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Welcome Red Angus
Welcome!
Welcome to our third annual bull sale. We are offering 31 yearling bulls for sale this
year. After going through a couple challenging years, 2024 is shaping up to be a great
year in the cattle business. The mild winter has been a blessing for many operations,
and both the calf and cull cow market are at all-time highs. With that being said, cows
that hold up and last longer in your herd are going to put more profit in your pocket
over time. Out of the 31 bulls being offered, only one of their dams was open last
fall, and she was a seven-year-old cow. We don’t sell bulls out of young open cows
because those cows are NOT profitable!
You’ll notice a few bulls with the WBAR prefix this year. These are out of the
registered cows we purchased from Greg Bailey last spring as pairs. They have been
developed right with our herd since early last May.
The bulls are developed slowly on a low mega-cal TMR that never exceeds a 50
mega-cal. We start them out on a 44 mega-cal at weaning and gradually increase
to a 50. We start backing them down around the first of March depending upon the
weather and temperature, and they will be back down to a 44 by delivery. We don’t
push the bulls hard because we don’t want them to fall apart during the breeding
Oland Red Angus season. They’re developed to last for many years. The average daily gain data you
Klay & Kassi Oland see is not from a “test” period. It is from the time we record weaning weights, at
weaning time, until we record yearling weights at the end of February. We shoot for a
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We place a lot of emphasis on the mother cow, and that’s why we display their age,
MPPA, udder and teat score with their son’s data. Our cows are pastured in the sand
Phone: 701-238-2492 hills of southeastern North Dakota on the edge of the Sheyenne National Grasslands.
Email: klay.oland@gmail.com They are not pampered and must work for a living. We do not under-stock our
Facebook: Oland Red Angus pastures in an attempt to boost our weaning weights and keep all the cows in good
shape. We run our purebred cows at the same stocking rate as our commercial herd
so that the data you’re seeing is legitimate. This also helps us recognize differences
in the fleshing ability of our cows in order to cull those that can’t maintain adequate
body condition while raising their calf.
We cull hard here, especially for feet. We wouldn’t want to buy a bull out of a cow with
bad feet or udders and believe that nobody else would either. That’s why we never
offer progeny for sale out of cows with those traits and avoid breeding to sires known
to produce offspring with poor foot quality. It doesn’t matter how good their EPD’s are.
If they have bad feet, they’re culled.
Customer satisfaction is our number one goal. We want to know how the bulls are
working for you. Give us a call or stop by anytime, and we can discuss which bulls
would work best in your operation. Our cowherd is open for viewing year-round, and
we’d like to show you the dams behind the bulls.
As always, we stand behind our cattle 100%. Thank you for your interest in our
program.
Sincerely,
Klay Oland
