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Alberta | It's bull season alright and its a normal season. Hi averages, high prices and low prices. You can always find one in your price range if you look. The question is if that bull you buy will improve your herd in the way you want it improved and if you are willing to pay the money to get him to do that. I like to look at small sales or places that have not built a name for themselves. Sometimes that name cost a few thousand more than an equivalent bull elsewhere at a new breeder. The last few years, I have spent a lot of time researching EPD's, genetics and pedigrees, progeny and siblings of bulls I am interested in as well as I like to see walking videos. I find this more usefull than miles on the road to sales where bulls are out of my price range. When one looks at the human race and your own families, genetics play a large role in what your relatives look like and genetic potentials also. Same as livestock. I also like to look at smaller breeders who use AI genetics, that way I can sometimes get very good genetic potential at a better value than say a single breeder who purchases a bull from another breeder to use on his 50 purebred animals. If you want to improve your herd fast in probably the cheapest way in the long run, and you want to put in the time, and do it without high priced bulls, AI and embryo transfers are going to pay back in spades, but like anything else in life, including buying bulls, improving your genetics, you get back out of it what you are willing to put into it monetary wise or work wise. | |
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Bull season
