Welcome to our 21st Annual Bull and Heifer Sale!

We’ve had another great year here on the farm. Cattle prices are at an all- time
high and even though feed was a bit tight this summer, we did manage to squeak by with enough. It’s a good time to be in the cattle industry. Randy and I also welcomed a baby girl to our mix on October 10, Kahlan Kristine Laird. She is very loved by her two older brothers.

We will once again be working with the Transcon Team for our sale. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of their sales representatives for any info or questions, or directly to Gerd or I.

Our bull program focuses on the quality and longevity of each individual bull. We do not creepfeed on pasture and allow the bulls to grow at a slower rate to avoid burnout in the future. We really value the number of repeat customers we have and love hearing about the longevity of our bulls. We select our sale bulls and heifers from our herd of 380 registered cows focusing on soundness, temperament, udder structure, and longevity as well as calving ease. Our replacement heifer calves are heifers that represent our herd and breeding program as a whole. We strive to aim for an unassisted calf with good vigor that hops up and nurses quickly and a trouble free cow. Every one of our calves is weighed on a digital scale within 24 hours of birth.

In the past we have always sold two year olds bulls in our sale. However due to the increased costs and management involved with keeping these bulls an extra year, we have made the decision to dissolve our two year old program. This year will be the final year we offer these extended age bulls in the sale. Going forward we will have yearlings only. Our two year olds have always been bulls held after a specific birthdate. They are not the weaker ones by any means but rather just the younger ones.

This year we have a wide selection of Full Fleckvieh bulls available from a few of our tried and true herd sires as well as a few new ones. There are some polled bulls and quite a few calving ease ones too. In our purebred program there are a good variety of homozygous polled red and black sons. We have calving ease sons as well as power and growth bulls. We also have a neat cross
between some of our purebred cows with our full fleck bull, Keato Pld Director’s Cut as well as his half fleck son, the Jackpot 336J bull. We strive to produce bulls to fit a variety of programs and all are semen tested, guaranteed, and affordable!

Once again our sale will be a live video auction on the farm. The bulls will be available to view on farm at any time and will be in pens for the buyers convenience on Tuesday and Wednesday. Feel free to stop by whenever or check out the bulls online. Snacks and coffee will be provided daily with lunch on sale day. Videos will be posted of each lot on our website at www.swantewittsimmentals.ca and can be found online on Transcon and the DLMS websites.

The cattle are on a complete health program provided by the Edson Veterinary Clinic. All calves receive Nasalgen, an intranasal vaccine, as newborn calves and are 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 hope to see you there!