NOVEMBER 2016 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC
Purebred cattle sell well Prices respectable at fall sales
by CATHY GLOVER
WILLIAMS LAKE – Commercial cattle prices may be slumping but there appears to be some optimism among seed stock producers given healthy returns at two purebred sales this fall. An outcross Red Angus heifer calf consigned by Houston- based Blast Angus sold for $11,000.00 at the Pacific Invitational Sale in Williams Lake, September 24. Billed as a “genetic gem,” the heifer traces back to Frank and Dianne Strimbold’s Lady Heather pedigree. With a Black Angus parent on both sides of her pedigree, Red Blast Lady Heather 36D is a complete outcross for Red Angus breeders and more than enough reason for Six Mile Ranch in Saskatchewan to shell out big bucks to own her. Another heifer calf entry from Brent and Lia Long’s Blast Angus, Blast Blackbird 18D, sold for $5,250.00 to Dunlevy Ranch in Williams Lake.
This is the fifth year for the all-breed female sale in Williams Lake. Prices were decent overall. A bred Angus heifer, Harvest Princess 71C, consigned by Harvest Angus out of Prince George, sold for $4,500.00 to Clint Ellis of Aldergrove. A Hereford heifer calf, SF 668 Ruby 1D, consigned by Smith Farms of Abbotsford, sold for $4,000.00 to Everett Himech of Houston.
Harris Ranch of Tatlayoko Lake took a fancy to the top selling Simmental consignments, both coming out of Crosby Cattle in Vanderhoof. They paid $4,000.00 for the high selling heifer calf, XBAR Miss Diva 20D, and $4,400.00 for Crosby’s bred heifer, XBAR Countessa 38C.
This year’s donation heifer, a Red Angus from Mike and Brenda Wheeler’s North 40 Red Angus herd in Vanderhoof, went to Tom deWaal who sent her back through the ring where she sold for $2,800.00, half of which deWaal donated back to BC Angus. In all, 27 sale lot averaged $3,348.00.
Tlell bull off to Semex
Prices were equally impressive for Richardson Ranch. This September marked the seventh year Don and Leslie Richardson of Tlell, on Haidi Gwaii, have hosted their online sale. (Sale prices include freight off Haida Gwaii and delivery as far east as Lloydminster.)
High seller was a bull calf, Tlell 200Z Dandy 1D, who sold to Semex Alliance in Guelph for $9,000.00. Out of a first calf Tlell- bred heifer and by an American bull, 1D had a birth weight of just 78 lbs but his 205-day weight clocked over 800 lbs. Semex has renamed him (Tlell 200Z Totem 1D), the Richardsons have retained 100 straws of semen and will show him at FairFair International in Edmonton, November 9 to 13, along with three other Tlell-bred bulls before he goes to stud. Matts Red Angus in Smithers picked up yearling bull, Tlell 10Y City Boy 1C, for $4,400.00. A show heifer, Tlell 10Y Darlin 16D, sold for $4,900.00 to Garilyn Morris in Red Deer, AB. Three exportable embryos sold for $1,650.00 and are headed to Moeskaer Herefords in Denmark. Others went to Germany, a testament to how far-reaching the online sale has become. In all, ten lots averaged $4,430.00. Twelve embryos on offer averaged $492.00. The sale ran over four days in late September.
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And winners, too! BC 4-H member Mariah Mitchell’s Speckle Park cross calf, Macey, was the reserve champion calf at the Provincial Winter Fair in Barriere this fall. (Photo courtesy of the North Okanagan 4-H Beef Club)
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