so give them a suite of armor to protect them against their environment; the importance of colostrum. >> By Heather Smith-Thomas
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Turquoise is a girl’s best friend; well it is now especially adorned with a bit of personal individuality that makes them one of a kind. Fellow Wagyu breeder, Lacy Gray, uses her creativity and talents to produce unique items to adorn your look.
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his last 30 days has been trying; I finally got my deformed from birth knee joint replaced! The title of my editorial is thankful, this is something I had to and still at times have to tell myself to keep in mind as I rehabilitate and get to a new normal in my life. I am thankful for the science and technology to even perform such a surgical feat, I am thankful for the doctors, my family especially my mom for helping me recover and take on everyday tasks which were my normal responsibilities. I am thankful for pain pills as they were very necessary at times (but am off of them because boy are they hard on the body), I am thankful for the physical therapy specialists who have helped me regain strength, push me to improve even though it hurts so bad at times and in some ways, learn new muscle memory from my old days of having a crooked leg. I am thankful for that moment bedside after surgery when for the first time in 40 years, I saw an X-ray and my leg was actually straight. Most importantly, I am thankful to my family, friends, colleagues and clients that sent flowers, cards, emails and made calls; all of the support has helped this very active 40 year old get through this last month. I am up and running (so to speak) and I hope that this quick stint off didn’t cause anyone any headaches and/or frustrations as I truly did work at trying to keep up with the office, all calls and emails. I look forward to seeing many of you this spring as we break into the spring events and hopefully by the first one I lose the limp I currently have. Now, I just have one more knee to fix (my better one but one that still has a 60% dislocated knee cap at all times). This journey to become less of a wonkey donkey and rid myself of pain is and will be a long road but I am thankful that I have the opportunity to make the journey.
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DISCOVERY This Issue’s Three Contributors Share Themselves With Us. HEATHER SMITH-THOMAS Rancher/ Writer
If I could go back 20 years I would...try to take more time for family relationships and better communication with the people I care about. My most valued possession is... my faith. My dream car is a...clone of our old feed truck (1973 Chev) that could go on for another 45 years---though it would outlive me!
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RONDA APPLEGARTH Wagyu Breeder
If I could go back 20 years I would...have gotten into Wagyu then! My most valued possession is... my home where my family and friends gather. My dream car is a...a dark blue ¾ ton, 4x4 flatbed Dodge pickup.
MARSHALL JOHNSON Wagyu Breeder / Chef Restaurateur
If I could go back 20 years I would...be 20 years younger and 19…I would have made it a point to visit with both sets of grandparents more. My most valued possession is... our wagyu herd!! My dream car is a...old classic custom restored hot rod Chevy pickup sitting on a new rolling corvette chassis.
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iterally hundreds of thousands of bulls are sold each year in the U.S. Most of these are bred by seedstock breeders and sold to commercial producers who want to improve their cow herds with certain genetics and/or raise better beef animals to sell to feedlots or to grass-fed beef programs or to market directly to consumers. Countless bulls are sold by private treaty, and many others are marketed through production sales. The highest-selling bulls in most sales are often purchased by other seedstock breeders, or go to AI bull studs. Semen interests are sometimes purchased by seedstock producers or AI companies, but the majority of bulls that change hands go out to breed cows on the thousands of pastures and ranges of this country. The greatest strength of our beef industry is its diversity, with many different breeds and many different goals of individual breeders and cattle producers. There is no “size/type” that fits all, and commercial cattlemen can shop around for bulls that fit intended purposes. Some folks like to stick within a certain breed and try to tweak those genetics to create the perceived ideal purebred or straight-bred animal while others take advantage of crossbreeding and heterosis—for added fertility and longevity in the cow herd or for terminal crosses that produce the most beef. They use crossbreeding to create excellent F1 females or superior steers. Even though Black Angus has the most numbers, other breeds are also in demand for their specific traits and benefits, and a person who crossbreeds can often incorporate the best of two or three breeds in the offspring. Some of these blends have become “breeds” in themselves, like Santa Gertrudis, Brangus, Beefmaster, etc. or have become popular composites like Sim-Angus, Balancers, and so on. Some seedstock producers sell large numbers of bulls through their annual or semi-annual sales. For instance the top 10 breeders (in numbers of cattle) in the U.S. for 2020 each sold more than 1000 bulls that year. Jorgensen Land and Cattle Company in SD sold 4128 bulls; Gardner Angus in Kansas sold 2600; Leachman of Colorado sold 2469; Express Ranches in Oklahoma sold 2342; 44 Farms in Texas sold 1650; Lone Creek Cattle in Nebraska sold 1425; Sutphin Cattle Company in Colorado sold 1200; Pharo Cattle Company in Colorado sold 1050; Conneally Angus in Nebraska sold 1025, and Sitz Angus in Montana sold 1000 bulls. Seedstock sales are hugely important to our beef industry, and many breeds have a good demand for their bulls at a commercial level, especially if the breeder has done a good job of creating genetics that will be consistent and dependable in the desired traits. As a U.S. beef breed, Wagyu is a relative newcomer, but fast gaining ground in acceptance and interest among cattlemen; Wagyu bulls are generally very valuable when sold at private treaty or in a production sale. This past year, for instance (2021), the Wagyu sales managed and conducted by JDA, Inc. have brought excellent prices for the cattle offered. For instance, 2 fullblood bulls sold by Triangle B Ranch in their March 20, 2021 sale averaged $8285. Bowman Farms dispersal sale March 27 sold 17 fullblood bulls for an average of $9603 and 14 bull calves that averaged $4900. The M6 Ranch dispersion sale on April 10 sold one bull for $17,500. The Bar R Cattle Company in May sold 9 purebred bulls that averaged $11,000 and 20 fullblood bulls that averaged $11,263. The Passion for Prime sale June 15 sold 3 bulls that averaged $7,875. Vermont Wagyu in October sold 10 bulls that averaged $9,150, and in November TWA’s Fall Harvest sale sold 18 bulls that averaged $7050. These have all been production or dispersal sales, however, featuring bulls and females. Now, for the first time, a Texas breeder will be holding the first-ever Wagyu bull sale, this coming April.
The first Wagyu bull-only sale will make history this spring, as the M6 Ranch holds the first Fullblood Wagyu stand-alone bull sale in North America. The sale will be at the new M6 Ranch sale facility and wedding venue on the ranch near Alvarado, Texas on April 9, 2022. All the bulls will have Genomic enhanced EBV’S plus birth weights, 205-day weights, and 365-day weights to help customers make informed decisions to better address their operation needs. These bulls have all been saved for this sale. The Moore family has turned down numerous offers to sell many of them privately. The Moores value all their customers and want to give all of them an equal opportunity to purchase the best the M6 Ranch produces. These bulls are the mates to the heifers that sold at the M6 Ranch Family Partnership Dispersal in April 2021. Those heifer mates helped make that sale the highest grossing sale in American Wagyu history. That sale grossed over 2.7 million dollars and averaged over $12,000 per head. This bull sale offers many individuals with genetics that rank in the top 1% of the breed. After the M6 Family Partnership Dispersal Sale, Kevin, Jessica and their daughter Emily are now the sole owners and operators of M6 Cattle Co., LLC. Kevin and Jessica own 350 acres and lease about 600 acres for the M6 operation. Kevin says “It’s enough to run approximately 200 cows plus replacement heifers, bull development, and feeding slaughter cattle. We have been busy this past year acquiring land, building infrastructure (hay barn, commodity barn, storage barn, shop, corrals, and a new sale facility) in addition to filling our recips with breed leading genetics.” Page/ February 16 >> 2022 15 Wagyu World | January
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Kevin and Jessica Moore are part of a multigenerational ranching family in north central Texas near Alvarado, just south of Fort Worth. The Moore family has been in the cattle business for generations and seed-stock business since 1971. The M6 Ranch had an internationally known Charolais program but began transitioning to fullblood Wagyu in 2014. From 2001 to 2016 (15 years in a row) the M6 Ranch had the highest averaging annual Charolais production sale in the U.S. and marketed about 300 bulls a year. Both Kevin and Jessica are happy with their newfound beef, and the M6 Ranch Wagyu breeding journey is well on its way. Kevin says “the days of more pounds of choice beef in fewer days and less feed are over. Our current pursuit is producing the best tasting and healthiest beef in the world.” Kevin and Jessica’s beginnings in Wagyu were not without extreme frustration. Kevin says their goal is to breed the best of the best and without a comprehensive measuring stick to compare young cattle was nearly impossible. “We needed genetic tools based on science and less on opinions to make these cattle better.” It did not take long for them to find the Australian Wagyu Association data base with tens of thousands of records backing up their science. An added benefit was that the foundation genetics used in Australia and America are the same, which creates genetic evaluation linkage. “It might not be the American thing to do but we cannot ignore this tool of Genomic enhanced EBVs to try and breed better cattle. We have to embrace the
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most accurate science available in order to make better and more profitable decisions,” Kevin explained. The Moore’s are thankful and grateful that the more progressive Wagyu breeders in America have recently embraced Genomic enhanced EBVs from BREEDPLAN. Prior to the M6 Ranch’s 100% commitment to EBVs the Moore’s had been researching the data for years to find the better individuals, and applying selection pressure on the M6 Ranch herd. That is why many M6 Ranch cattle lead the Wagyu industry for profit. Kevin says EBVS have been good to make the M6 Ranch cattle better, and good for the Wagyu breed. Now Jessica and Kevin are preparing for their 2022 M6 Ranch Bull Sale on April 9th. The M6 Ranch is offering 75 fullblood Wagyu bulls and featuring the #1 Wagyu Breeder $ Index and #1 Self Replacement $ Index bull in BREEDPLAN according to the January 2022 numbers. Jessica and Kevin are very excited about M6 RANCH ITOSHIGENAMI R073H. Kevin says this bull is in the top 1% genetics for 6 traits in addition to every $ Profit Index. He is also free of all recessive genetic conditions. The Moore’s believe this bull will change the breed and will make Multiple Trait Selection look easy. The Moore’s have finished collecting export-
able semen on “073H” for Australia and nominated him in the Australian Wagyu Association Progeny Test Program. MAYURA L0010 is the sire of “073H” and is currently the #1 F1 Terminal $ Index and Fullblood Terminal $ Index sire in all of BREEDPLAN. “L10” is the sire of 65% of the bulls in the M6 Ranch Bull Sale. The other breed-leading sires represented in this offering are ITOSHIGENAMI TF148, SUMO CATTLE CO MICHIFUKU F154, TF KITATERUYASUDOI J2801, and MACQUARIE PRELUDE M0495. Kevin believes it is a natural evolution for the Wagyu breed to have its 1st Wagyu breeder bull sale here in the U.S. but thinks the bulls’ genetics must be elite in order to merit a bull auction. “I believe we are offering the genetics to make seedstock and commercial F1 producers more profitable. I know how much investment, selection pressure, and planning goes into every mating here at the M6 Ranch to ensure each new generation is improved for both carcass quality and growth traits. The M6 Ranch is committed to delivering a healthy, extremely high-quality product every time,” he said. This is an opportunity to acquire bulls with breed-leading genetics and to be a part of history in the making-with the 1st Wagyu breeder bull sale in North America.
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agyu cattle are a dream come true for Steven and Mary Erichsen. They own and operate Black Dog Ranch and Cattle Company near Weatherford, Texas, raising Wagyu seedstock. This breed has become their passion. When asked about how they came up with the name for their operation, Mary said that when they created our first ranch in Oregon they realized that they have always rescued black dogs (except for one brown and white one). Thus the name Black Dog Ranch and Cattle Company. Originally they were both in high-tech professions, and both from the Northwest. “We moved to Texas about 10 years ago, and at first wondered what we were going to do there,” says Mary. “One day out of the blue, Steve said we were going to move to Texas, and I said, ‘Sure!’ even though all of our family is from the Northwest. We have a son and a daughter, and 3 grandsons, and they all live in Oregon.” Steve was very active in cutting horse competitions. “We often came down to Texas for cutting horse events and really fell in love with this area,” Mary says. It was an instant transition after Steve voiced the desire to move. Within a few months they sold their house to the first person who gave them a cash offer, and they moved to their sight-unseen ranch in Weatherford, Texas. As Steve explains, they had been showing cutting horses for many years, and to do that very successfully, you have to be in Texas! “By happenstance, my company gave me the opportunity to move down here, so we did it, and it was a good move, and I loved it,” he says. Mary’s brother-in-law was a physician for many decades and spent some time in Japan. “As a gift, he was given some Kobe beef. I had a meal at their house one day, and they’d cooked Kobe steak. I was quite young at that time, in my early 20’s, and I’d never tasted anything like that! It was so delicious, like eating butter; it would melt in your mouth. I was 18
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thankful that he shared that with me,” Mary says. “After we moved to Texas and Steve said we were going to get some cattle, there was no doubt in my mind which breed I wanted to raise. Wagyu. I’d had a conversation with a long-time Wagyu producer a number of years earlier, and we recently saw him again at the American Wagyu Association meeting. We were chatting and I reminded him that I was from Spokane, Washington. He told me that the real story of Wagyu, and how this breed came to the U.S. had to do with Tom Foley, who was Speaker of the House in the late 1980’s, and from Spokane. Tom helped make it all happen,” she says. Several professors and scientists at Washington State University were interested in increasing U.S. trade with Japan, and the U.S. wanted to market beef to Japan. WSU was alerted by then-Speaker of the House Tom Foley that Japan, under pressure in trade negotiations, was preparing to ease its import quotas on beef. The University assembled a team of researchers to explore how Northwest ranchers could best take advantage of the new export opportunities, and a WSU research team went to Japan in 1989. The team quickly realized that Japan’s beef market was very different, and that U.S. beef would have to become a lot better in order to be accepted and compete. This was the beginning of efforts to bring Wagyu genetics to the U.S.—originally to breed Wagyu to Angus herds in the Northwest and give ranchers a market for the offspring, to ship beef to Japan. “When I spoke about the Kobe beef I’d tasted, one of the original Wagyu breeders talked about the fact that the sophistication of the American palate was improving. I was hopeful that Steve and I could raise some wonderful beef,” Mary says. “Steve is an incredible researcher. He loves to research genetics.” Steve talked to as many people as he could find who were breeding Wagyu. “This was in 2012, and at that time there weren’t very many breeders. This breed was just getting well started in this country, and not everyone had websites. We were not members of the Association yet and were just searching the internet and trying to find some breeders who could help us,” he says. “Being a persistent person, I found enough people to talk to, and learned more about these cattle over the years. We started out with three recip cows and put embryos in them. That’s how we started our Wagyu herd. To build a Wagyu herd from scratch takes time,” he explains. It was also a bit difficult to promote and sell Wagyu in Texas, where other breeds (Herefords, Angus, Longhorns, etc.) dominate. “Those ranchers and breeders would look at us like we were crazy and ask why we’d want to be raising Wagyu!” The first time a cattleman sees a Wagyu, it’s a shock because this doesn’t look like the typical beef animal. “I know a guy whose family has been ranching since the 1870’s and I offered him a bull for free breeding, for a church fund-raiser. He looked at me and said that it didn’t interest him,” Steve says. “I am famous for talking to people and asking a lot of questions. I learned from another rancher that one of the most important things is to have a plan and stick to it. We were already business people, so the planning part is easy. Then the important thing is to stick to it, to be successful. One thing we’ve seen, especially in the Wagyu breed, is that people tend Page 20 >>
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to bounce around; they jump in and jump out, or keep changing their plan. They want to do beef, or embryos, or the latest, greatest whatever, but don’t stick to any one thing. If you stick to a plan, it will work, as long as you are persistent in how you drive it,” he says. “Our plan was to produce the best breeding stock possible,” Mary says. “We challenged ourselves. When we joined the Australian Wagyu Association we looked at their data and how it might fit with the U.S. data and what does it mean. We also compare that data with the data available from the American Wagyu Association. And we ask what the end user is really getting, and what is the market demanding? We use our knowledge to do a thorough analysis of what it all means, and we don’t bounce around,” she says. Fast forward to today. “We produce some of the finest Bulls, Cows, and Heifers used specifically for breeding stock and seedstock in the U.S. using some of the best genetics available in America and Australia,” says Steve. “We don’t have extra cows at this point. About 2.5 years ago the market exploded, for us. We sell out everything that we can breed or get our hands on through partnerships, every year. The demand is growing for these animals,” he says. “Our primary market consists of small ranches and breeders who are just getting started with Wagyu— looking for a few good animals and for some help. With the internet today you can find Wagyu cattle, but you can’t always find someone who can guide you or give you straight solid business answers about why you’d want to do what you do and how to go about it. I probably spend a lot more time than most ranchers looking for those folks who need help, and educating them, and making sure that I answer their questions,” Steve says. “I can tell them that if they have this kind of heifer they should look for such-and-such kind of a bull, and what the options might be for bulls, and here’s why you’d want to do it. We’ve even used rotational breeding, which is something the Japanese do, to make sure they get some really good cows,” he says. This past year has been an interesting one. “We sold cattle to some smaller ranchers but were also approached by one of the big Angus ranches not far from us. We will be selling them some bulls to breed to their registered Angus. Probably 80% of our bulls are sold to people who are producing F1 cattle.” Wagyu bulls are great for breeding heifers because the calves are born easily, eliminating calving problems. “The rancher we’ll be working with has 200 Angus and by crossing with Wagyu it will dramatically reduce the number of difficult births, and the high-quality meat will be another side benefit.” This is a win-win situation. “I wish we could produce nothing but bulls because we sell so many bulls. We’ve been blessed because about 65% percent of the calves born here are bulls. We sell every one of those and the majority go to people who want to produce F1 cattle,” he says. “We are also very interested in helping the industry with education,” says Mary. “A number of years ago we hosted about 40 German breeders who came to our ranch. We put together a half-day program of education. We had Dr. Stroud here to help with this,” she says. “We spent a lot of time with these breeders, just com-
paring notes,” Steve says. In Germany they use mainly Holstein cows as recips for Wagyu embryos. “They wanted to know what we were doing, and figure out some of the best practices, and the latest in IVF, and what the Europeans are seeing, and what we are seeing with IVF versus conventional embryos, etc. Dr. Stroud is one of the best-known embryologists in the Wagyu industry and goes all over the world.” Wagyu is a great breed to be involved with; breeders are not as competitive with other breeders and tend to help each other more. “I tell people that the new breeders and small rancher can find help, and we can relate to them and what they are going through because we are one of them. Like other small ranchers, my wife and I do all the feeding and cattle care. Every morning we feed cattle and we appreciate these cattle because they are so docile and well-mannered. You couldn’t do what we do with Brangus, Angus or some of the other breeds,” Steve says. “It’s so much nicer to work with cattle that are polite!” These animals are smart and trainable and very user-friendly. “All our calves, are so easy to handle. They come into the corral every morning and know which pen to go stand in, to get fed,” he says. “We breed in the fall and in the spring, so the calves are not being born in winter during terrible weather,” Steve says. “We spend a lot of time looking at genetics and trying to find the right match for each cow,” he says. “A breeder once told me that the embryo coefficient is so important in this breed that you never want to go over a certain number, and we are very religious about that. We have some cows that trace all the way back to Japan that have never been bred before, and that helps us keep the genetic line clean and we don’t have issues with genetic problems,” he says. He and Mary have 35 fullblood registered Wagyu on 60 acres, plus some Angus cows they use as recips for embryos. “We have the mamas and babies in one pasture, the open cows in another pasture with a young bull we want to try out, and we have a bull pasture. It’s pretty easy to manage,” Steve says. “We make it a priority to have a calm low-stress program for our cattle and have seen tremendous results from this.” They also have 3 donkeys, 4 cutting horses, 2 dogs and 8 cats. The pastures are good, but not quite like the Northwest where they grew up. “We had orchardgrass and timothy there, but we don’t have any of those grasses here. What we have is good enough for the cattle, however,” he says. The environment on their ranch is ideal, because the cattle are happy and content. “These cattle are loved, just like everything on our ranch,” says Mary. “We can see that in the cattle. They are quiet and happy, and that gives us a lot of satisfaction. We don’t have generations of ranching behind us. I grew up on a small farm near Spokane but that doesn’t qualify as a ranch. Coming from our high-tech jobs to this, is such a change. This is so fulfilling! I wish we could have done it many years ago because it is such a good lifestyle.” Being in tune with the animals is very satisfying. “Plus I feel we are giving back to people—helping empower them with knowledge and understanding. It is satisfying to help the new breeders along. We have return customers all the time. Some people show everyone pictures of their grandchildren, but we show people our cow pictures!” she says. “The tagline we use is ‘For the Love of Wagyu’ and everything we do is about that,” says Steve. “I always ask myself this question: ‘Is what we are doing going to produce a better product this year than last year?’ This helps us with the decisions on genetics, breeding, feeding, etc.” Like the old 4-H Motto, the goal is to make the best better. Wagyu World | January / February 2022 21
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The best thing you can do for a newborn calf is make sure it nurses mom within a couple hours of birth. Dr. Andy Acton, (Deep South Animal Clinic at Ogema, Saskatchewan) reminds stockmen that baby calves are not born with antibodies against disease pathogens. “They have to absorb antibodies from their dam’s colostrum because they don’t get any from her while they are in the uterus. This passive immunity from colostrum is crucial to future health,” he says. “There are also some other important factors gained from colostrum than just the antibodies absorbed when calves suckle the first time. There is also absorption of white blood cells of different kinds in that colostrum—from their mother. These, and some of the immune modulators are not present in a colostrum replacer you’d buy.” Newborns have a limited window of time to absorb antibodies from colostrum. “Optimal time is during the first 4 hours of life, but it can be less in certain conditions--perhaps just the first 2 hours in cold weather. There are factors that shorten this window, and also some things that lengthen it,” says Acton. As soon as the calf suckles, the “open gut” starts to close, to prevent absorption of pathogens. Suckling stimulates the gut to close quicker, because it’s a race between the antibodies from colostrum and pathogens the calf might ingest. If the calf manages to suck a little, or if you feed him a little, the gut closes quicker than if the calf has had nothing. “The time window for the gut to absorb something in this situation is longer than if the calf gets a small amount of colostrum,” he explains. “I have 40 cows myself, and once had a situation where an old cow made up her bag just before she calved. When I went into the barn 24
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after she calved, it looked like the calf had sucked one quarter. I thought he was off to a good start. Later I looked at that pair again and the other 3 quarters were still full. I put that cow in the chute to check, and the quarter that I thought he’d sucked was blind. The calf might have been sucking on it, but there was no milk. It tricked me because she hadn’t bagged up till the end and I didn’t know that quarter wasn’t producing anything,” says Acton. By then, the calf was 14 hours old, and had never had anything to eat. Even in a well-managed herd there may be some calves that don’t get as much colostrum as they should. In some situations the calf is unable to get any colostrum at all. Sometimes a heifer won’t let her calf get to the udder. She may be so busy licking him that she won’t let him get past her head. In other situations the calf may be at the udder and you hear smacking noises, but he’s just sucking the side of the teat and doesn’t really have it in his mouth. In cold weather a cow’s teats may get frostbitten before she calves, and there may be a little scab at the end of the teat and the calf can’t get the teat started. He may suck, but gets nothing—unless you restrain the cow and get those scabs off. “With my calf that was 14 hours old before it got anything to eat, I was mad at myself for not becoming aware of its problem sooner. I checked his blood levels and he had no antibodies, so I fed him 2 liters of colostrum, waited 2 hours and gave him 2 more liters, waited another 2 hours and gave him another 2 liters, and got his blood levels up to normal in terms of total protein measurement. Even though he was older, we made up for the lack of percentage absorption with extra volume,” says Acton. “Sometimes you can make up for Page 27 >>
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being a little delayed, by giving the calf a little more. You have to be careful doing that, however. You don’t want to overfeed a weak calf that might regurgitate. But that was one instance where I was able to get the calf’s antibody level up to normal even though it was beyond the usual window,” he says. “If colostrum intake is managed (making sure each calf gets enough colostrum, soon enough), the health and performance of that calf will be far better. Some years ago we tested a group of about 1000 calves from several different farms. We blood tested the calves to measure antibody level, as one of the measures of whether they nursed or not. The bottom one-fifth we called a fail; those calves probably didn’t get much colostrum. Later, those calves weighed 30 to 40 pounds less at weaning than the other calves. This lower weight was not due to sickness; they just didn’t perform as well,” says Acton. Calves get off to a better start if they have adequate colostrum soon after birth. “It is the producers’ decision regarding how they want to manage that. If cattle are calving in large areas, on their own, it’s difficult to monitor. With that kind of setup you want really good calf vigor—calves that can get right up and suckle quickly.” You wouldn’t want to be calving in severely cold weather. Also, the cows need adequate nutrition to have a strong, healthy calf. “Calf vigor at birth is the key to success, on many ranch operations. It requires good nutrition with cows in good shape, and all the vitamins/ minerals needed, in a good supplementation program. Then the calf has a good chance to be vigorous at birth,” he says. Calving in warmer weather is an advantage because the calf doesn’t get chilled and has a longer time to try to suckle before he gets too cold and gives up. There are some advantages to calving later, with cows in big pastures unassisted, but if something goes wrong you are not
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as well as BREEDPLAN inquiries. The handbook also includes a section on how to use the “Wagyu Portal” which is an online area where members have access to several member services. Herd maintenance and management, performance data entry, real time calf registrations, animal transfers, membership updates and account management can all be performed in the portal. New members can also use the handbook to understand and navigate the actual animal registration process from top to bottom. A nine-step process is outlined from becoming a member through DNA collection and submission all the way up to receipt of registration forms. Once registered, animals are included in the monthly BREEDPLAN run with updated EBVs being published around the 20th of each month. The handbook also includes a photo guide on how to proficiently collect DNA samples for submission to the lab. The guide includes a comprehensive guide to DNA testing options available to members including explanation of acronyms used in each test. It explains how to read DNA results that will be presented to the member once they have been generated by the lab. One of the most attractive aspects of registering with the Australian Wagyu Association is access to BREEDPLAN and EBVs. BREEDPLAN is a modern genetic evaluation system for beef cattle. If offers the potential to accelerate genetic progress, tighten up breeding operations, improve productivity and increase prices for cattle sold for breeding and slaughter. An animal’s breeding value can be defined as its genetic merit for each trait. While it is not possible to determine an animal’s true breeding value, it is possible to estimate it. These estimates of an of an animal’s true breeding value are called EBVs (Estimated Breeding Values). EBVs are expressed as the difference between an individual animal’s genetics and the genetic base to which the animal is compared. EBVs are reported in the units in which the measurements are taken. A value of +12kg for 400 day weight means the animal is genetically superior by 12 kg at 400 days compared with the genetic base of the relevant cattle population. On average, half of this difference will be passed on to the animals’ progeny as half an animal’s genes come from the sire and half from the dam. BREEDPLAN produces EBVs for a range of economically important traits. These traits currently include weight, fertility/calving and carcass data. The association relies on data to develop accurate EBVs. There are several methods of submitting performance information to the AuWA. Data can be submitted on an excel spreadsheet, available on the website, specifically developed to enable breeders to submit performance data electronically
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A To Z Feeders..............................................................................................35 Australian Wagyu Assoc - Wagyu Edge..............................................42 Bar R Cattle Co.............................................................................................17 Black Dog Cattle Co...................................................................................34 C.D. “Butch” Booker....................................................................................34 Callicrate Banders ......................................................................................35 Caroland Farms...........................................................................................41 Crescent Harbor..........................................................................................34 DAR J Easy Weigh.......................................................................................34 Diamond T Ranch................................................................................31, 35 Double 8 Cattle Company.......................................................................13 JMK Cattle ...................................................................................................... 2 Lone Mountain Cattle Co.........................................................................29 Lucky 7 Ranch..............................................................................................35 M6 Ranch Wagyu .................................................................................. 1, 35 Marble Ranch........................................................................................34, 44 Mayura Station............................................................................................33 Milburn-Kroh Ranch .................................................................................35 Morris Stock Farm ......................................................................................27 Pacific Rogue Wagyu ...............................................................................34 Passion For Prime......................................................................................12 Protocol Technologies ........................................................................ 4, 34 Ragland Wagyu...........................................................................................35 Renew Livestock Co...................................................................................20 Rockin 2 Wagyu ..........................................................................................20 Schacher Auction Services......................................................................35 ShowMe Wagyu Partners.......................................................................... 3 Slator Ranch..........................................................................................35, 43 Tai Ranch.......................................................................................................35 Texas Ten Akaushi Cattle..........................................................................39 Todo Santos Creek....................................................................................27 Triangle B Ranch .......................................................................................... 5 TWA Fall Harvest Event.............................................................................22 TWA Steaks Are High Sale.......................................................................28 Wagyu Sekai.................................................................................................23 Yuba River Ranch........................................................................................ 35 Vermont Wagyu................................................................................... 26, 34
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REUSHAW
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Purebred Heterozygous Polled Open Breeding Age Heifers
575 AP210269
sired by Slator Ranch 99E
589 AP218067
sired by Slator Ranch 115E
734 AP210268
sired by Twinwood TW0938A
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CAROLAND FARMS inaugural
1st - OCTOBER - 2022 at the farm
Landrum - South Carolina featuring
TOP 1% GENETICS
a flush opportunity + progeny from TBR MS ITOSHIGENAMI 2-1 3021Z, a maternal sister to the $59,000 “TBR 3346Z” and full sister to the top 1% “TBR 3025Z” whose flush opportunity sold for $22,000 in 2021
a flush opportunity + genetics from JC MS RUESHAW 71, the full sister to the $250,000 bull - JC RUESHAW 75
progeny from MG MS SHIGESHIGETANI 83A, one of the country’s most valued WK Shigeshigetani daughters
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GENETICS
Llano, TX - 325/247/4217
• semen packages available (mix & match) on all 3 outcross bulls volume discounts • heterozygous polled bulls for sale at private treaty - 93.75% & 95.31% available
“Second” in JAPAneSe AP169619 - dob: 2/13/2019
A thicker, deePer bodied PerformAnce bull!
AP142949 - 1/27/2018 leAding homozygouS Polled Purebred Sire! excellent Proven heifer bull! dAughter (AP207678) recently Sold for $32,500 At 3 monthS of Age!
AP200550 - 2/13/2020 “third” in JAPAneSe bW of 60lbS & ShoWS thickneSS throughout!
CSS/Australia exportable semen Available on multiple sires
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From day one our goal has been to develop a herd that will perform at the ranch and on the rail. USDA approved embryo export facilities, a unique feeding concept and objective carcass grading, using one of the few Japanese carcass cameras in the US, are all tools we utilize in producing genetics that have both a local renown and global reach.
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