THURSDAY, MARCH 20,
BULL SALE.
What a solid set of long yearling bulls that were born mid-August to midOctober out on grass. They run on grass the next summer into later fall with just a bit of supplement and then brought in to a small pasture so they still get lots of exercise all winter. They have solid feet and legs as a result and will last in the big pastures.
The number of repeat customers, both purebred and commercial, tells the tale of the quality that you can expect here. With an extensive AI program for many years, he has used proven bulls to have the bred in calving ease and performance that we all want to have. This year the sons of LT Countdown are featured and you can see why he is so popular in the industry.
Videos will be available online at www.bylivestock. com so you can have a preview of the offering before you decide you want to go have a look in person. The bulls will be available for viewing at the farm anytime leading up to the end of the sale. Come and view the bulls, their dams and the program in a relaxed atmosphere and get to know Michael if you have not met him before. He has been involved in the Charolais breed all his life and is a real historian on the breed and pedigrees.
The bulls are selling through the DLMS Farmgate Timed Online Auction. Online bidding will open on Wednesday, March 19th at 9:00 am DST and close at 7:00 pm DST on Thursday, March 21th with a racehorse style close with extending bidding time. If you have questions or concerns with this system of selling, give us a call and we can help you out. The farm is located in between Souris and Pipestone, just west of what used to be the town of Deleau. They are just a mile north of Hwy #2 with a sign at the corner.
The buckskin and silver calves are the industry standard now and have been consistently in demand and topping the markets across the country. Don’t pass up the added dollars from crossbreeding with identifiable Charolais genetics and colour.
If Candace or I can be of any assistance before the sale or on sale day, please don’t hesitate to give us a call. We would be happy to help you find a bull that is right for your program.
Sincerely,
Helge & Candace By
By Livestock
ON BEHALF OF AVA AND MYSELF, I
WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR 5TH ANNUAL ONLINE BULL SALE.
We are honored and thank you for considering our genetics for your breeding requirements. It is very rewarding for me to see the success our customers, friends and neighbors have in their operations, while reflecting on the small part our genetics have helped contribute. We will continue to strive to earn your trust and business by accessing breed leading genetics that help to continue our customers success.
It has been often said that behind every great bull is a great female. I certainly agree and as such, heavy emphasis has been placed on maternal traits while building our cowherd during the past 40 plus years. Selecting for fertility, longevity, mothering ability, plus milking ability with sound teat and udder quality have been vital in our range calving environment. Artificial Insemination is then used heavily on our cowherd selecting sires that balance calving ease with short gestation length and high growth along with an easy fleshing phenotype that have the ability to produce bulls that can adapt to the various conditions of our customers.
The Charolais breed has so much to offer the beef industry in terms of carcass quality and feedlot efficiency. The ability of the Charolais bull to compliment any breed of cow and produce calves that are immediately identifiable to the buyers as Charcross when they step in the ring is invaluable. I am as passionate about this breed today as I was when I was that young boy who got his first registered heifer 44 years ago.
Delivering bulls every spring is a very enjoyable time for me. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and customers as well as get the chance to meet new ones. I enjoy our visits and seem to always come away learning something new. This is a great part of the business that I am always grateful for. It is also a reminder how fast the years go by. There are several farms that I once delivered bulls to their parents and even grandparents!
The bulls are summered on grass with access to a low energy high fiber pellet. With the open fall, the bulls ran out quite late this year into November when they were brought home to be further developed. They are fed a 14% pellet along with protein blocks that contain optimum levels of chelated minerals along with free choice grass hay. The bulls have access to a 15-acre paddock for lots of winter exercise.
I invite and encourage you to come for a visit and view the bulls any time before the sale. Many bulls are sold sight unseen every year, so feel free to give me a call anytime. I would be happy to have the opportunity to discuss the traits and goals you are seeking and find the right bull to compliment your cowherd to achieve them.
Sincerely,
Mike Bertholet & Ava Bertholet
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, March 19 - 9 AM DST Bidding Opens Thursday, March 20 - 7 PM DST - Timed Close-Out Begins
SALE DAY CONTACTS
Mike Bertholet 204-522-5469
Helge By 306-536-4261
Candace By.................... 306-536-3374
VIEWING OF THE BULLS
Bulls are available for viewing at the farm anytime prior to sale close.
VIDEOS
Videos of the bulls will be available online at www.bylivestock.com.
SEMEN TEST AND WEIGHTS
All bulls will be examined, scrotal measured, semen tested and palpated by a licensed veterinarian prior to the sale. Scrotal measurements and current weights will be available.
SEMEN RIGHTS
White Meadow Charolais reserves the right to collect semen on the bulls for in-herd use, at our expense and the buyer’s convenience.
DELIVERY
Free delivery up to 300 km. For points further we will work with you and share the cost to have your bull delivered to central points as close to your farm as possible.
BOARDING
Bulls can remain at the farm free of charge until May 1st when I typically begin deliveries unless you are needing your bull sooner. Although every precaution is taken to ensure the health and safety of the bulls, accidents can occur. Therefore, obtaining insurance on your purchase is highly recommended.
INSURANCE
All bulls remaining on the farm after the sale will require insurance. Contact Lois McRae, at 204-573-5192.
JANUARY 2025 CANADIAN CHAROLAIS ASSOCIATION
DLMS FARM GATE TIMED AUCTION BIDDING INSTRUCTIONS
These can be found on page 22 of the catalogue.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The sale will be conducted under the terms and conditions listed on page 22 of the catalogue.
HERD HEALTH AND FERTILITY
Sale bulls have been treated for parasites with just Ivomec twice, vaccinated with Bovashield FP 5 and will receive two doses of Fusogard for foot rot prevention. Breeding females receive CattleMaster Gold FP 5. Calves are given Inforce 3 at birth and Covexin 8.
U.S.A. BUYERS
We guarantee our bulls to be exportable. We will do the health testing and arrange to meet you at the border or for trucking to central points in the U.S. White Meadow Charolais will assist in the cost related to export testing and trucking to the U.S. Call for further details.
• He is one of the biggest curve bender bulls we have used in our herd. His sons display excellent muscling, rib depth and performance in a low-birth-weight short gestation package. They are easy fleshing bulls that will excel in a variety of environments.
• Countdown is admired for his bold rib, structural correctness and tremendous EPD package uniquely combining calving ease, growth, and carcass excellence.
• Countdown’s maternal line is hard to rival and stacked with proven genetics that will yield superior performance, efficiency, and maternal excellence.
WHITE MEADOW LOGAN 25L
This is a bull built for calving ease and more! With a -5.6 BW EPD, he also ranks in the top 1% for calving ease and marbling with above average growth. Smooth design, small head and backed by three generations of calving ease sires from an outstanding female line with excellent longevity. His great great granddam, KMS 4C (mother of KMS 79L, lot 18) is still in the herd. Whether breeding heifers to produce calving ease sons or herd building replacement females, this bull hits the mark!
Extraordinary style, muscle shape and extra rib depth in this outstanding low birth weight prospect from one of our top cow families! His excellent uddered, WC Milestone dam is a maternal sister to KMS 89L, lot 22.
GREAT GREAT GRANDDAM – KMS 4C
This is a bull that combines the traits we
for in producing bulls for ranchers with that low
to high growth spread. Starting out with an 80 lb birth weight to one of the top yearling weights of the group to index 108. He is long bodied with muscle, good hair and style.
LEAD ON 29L
WHITE MEADOW LUDWIG 27L
Tremendous volume and spring of rib along with a great muscle patterng from high marbling genetics. His dam is a big, deep bodied and easy fleshing Rio Bravo daughter. The Bravo cattle were known for that extra rib depth and this guy certainly inherited that!
WHITE
LUMBERJACK
A calving ease prospect that is very stout, easy fleshing and good natured with calving ease on both sides of his pedigree. His dam is a very productive LT Affinity daughter with a beautiful udder. His granddam, 44C is a full sister to White Meadow Hank 80H, a high seller and herdsire for Pleasant Dawn Charolais. Calving ease, above average growth and loaded with maternal traits!
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WHITE MEADOW LIBRA 41L
This guy is built like a tank! Heavy muscled, easy fleshing with extra rib depth. He comes from low-birthweight genetics and has great individual performance figures indexing 105 on both weaning and yearling weight. His LT Rio Bravo 3181 dam is a sound structured, heavy milking cow in the herd. The Rio Bravo genetics are rare to find today and few bulls will pack as much rib depth into their descendants as he will. He represents that balanced breeding we strive for: calving ease, performance and the ability to sire easy fleshing productive females. Don’t overlook this guy!
WHITE MEADOW LEGEND 42L
lot 11
WHITE MEADOW LENNOX 49L
Low birth and high marbling genetics. Deep bodied, easy fleshing and loose hided. He has lots of hip and rib depth which are very consistent with the Countdown sons. With a 72 lb birth weight, along with this type of structure and performance data, he will have a positive influence with customers who want calving ease while still maintaining performance and quality.
lot 12
LAZARO 59L
This bull is one of the biggest spread bulls in the sale! A 65 lb birth weight and still had performance indexes of 103 on both weaning and yearling weight. He is very stout, heavy muscled, deep ribbed, along with a pleasant disposition. A bull that will work on the heifer pen and sire a set of stout bull calves along with easy fleshing replacement females that will be keepers! A maternal brother sold to Dufayel Cattle Co. Ltd, MB.
Here is a growth and power sire! A top-level performance Countdown son with added frame size, volume and length. This guy will bring more pounds to the table when your calves cross the scale on sale day!
WHITE MEADOW LAMONT 63L
This is a bull that will meet the requirements of commercial ranchers. Calving ease, calf vigor at birth and then go on to produce heavy weight calves for sale day. He has hair, muscle, length of spine and body width, along with a touch of frame size. This guy would work on any breed of cow and produce those powerful Charcross calves the buyers love. He is a free moving bull that will cover a lot of cows in the breeding season.
LEON
An ideal rancher’s bull with added style, length of spine and a smooth muscle pattern. He is a very sound bull that will balance solid growth along with worry free calving. He is backed by a proven, beautiful uddered, Long Distance daughter. A maternal brother sold to M & M Ranch, SK.
LANDIS 70L
A super eye appealing, Countdown son that will bring calving ease and high marbling genetics to the table. He has an attractive small head, straight topline, good muscle pattern and style to burn! I feel this bull will be a very easy calver with his low birth EPD, very smooth phenotype and with calving ease on both sides of his pedigree. His Bridger dam is very feminine with excellent teat and udder quality. I would expect this calving ease bull to sire stylish sons and daughters that will be keepers.
This guy is a moderate framed bull that is easy fleshing and very sound moving. A rancher friendly bull that I expect to give you worry free calving and good weaning growth on his calves with muscle.
WHITE MEADOW LEXINGTON 79L
A low-birth-weight Countdown son with base width, rib depth and outstanding athletic movement when he travels. He has a tremendous EPD package and is backed by a super female in the herd. She produced our high selling bull in 2022, White Meadow Hannibal 17H, that sold to Valley’s End Charolais, SK. She has also put sons into the programs of Boulanger Farms, MB and Mannle Farms, SK.
WHITE MEADOW LORENZO
Another structurally sound Countdown son that excels for low birth to high growth and carcass EPDs. A bull that will give you solid growth, muscle and trouble-free calving. His productive dam has been a real herd bull producer. She has put sons into the herds of SKE Charolais, MB; Great Harvest Livestock, MB and Kevin Jasper, MB.
He is good natured and very fluid in his movement. His dam is one of the sweetest natured cows in the herd.
WHITE MEADOW LEADER 89L
A definite herd sire prospect with impeccable structure! Powerful base width, wide topped, soft made and about as smooth made as you can make one. He has a wonderful disposition and is backed by one of the absolute top cows in the herd whose lineage goes back over 40 years in our herd. She has produced two herd sires that went into the breeding program of SKE Charolais, MB, as well as female replacements in our herd, including the dam of 23L, lot 1.
• LT Fortune is a wide based performance sire with excellent carcass traits that calved very well for us.
• Look to his sons to be growth and power bulls with length, depth and muscle along with size.
lot 23
WHITE MEADOW LANCELOT 95L
A growth and power herd bull prospect with style and presence! An LT Fortune son that has tremendous length, spring of rib and muscle with base width. He is a performance bull that weighed 800 lb at weaning while being the #2 yearling weight bull with an index of 111. He is backed by a feminine and long bodied LT Sundance daughter that comes from a line of females with generations of sound teat and udder quality. He is one impressive individual!
White Meadow sired calves at Paton’s M&M Ranch
Long
WHITE MEADOW LAMBERT 26L
lot 27
WHITE MEADOW LOCOMOTION 123L
This is absolutely one of the most impressive bulls in the entire sale! He has been a standout since birth with his tremendous width, depth, volume and masculinity. He had incredible early growth with a weaning wt. of 824 lb along with a powerful phenotype. He is anchored by generations of front pasture females with outstanding teat and udder quality. A maternal brother sold to Thorgilsson Farms, MB.
A sound structured bull with length of body, muscle and good frame size with a moderate birth weight. A bull that will have excellent balance because of the performance of his sire, LT Fortune, along with the maternal and calving ease of his proven Unlimited Ease 9108 dam.
LEVI 34L
WHITE MEADOW LEONARDO 35L
A calving ease prospect with a double shot of calving ease on his
A power bull that displays size, lots of middle and width of body. His dam is
LUCAS
WHITE MEADOW LANGFORD
WHITE MEADOW LORETO 85L
This individual is a big-time muscle bull! He is a complete outcross to most as he is sired by Chabal, a full French sire out of France. He will definitely put length and big butt ends on his calves! His dam is a powerful LT Long Distance daughter and his granddam is KMS 4C, a super female that is the dam of KMS 79L, lot 18.
MEADOW LINDBERG
size should consider this guy. A maternal brother sold to Craig Bendickson, SK.
Calving ease, style, performance and maternal ability in one package! A 76 lb birth weight and 800 lb at weaning, to index 112 from a first calf heifer. He is a long spined bull and straight topped with tons of eye appeal and neck extension. He is very structurally sound and has a good temperament and can move like a cat. His LT Nationwide dam is heavy milking with excellent teat and udder quality who has a great future in the herd.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DLMS FARM GATE TIMED AUCTION WITH EXTENDED BIDDING: Technical Support: Mark Shologan
780-699-5082 markshologan@gmail.com
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 signup 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 password to continue. This takes you to a list of both current and upcoming Farm Gate Auctions.
2. 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.
THANK YOU
SKE Charolais Mannle Farms, SK M&M Ranch, SK
Glen Gudmundson
Reid Philip Thorgilsson Farms
4. At closing time of the sale, the entire sale will extend bidding for 5 minutes, if a bid is placed on any lot in the sale. Any bid received after close time will extend the sale by 5 minutes from the time of that bid. When no bidding occurs for 5 minutes, the computer will declare the sale finished.
5. Within 24 hours of the sale close, the Sale Manager will contact all winning bidders to arrange payment, transfer of pedigrees and delivery/pick up of your lot.
WHAT IS A RACEHORSE STYLE CLOSE?
Racehorse style sale close is when the entire sale stays open in extended bidding. This type of sale allows you as the bidder to change to a different lot within the same sale if the bidding has gone in to extended bidding.
HOW EXTENDED BIDDING WORKS
When we get to the close out end time, the clock for close extends with any bid placed with less than 5 minutes on the clock. This type of extended bidding turns the end time to more of a soft time. Extended bidding allows bidders to compete in lots like a real auction and gives all bidders the same time to make a decision. Always follow the clock to see how much time remains in the sale you are interested in.
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.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
TERMS: The terms of the sale are cash or cheque payable immediately after the sale in Canadian funds. All settlements must be made before cattle will be released. The right of property will not pass until final payment is made.
BIDDING: Each animal will sell to the highest bidder. Bidders may phone their bids and instructions to the sale manager, or owner. Bids must be received in sufficient time prior to the sale.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Announcements made sale day will take precedence over printed matter in the catalogue. Buyers are cautioned to pay close attention to announcements.
PURCHASER’S RISK: Each animal becomes the risk of the purchaser as soon as sold. Animals will be cared for at the purchaser’s risk for a reasonable length of time. All animals left with the seller must be insured.
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION: Each animal will carry papers issued by the Canadian Charolais Association. A certificate of registry duly transferred will be furnished to the buyer after payment has been made.
DELIVERY: Assistance will be given in making delivery after the sale. The purchaser agrees shipping arrangements will be at the convenience of the seller, but will be as soon as practical after the sale, at the buyer’s risk.
BREEDER GUARANTEE - BULLS: Should any bull fourteen months of age or over, fail to prove a breeder after being used on cows known to be breeders, the matter shall be reported in writing to the seller within six
months following the date of purchase or six months after the bull has reached fourteen months of age. The seller has the right and privilege of six months to prove the bull a breeder. No guarantee is given that semen collected from the bull will freeze.
EXCEPTION GUARANTEE: In case where the animal is subjected to any hormonal or surgical reproductive techniques after the sale, this guarantee shall be null and void. The seller is not responsible for damage caused by foreign bodies after the animal has been sold or for sickness not apparent at sale time. In no event shall the seller be responsible for more than the purchase price.
ACCIDENTS: Although every precaution will be taken to protect the safety and comfort of buyers, neither the sale manager, or seller assume any responsibility and disclaim any liability, legal or otherwise, in the event of accident or loss of property.
BY LIVESTOCK is only acting as a medium between the buyer and seller and is not responsible for failure on the part of either party to live up to their obligations; or for the truth of any warrantees or representations, expressed or implied. By Livestock assumes no obligation to enforce or collect monies between parties. By Livestock assumes no responsibility for any credit extended by the seller to the buyer. Any legal action taken in exceptional cases must be between the buyer and the seller. The buyer must look to the seller for fulfilment of all guarantees and representations.
INSURANCE: Insurance will be available sale day.
Arthur Denbow
Pollock Charolais
Blake Harmon
Terry Schuddemat
Joey Druwe
Derek Isaac
Kevin Jasper
Tanner Dobson
Brian Czerwonka, SK J-C Ranch, SK
Great Harvest Ag
Dufayel Cattle Co. Ltd.
Corey Flaman
Ferme Raymond Lacasse Inc., QC
Aaron Holliday
Roger Tataryn, SK
Robert Binks, AB Maple Lake Stock Farms
Harace Sholdice
