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Welcome

Welcome to our 2019 sale. This year will be a little different as Lazy J Welcome to our joint production sale with Flittie Simmental and
Bar Ranch will be joining in the sale. Also this year, the sale is a week Schnabel Simmental Ranches.
earlier so there will be no cow sale that day. This will make it easier to
view the bulls. Sometimes in life you need to make a few changes. The New Year’s
Eve Sale was always good to us and a good time with friends, how-
With three different operations offering bulls, there will be differences ever the weather was always less than desirable and our family time
in gain and adjusted weights. Schnabel’s bulls and my bulls will have during the holidays was pretty much zero. Looking to take a little
supplement sheets with scrotal measurements, rate of gain, yearling stress off that time of year, we made the decision to come back to
weights, homo polled and coat color, along with updated EPDs at sale the joint bull sale with Bruce and thankfully he allowed us to do that!
time. These will also be available about a week before the sale.
As I sit to write this letter I have spent many sleepless nights in the
You are welcome to visit the ranch and view the bulls prior to the sale. kidding barn watching all the carefully planned matings come to
Join us for a beef lunch. life…what was that about stress and bull sale catalog at the same
time?? … LOL! It is exciting times when you fi nally get to visualize
Thanks for your interest, the goal you had in mind at breeding time. This makes me anxious
to see the 2019 calves hit the ground and see what our new sires
Bruce Flitt le, Flitt ie Simmentals
will bring to the table for the 2020 sale. If they turn out anything like
the bulls offered in this sale we will have met our goal.
Welcome to our annual production sale. We are a family operation
with both a purebred and commercial herd. We focus very hard on We were in the second year of drought this year and the dust blow-
having a strong maternal cow herd. I always say you can’t build a ing is getting a little old … even the snow today is covered with a
house on a weak foundation and I feel that is the same for a cow herd, layer of dirt on top. We were fortunate to receive rain every month
you need a solid foundation to develop cattle that will be functional this fall…yes even in December in SD. When you walk thru this bull
and marketable. We do NOT creep feed any of the calves in either pen it makes you stop and take notice. They have been gaining well
herd as we expect them to grow & excel with mother’s milk and grass since birth and especially since weaning time. The end of December
alone. This year we went through and DNA tested our entire purebred I walked thru the pen and started picking my favorites and the bulls
cow herd to make every effort to get the most information possible. we may want to sample ourselves. What else would you do at the

end of the year when you normally had a bull sale!??! My list runs
The bulls are being fed similar rations that we have used for the last deeper this year than any previous year. As in year’s past we have
few years developed by Dewayne Siebrasse of Cattlecents Consult- bulls designed for every producer in mind from calving ease to
ing (605-228-5788). He has developed rations to achieve maximum power bulls and carcass qualities to boot. The bulls have all the DNA
growth while keeping the bulls athletically sound and to have longev- work done, parent verifi cation and genomically enhanced EPDs. We
ity. The rations consist of ground grass/alfalfa hay, earlage, distillers, will also have carcass ultrasound data available on the supplement
chopped oats/peas, corn silage, & custom liquid protein. All our sheet prior to sale day. We are excited to be able to offer scan data
feedstuffs are 100% homegrown except for the distillers. They also again. The young age of the bulls on our prior New Year’s Eve sale
always have free choice salt and Riomaxx Nutrition supplement. did not allow us to utilize scan data.

All cattle are on a strict herd health program put together with the The bulls will be hauled into Hub City Livestock on Feb 15th and will
Hosmer Vet Clinic (Dr. Holly Roe-Johnson). Supplement sheets will be put thru the sale ring at Hub City on sale day however, the Lazy J
be available sale day with genomically enhanced EPDs, coat color, Bar Ranch bulls will still have video footage on all bulls and will have
horn/poll, ADG, adj. YW, carcass ultrasound and scrotal measure- it available on our website and DVAuction the week or so prior to
ments. the sale. We welcome you anytime to come take a look at the bulls.
They are ready for visitors but be careful if you drive in the pen
Again, this year we will be retaining 1/3 semen interest on all the they will wash your vehicle! The coffee pot is on and make sure to
bulls. You will be buying full possession and 2/3 semen rights. bring your kids and grandkids to see all the four legged kids running
Thank you for your interest in our program. Please feel free to contact around here! As always, don’t forget about the goat sale April 27,
us at any time to visit about any questions you may have. Visitors are 2019!
always welcome to view the bulls prior to the sale.

Thanks, Steph and the Crew at Lazy J Bar Ranch

Tom Sch nabel, Sch nabel Ranch Simmentals John, Kale and Jacob
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