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46. Steer more bull calves and turn out a polled Akaushi bull - strategies to improve YOUR herd · Got Any Cows?

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Gatiny Cattles Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to learn all you can about the beef cattle industry, this is the podcast for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Steph Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: My company has sent beef cattle genetics to 45 of the 50 states and 12 countries around the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had the chance to learn from some of the best and brightest in the beef cattle industry, and I invite you to join me for those conversations here on the Got Any Cows Podcast.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I appreciate you guys joining me here again on the Got Any Cows Podcast, riding shotgun with me.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you guys taking the time to listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has been a really, really fun thing to be able to show everybody the cattle right here, just outside the pickup, and take you through some of the animals live and in person and unfiltered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was just on the phone just within the last hour or so with Phil Morrison out of South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Phil, appreciate you calling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Phil was just talking to me about looking at cattle for the first time, and it's been a neat and fun thing to be able to say, hey, we've got this podcast as a way to kind of educate yourself and familiarize yourself with cattle and with a range of topics in all of our guest episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then to be able to show you as well, live and in person, these are the cows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like these are the animals themselves that are available, whether it's you know the animal itself or you know, the steers or the bulls or the females or the aspirations, the embryos, the semen, and all the different things that we sell related to them, but why you'd want to purchase each of those things.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh it's it's neat to be able to share that with you here and in this format and in this setting, um, to hopefully be able to provide just as much value as we can.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, there's never any cost for being able to watch these podcasts or learn from the topics we share or the guests, uh those guest interviews, and/or being able to see the cattle.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then at any point that you do decide you want to engage and purchase some of them uh through one of our monthly auctions.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the nationwide delivery is included in the bid price on these live cattle.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: And and we've been shipping cattle all over everywhere.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to my buddy David Tanner for all the trucking he's been doing.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just sent out another load with him within the last couple of days.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just got back from deliveries in northern Idaho and Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_00: We send him out today.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were cattle on that trailer going to Georgia, going to Virginia, going to Illinois, going to South Dakota.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm probably missing a couple of destinations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luckily, David keeps track of all that better than I do.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but sure appreciate him and the miles he drives and the professional job he does getting those cattle delivered.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate Aaron and Billy being here.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: They have been working hard, hard at work here at the ranch recently, weaning, um, getting all of the weaning done for the spring of all these fall-born calves and then getting turnout done.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it has been a busy, busy, busy time um for them is that they've worked to get cattle turned out and off the hay and on to pasture, um, and getting calves sorted off of cows and and all of the processing that involves, getting carcass ultrasound done as well, and and all the work that involves, and and pregnancy ultrasound, and then working with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bowles there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's been plenty to do um in addition to just the day-to-day of taking care of kids and cows, and and uh getting ready for another baby to join the clan here this summer.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: My wife's due for August 2nd, and that that uh pregnancy has hit her kind of hard, and so I get to play Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mom a little, and and I'm not necessarily great at it, but uh the kids are alive and the cows are alive, and that's a win, and and we're able to be here tonight uh recording.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate Jacob and Corey are here in the pickup with me, working on keeping all of the cameras pointed where they need to go to be able to see these cattle and be able to hear me walk through um what's available here, you know, and and it's a neat format to be able to say, hey, rather than get maybe a print catalog that would have a picture and just some written footnotes, in this setting, we're able to say, hey, you can see the cattle live and unfiltered, unadulterated in person.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: I can walk you through them just as if you had flown out here um, you know, to look at the cattle in person, which you're always welcome to do.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're we're just two hours north of the Salt Lake City Airport.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: So anyone that wants to fly in and come sit where this camera sits today, sit shotgun and look at the cattle in person, love to have you.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: We'll we'll feed you a quality Akiishi steak and and talk some cattle, and and happy to share with anyone that that has the the can schedule the time uh to to get out here in person.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: We'd love to have you.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: But for anyone that's not able to be here in person, we want to get you just as close as possible.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of the neat um thing of this podcast setup, which is hey, we can see the cattle, we can talk the cattle, um, and then you have the option to to bid on the on the cattle.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: So we release one of these podcasts every other week, every other Thursday, a podcast comes out.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be one with a guest on it with an educational subject, and then one with the cattle on it, hopefully being educational there as well.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then once a month following that that cattle podcast, uh, there is an auction the last Wednesday of each month and an opportunity to purchase the cattle.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're looking at here, either purchase the animals themselves or embryos, semen, aspirations, things like that from the animals.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So um, if you haven't already, um go to gotanycows.com and subscribe.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, on that got any cows website, that's going to take you to the Christians and genetics homepage.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an option to subscribe at the bottom of that webpage.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do that, you'll get an email every time one of these um podcasts is released, every time an auction catalog is released, um, you'll get an email about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you'll get get to see the the podcast right away, see the auction catalogs right away.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and that gives you, I guess, first access to all of those things.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: This is a full video podcast.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you've always just listened uh to this podcast, I would invite you to go to gotanycals.com, go to that podcast tab, um, where we've got 40 some odd podcast episodes on there.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: So you can go back through um all of those and and and a lot of valuable content there, and then you can see the cattle that that we're gonna talk about today.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we've got again another set of another set of pens uh with live cattle here with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna walk you through what they are and on why you might be interested in some of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my hope is that that can be educational and valuable to you, whether you're purchasing cattle in this auction or whether you're just looking to further educate yourself or just see what it is we have available, looking to give you as as realistic a view of what these animals are as we can and and help you understand why they might be of value to you.
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• 6:48
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• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that video is also gonna be available on YouTube, and that video is also available on the godanycows.com website.
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• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: And without further ado, we're gonna jump into what some of these cattle behind me are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so if you look behind me in the group right there, there are three animals in this first pen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna look at three cows.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the far left there is the 3413 female, in the middle of those three cows is the D40 female, and on the far right of those three cows is the 261F female.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all three of those are gonna be full blood um AWA registered Akeushi cows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so full blood meaning 100% Japanese origin, there's no outside genetics present, it all comes directly from Japan, and then AWA being American Wagyu Association registered.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so any of these animals uh where they're registered with the American Wagyu Association, they can also be dual registered with the American Akiushi Association andor triple registered with the Australian Wagyu Association.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that that gives you a feel for what they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: But lot one in this auction is gonna be the female on the far right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So of those three cows, the female on the far right of the frame there, that's gonna be the 261F cow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean that cow is gonna sell in her entirety as as lot one um in this auction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh this auction is gonna close May 27th at 6 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mountain time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So mark a quick note on your calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the last Wednesday of this month, May 27th at 6 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mountain Time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 7 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Central, 8 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern, or 5 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pacific.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: But um on that female, so she's now in the background a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: She'd be on the far right of these individuals, 261F.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that cow came into our program um as one of my top picks uh from Colby Carpenter up at 22 Wagyu when he decided to focus specifically on the black wagyu side of his program and and disperse his red wagyu or Akeyushi genetics.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: And and red wagyu and Akiushi are interchangeable terms, both would reference the separate and distinct breed of Akeushi, which comes from Japan.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: So red wagyu is accurate in the sense they are red and they are wagyu, meaning Japanese cow coming from Japan, and then they are Akeushi.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they are a separate and distinct breed from the black wagyu cattle that people are used to.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: And and what's brought me into Akeushi is that you get that Wagyu quality beef, so you get the excellent, excellent quality eating experience, but you have really high quality cattle to go with it, so they're gonna be thicker, heavier muscled, faster gaining, more like under traditional cattle from a production standpoint.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but then you're still gonna get that that high-end carcass um and that high-end beef eating experience uh from the finished product.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that are an excellent, excellent steak as a finished product.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 261F on the far right there of those three females.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that cow is going to be one of my favorite two uh that I got from Colby Carpenter there.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: So this female was bred and cabbed in the Idaho Wagyu genetics program.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: So Garth Monroe, they're out of Soda Springs, Idaho, and then sold uh as a group up there to Colby Carpenter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was one of my favorite two.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: When I went in there, what I wanted to do was go in and say, hey, which of these cows have gotten it done year in, year out, and not caused a problem?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's that's kind of the opposite side of the equation from just the beef.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now we want the fantastic quality beef, right?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: But we don't want a nightmarish experience dealing with the cattle just to get it, right?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want cattle that are super slow gaining, we don't want cattle that are super hard to breed or super hard to calve or or that cause issues with their disposition or things like that.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to have problems with the cow just to get a quality steak on the plate.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a that's a real focus for me and our program at large is making sure we have excellent cattle, in addition to the excellent stakes, and and this cow embodies that again on the far right of the three.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: That 261F was a cow that bred first service every year, calved on time every year, looks fantastic.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: This is a strong topped female, tight-uttered female, excellent footed female.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: So the cow looks right, the cow produces right, um, the cow's pedigree is right, so this is going to be a direct red emperor daughter, and then the cow behind her is gonna be a big owl over Shigamaru over Dai 8 Marunami, and so you're looking at a straight foundation pedigree, right?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: So all of those individuals in that pedigree um either came directly from Japan or are heavily influenced by animals directly from Japan, so you're not a long ways removed from those original imports, uh, so you're gonna have a little bit of additional breadth of pedigree in that sense.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then she is currently exposed and has been with the maestro bowl.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Maestro is going to be a master chef over Katie Maru bowl.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's gonna be one of the real benefits to looking at this 261F female.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you were coming into Akayushi and you're saying, Hey, which animal should I buy and why?
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, looking at lot one, the cow herself is productive, so she checks that box.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Excellent mannered cow, easy mannered cow, easy to be around, cat breeds easy, calves easy, does a good job with her calves.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow herself, you can see right now, you can kind of see some um some marks like from a set of clippers, kind of in the middle of this cow.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can see where she's been shaved.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: She's been shaved there uh for us to be able to do actual carcass ultrasound.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: So, what actual carcass ultrasound is that lets us look under the hide.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: So you're basically looking at the stake on the plate without putting the cow on the plate, right?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: So we want to know this animal as a breeding animal, the long-term end for all cattle, right, and including the genetics that this cow produces, her calves, and she herself someday are all gonna end up on the plate.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so, what we want to know is okay, how good are these genetics while they're still alive?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because once we put it on the plate, there's no going back and breeding, right?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: So for this cow, when we scan and we look at that that carcass ultrasound, so it's the same technology as what you'd use to be able to do pregnancy ultrasound or things like that, but we're looking specifically at the beef and at beef quality.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: And and what we're looking for is marbling, so that intramuscular fat um that goes throughout the the beef, and which is what gives um beef its flavor.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is this is what makes beef distinct as a protein source.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, pork and chicken, I eat plenty of pork and chicken too, but you put a sauce on them, you you cover them with sauce, plain and simple.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like pork and chicken are great so long as they're seasoned, right?
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: You don't eat pork without seasoning, you don't eat chicken without seasoning, but you can eat beef without seasoning because of that intramuscular fat um or that marbling that that's present.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's what gives beef its flavor.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: So added marbling um or added intramuscular fat is a positive thing, and that's what we're looking for when we go and do actual carcass ultrasound on a cow like 261F there, and that cow scans well beyond prime plus on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: So prime would be your highest of all of all of the USDA grading um qualifications or specifications.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: So the USDA or United States Department of Agriculture will assign any beef produced in the United States one of three quality grades.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: They'll call it select, which means there's basically no marbling whatsoever.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: So there's not really gonna be any any flavor in that sense, right?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and if you bought select beef, you'd see it's almost all red.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's none of those little white flecks in it.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, choice, which would be that that's what's most common or most prevalent in the United States, would be choice quality beef.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's gonna be a little bit of uh kind of those white flecks, a little bit of that marbling or intramuscular fat, and some flavor, like a choice steak's a good steak, and that's probably your most common in the US.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: A prime steak is where the USDA quality grade ends, or that's as high as it goes.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: So a prime steak, you've got more of that marbling, you've got more of that intramuscular fat.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna it's gonna equate with a better eating experience uh if USDA calls it prime.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: And when I say this cow is prime plus, that means this cow, when we take that ultrasound and look under the hide, this cow is higher than where that USDA scale ends for for maximum carcass quality, right?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: So the Australian scale andor the Japanese scale continue into higher degrees of marbling, um, but the USDA, United States Department of Agriculture ends at prime.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: This cow is above and beyond that.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were looking for a cow that you know is gonna put an excellent quality steak on the plate, in addition to being an easy cow to work with, this is an excellent option.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like I mentioned, she's exposed to maestro.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you look at the maestro bowl, what makes that individual unique?
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, number one, there's no semen available on the open market, so you can get those genetics here or here.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: There's not anywhere else that maestro genetics are available.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can't get them from any other program in the country, any other program in the world.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Maestro exists only here at Christensen Genetics.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to be one of the very first to have Maestro in your program, take a look at something like this.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Lot one female who'd currently be sitting middle of the three.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: She's in the far back corner there.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking at all three of those cows, um, that 261F female is exposed uh to the Maestro bowl.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: So Maestro uh is going to be a Master Chef's son, and then his mother is the Katie Maru clone.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so the reasons those would matter at all.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Master Chef, starting with him, uh thousands of dollars of straw to buy, so very expensive.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting access to some expensive genetics as part of the deal with a cow like this.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Master Chef uh is an Australian import bull.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: There's very limited semen left here in the United States.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's expensive to get, it's hard to find.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he also brings the original import cow, Ume, right to the front of the pedigree.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the Ume cow is well known for producing high marbling offspring.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, she's gonna be the cow at the bottom of the maternal line of our 919 donor that has done so well for us.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you're gonna be able to bring a little bit of an outcross there.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Master Chef cattle are also gonna be that they're larger outline, larger framed, faster growing type cattle.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were looking to basically produce more beef faster, um, Master Chef is gonna do that for you.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna hang a nice large carcass, right?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna get plenty of total pay weight, right?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Plenty of total beef to eat from those Master Chef genetics.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna get some additional gainability, right?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Have that carcass ready to harvest sooner because of the rate of gain of those Master Chef genetics, and you're gonna have some pedigree breadth and proven marbling with with that Ume component that Master Chef brings to the front of the pedigree.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of what you see in the sire of Maestro.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: That that's why there'd be value in Maestro being the service sire or the bowl that 261F lot one is currently exposed to.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now, even more valuable is gonna be the bottom side of the pedigree.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: So Maestro is a direct son of the Katie Maru 001D female.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: So Katie Maru 001D is a clone of the original Katie Maru.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: So the original Katie Maru came out of Japan in the 90s in Utero, born in Canada, cloned in Texas.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this female, the clone of the original Katie Maroon, was born in Texas, she'd be nine years old now, um, and then came to our program in 2023, and just such an incredibly unique female in all of the ways.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, number one, looking at Katie Maru, um, docility-wise.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so when I say docility, I mean as far as cattle being safe to be around, cattle, cattle being mellow, not being aggressive, not being flighty, not being nervous, right?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Animals that are safe to handle, like it is priority one for me that I don't get hurt by my cows, the people that work with me don't get hurt by my cows, my wife and kids don't get hurt by my cows.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's priority one.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: And in Akeyushi as a breed, if you just went and bought the average Akeyushi cow from wherever he happened to look, in Akeyushi as a breed, disposition is a problem.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm not gonna tell you that it's not.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: There is an issue within the breed um of some of these cattle, be it being flighty or nervous or aggressive.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so it's priority one for us that that we improve that, right?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: That we make these cattle mellower.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: And Katie Maru is the epitome of docility in Akeyushi cattle.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I would say Katie Maru is the mellowest cow in the breed that I have ever seen, that I've ever been around.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are looking to mellow out these cattle, say, hey, I want all the good of Akiushi, I want that great steak, and I want the great cow to produce it, but I don't want to deal with anything crazy.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: You want Katie Maru genetics.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: So Katie Maru is so mellow, so easy to handle.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can walk right up to the cow.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: You can see all over our Facebook page, we've had plenty of visitors to the ranch.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: Visitors to the ranch can literally pet this cow in the pen.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just absolutely mellow, calm, easy to be around.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in addition to just being super mellow, very fertile donor.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's produced plenty of embryos for our embryo transfer program.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and after so doing, has bred up first service AI, delivered, has raised a couple of calves for us here, um, done a wonderful job for us that way.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: So very fertile female, great mother, easy calving, has always calved unassisted, uh, so you don't have to worry about having problems at calving time.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Raises a really nice calf, so you don't run into a situation of saying, well, you know, the carcass is gonna be great or the cow was great to be around, but this calf didn't gain at all, right?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: So now you you're gonna take all this time to try to produce finished product if the animal won't gain.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Katie Maru cattle, they gain well.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Katie Maru is our number one all-time Akiyushi female on actual carcass ultrasound for the amount of marbling that's present.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: So, like we mentioned, that the marbling is what gives the beef its flavor.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, intramuscular fat and marbling, same, same.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the highest cow for actual carcass ultrasound we have ever recorded in the Akiyushi breed is the the Katy Maru clone, um, which would be the mother of Maestro.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: So when you take a look at lot one and you're deciding, hey, what can I afford to bid for a cow like this, look at it is not only is this a cow that the cow herself has proven herself, the cow herself has the carcass quality we're after on actual carcass ultrasound, but then the bull she's exposed to brings those rare and valuable Master Chef genetics, those rare and valuable Katie Maroo genetics, and then the the bull himself hasn't been released anywhere else.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: There's not semen available.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can get a live cover cow like this, and and here she is kind of showing off right in the middle of the frame, so she'd be the middle of the cows right now, or the cow nearest the cameras.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: The other two are behind us, is the 261F.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: So she's on the far right, just kind of coming around the back now.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: But that's the lot one cow.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And if you were to buy her, you get that cow delivered to your ranch, already exposed to the maestro bowl.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so hopefully gonna be carrying a spring maestro calf there.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and uh that's what you're gonna get if you bet on lot one.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Now I will tell you on the lot one female, um, look at this cow as a cow to be a strong producing um natural service kind of a cow with within your program.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I would hesitate to say go ahead and use this cow as a donor, not because she lacks genetic quality.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: We have used this cow as an embryo donor to produce embryos for transfer within our program.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: She has the genetic quality to do that.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: But this cow on ultrasound is going to show some adhesions on the right ovary.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned that to say I want anyone that purchases Lot One to know you're getting a wonderful cow, you're getting a cow exposed to mice.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: And she does a wonderful job.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she bred up first service natural service for her last calf.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, hoping she's done the same with this maestro exposure.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but with those adhesions on that ovary, I would not recommend trying to produce embryos from this cow.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I would say look at this cow, and as you're setting your budget or you're deciding, hey, what do I want to bid for that lot one?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, look at this cow as a pillar, a mainstay of just your natural service program.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Do not plan on buying this cow to make a pile of embryos for your program.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for an embryo donor, we got two other options that'll make great options in this pen.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: But look at lot one as just a cow to raise calves rather than a cow to make embryos for you.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: So that's going to be the lot one cow, the the 261F female.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Lot two in this auction is on the far left of these three cows.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: So the 3413 female, far left in the pen right now.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful young cow, just weaned off her first calf.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, really, really pretty cow, always has been.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate this cow and how she looks in the flesh.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Strong top female, good hip to the female, good uttered.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just a pretty pretty cow to look at in the pen.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is going to be a Kunasaki daughter.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Kunasaki brings some some unique things to the pedigree on the top side.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: He's an umumaru over judo over Kunasaki.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: So this is about as close as you can get to that original import cow Kunasaki on the top side of this deal through through a um the Kunasaki bowl.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then the cow herself is is backed by a pretty cow on the bottom side of the deal.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: The D4 cow is a pretty cow, a nice cow.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting again a female that gives you all the looks.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but then you're getting that carcass quality, that pedigree diversity.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: One of the benefits of this 3413 female, again, far far left female in the in the pen as you're looking at her and as you're evaluating that cow as an option, lot two in this in this auction.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she is confirmed pregnant to heifer-sexed semen from the Shoshone bowl.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Shoshone uh is gonna be our all-time high seller as far as semen value, brought$3,200 uh for a single straw.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're to take a look at, I mean getting a feel for what it costs.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, so for a straw of semen, period.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you're gonna buy semen to you know in a usual normal commercial type setting, five to twenty bucks a straw, very, very normal price point.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Even high quality bulls, quite often you're looking at you know, maybe 50, 100, 200 bucks a straw.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Shoshone brought$3,200 for his first straw of semen.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: And better yet, the semen that this cow is pregnant to is heifer sexed.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got 90% odds of getting a heifer calf.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to build a program, you're looking to get as much bang for your buck as you can, looking to add as many females for the dollar as you can.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: A female like 3413, again on the far left of these three, you can basically look at that cow as two females in one because you're gonna get the cow herself, but then you're also gonna get a very valuable heifer calf that is in her belly that's due for December 28th.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so look at that female again as you're kind of trying to establish what I can bid on a cow like that.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: You're getting the cow, you're getting the heifer calf in the belly, you're getting delivery to your ranch, all included to the bid price.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: And this is a female that if you so chose, you could make embryos from.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you could also look at this female as a potential embryo donor.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, another thing, I guess, to look at is as far as that heifer calf um being out of Shoshone.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: So Shoshone was a high-gaining bull, uh, really, really attractive bull.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Take a look at the picture of the bull um on the auction platform here.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: He's a D18 son.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the D18 cow sold for$104,000.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, high, high value kind of a female.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she in turn is sired by the JC Rushaw 75 bull, uh,$500,000 bowl.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: So looking at a ton of value in the pedigree on Shoshone.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: Shoshone himself sold semen at$3,200.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: So again, coming around to that D18 cow, you know, really unique and valuable breeding piece there.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna get a granddaughter in this heifer pregnancy.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you go ahead and purchase lot two, you get a pretty cow, you get a D18 granddaughter in the belly, very, very valuable pregnancy in the belly, 90% chance of being heifer calf.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you're getting delivery to your ranch included in the bid price on lot two.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: You could absolutely use that female as a as a donor and not be wrong doing it.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can see here on the far left in the frame right now.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: So jump into the third female that's in this pen, and this is gonna be lot eight.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: Lot eight in the auction that closes May 27th, last Wednesday of this month, 6 p.m.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: mountain time.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, be sure to subscribe at gotanycows.com so that you get that email when uh when this auction catalog is released, um and when future podcast episodes are released.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: But lot eight is gonna be an IVF aspiration on this D40 cow.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: So D40 is on the far right of these three individuals in the pen right now.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: So D40, um, I guess first we'll walk through what an IVF aspiration is and and why you'd want it, and then we'll walk through what D40 is, take a look at her as I talk here.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Far right female in the frame.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, looking in that at that cow on the right, D40 lot eight is gonna be an IVF aspiration on her.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: So an IVF aspiration is gonna be when we remove unfertilized oocytes or unfertilized egg cells from the cow's ovaries.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be able to take and fertilize those in a lab setting to the sire of your choice.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: They'll grow for seven days and then they'll be frozen at seven days post-conception.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: And you can take those embryos, implant them into a cow that is seven days after her ester cycle, and those embryos will take off and grow the same as if they were in their mother, right?
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you're able to take a cow like this and multiply her to the sire of your choice and multiply those valuable genetics and introduce them into your herd.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very, very cost-effective way to get into beef cattle genetics.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, for example, I mean, I my 919 donor that has generated over$300,000 in direct progeny sales for our ranch.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, north of$300,000 in cash deposits in my account came from an embryo.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I was able to purchase that embryo very, very cost effectively.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: So look at this.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for an option as far as a very, very cost-effective way to get into very, very elite genetics, take a look at this IVF aspiration, and you can choose the sire to use over the oocytes from this cow or the egg cells from this cow, and then those embryos will be frozen and shipped to you to implant in other females.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at the IVF aspiration on this cow in particular, D40 is going to be a big owl over Hikari over Kunasaki cow.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of what makes this cow so unique is how close she is to those original imports out of Japan.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you why that matters.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: So when you look at the cows that left Japan, the only females that ever left Japan left in the mid-1990s, so 30 years ago, um, actually a little over 30 years ago, 32 years ago, 94 would be when the bulk of those cows left Japan.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: There was only a really, really finite period of time when there was a loophole in the US Japan trade agreement to be able to bring those cattle over.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Thereafter, Japan declared um Akiyushi or Red Wagyu or Wagyu genetics period a national treasure.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: So you'd have better luck caging and shipping bald eagles at this point than getting fresh genetics out of Japan, fresh Wagyu genetics out of Japan.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: So they're very, very limited in availability.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: There were only 13 cows that ever left Japan in the red wagyu or Akiyushi breed.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got this really, really finite gene pool, this really, really finite maternal gene base that the whole breed is built off of.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: So when you look at a cow like D40, the thing that makes her so unique is we're saying, hey, you know, the semen on some of those original bulls that came over that can be stored technically indefinitely.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: But those cows, they're dead and gone.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: The vast majority of any embryos that ever came out of them, they're all used or gone.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: For the most part, the cows are gone, their daughters are gone, their granddaughters are gone.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: The only way, you know, to try to access those original import cows up front on the bottom side of so the maternal side of a pedigree is through cows like D40.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: And this D40 cow, like I mentioned, big owl over Hikari over Kunasaki.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: So if we're trying to take that Kunasaki cow that left Japan 30 years ago, that we can't get anything fresh from there, we're trying to bring that cow right to the front of a pedigree um in a maternal side, right on the bottom side of the pedigree, because mitochondrial DNA are only inherited from the cow or from the mother.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to get the mitochondrial DNA that came from a cow like Kunasaki, the very closest you can ever get to getting one of those cows out of Japan is to get a cow like D40, who is is going to be tracing her direct maternal line to that Kunasaki cow that left Japan.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_00: So Big Al, Hikari, and Kunasaki, all three of those animals that are right at the front of this pedigree are all going to be Daitan Mitsumaru offspring.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: So Daitan Mitsumaru be a Japanese supersari.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: It was right at the front of the Japanese breed uh evaluation in Japan in the 90s.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: At the time these cattle left Japan, um, the bull never left Japan, his semen never left Japan.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: The only way you can ever access Daitan Mitsumaru is through things like Big Al, Hikari, or Kunasaki.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this female has three shots of big ow of Daitan Mitsumaru right at the front of the pedigree.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: So that makes this cow a total outcross to Rushaw, a total outcross to judo, a total outcross to Tamamaru, and a total outcross to Shigamaru.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: So this this female is line bred herself.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna have very, very, very consistent results.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: Line bred to a very, very, very elite bull that never left Japan.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then you have all the options in front of you.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: Instead of saying, hey, the cow herself has a really low coefficient of inbreeding, you're saying, hey, all of the animals she produces, regardless of what Rushaw, Judo, Shigamaru, or Tamaru influence you decide to use, or those bulls themselves, um, this cow is going to have a really, really low coefficient of inbreeding when bred to those bulls.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so look at D40.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for a really cost-effective way to get into some really unique and rare and valuable outcross genetics that are line bred to that Dai 10 Mitsumaru, take a look at lot eight, the IVF aspiration on D40, who is the cow on the far right of these three we're looking at right now.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: We will guarantee that you get at least three embryos if you use female sex semen, or at least five embryos if you use conventional semen, with the goal in either scenario being that you're gonna get at least one heifer calf from this aspiration.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: So when you take a look at bidding on this aspiration, look at it like, hey, I'm planning on getting at least one heifer calf from what I spend on this bid.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and now I should mention your your embryo production costs of about 200 an embryo, and then whatever semen you decide to purchase are build separately.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: But look at those costs together saying this is gonna get me a heifer calf, um, this is gonna get me a really elite heifer calf, a very, very uniquely pedigree heifer calf, a very rare and valuable heifer calf for the bid price on on lot eight for that IVF aspiration.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: So without further ado, we're gonna jump up to the next pen and take a look at the weanling bulls and weanling steers.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so jumping into this pen here, um, we're gonna be taking a look at lots three, four, five, six, and seven.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: So there's five individuals in this pen.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: All of these calves were just weaned, so we've got both bowls and steers in this pen.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, thank you, Aaron and Billy, again for all of your work to get all this weaning done.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's a big job.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Get them all vaccinated, get them all weaned, get them all sorted, um, get them all moved around.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: And anyway, it takes some doing.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: So, really appreciate them and all of their hard work to stack and stage these cattle.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bowl that's coming up right up to the fence, that's coming right up to us.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, king of the pen right here, 5523.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is lot three, the animal nearest to the truck right now.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, as you're looking at all of those animals there, the one with his head pointed to us that's right up next to the truck.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: 5523, second from the right there, big, thick, stout kind of a bowl.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a pulled purebred Akiushi bowl.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: So he's coming around to the left there, gonna kind of cut off into the corner.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, 5523.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, gonna be a really, really unique pulled purebred Akiushi bowl.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, pulled to define that quick for anybody that's maybe not familiar with it, pulled means naturally hornless.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, if you don't want to have to physically remove the horns from cattle, or I guess I'll even back up prior to that.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: The Akeushi breed, as a breed, the full blood cattle, the ones that left Japan are all naturally horned.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you leave the horns on any given animal, you're gonna run into a series of issues.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're gonna beat the crap out of anything, any other animals that are next to them at a feed bunk.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they can tear each other up.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can see scenarios where you know they'll they'll they'll gash another animal's side.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they can be aggressive with people.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: You you don't want to get hit by the horns on a cow yourself.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um they can get stuck places, they can get stuck in the fence, they can get stuck in the feeder.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: So horns are a problem.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, like they cause a problem in the chute, they cause a problem in the feeder, they cause a problem in the pen, they cause a problem in the trailer.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: Horn horns are a problem, right?
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: You do not want to leave horns on cattle.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you see horns left on, like big mature horns left on an animal, it is it's a sign of mismanagement, frankly.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: It means that they've not been removed because they should be removed.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, short of roping cattle, there's really not a whole lot of any reason, like for rodeo stock, there's really not a whole lot of any reason to leave horns on cattle.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: So, given that the cattle that left Japan are naturally horned, horns are a problem.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: You have two options to get rid of them.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: You can either A, so like on the full blood cattle that are born naturally horned, you get to physically remove those horns, which means you get to cut them off or burn them off.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's not a pleasant thing, it's not pleasant for us, it's not pleasant for the animals.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's a necessary thing, it's uh it's a lot less unpleasant than leaving the horns on.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's gonna take time, it's gonna take labor, it's gonna take facilities.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's not fun to do.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: The cattle aren't in love with the fact you did it.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna open up the opportunity for things like infection, um, it's gonna set those cattle back, they're not gonna gain as good.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're more likely to get sick from that stress and things like that.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not generally it's a necessary but not generally positive experience to dehorn.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now, way more fun than manually or physically dehorning cattle is to genetically dehorn cattle.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so pulled cattle means they are naturally hornless, and as luck would have it, the pulled gene is dominant.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: So if you use a pulled bull on a horned cow, if it's a homozygous pulled bull, you will get, meaning there's two copies of the pulled gene, you will get pulled calves or naturally hornless calves 100% of the time.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so the pulled purebred bull that we're seeing in this pen, um, which is gonna be again that largest calf, that big slick individual, he's right in the middle of the five, so naturally kind of on the back there, just clearing up now.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: So, second from the left, um, he's gonna be a heterozygous pulled bull.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: So, he got he's got one copy of the pulled gene and one copy of the horn gene.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, if he's bred to a homozygous pulled cow, you are going to see a pulled calf 100% of the time.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: If he is so she's got two copies of the pulled gene.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: If he's bred to a heterozygous pulled individual, you are gonna see um a head a homozygous pulled calf 25% of the time, a heterozygous pulled calf 50% of the time, and a horned calf 25% of the time.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: Or if you breed this bull to horned cows, so say the average ocky ishi cow, a full-blooded occasion cow, 100% Japanese origin, they're all horned, right?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: Or they're all genetically horned, they may have been de-horned, but they're all genetically horned.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you are going to get a pulled calf 50% of the time with a heterozygous pulled bull.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so de-horning genetically, I mean, without question, is the way to go.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's my preferred way to do it.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: Ask Aaron and Billy, it's for sure their preferred way that we do it.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: Ask any of the cows, if they could talk, they'd tell you they'd rather be dehorned genetically than physically or manually.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's definitively the better approach.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and not to mention, not only is that bull going to remove horns, it's not a case of like, well, we gave up everything else to be able to get those horns off genetically.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at those four red animals within that pen, that's easily the best pulled bull or easily the best calf, period.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: The best bull or steer calf of those reds is that pulled purebred.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not a case of like, well, we got rid of the horns, but he he's a junk animal otherwise.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's a case of no, that is a big, stout, growth, thick, impressive, top-performing individual who also removes horns.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: And and I love the way that that pedigree comes together.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: So that calf weaned at 724 pounds, so exceptional performance.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, to give you an idea, benchmark-wise, as far as what's normal for a weaning weight.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: So a weaning weight would be when animals are removed from their mother.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, normally going to be around seven months of age when an animal is weaned or removed from its mother.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that'd be about where he got pulled off of his mother.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_00: The average calf at large or the average commercial calf out and around us, now again, these weights will vary wildly depending on what part of the country you're in or what the animals are being fed or when they're born.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's a series of things that impact them.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: But the average commercial calf on the average year here in Idaho is gonna be about 550 pounds coming off the cow, is very normal.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there's higher performing individuals, there's lowering lower performing individuals.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: The average Akeushi calf nationwide, I mean, sadly, there are gonna be some that are three-weight weaning weights.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: There's plenty that are four weight, four weight meaning 400 pound, 400-something pound weaning weights.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, good ones are 500, really good ones are 600 pounds plus at weaning.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: Really truly exceptional individuals that there's not that many of in the breed are gonna be 700 plus pounds at weaning, which is what this bull calf was.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: This bull calf weighed 724 pounds at weaning.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: So honestly, this calf is as heavy um as a seven-month-old calf as what a lot of Akiushi might be as as a year old calf.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you're getting a lot of extra gain, you're that much closer to uh that that calf's harvest date, you've got that many more pounds to sell.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: If you do go ahead and sell calves sired by this bull, you're getting additional pounds to sell, you're getting an animal finished and beef ready to sell at an earlier date.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: Added growth curve.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: Again, all these things come with with trade-offs.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: All there's always pros and cons to any given trait.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: But when we're looking at growth, more growth is a positive thing.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: And as you look at all those calves, look at how much bigger he is.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: He's sitting against the back fence right now, so he's the big slick calf against the the far back fence there.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the the 50 or sorry, 5523 calf, the pulled purebred Okiushi, 724-pound weaning weight, and I love the the breeding on this bull.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you look at the way his pedigree sits, you're basically stacking together three of our all-time best cows.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: So this bull's sire is a bull called Sanchi, and Sanchi is a full brother in blood to our 19273 donor.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: So if you go back a few episodes, you can see our 19273 donor, super thick, super stout, super impressive female.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: She has our highest scanning cow on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, more marbling, um, or looking at a prime plus carcass, something beyond where the US scale ends for quality for beef quality.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the 19273 cow scans there, beautiful cow, big, thick, stout cow.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_00: This bull calf that we're looking at, so lot three, the 5523 calf, that big slick calf on the back fence there.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: That bull calf um is gonna add all that weaning weight in addition to his sire's a full brother in blood to 19273.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: His mother is a Davy Crockett daughter, and so she's gonna be a 919 grandson.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: I mentioned our granddaughter, I mentioned that 919 female,$300,000 all-time top income producing female, straight original import pedigree, big Al or Hikari over Shigamura over Ume, number one red wagyu cow um in the US in the Australian database for BFI or breeder feeder index, um, and just a beautiful cow in person, great mannered, again, a huge marbling cow.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then behind that on this pedigree, looking at at the the 5523 bull is the five five or the 577 donor who's done a hundred thousand indirect progeny sales, again scans beyond prime plus, again super mellow.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, you're stacking together.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_00: If a guy decides, hey, I need a bull, okay.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the guy that's looking at lot three.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: I need a bull.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you'd you're better off to have a polled bull than not a polled bull.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: He checks that box.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: You're better to have to have more growth than less growth, he checks that box.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: You're better to have more marbling rather than less marbling.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: He's stacked generations deep in that.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: You're better off to have more docility than less docility, he's stacked generations deep in that.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: You're better to have more marketability or the ability to generate more dollars per individual that you purchase, he's stacked generations deep in that.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for a herd bull and the opportunity to get a buy on a herd bull, I mean, I'll tell you what, there has been a screaming deal to be had on bulls in the Akioshi marketplace right now.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and a quick comment on that at large.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, when you look at the commercial cattle marketplace or the commercial cattle landscape or or cattle as a commodity in the United States today, beef cattle in the in the United States today are selling for more money than they ever have before, period.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like we are setting records all over the place all the time.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Commercial cattle have never been worth more at any point in history than they are right now.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: They are worth an obscene amount of money on on a per head basis or on a per per pound basis.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: There are records being set all over the place in the commercial cattle world right now, or for cattle as a commodity.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now, as it relates to that impact on the Akeushi breed, or specifically on Akeushi bulls and on their place in the marketplace, um, when the market is this high, um, frankly, there's lots.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: People that'll just buy a more traditional breed, buy things like an Angus bowl or whatever else, and that's totally fine because it's easy.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: And right now, it doesn't matter too much what you do, they're all worth a grundle at all-time market highs.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the brilliance in buying an OKUSHI bowl today is because not everyone is chasing a premium option.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: The market's already fantastic, right?
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: Why would you chase a premium option?
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: And there's not going to be a ton of a premium for an Okeushi cross calf at all-time highs.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: Where there is going to be a premium available for an Okeyushi calf is when this market cycles back the other direction.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we got a hundred years of data that says it'll fall apart again in five years.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: Every time it gets to a new high, everybody says, oh, it's a new normal, or you know, I mean it'll never go down again, or oh, it's super high.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I got a hundred years of data that says you're wrong, right?
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_00: We got a hundred years of data that says, as a general trend, now I mean there's blippets up and there's blippets down, and there's small term or short-term technical movements.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: But if you look at a hundred years of cattle data, the cattle market, what calves are going to sell for, that value climbs for five years and then it falls for five years, and then it climbs for five years, and then it falls for five years.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you're 10 years from peak to peak, you're 10 years roughly 10 years from trough to trough.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason that matters is cattle, if we're trying to adjust supplies, you know, based on market conditions, right?
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: So things are at an all-time high, so there's an incentive to increase supply.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_00: We cannot increase supply quickly when it comes to beef cattle, right?
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: It is a slow, long-term play.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: With pigs or chickens, you can make more of them really, really quickly, right?
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: But with cattle, just due to the generation interval, it is years.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it takes nine months to gestate the thing, and then it takes another year to get them to sexual maturity, and then it takes them another year for them to reproduce themselves.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I mean it's years down the road before we can shift the available supply of cattle based on the fact that, like, hey, today, yeah, they're worth a ton in the commercial cattle market, so let's make more of them.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: Takes years to introduce that added supply, and that's why it takes years to see that market go all the way back down to all-time lows.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_00: And now, all of a sudden, five years in the future, so we're in 2026 right now.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go out four or five years.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's say it's 2030, 2031.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: Now things are really low or really cheap in the commodity landscape, then people sell down, supply shrinks.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's basic supply-demand economics, right?
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: It is not rocket science, and we got a hundred years of data that says it climbs for five years, falls for five years.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm bringing all this around to the fact that we're sitting here looking at these Awkushi bulls here.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: Today, commodity cattle are worth all-time highs.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: When they're at all-time highs, not everyone is chasing a premium because there's not much of a premium to be had, even for premium cross calves.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: Where that premium reappears is when the market falls apart in five years, right?
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if the market falls apart in five years, now what everyone wants is a premium option, like an F1 Akiushi calf or a calf that's sired by an Akeushi bull.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_00: So if you buy one of these Akiushi bulls today, you're not gonna have to pay a ton for him because not the whole world is chasing an Akeushi bull.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, there's plenty of guys saying, Oh, I just as soon breed Angus, or it's simple or it's easy.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that's fine.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: I breed Angus tooth, there's an Angus bull on the pen here, too.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: He's a great bull, he'll do you a wonderful job.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: But if you position yourself while the market is super, super high, one, you can get these bulls bought cheap because not everyone is chasing them.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_00: But two, when the market falls back apart in five years, you're already positioned with a premium option where you can say, Hey, we've already got F1 calves, we've already got even F1 cows, right?
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or half Akiyushi cows.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: So now when the market goes down and everyone's scrambling saying, How do I make ends meet or how do I make payments or how do I, you know, generate all of this lost revenue because the market's falling apart, you're already positioned with a premium option, and even better, you got the bulls bought for penny on pennies on the dollar because at market high, when commodity is high, Akiyushi's low.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: Now Akiyushi runs counter-cyclical.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_00: My projection, you go out five years and that commodity market's falling apart.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone wants an Akiyushi bowl because they're scrambling for a way to get that premium.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: And the smart money is gonna have bought him cheap today rather than follow and do exactly what everybody else is doing and wait five years till the market's falling apart and then pay a bunch of money for the bowl.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: And then by the time you get those calves here, the market's starting to shift the other direction, anyway.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: So, I guess what I'm saying is uh there's a buy to be had.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid of the fact they're cheap.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's I mean, it's a smart spot to put money, get the bulls bought cheap, position yourself well.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: For one, the market goes back the other direction.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: So there's my spiel on Akiyushi bowls at large.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_00: These are a buy.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like someone is going to get a buy on these Akiushi bulls have been trading cheap.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: These are good bulls.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: If they are not good bulls, they are steers.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: There are steers in this pen.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_00: There will be steers in all of the pens that you see in future auction podcast episodes.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: We are steering hard on these bulls.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean anything that gives us any issues whatsoever.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if it's got a problem attitude, those nuts are gone.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: If it has problems caving, the nuts are gone.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: If it has if it grows slow, nuts are gone.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_00: If it doesn't scan strong on carcass ultra sound day, nuts are gone.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: If I don't like the cow behind it or the sire on the top side of the pedigree, nuts are gone.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess the point I'm making is if they're a bull, it's because they're pretty dang good, right?
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you're taking a look like at this lot three bowl, this pull dock ishi bowl, let's get the horns off your calves, let's add some growth to your calves, add marbling, add docility, add longevity, add marketability, and you can get this bull bought.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm pretty darn confident.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love it if you traded for what he's worth, but I'd be willing to bet this bull is worth a lot more money than what someone's gonna have to pay to get him bought.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: Do not sleep on the opportunity to buy something this good at this figure.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: So lot three, get a bid in early.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I would recommend to everyone and anyone when that email shows up in your inbox and you see that this auction's open, bid early and get that early bid price because a lot of times people think, oh, you know, I'll wait and I'll bid later because oh, you know, there's no reason to get the buy early or whatever because it'll just run up later.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: There are times that cattle trade way below what I would let them trade at private treaty in these auctions, and I want people to be rewarded for showing up and and for placing those bids early and for supporting our program.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: There are buys to be had.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm not I'm not gonna be bidding against you.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_00: There's not a computer bidding against you, it's not me bidding against you, an auction administrator bidding against you.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: If there's not another buyer that comes in and says, I am willing to pay more for this beautiful bull cap claw on the far right, looking at the far right, the 5523 here, far right is our big time growth uh pulled Pierboard Akiushi bull.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: If someone else doesn't say they're willing to pay more, you own him.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: So get that early bid price.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_00: When you when you see that auction open, when that auction catalog opens, from the time it opens, the auction's on, the thing's open.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: And if you get the early price, number one, that price is never showing up again.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: The bids only go up from there.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want the best price, bid early.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: But number two, the way that platform works, if you get out bid, you'll get a text.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so now you don't have to worry about remembering or like, oh, what if I'm busy, or or oh, I forgot the auction was on that night, or whatever else.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: Don't miss out on a guy like this.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: Catch that opportunity early, get that bid in early, and chase this 5523.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just saying when the auction opens, lot three, grab an early bid because there's going to be a buy to be had, and that's a great bowl nearest to us right now, far left in the frame, looking towards us right now, just a super unique and valuable bowl.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: Don't miss out on a great pulled purebred Akiushi.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, take advantage of the fact you can get him bought for less than he's worth.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because what that bowl is worth is$20,000,$30,000.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: And what they've been trading at is more like six to ten.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: And when the auction opens, I mean it's like a$500 bid to get in bid early, bid early, bid often, get on them, get that early bid, get that early price.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: And the auction platform will text you um if you get out bid, and then make sure you log into your calendar.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: May 27th, last Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: mountain is when the thing closes.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: Look, he's ready to breed already, you know.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: So don't miss out on that guy.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let that be a future herd sire for you.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: That is a good bull.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: He's been good every day of his life.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's why he's still an intact mail and not a steer.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_00: That is a good, good bull nearest us 5523, uh lot three.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, get an early bit on him.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, lot four in this auction is gonna be 5540.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: 5540.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we'll watch our tags and see him when he comes around.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: But the 5540 bull um is gonna be lot four in this auction.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for a 100% full blood Japanese red waggy or Akiyushi, this is your option in this sale.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is the one full blood, 100% Japanese uh bull in this sale.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: So if that's what you're after, you want lot four, lot four big time weaning weight kind of a bull, 656 pounds at weaning.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_00: So he's coming to us right now.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_00: 5540 is coming to us right now.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: Second bull from the right.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking in the frame, as far as which bowl are we looking at, which bowl are we talking about, second bull from the right.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_00: So the bull nearest the truck with his butt towards us is lot three, the 5523.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: The next bull over to the left of him is 5540, who's gonna be lot four.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: So the pulled purebred is on the far right, and the bull turning away and starting to kind of walk away.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now he's gonna be on the far left of the frame.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_00: Far left of the frame is 5540.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be lot four, and he's coming out into the sunlight, giving us a nice shot there.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful bull, big stretchy bull, high gaining bowl.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's a cherry shot right there.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: It gives you a good feel for who he is, what he is, mellow mannered, good to look at, high performance kind of a deal, 100% Japanese genetics.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, showing off for us there.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: 5540 on the far left, um, giving you a real good feel for what he is.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I love that you can see on that bowl that is a mellow bowl.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_00: So, this is not a case of these bulls are pinballing off the walls.
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a case of the bull's got his head in the air and is panicked and is running around and is crashing through fences.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is an easy-mannered guy.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we talked about those disposition issues you can run into with Aki Usi elsewhere.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: If there's a disposition issue here, they're not gonna multiply it because they're gonna be a steer.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_00: So look at the the 5540.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: He'd be three bowls back, I guess, from here.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: The nearest bowl being the pulled purebred lot three, two bowls back, kind of buried right in the middle of all of them, is 5540.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that bowl is gonna be an umaru son.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the umaru bowl be one of the most valuable in the breed, thousands of dollars a unit to get this stuff bought, hard to find.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_00: Hikar or umaru is a direct son of the original Katie Maru cow.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_00: Katie Maru, I've mentioned great option for docility, for muscle mass, super unique pedigree, highly marketable genetics in Uma Maru.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: Bottom side of this deal, so the bottom side of the pedigree being the maternal side of the pedigree is the 3437 donor.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so she is going to be an international daughter.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: So international rolls right back to the Namiko maternal line.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then below that is the 919 donor who comes from the Ume maternal line.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: So 919 would be our all-time high income producing female,$300,000 in direct progeny sales, big time marbling on the female, straight foundation pedigree, the number one female for a BFI index, uh, the breeder feeder index and the Australian Wagyu Association database.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: So you got all the pieces here.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at 5540, super unique pedigree, umumori over an international over 919, 100% Japanese genetics.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: He comes with free delivery included, anywhere on the continental United States.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be willing to bet you can get a buy on this bull.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_00: You've seen in the video video, he's mellow, he's good looking, he's good mannered, big growth, 656 pound weaning weight, lot four, 5540.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_00: Jumping to lot five, lot five is the black bull in the pen.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so far left in the current frame.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the hip on the bull, the way he's sitting there.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the hip, look at the depth, look at the spring of rib, look at the power, the muscle, the mass.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you are looking for an Angus bull, so if you're deciding, hey, you know what, the market is at all-time highs, and I'm just gonna go for something that gains and gains quickly and sells easily.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of the all-time heaviest weaning weight bowls in the history of our program.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_00: 872 pounds at weaning on the black Angus bowl.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_00: So it'd be four bowls away from the truck right now, sitting back there in the pen.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, CGX conclusion 5511N.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, tons of performance in this bowl.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a homozygous pulled bowl.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: So registered Angus cattle are gonna have two copies of that pulled gene.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_00: So you could breed that bull to any cow.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you could breed that bowl to a Texas longhorn and he will knock the horns off at birth.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_00: So you can just take care of that job right up front.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he'll make them black, he's gonna be homozygous black.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_00: So every one of those babies is gonna be black, and black hides can bring a premium, especially in northern markets.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to sell black calves for a premium, and then if you're looking for gain, I mean, if your model is at this point in time for your operation that what you want to sell is calves, not beef.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, we're not talking about taking them all the way through to finish, producing beef and selling beef.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about taking a bowl, putting them on cows, produce calves, and what you are selling for your income is calves.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_00: If your goal is to sell calves and sell them in this wildly high market, and you just want you want them pulled, you want them black, and you want as many pounds to sell as you can possibly get.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_00: The way you're gonna get that done is gonna be with lot five CGX conclusion 5511.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the width of base on this bowl, look at the hip on this bowl, look at the muscle mass on this bowl, 872 pounds at weaning coming off the cow.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_00: That is a thick, stout, high performance kind of a dude.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so if you're looking for a bowl to produce calves to sell at weaning lot five, get an early bid on him, open him up, take the bit, take the bid at 500 bucks.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: You own him until somebody bids a thousand.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's no reason not to.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: It is not gonna hurt you, and that's gonna give you a text update anytime that you are out bid.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, make sure that you sign up at gotanycals.com, subscribe so that you get an email when that auction opens, and then take a look at lot five.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you want power, performance, homozygous black, um, muscle and gainability, lot five is who you're after.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_00: Lot six, jumping over to a steer.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_00: So lot six is going to be the 5561 steer.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so naturally gonna be sitting on the far back.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_00: What we're currently seeing right now, just for reference, anyone looking at the video on the left there, um, the bowl that is slick hided, slick haired, that's the 5523 bowl, the pulled purebred Akiushi is lot three, right in front of him is lot four, the 100% full blood red wagyu bowl um is lot four, the 5540.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_00: 5561 that I'm talking about now is farthest from the camera.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_00: He's sitting on the back side of the pen there, lot six, 5561 in.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: That is gonna be a viril sun, um, weaned at 536 pounds, really unique pedigree.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is a viral by 121.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_00: So when I when I say, hey, just a great pedigree is isn't gonna let you keep your nuts on here.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_00: This is what I'm talking about.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, viral is thousands of dollars per straw and a pain in the butt to get a hold of.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_00: The mother, the 121 donor, has done 200,000 in direct progeny sales.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is a big time pedigree, and we nutted him anyway.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, this is him on the far left.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_00: He just backed out of all of the rest of the cattle there.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: Far left calf there, so still just a young calf, still just a light calf.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and gonna make a wonderful, put a wonderful stake on the plate.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_00: They don't all need to be bulls, guys.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, any of you out there that have got Akeyushi bulls, just because they're a full-blood Okey Usi doesn't mean they need to be a bull.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just because they're an embryo transfer calf doesn't mean they need to be a bull.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: Just because they have a super valuable sire doesn't mean they need to be a bull.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just because they have a super valuable dam, doesn't mean they need to be a bull.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: If they are not 100% all of the everything, make great beef out of them.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because I mean 5561 here is gonna make awesome beef, right?
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't need to multiply himself, he doesn't need to be a bull, but that doesn't mean he's not gonna make awesome beef.
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the opportunity here on the 5561 steer as well as the 5589.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: So there's two steers in the pen, they are both on the far back fence there.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be a viral sun and a shoshone sun, and with either one or both of those steers, the expense with putting steak on the plate or putting beef on the plate is in all of the feed and in all of the time it takes, right?
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna be at least a year between the day you buy buy a steer, like one of these, buy a wheeling steer, and the day that you harvest him and turn them into beef.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_00: So the expense is not in buying the animals, the expense is in feeding the animals and harvesting the animals.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_00: And what you don't want to do is go buy some cheap steer somewhere because he was cheap, and then dump all that feed and all that time and all that effort in and get clear to the end of the deal, and you got crappy steak.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why would you do that?
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there is no reason to dump all that time and effort and feed and money into something that you're not sure is gonna produce an excellent result.
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_00: So 5561 sitting on the far left of all the cattle we're looking at right now, dark red individual, right up against the far back fence there.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_00: 5561, viral over 121.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: Viral um is is gonna bring the Namiko line right to the front of the pedigree.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very, very proven for marbling.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, talking to some folks down into Australia and New Zealand that have put a ton of carcasses on the rail, so killed a lot of cattle and taking a look at the quality of those carcasses.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we know those that Namiko maternal line is gonna put a quality stake on the plate.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_00: In addition to that, the 121 cow, which is the mother of this steer here, lot six of the VRL5561 steer.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: We know that cow scans beyond Prime Plus on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_00: So you know that when you invest all that time and effort and feed and money and whatever else, you know you're gonna get a great stake.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do not waste all your time and effort and feed and money on a crappy cheap steer.
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like the buying the steer is the cheap part, right?
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these these steers, um, I mean, very realistically, you can get these bought in that three to four thousand window.
• 1:01:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's where they've been trading in these auctions, realistically.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, there's a buy to be had there.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_00: Take that animal, put the feed in, put the effort in, put the time, and put an awesome stake on the plate.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_00: Don't waste all of the effort on something lesser, right?
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, lot seven is gonna be a Shoshone Sun um over 239F, who is a master chef and a Rusha granddaughter, uh, weighed 596 pounds at weaning, so plenty of gainability in both of these steers.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_00: The steers are on the far, let's see, you're gonna be one steer on the far left of the frame and one steer on the far right of the frame.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_00: Far left of the frame is gonna be lot six, 5561.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_00: Far right of the frame is lot 7, 5589.
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_00: So lot 7, 5589 on the far right, one of the first Shoshone suns.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_00: Shoshone was the highest marbling bull of his entire calf crop on actual carcass ultrasound, Siemens 3200 a straw.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_00: We still nutted that calf.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, like I said, don't don't be afraid to nut uh to go ahead and cast straight.
• 1:02:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, if everything's not 100% exactly where you want it, the only ding we had on him was birth weight, right?
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_00: Heavier birth weight kind of a bull, still born unassisted, but that individual had plenty of gainability, plenty of performance.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's gonna put an awesome, awesome stake on the plate.
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_00: Don't shy away from getting one like that that's gonna put a great stake on the plate instead of something lesser.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, really, really well bled steer bred steer, 100% full blood Akayushi wagyu, 100% Japanese genetics.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_00: So don't go with something cheap and junky and maybe halfway crossbred where you don't know if it's gonna end up like the sire or like the dam or what it is or isn't gonna do.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_00: Don't gamble on those inconsistencies.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_00: Go with 100% Japanese genetics, lot six is the far left animal, lot seven is the far right animal, both steers both come with free delivery anywhere in the continental United States included.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_00: Both are gonna be uh you're looking at 536 pounds on the left, 596 pounds on the right.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, get an early bid in on those individuals and get yourself some awesome feeders.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_00: And without further ado, we'll jump up to the next pen.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so last pen of cattle I'm gonna show you for tonight.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we've got two cows that we're gonna be offering IVF aspirations on is lot nine and lot ten.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so lot nine is gonna be the Angus cow on the right, the black cow on the right, lot 10 is gonna be the Charolet cow, uh, the white cow on the left.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so starting with the Angus cow, which would be the cow on the right, the black cow, that is gonna be the Rita 9044 donor.
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that cow is gonna be in the top 1% of the Angus breed for growth, and the top 15% for calving ease.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, what makes that female unique is we're saying, hey, we can get all the performance in the world, but we're not gonna get huge birth weights to go with it, right?
• 1:04:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is a female that they're gonna gain like the Dickens, but they're gonna be born easy.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, if you're looking for something in the Angus breed that's gonna give you top shelf performance and the calving ease to go with it, 9044 is geared to do that for you.
• 1:04:54
  SPEAKER_00: Lot nine and is is an IVF aspiration on her.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_00: So the winning bidder just pays one flat price for the aspiration.
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you pay$200 per embryo produced to cover lab costs, and then you provide whatever semen or purchase semen from us, whatever semen you'd like to put across those embryos.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_00: We will guarantee at least three embryos if you make make sexed embryos, or you can use uh gender-controlled semen, uh either male or female, or you can we will guarantee at least five embryos if you use conventional semen on that IVF aspiration.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_00: So one IVF aspiration on the Rita 9044 donor, lot nine, easy calving, fast gaming.
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_00: So if your whole game, your whole target, your whole plan is I want them here unassisted, and I want as many pounds of black pulled calves as I can get at weaning, that's how you're gonna get her done with lot uh nine, the 9044 IVF aspiration.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_00: Jump into lot 10.
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the big white cow that is off to the left there.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at her, uh, that big white, big, big cow, that's a Charlet cow.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_00: So Charlet is a French breed of cattle.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um So the French cow there on the left, the big white cow.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, big time performance cattle.
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to add a ton of gainability or the ability to gain more pounds faster, there is not a breed on the planet better than Charlet.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at that cow! Like, that is a big cow, big, high-gaining, high-performing um kind of cattle.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_00: They will put pounds on fast.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so, if you were looking to sell calves and you're just looking to sell pounds at weaning, right?
• 1:06:31
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, we talked about the difference between, you know, selling calves at weaning or selling pounds of calf versus selling finished beef.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_00: If you're selling finished beef, then uh she's gonna be your best fit.
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you're wanting to sell black calves, right, because of the premium for some of those black hides or or certified Angus beef or things like that, um, you'd want to go with the the black cow.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're just looking for max performance, max gainability, as many pounds to sell as you can possibly get as quickly as possible, and or introduce some hybrid vigor or heterosis from crossbreeding, right?
• 1:07:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you've got commercial black cows that that don't have Charlet in them, and then you cross them to this French breed, right?
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_00: To Charlet, you'll actually get you get a two plus two equals five scenario there, right?
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_00: Where the the calf will outperform the average of the parents, and that difference is is referred to as hybrid vigor or heterosis.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um just because she's showing off in the frame right now, you can see that black cow, you know, nice uttered female, um, nice long female, deep female, sharp-fronted female.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's the 9044 donor.
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_00: The IVF aspiration on her cells is lot nine, lot 10 is the the IVF aspiration on the Charlet cow.
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow is going to be a daughter of LTKD 8042.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_00: So her mother weaned eight calves at a 108 weaning weight ratio in the Linsco field herd in South Dakota.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so what that means would be 100 is average, 108 means 8% above average, right?
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_00: So her mother weaned calves that were 8% heavier than the average calf in the in the set for eight consecutive years, right?
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_00: So very productive female, very high performing female, a lot of gainability in that animal, even within an elite Charlet herd, and then Charlet as a breed outperforms other breeds, and then when used in a crossbreeding scenario, produces more performance still.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're after gainability, look at lot 10 that that IVF aspiration on KD 1022.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_00: This cow is also a full sister to the dam of the$160,000 LT Authority.
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_00: So her mother uh did fantastic up against really elite level competition for growth.
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_00: Her full sister produced a six-figure bull.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow herself, big, beautiful, thick, framy, stout kind of a cow.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, IVF IVF aspiration on her sells as lot 10.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and with that, I'm gonna let Aaron and Billy know that we have got our video on the cattle for the day.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'll let them get the cattle put away and I'll I'll talk about uh a couple of animals we did not video today and then wrap up some housekeeping items and uh we'll go from there.
• 1:09:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so we're gonna let Aaron and Billy grab these cattle and put them away before we lose all light for the for the end of the day.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_00: But uh appreciate you being here with us, and I hope I've been able to provide something of value as far as education on what these cattle are and why it matters and and why why not all cattle are created equal and why it's worth investing in in quality genetics and uh and not running all your time and effort and feeding money through junk.
• 1:09:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the buying the cows are is the cheap part.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, investing in quality pays, it doesn't cost, it pays.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, it takes the same time and effort and feeding money whether you're gonna feed junk or feed really good ones.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_00: The only difference is if you feed really good ones, you're gonna get really good results, good sale prices, good rates of gain, good good eating experiences, etc.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_00: If you buy cheap junk, you're gonna put in all the same inputs, and then you're gonna junk in, junk out.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it's worth investing in genetics.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, appreciate you listening into everything this far.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_00: A couple of lots I want to highlight real quick um that are not gonna be on video today.
• 1:10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then uh we'll just do some housekeeping items and wrap up there.
• 1:10:12
  SPEAKER_00: But uh lot 11 is gonna be a lease on the Spectrum 3393L bowl.
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a lease gives you an option to get a really, really, really high-end bowl.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is a bowl we are actively breeding to here.
• 1:10:26
  SPEAKER_00: This is a bowl we are actively collecting semen on.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's the reason the bull isn't here.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_00: The bull is actively at Hoffman AI um go and collecting semen there that we will be using within our embryo transfer program, within our AI program.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of our absolute best.
• 1:10:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, our our to put it this way, I mean, within all of the bull calves that are born here, um, big old chunk make steers and just go make good beef.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Big chunk make good bowls, you know, and then good solid bowls to use in a live cover setting.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_00: Only the very, very, very best are the bowls we're collecting semen on to use for AI, artificial insemination, or uh in embryo transfer settings to multiply those genetics further.
• 1:11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at 3393L, the Spectrum Bowl, um, a lease on him is going to give you two years of natural cover service, live cover service on that bowl.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_00: So the semen rights do not sell with the lease.
• 1:11:16
  SPEAKER_00: So the semen rights remain the ownership of Christensen genetics.
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_00: So we will continue to market the semen on that bowl.
• 1:11:22
  SPEAKER_00: But you'll have the option to use an AI stud sire bowl in a live cover setting.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_00: So instead of having to synchronize your cows or bring in a technician for your cows or AI your cows or do all that extra work to be able to AI a cow, now you get all the quality with none of the work by using a stud in a live cover setting.
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so the 3393 bowl, the winning bidder on Lot 11, will get two years of live cover use on the Spectrum 3393L bowl.
• 1:11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Free delivery and free pickup are included in that bid price.
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting two years of live cover use, the bowl's delivered to you, the bowl's taken away from you.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_00: And then the beauty of a two-year lease is instead of going in number one, a bowl this good, frankly, just isn't for sale.
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, you're getting AI quality calves without AIing.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, you don't have to pick them up or or or uh get rid of them when you're done with them.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_00: But number four, when you look at the average herd that's only got 25 cows, which is about what a bull can cover.
• 1:12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I mean that can be a little higher for an older bull, a little lower for a younger, but 25 is a good rule of thumb as far as number of cows a bull can take care of.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you've only got 25 cows, after two years, even if you went and bought a bull, two years later, if you retain his daughters, and then another year later it's time for them to be bred.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now you can't use the bull anyway because the bull would be breeding his daughters.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so rather than worry about that, if you've purchased a bull, now you got to resell a bull or figure out how to try to get some money back out of a bull, rather than worry about any of that, you can just say, Hey, um, I can lease this bull for two years, and two years down the road, he just leaves.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't have to pay all the money to buy him, I don't have to figure out how to sell him, I don't have to figure out how to ship him, I don't have to figure out how to AI.
• 1:12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I just get wicked good calves at a super good price.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_00: The bull shows up, the bull leaves.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_00: It is as cost effective and simple and easy a way to introduce high quality genetics as I know how to offer.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's what you're gonna see in lot 11.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you win that bid, you'll get to use that bowl for two full years.
• 1:13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, CGX Spectrum 3393L.
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_00: He is sired by the$500,000 JC Rushaw 75, whose semen is not available on the open market.
• 1:13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, JC Rushaw 75 also beat all comers at a national show on two consecutive years at Houston for marbling against both red and black wagyu entries.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_00: So high quality beef, very marketable, very rare.
• 1:13:40
  SPEAKER_00: His mother, the mother of the Spectrum Bull, who we're selling the two-year lease on in lot 11, is the 919 cow, 300,000 in direct progeny sales, very high marbling cows, straight foundation pedigree, number one in the Australian Wagyu database for BFI for a red wagyu cow in the United States.
• 1:13:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then Spectrum himself got it done on actual weights.
• 1:14:01
  SPEAKER_00: The bull was a 68-pound birth weight, so very easy calving, very light birth weight.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_00: You do not have to worry about if you breed heifers to this bull, they're gonna be born unassisted, right?
• 1:14:10
  SPEAKER_00: So easy calving.
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, wean strong, 654 pounds at weaning, so plenty of gain.
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_00: The bull is easy to be around, he's been a fertile bull.
• 1:14:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, calving ease is there, growth is there, marbling there, longevity is there.
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_00: The bull is named Spectrum because he covers the whole spectrum of traits for us, everything that we try to select for.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_00: So a two-year lease sells on him as lot 11 in this auction.
• 1:14:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then one last lot I want to highlight is going to be lot 12.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Lot 12 is semen from the heavy duty bowl.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we just sold the first straw of semen in our last auction on heavy duty.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, brought 1,050 for a straw.
• 1:14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but honestly, I still feel like this bull is undervalued for what he is.
• 1:14:51
  SPEAKER_00: This is frankly the best bull we have bred to date.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_00: The best bowl I have ever sold semen on is heavy duty.
• 1:14:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I say that having sold semen on a lot of really good bulls, right?
• 1:15:02
  SPEAKER_00: We have bred some really good bulls, we have sold semen on some really good bulls, been fortunate to work with a whole series of great individuals, and I'm not trying to devalue any of them, but I am saying heavy duty is the best yet, and did not fetch the very highest auction price as far as the value for a straw.
• 1:15:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think this bowl is maybe being overlooked a little, undervalued a little bit for what he is.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the heavy duty bull, um grand dam on the top side,$200,000 producing 121 donor, um, grandsire on the top side,$200,000 valued dose equis bowl.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the dam on the bottom side,$100,000 producer, the$577 donor.
• 1:15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you've got a ton of value built into this pedigree before this bull was ever born.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_00: But then the bull was born unassisted, went on to set our all-time weaning weight record for a purebred Akeushi bowl, um, or should say our highest highest growth Akeushi stud to date at 738 pounds at weaning, 738 pound weaning weight.
• 1:16:01
  SPEAKER_00: He has homozygous pulled, so he's gonna take the horns off every calf he ever sires.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, his damn and grand damn are both beautiful and scam prime plus.
• 1:16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, all the pieces are there, the docility is there, um, the growth is there, record-setting growth, super easy mannered.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the picture of this bull of heavy duty was taken when he was 11 months old and he'd never had any corn, any concentrate, any help of any kind.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Still took an incredible picture, super mannered, super good-looking bull, thick, heavy muscled, high gaining, an incredible amount of carcass quality there, an incredible amount of um marketability built into that pedigree.
• 1:16:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is a good, good bull.
• 1:16:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you've not touched pulled purebred genetics because you've wanted to focus on full blood genetics, that is totally fine.
• 1:16:49
  SPEAKER_00: I completely respect that, not a problem.
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_00: But if you were ever going to purchase semen on a bull to add the pulled purebred genetics to your herd, I would absolutely recommend getting heavy duty and putting them over your best full blood donors because there is absolutely a space available in this in this market to say, hey, the full blood genetics, it's already a fairly narrow gene pool, right?
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, polled purebred genetics, it's a narrower gene pool still.
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And there is absolutely an opportunity to go ahead and produce new and different and distinct pulled purebred genetics.
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_00: So take a bull like heavy duty, put them across your very best full bloods, and you can absolutely capitalize on there's just not a ton of pulled purebreds out there.
• 1:17:35
  SPEAKER_00: And not only will you be making pulled purebreds, you'll be making exceptional quality pulled purebreds with a bull like heavy duty across your best full bloods.
• 1:17:44
  SPEAKER_00: He's homozygous pulled, so he's gonna produce pulled purebred calves every time without fail.
• 1:17:50
  SPEAKER_00: You are not gonna have to deal with horns, you are not gonna have summer horned or summer pulled, you are not gonna run into these scenarios um where you don't have the horns off.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_00: He genetically removes the horns every time.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_00: He adds a ton of quality.
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just wouldn't hesitate for a moment to go ahead and use heavy duty.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so without further ado, um, I would say, you know, just make sure you've got on your your uh calendar.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_00: May 27th, 6 p.m.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_00: mountain time is gonna be when this auction closes.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, make sure you've got that on the calendar.
• 1:18:19
  SPEAKER_00: Plan to go ahead and be there with us.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'd also invite you, uh, you know, go ahead and take a look at this podcast on Apple Podcasts.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you'll update your your phone there, uh there's now video on Apple Podcasts, so you can watch the video of this podcast right there on Apple Podcasts, in addition to on YouTube, in addition to on gotanycals.com.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of different opportunities, a lot of different ways to take a look at this video.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um and just invite you to subscribe at gotanycals.com, be there May 27th at 6 p.m.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_00: when the auction closes, and refresh, refresh, refresh at closing.
• 1:18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and one yeah, one other quick thing I would mention the pulled purebred thing.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's opportunity there.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Our high seller in our last auction was a pulled purebred female, full sister to heavy duty.
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for an opportunity uh to maybe grab a unique space in the market, take a look at some of these high-value pulled purebred genetics, make some of your own by putting heavy duty over your best full bloods.
• 1:19:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if you're looking at at uh how to engage with us in this auction, make sure at auction close that you're consistently refreshing your browser.
• 1:19:25
  SPEAKER_00: It may look like the the clock has gone to zero, but unless you see the little banner come across the corner that says closed, then the auction's not closed.
• 1:19:33
  SPEAKER_00: The auction's still open until that banner shows up and it says closed at the at the very end of the auction.
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so make sure you refresh consistently or refresh consistently.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um the auction shot clock will reset to five minutes every time a bid is placed on any lot in this auction.
• 1:19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a horse race style finish.
• 1:19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so that means that anytime any bit, any auction or lot in the auction receives a bid anywhere in the last five minutes, the whole auction extends by five minutes.
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll see that clock reset to five minutes over and over again.
• 1:20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh don't bank on it just going to zero and thinking, oh, it's over, the auction's closed, the auction's done.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_00: Consistently refresh, consistently refresh.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Wait until you see that banner say closed or you won or you lost across the corner of the loss to say the auction's over.
• 1:20:18
  SPEAKER_00: And uh be there May 27th, 6 p.m.
• 1:20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Mountain uh for this auction.
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um I appreciate you being here on the Guardian Council Podcast.