Livestock Management RANCHING
Jordan Cattle Auction… Where Cattlemen Come to Buy and Sell!
11th Annual “Best of the Best” Replacement Female Sale Saturday, April 13, 2013 • 10:00 a.m. • San Saba Offering quality pair, bred cows, bred heifers and open or exposed heifers. Don’t miss your opportunity to buy some of the best females in the country.
The seller and buyer of the top-selling females in each of the classes will receive a trophy. Also a pair of boots will be awarded in a drawing to a consignor and a buyer in the sale. All cattle will be fi ve years of age or younger! Consignments welcome!
Special Replacement Female Sales Saturday, May 4, 2013 • 10:00 a.m. • San Saba Saturday, June 1, 2013 • 10:00 a.m. • San Saba Consignments Welcome!
Special Bull Offerings In conjunction with our regular sale. Bulls will sell at 11:00 a.m. Bulls will be fertility tested, meet trich requirements, and be ready to go to work.
Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:00 a.m. • San Saba Consignments Welcome!
WEEKLY SALES HELD AT 11:00 a.m.
Monday - Mason Thursday - San Saba For more info on above sales or online viewing and bidding, please call or visit our website.
with sickle hock. When a bull or cow is bow-
legged, the outside wall of the hoof is compressed, the outer toe may curl upward and various degrees of lameness usually develop.
Look at the animal overall “It is critical for cattle to be
structurally sound,” said Cleere. “The way you evaluate structural soundness is to watch the animal walk. If cows or bulls are structur- ally correct, they look like they are floating on air when they walk. When they pick up a front foot, the hind foot should be very close to the track left by the forefoot. If a cow steps in front of the forefoot track with her hind foot, she is sickle hocked. If she steps well behind it, then that animal is straight-fronted or post legged.” The top line or spine of an ani-
PORTABLE & STATIONARY SYSTEMS AERWAY SCALES
mal should be relatively fl at. If a cow is humped up in the back, she is likely post legged. A tailhead that is positioned too high chang- es the slope of the pelvis which could cause a calf to be positioned wrong for birth. The rib cage should be deep and round for good feed capacity. The animal’s skull should be
SQUEEZE CHUTES CALF TABLES
shaped to portray its sex. A bull’s head should look like it belongs to a bull and a cow’s head should look like it belongs to a cow. Parts of the skeleton should be proportional to each other to give the animal a smooth and balanced appearance. A cow or bull has to be struc-
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tured correctly to be able to deliver maximum performance. Additional information on cat-
tle selection can be found at the National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium,
rbcea.org, and Beef Improvement Federation, beefi m-
provement.org.
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