We went up to the Mussard Bull Sale today, sale was a little bit down from last year but still went pretty well. We sold a VDAR Sleep Easy 515 son to Tri Mountain Angus for $4,750, a N Bar Emulation EXT son for $3,750 and also a VDAR New Trend 315 for $3,000. In all we averaged around $3,000 on our 8 bulls. High selling bull was a VDAR Rito 953 consigned by the Fishhook for $9,000 to GDAR and Horse Butte Angus.

We are almost done hauling barley, I am truly looking forward to that day. In the next week or so there will be alot of Angus sales in our part of Montana, Leachman Angus has their sale on Thursday and Nelson Wert (North Fork) has his sale on Friday.

We will finally be test pumping the well tomorrow. An outfit out of Idaho came in today and set up the pump so hopefully we will have good news. 

We will be flushing eight heifers on Monday, I finished breeding them yesterday. They all had perfect heats so I have high hopes. The Leachmans have their sale tomorrow so hopefully I will make it over there.

We test pumped the irrigation well the other day and it did not go so well. We found out that the perferations that were put in did not go all the way through so they had to do it over again. Tommorrow we will put the test pump down again and hopefully have better news this time. South Montana Angus sale is this week Saturday in Butte, Montana. They have some outstanding bull consigned so hopefully the sale will go ok.

Weather has warmed up quite a bit. Highs in the 50'sº F ( 10º C) and lows in the the 30'sº F ( 0º C). If we could happen to get a couple more days of warm weather maybe we could get some of the mud starting to dry up. Calves seem to be handling all of the mud quite well, haven't had very many sick ones yet.

Went over to the South Montana sale in Butte on Saturday. It went very well, with the sale average up quite a bit from last year. We would like to thank Sam Carter of Indiana on his purchase of embryos out several different donors.

They weighed the bulls of test at Midland the other day, our bulls did very well. Lot 113 is a VDAR Ambush 1465 SAF out of VDAR Elluna 3155, he finished up weighing 1,350 lbs ( 612 Kg). with a average daily gain of 3.61 (1.64 Kg/day), a 112 gain ratio and 1,270 lbs( 576 Kg). 365 day weight. Lot 115 is a VDAR Vision 243 out of VDAR Beauty 806, he finished up weighing 1,500 lbs ( 680.3 Kg). with a average daily gain of 3.55 (1.61 Kg/day), a 110 gain ratio and a 1,253 ( 568.3 Kg) yearling weight. We also had 2 other bulls their that were very much above average so all in all things look very good.

We would like to that Dave Felumlee of Ohio on his purchase of a select group of embryos out of VDAR Beauty 4189, VDAR Beauty 5154, VDAR Elluna 97, VDAR Evergreen 5026 and GDAR Eilenemere Lady 6102. We  would also like to thank Wayne Knight of Alabama on his purchase of another group of embryos as well.