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Guts, Butts & Nuts Report

2006 Featuring Smith Simmentals, Rick & Sandra Smith of Olds, Alberta
2007 Featuring Spring Lake Simmentals, Doug Zimmer of Daysland, Alberta
2008 Featuring Vikse Family Farm of Donalda, Alberta


The “Guts, Butts & Nuts Report” is a report on the bull sale season.  In the pages of each report, we outline the performance statistics on nearly 1200 bulls from over 65 anonymous ranches.

This report ranks ranch performance in 4 main categories: Adjusted Average 205 day weight, Adjusted Average 365 day weight, 205 – 365 Adjusted weight average daily gain, and Scrotal Circumference.  The data displayed in report pages comes from the respective ranches sale day catalogues.  This data is only retrieved from bulls sold in the spring of 2008, on bulls born in the spring of 2007.  This data is as accurate as the catalogues it was retrieved from.  Any bulls in the sale which did not meet the birth date criteria were omitted from this report.  In this report, all the names of the producers have been left out; we are not concerned with their reputations, only their performance data.  The data shown in this report in no way is statistically significant, it merely represents the random data gathered from a number of bull sales this spring.

In this report, you will also see information on feeding programs for some of the anonymous ranches.  The data displayed on these pages only gives an approximate time of when each ranch started feeding.  This section is not meant to show how much to feed or when to feed certain products, it merely acts as a reference to gauge the performance statistics against.

There is also a section devoted to explaining some of the feeds listed in this report.  This information is provided to help better understand why rations listed have shown such strong results, as well as explain more about practical feeding guidelines and ruminant nutrition.

 

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