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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE WITH CATTLE PURCHASED FROMHERE IS A DIFFERENCE WITH CATTLE PURCHASED FROM
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FREY ANGUS RANCHREY ANGUS RANCH
✓ The cattle will be cataloged according to the sale order. ✓ Calving-ease bulls will be identifi ed and recommended for use on
heifers. Nearly two-thirds of the bulls are calving ease.
✓ You can evaluate selections with complete meaningful ratios for
weaning, gain, yearling and scrotal performance. ✓ You can put together uniform groups of half- and three-quarter
brothers. Uniformity is a bred-in trait with these cattle.
✓ You have the most updated EPD information available for birth,
weaning, combined maternal traits, yearling weights, scrotal size ✓ Your purchases will represent over 60 years of selection for cattle
and carcass traits. that calve easily, milk and grow. Many of the cattle will have from
six to 10 generations of FAR breeding.
✓ Bulls will be evaluated fro carcass merit by ultrasound.
✓ Your bulls will be unconditionally guaranteed for injury through
✓ You purchases will not have been exposed to other cattle in stock- breeding season. A replacement will be made available or credit in
yard facilities – they are born, tested and sold at the ranch. These forthcoming sales for those bulls which fail to breed, as indicated in
are all FAR-bred and raised cattle.
the terms and conditions.
✓ Your purchases will have been developed on a feed test ration ✓ Free delivery will be offered on bulls selling to North Dakota and
designed for optimum roughage utilization, genetic expression and adjacent states. Your purchases will be delivered directly to your
soundness. They are naturally thick and heavy muscled.
ranch facilities. Reasonable costs on delivery elsewhere will offered
✓ You can obtain cattle from a cowherd that is successfully AI-bred as well.
for a 60-day calving period and noted for calving ease.
✓ Feeding arrangements will be available on the bulls at a charge of
✓ your bulls will have been screened for fertility soundness and testi- $3 per day.
cle measured – you cannot risk anything else.
✓ Your purchases will be affordable. This volume of quality cattle
✓ You can fi nd bulls not only ideal for fi rst-calf heifers, but also good selling will sell in everyone’s price range. You’ll get the most for
enough and big enough you’ll want to use them on your cows as your dollar.
well. Many January and February yearlings.
✓ Volume discounts available.

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GLOSSARY & EPD EXPLANATIONSLOSSARY & EPD EXPLANATIONS
PERFORMANCE DATA MATERNAL MILK EPD (MILK)
All of the EPDs, birth weights, 205-day weights, ratios and carcass infor- Is a predictor of a sire’s genetic merit for milk and mothering ability as
mation in this catalog are offi cial data processed by the American Angus expressed in his daughters compared to daughters of other sires. In
Association and Red Angus Association of America. The information other words, it is that part of a calf’s weaning weight attributed to milk
was the most current information available prior to printing the catalog. and mothering ability. Breed average is +24.
Supplemental information will be available sale day.
CARCASS WEIGHT EPD (CW)
EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCES Expressed in pounds is a predictor of the differences in hot carcass
EPDs are the prediction of how progeny from each animal is expected weight of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires. Breed
to perform relative to the progeny of other animals in the Angus breed. average is +36.
As data continues to accumulate, accuracy levels rise and EPDs will shift
accordingly. MARBLING EPD (MARB)
Expressed as a fraction of the difference in USDA marbling score of a
CALVING EASE DIRECT (CED) sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires. Breed average is
Is expressed as a difference in percentage of unassisted births with a +0.53
higher value indicating greater calving ease in fi rst-calf heifers. It predicts
the average difference in ease with which a sire’s calves will be born RIBEYE AREA EPD (RE)
when he is bred to fi rst-calf heifers. Breed average is +6. Expressed in square inches, is a predictor of the difference in ribeye area
of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires. Breed average is
BIRTH WEIGHT EPD (BW) +0.48.
Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit birth
weight to his progeny compared to that of other sires. Breed average is BEEF VALUE ($B)
+1.4. An index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average
difference in future progeny performance for post-weaning and carcass
WEANING WEIGHT EPD (WW) value compared to progeny of other sires. Breed average is +111.62.
Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit weaning
growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires. Breed average is SCROTAL CIRCUMFERENCE (SC)
+50. Scrotal measurements in centimeters will be cataloged on all bulls
selling. A measurement of 33 centimeters is considered acceptable for
YEARLING WEIGHT EPD (YW) yearling bulls. The larger the measurement is a good indication of semen
Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit yearling volume one can expect from each bull. Scrotal circumference in catalog
growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires. Breed average is is adjusted to 365 days of age for yearling bulls. Older bulls are actuals.
+89.
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