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How To Manage Your New Herd Sire
Season 3 Episode 157
It’s the Ranch It Up Radio Show! We answer your questions about new herdsire management. Plus, we start a new feature segment where you, our listeners, get to nominate your vote for the Ranch It Up Radio Show Top Hand. We have the markets, news, and updates that you need to hear. Join Jeff 'Tigger' Erhardt, the Boss Lady Rebecca Wanner aka 'BEC', and our crew as we bring you the latest in markets, news, and Western entertainment on this all-new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.
EPISODE 157 DETAILS
Your questions are always welcome here at The Ranch It Up Radio Show. One of our listeners from Missouri texted us in regard to last week's program. We featured Doug Bichler from Bichler Simmentals in South Central North Dakota. He already had a very successful seedstock operation supplying Simmental and SimAngus Genetics. His accident in 2017 caused him and his family to re-evaluate how they were running their cattle, the efficiency of bloodlines, and the predictability of the bulls being offered for sale each year. This caused the operation to transition from a winter and spring calving cowherd to a summer calving cowherd. They changed from selling Spring Yearling Bulls each February to selling Virgin Long Yearling Bulls in November. David from Missouri was wondering how to care for these fall yearling bulls and how it is different from caring for spring yearling bulls. We bring Doug to answer more questions about managing new herd sire prospects.
We start a new segment where you, our listeners get to nominate a person, farm/ranch, business, product, horse, dog, etc, that does not matter for our weekly Ranch It Up Radio Show Top Hand. Today, we relieve our very first winner.
Not to mention the weekly market recap with Kirk Donsbach with Stone X Financial, Inc. We have it all for you in this jam-packed episode of The Ranch It Up Radio Show! As always Tigger & BEC and the Ranch It Up crew dive into the latest agriculture news, rodeo action not to miss, and cover the cattle markets.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR NEW HERD SIRE
We spend all that time trying to find the perfect bull for our operation. And now congratulations! You found him and got him purchased in your price range. Now what? Learn how to manage your new herd sires and how to get them through the cold months on into breeding season.
BICHLER SIMMENTALS
The Program: The Bichler Simmentals ranch is owned and operated by Doug and Maria Bichler, representing the third generation to farm the land and live on the homestead. Since the farm’s inception in 1920, the Bichler family has strived to care for the land and their animals to the best of their ability. And, in 2022 that core value has never wavered.
The program has grown significantly in the past 17 years. Since they began their production sale in 2005, they have been able to not only increase the number of bulls and females offered but also create more genetic and phenotypic consistent cattle. They use AI and embryo transfer extensively to ensure they are propagating the best genetics. The ranch is located in south central North Dakota and consists of 250 mother cows which are comprised of both registered and commercial females. Commercial females are utilized in the ET program.
The Philosophy: Their philosophy is that quality is always centered around the cowherd. This is why they cull heavily for not only performance and genetics but for relevant traits important to customers such as disposition, udder quality, and structural soundness. Any females failing to meet these requirements are either moved into the recipient herd or are simply culled. The Bichler family believes the best-performing cattle are moderately framed, easy fleshing, and deep-bodied and you will see this in the cattle they produce. They flush superior cows in t
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