Winter 2013 • Red Poll Beef Journal • 1 Featuring... Scan this QR code on your ARPA National Show results, as well as a variety of Smartphone to learn more at articles to help you during the upcoming breeding season! www.americanredpolls.com 2 • Red Poll Beef Journal • Winter 2013 WIESE FARMS Wiese Farms purchased their first Red Polls in 1927 and they have been a Bulls For Sale! part of our lives and our farming and ranching success ever since. Red WBH VALIANT BR 130 is a 5.0 to 5.5 Polls have many fine qualities to contribute to the beef business. frame compact bull. He will produce calves that will grade and an early age. His sire is GS BELLRINGER pictured in this Wiese Farms calve in November and December and will have heifers ad and out of a Shuter’s Flame cow. Contact us for more information on perfor- and bull calves to sell this summer sired by WFH SONNY LA648, WBH mance and price for the 3 bulls pictured. PAT SF007 and GS BELLRINGER. Consider visiting us anytime to see the fall calves on their dams. WBH MASTER SO133 is a high performing bull that will sire calves that wean big heavy calves. His weaning weight EPD is Wiese Farms encourages all breeders to register their females and bulls 29 and his yearling EPD is 40. We thought so much of this bull that we are kept for breeding, and transfer all they sell. We support Complete Herd using him this winter on 10 select cows. Reporting to advance the quality of our herd and the breed, and encour- He will be trich tested to ship him to a new owner. All the bulls have had their age everyone to send in all carcass information that you are able to shots and boosters and are ready to go to obtain. work. WBH ACE BR141 will work as a heifer bull, Our Senior Herd Sire GS Bellringer pic- but still sire calves that will gain well. He tured here at 28 months. His mature had a negative birth weight EPD of -2.1 weight is 1900 pounds. He is a very but has a yearling EPD of 18. He too is correct bull and his offspring is adding out of GS BELLRINGER and a POWER quality to our herd. We will have heifers POINT daughter. One of these 3 young and bulls for sale from him this fall as bulls are sure to fit the bill for your next well as from other breeding. herd sire. Wm. Wiese & Family Bill and Angie Wiese & Brian and Jill Hiebert 12214 E. Parallel Road, Haven, KS 67543 • (620) 465-3865 or (620) 802-2169 • e-mail: [email protected] Yearling Bulls For Sale Red, Inc. is an example of the bulls from our 2012 spring crop. He turned a year old on January 3, 2013. At that time his weight was 1028 pounds on a 1% of body weight growth ration and unlimited grass and hay. As a son of Dominator OC705, he is packaged to produce quality carcass offspring as evidenced by his ultrasound carcass numbers. Our bulls are bred and selected for gentleness, are halter trained, and come ready to go to work for you. Contact us for your bull power needs. WDA Ribeye Area REA/100# Backfat IMF Scrotal Cir (#/day) (in2) (in2/100#) (in) (%) (cm) 2.8 11.3 1.10 0.17 3.72 32 Winter 2013 • Red Poll Beef Journal • 3 CATTLE Herd Sires Semen Available Dunroamin Premium Using Semen from these Red Poll Bulls: Dunroamin Premium 205 day wt. 725 lb. 365 day wt. 1,434 lb. Believed to be the heaviest yearling Red Poll bull of all time. Gain from birth to weaning was 3.2 lb./day, and gain from weaning to yearling was 4.43. lb./day. Calved 2/13/90 Reg. #5990 S: P-P Hoosier Prelude GR31 D: Dunroamin Bones Pearl GR23 EPDs: BW 0.0, WW -9, YW -12, MM 8, M&G 4 GLS Beauty Reg. #212263, born 1/23/12 Pinpur Baron GR27 Calved 7/10/73 Reg. #96063 95142/GR25/CR124995B/S10CR133458 Reserve Champion 2012 IN State Fair • 2nd NAILE S: Pinpur Heritage GR34 J.F. Roxanne Reg. #211878, born 4/23/11 D: Pinpur Queenmaker Beth GR19 2nd IN State Fair 2012 • 2nd KY State Fair 2012 EPDs: BW 1.9, WW 0, YW -2, MM 6, M&G 6 1st NAILE Pinpur Regulator GR25 95142 / GR25 / CR124995B / S10CR133458 Gail Spegal & Family Calved 5/11/72 S: Pinpur Heritage 92862 / GR34 S25C143057 D: 139484 Pinpur Bona Ruby 6902 N. 400 W., Fairland, IN 46126 • (317) 835-7617 GR21 / CR113235 / CRD142731 / CRD142658 Visitors Inquiries Welcome Red Poll Herd Since 1954 Appreciated 4 • Red Poll Beef Journal • Winter 2013 RED 2013 ARPA Fees POLL Normal Registrations Beef Under 12 months of age $25 The Red Poll BeefJOU JOUJournal is the official publicationRR of theNAL NALAmerican Red Poll Association 12-24 months of age $30 Over 24 months of age $40 Table of Contents Complete Herd Report Annual Cow Enrollment $10 Page 5 From the President Registration of CHR Calf $10 Page 6 Protocols for Synchronization of Estrus and Ovulation (Complete herd must be enrolled at the Page 8 ARPA Endowment Fund Silent Auction Donors and Buyers beginning of the year) Page 10 Using Estrous Synchronization and Artificial Insemination to Increase Transfers - all registration types Profitability in Your Beef Herd Within one month of date of sale $15 Page 12 14th World Congress: Australia 2014 One to three month from date of sale $18 Page 13 Dr. Chris Raines Heifer Trophy Presentation Over three months from date of sale $25 Page 15 A Myostatin Variant in Red Poll Cattle and Its Commercial Potential Page 19 2012 National Red Poll Show Results ARPA Page 22 Notes from the Red Poll Queen Committee Chairmen Page 23 Red Poll Junior Association Update Performance Finance Page 28 Index of Advertisers Wayne Fish John Rager The endeavor and article (pages 15-18) does not reflect the views and opinions of the American Red Poll Association, some members of the ARPA Board of Directors, ARPA Staff or the Red Poll Beef Journal Editorial staff, nor do they imply endorsement of the techniques and philos- ophy by the article’s authors. 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Some people in our as- Officers sociation have started to calve and some are still President — Gail Spegal a few months out. This year, I think, has been a Vice-President — Joe Jackson huge challenge for a lot of cattle producers with Secretary-Treasurer — Gordon E.