Page 2 - A&R Red Angus Online Auction Bull and Female Sale – March 18-19, 2022

WELCOME
Austin, Leczi, Emelea & Izaac
Russell & Paula
Austin Klaphake – 320-290-7383
Russ Klaphake – 320-290-2903
arredangus@gmail.com
arredangus.com
Welcome Cattlemen & Cattlewomen,
Welcome to our 2nd Online Bull and Female Sale. We would like to thank every-
one who made our 1st online Bull and Female Sale a success. Thank you to all the
buyers, bidders, family and friends who helped put it all together.
This year we feel we have a solid set of bulls and females for your consideration.
We will be offering ten yearling bulls and seven females. We will be offering three
open heifers right off the top of our replacement pen! We will be offering choice
on two Stockmarket daughters that we couldn’t decide which one was better, so
we figured we’d let you decide that. We also added a few bred females this year.
Two registered bred heifers right off the top of our herd that will have calves at
side come sale day and one commercial bred heifer and one bred cow that fell out
of our calving window. We didn’t hold back at all this year and probably will regret
it when the females leave the farm.
A little info about how we run our cow herd. Fertility is a very important trait for
us, as an open cow doesn’t make you money. We AI every cow or set them up as
a recip for our ET program. This year we bred every cow off natural heats for a
couple reasons. One was to space our calves out day by day but keep them in a
63-day calving window. The other was to save on the cost on drugs and CIDRs.
Our ET recips were set up on a 7&7 sync. We ended up with 73% conception rate
on the AI cows and 66% on the embryo transfers. The cows are on a TMR diet
that consist of wet hay, dry hay, silage and good mineral program until bred and
turned out on grass. The drought this summer made the grass scarce which made
us feed the pairs all summer long. After chopping silage, the cows were moved to
the corn fields where they were fed until January 1st until we brought them closer
to home for calving. While on cornstalks they had to walk over a quarter mile one
way for water to get their exercise.
The calves were NOT creep fed this year. The calves were weaned October 10th
and put on a 42-cal TMR mix for 2 weeks. The heifer calves have stayed on the
42-cal TMR mix consisting of wet hay, dry hay, silage and very little corn. We put
the bull calves on a 48-cal diet consisting of the same ingredients but just a little
more corn. Our yearling bulls are in a few-acre pasture to allow them to exercise
and fight like yearling boys do. They get plenty of exercise in the pasture and we
try having them gain around 3 lbs/day. The bulls will stay on a 48-cal ration until
April 1st. Then we will put the bulls on a 44-cal ration until delivery. We feel doing
this the bulls will keep good body condition going into breeding season and lose
very little if put with the recommend number of cows/heifers.
Thanks for taking the time to investigate our herd and let us know if we can help
you in anyway! Your satisfaction is our number 1 goal! Please let us know how
the bulls or heifers are working or not working in your herd. If you can’t make it to
the sale, feel free to give us a call or come look at the offering anytime! We hope
to see you all there March 18th or 19th! Otherwise be sure to check the sale out
on DVAuction!
Austin
A&R Red Angus