Welcome to our 19th Annual Sale.

It’s been a fantastic year with good crops and improving cattle prices. We have had a few more additions to the family. We welcomed our second baby boy, Jake William Laird, in July and Rowen is loving being a big brother. Also Justine and Mat had a baby boy, Tate Mathew Knull, on January 19, 2023 whom Frankie and Wren are enjoying very much. Darian and Austin have their two girls, Eiza and Elsie, down in Arrowwood and Darian is enjoying adding a few Highland cattle to her Simmental herd.

This year we have a selection of calving ease bulls from our Gilbert and Director’s Cut series as well as some polled and traditional horned fleckvieh bulls sired by our homozygous polled Keet’s Furtive herd sire. There are a couple of neat AI calves on offer and we have new genetics coming from our Wolfe Fitzroy bull who is proving to be a calving ease sire as well as to have all that thick muscle. We’ve also added Wolfes Hank to our herd and he has given us a good handful of wicked power bulls!

In our purebred program there are a good variety of homozygous polled red and black sons. A few calving ease sons from our 90 Proof heifer bull as well as power and growth bulls from Everest. We also have many of the LFE RS Lewis sons available and find that he calves great on cows without giving up any muscle. Our homegrown Gibraltar bull sired by the LFE Amber Jack bull has a few bulls in the sale and he also calves fantastic and produces many dark red calves. Major League is the new addition to our red program and although we only have one bull from him this year, he has quite a few heifers on offer. We strive to produce bulls to fit a variety of programs and all are semen tested and guaranteed.

Our replacement heifer calves are heifers that represent our herd and breeding program as a whole. All the calves at the sale are vaccinated as newborn calves with Nasalgen, an intranasal vaccine, and then boostered in spring with Pyramid + presponse and Vision 8 with somnus. They are boostered again in fall with Presponse HM, Express 5, Vision 8 with somnugen, and dewormed with Bovimectin and Clean Up II. We select our sale calves from our herd of 350 registered cows focusing on soundness, temperament, udder structure, and longevity as well as calving ease. To us it’s more important to have an unassisted calf than an assisted one with a low birthweight. No one has the time to be pulling calves in this busy day and age. Every one of our calves is weighed on a digital scale within 24 hours of birth.

We will once again be having a Farm Gate Timed Auction sale this year. The bulls will be available to view on farm at any time and will be in pens for the buyers convenience starting Wednesday, March 8th. Feel free to stop by whenever or check out the bulls online. Snacks and coffee will be provided daily! Videos will be posted of each bull on our website at www.swantewittsimmentals.ca.

The sale will be hosted by DLMS.