TS Cattle For Sale

SELLING 3,000+ WEANED CALVES
November 29,2005
WESTERN VIDEO MARKET

The TS Ranch is offering a super set of weaned calves again this year.

On the TS Ranch, we specialize in producing and marketing healthy, high quality weaned calves with lots of performance and carcass quality.

Our cows calve outside, unassisted, in big pastures where they are free of sickness and disease. They begin calving around March 1st . Most calve during the first forty-five days of the breeding season. The cows in our Brahman Cross Program calve one heat cycle behind the rest of the cowherd. This allows us to get them moved a longer distance to their summer country, without dropping calves on the way. Our First Calf Heifers begin calving around February 15th, and are calved in close, where they can be more easily monitored.

The TS Ranch Weaning and Warm-Up Program is designed to develop healthy, vigorous, problem free calves, with good appetites. We follow BQA guidelines and use only high quality name brand pharmaceutical products . All TS calves offered are "Born and Raised in the U.S.A." qualified.

At spring branding, we vaccinate our calves for Blackleg with Vision 7 w/ SPUR and for IBR, BVD (Type 1 & 2 ) PI3 & BRSV with Bovi-Shield Gold 5 (Modified Live).

At weaning, they receive a Vision 7 w/ SPUR and Bovi-Shield Gold 5 booster vaccination. We also give them a shot of Vitamin A & D and treat them for parasites with Ivermax pour-on. All of our heifer calves are Bangs vaccinated before they are nine months old. This year, to promote growth and muscle development rather than fat, we have implanted our steer calves with Ralgro at weaning rather than at branding. The buyer may easily stack his own implant progrm onto this initial treatment to further promote this growing-out process.

After our calves have been weaned, weighed and processed, we place them on a growing ration consisting of 50% alfalfa, 20% Soy Hulls, 20% corn and 10% molasses. As the calves begin to flesh up, the percentage of corn is reduced and the alfalfa is increased, to prevent them from becoming too fleshy.

When the calves are settled in and eating well, we sort them into contemporary groups for sex, size and class. They are weighed again and resorted into load lots for a projected December 15th delivery.

By the time the calves have completed the TS Weaning & Warm-Up Program (Bovine Boot Camp) they will have been processed, sorted & resorted, weighed & reweighed, and again sorted and weighed. They will be used to being handled on foot and horseback. They’ll be easy to cut out and move freely and quietly, without fear and undue stress. They will have been weaned between 60 to 70 days by shipping time, be in excellent health, bunk broke and have vigorous appetites. The heavier calves can go into a feedlot without missing a beat. The lighter calves can make a stress free transition go back to grass or wheat pasture.

For more up to date information on these quality calves, you can call ranch manager Dan Gralian at (775) 778-1295. For more information on Western Video Market, call (530) 347-3793 or check out their web site.

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