48. Drive through the cattle on pasture with us at Christensen Genetics in June of 2026

What cattle are out on pasture at Christensen Genetics in summer of 2026?

Drive with us out through the animals to see:
How a quality start to your herd can multiply over time
An easy calving, high gaining Angus cow carrying an AI sired heifer calf
An AWA registered Rueshaw and Kaedemaru granddaughter 
A breeding age bull with unique pedigree, calving ease, growth, and longevity
A docile, fast gaining, heavy muscled, high marbling polled Akaushi bull calf
A Commerce x Ripper bull calf from a granddam that weaned 13 calves at 107
An AWA registered Big Al x Rueshaw x Shigemaru x Akiko steer
An IVF aspiration on the closest living descendant of Hitomi in the AWA database
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Transcript

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Welcome to the Got Any Cows Podcast. If you want to learn all you can about the beef cattle industry, it is the podcast for you. My name is Beth Christopher. My company has sent beef cattle genetics to 45 of the 50 states and 12 countries around the world. I've had the chance to learn from some of the best and brightest in the beef cattle industry, and I invite you to join me for those conversations here on the Got Any Cows Podcast. Welcome to another episode of the Got Any Cows Podcast. Appreciate you guys being here with us. We're recording this on June 3rd. So rather than be like the last couple auction episode or auction podcast episodes where we've had all the cattle right here handy and these pens right behind me. Today, this time of year, pretty well everything is out on pasture. So we rotational graze all over Cache Valley here. So Cache Valley straddles the Idaho-Utah border. So we're in extreme southern Idaho here. And so we've got cattle in a series of different locations down into Cove, Beneida, Dayton, Weston. And in each of those locations, we've got some of these different animals that we're gonna sell as well. So today we tried something a little different. Jacob was was uh good to humor me and go around with me as we went into these different pastures and and did our best to get some video of these animals that are selling um to help you see and understand what those animals are. And you know, it's been neat, it's been fun, it's been different doing these auction overview podcasts with the cattle. Um, I mean it presents some additional challenges to get the animals in versus just have just me talk to cattle or have another guest on to talk cattle with. Um, but it has been really fun to be able to show those cattle and showcase those cattle and let you see what they are and hopefully talk you through why it is that they might be appealing to you to buy, and or just just what the value is to those cattle, whether or not you're buying. I hope we're able to provide value in this podcast. And you know, it's fun, it's interesting even just talking with Jacob about all the different things um that we've done with this podcast, and it's interesting, you know. I mean, the podcast has evolved from just having guests on, which was fun, which was good, which is neat. Well, I should say, you know, truthfully, even in the beginning, it was kind of just all of us who who work here at Christensen Genetics on the podcast. Then we started having guests on the podcast, then we started having auction overview podcasts to kind of give you a deep dive on on what's in our auctions, which should hopefully give you a deep dive on Akiushi in general and or Angus genetics in general. And then now having the the cattle in the podcast to be able to show you the animals that we offer in these monthly auctions, and now showing you the cattle on pasture that are that are in these auction overview podcasts. And it's been fun kind of to see how that develops. Now it's not a traditional marketing approach, you know. I mean, historically, if you're looking at how cattle are marketed, way back in the day it'd be once annually a live in-person production sale, and that's it. And then that's maybe evolved to have maybe an online component of a live production sale, and then you get to where there's there's printed and mailed catalogs that have pictures of the cattle and write-ups on the cattle, and then you get to where there's there's some uh live sales that that have and or online sales that have just videos of the cattle online, just a quick snippet of the cattle, but there's no uh you you'd have to look at I guess the the write-up or the footnotes or the description to get a feel for what those cattle are or why you should care. Um I mean I've even seen things like the the judge source, you know, they've they've done uh they've done audio footnotes, which has been kind of a neat option or a neat hybrid between the two. Um, and I always appreciate and and enjoy seeing um innovation, you know, people trying different approaches to hey, how do we represent these cattle or how do we show what these cattle are or and you know, um so with that audio footnote approach, it was a kind of a hybrid between a print option, and then if you QR over to uh uh an audio footnote of the owners walking through at the cattle are, and this is a neat and unique and different way to present the cattle to say, hey, the podcast is here to educate people, period. I mean that that's the goal of each and every one of these podcasts. I want to provide education, I want to provide value. You're taking your time to be here, to watch andor listen, and and again would invite you to watch, you know, whether that's at godanycows.com, on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, um, any any of those different platforms where you can watch a video um of these animals andor just of the guests we have on. But um I appreciate you guys taking the time to engage in this podcast and I want to provide as much value as we can. And I feel like between toggling, between you know, expert guests, people that can provide some real perspective on everything from you know new breeders to established breeders to to feed to breeding to embryo transfer, IVF, marketing, finance, all these different pieces, um, hopefully providing value to you there. And then as we do these auction overview podcasts, hopefully providing value, whether you're looking to currently buy and actively buy in in this month's auction, in the June auction, or in a future auction, or whether you're just looking to further educate yourself on what you would want and and why, you know, within cattle at large, we deal with a lot of new breeders, um, and or within Akeyushi in specific. If you're looking to get into to wagy you quality beef while still maintaining excellent quality cows, which is what the Akeyushi do. But I have enjoyed being able to, I guess, present these cattle in this way and being able to show you what they are and and walk you through in as immersive uh a format as we can with both audio and visual components. And you know, it's not gonna be perfect. I mean, you know, we we did all of what we could out on pasture, and and some animals are gonna cooperate better than others, some of our shots are gonna be better than others, um, you know, but all of the animals, you know, just give you as as good a chance as we can to see them to walk you through why you may or may not be interested in buying them, um, what what you'd kind of be looking at on those. So um that's where we went and filmed this particular podcast episode is is out on pasture. We went into the cattle, we looked at the cattle, we talked to the cattle, we went to multiple locations, multiple pastures. Um, you know, it it's an imperfect, it's an imperfect system as as anything is, but you know, a unique and fun and different approach to give you a chance to see these cattle out on pasture, you know. I mean these cattle do work for a living, they go out and graze. Um, you know, you'll notice even, I mean, there's some of them grazing some some pretty steep, pretty rocky type stuff, you know, over on the mountain in Dayton. And uh yeah, it'd be kind of fun to show you guys some of where we're grazing and and and to be able to see these cattle. But um, if you are looking at all in and engaging in any way, shape, or form in this June auction, um, I'd invite you if you haven't already, go to gotanycows.com. So the name of this podcast, gotanycows.com, and subscribe. If you do that, you'll get an email when this auction opens. And in that email, there'll be a link that'll take you over to the auction platform. So smart auctions hosts our auctions. Um, cgaution.givesmart.com is the direct link. If you ever want to go and see it currently, that would take you to our past sale, our May sale. If you went to cgoction.givsmart.com. Um, by the time this publishes, uh on the 11th, you know, it's quite likely that'll take you to the June auction. But that same platform, Smart Auctions, that's the auction catalog, that's the auction bidding platform. It is open for bidding from the moment uh it's live, and so you can bid on those cattle at any time. And I would invite you to bid early because the the best price you're ever gonna get on any of those animals is the price they're at the day they open, and or as close to opening as possible. So I'd invite you to snag an early bid, get the better price, because yeah, I understand the thought process of oh yeah, you know, I'll wait and then it's probably gonna get a lot higher later. So why bid early? But sometimes it doesn't get that much higher later. You know, I mean, there's definitively cases where an early bid takes the thing home, you know, and if you want to get the very best price, you want to get the earliest bid. Because if no one else enters a higher bid, you own it. And if someone else does own a higher bid, now you'll get a text message from smart auctions anytime you're out bid on a given lot. And so now instead of having to worry about remembering when the thing's gonna close, or did I or did I not get on, or which lots was I interested in, go through as soon as so subscribe at gotanycals.com, get the email, go to the cgauction.givsmart.com, see that catalog, place your bids as early as possible on all the lots that interest you, and then you're you've got the best price, and you'll get texted anytime you're out bid, which keeps you engaged throughout that bidding process. Then you don't worry about you know, last minute, right at close, without fail, every auction, every time. There's always someone that tells me, Oh, you know, I was busy that day at that time, or I forgot, or I had something come up, or I wasn't able to be at the computer, or my connection lagged, or I didn't refresh at close and I thought I want it, but I didn't. Um, you're a lot better off to just bid, bid often, bid early. Don't wait right till the last minute. This auction is scheduled. Um, it'll close. Each of our auctions is scheduled for the last Wednesday of the month. So this month, that is June 24th. It'll be at 6 p.m. Mountain, so 5 p.m. Pacific, 7 Central, 8 Eastern, um, is when this auction is going to close. And I'd invite you to make sure you have that on your calendar and be there when the auction closes so that you have a chance, you know, if you are out bid on any of these lots that interest you, to be there to compete for those bids. Understand that this is a horse race style finish. So at close, um, every time there is a bid placed on any lot in the auction in the final five minutes, the entire auction will reset to five minutes. There'll be five more minutes of bidding available, five more minutes of bidding. So once there's a full five minutes that pass with no more bids, the auction will close. So the auction starts closing at 6 p.m. If there were no bids at all, it would close right at 6 p.m. Most of the time, it's gonna go until 7 or 8 p.m., just depending on how much active bidding there is or isn't, that keeps that sale open as people continue to bid right there at close. Um, but I'd invite you to get get an early bid in, be there a bit early, bit bit actively, you know, and and I would, I'd invite you to to make sure you get there, you know, uh and and and get these cattle bought. I mean, especially on the females and things like that. It is to your benefit to buy these cattle early, in the sense of as soon as you own that animal, it has the chance to start multiplying for you. One cow can become two, can become four, can become eight. I mean, truthfully, there is an exponential growth curve there. More aggressive if you're using things, technologies like female sex semen to make it so that you have strictly heifer calves. Um, but even if you have half bull calves and you know, or eat half of them as steers, um, the sooner you get into them, the sooner that herd starts to grow for you. And that's one of the real benefits of getting into these high-quality cattle or spending a little bit of money to get good cattle to start with, instead of just any given animal, is they all take time and effort and money and feed to keep them alive and keep them reproducing. Why spend the time and effort and money and feed to reproduce junk, even if it was cheap when you bought it? The the buying the cattle is the cheap part. It is keeping the animals fed and cared for that that costs time, costs money in perpetuity is an ongoing cost. And that time and feed invested will generate a significant and consistent return on investment if you start up with quality. So we're multiplying quality and every generation thereafter, quality on quality on quality, and just keep making them better. And now you're selling animals at a higher value because you invested in quality to begin with. Whereas if you invest in junk because you say, Well, I bought this thing cheap or I started with cheap, well, great, but you're gonna have a hard way, hard time saving your way out of all of the feed it takes to run these things or all the time or all the management, and so you're gonna be a lot better off to have the quality to begin with than to be stuck marketing junk in perpetuity because you didn't want to spend the money on a little bit of quality up front. So there's my I guess speech on that. Buy quality, start with quality, even if you just start with one or two, start with just a few of them. It doesn't take that long. One becomes two, becomes four, becomes eight, becomes sixteen, thirty-two. I mean, they really do multiply. It feels really slow when when you're first getting started, but they'll multiply quite quickly. And you want to be multiplying quality cattle, not junk. It'll make your life a lot better, you'll make a lot better money at it. Um, so I'll jump into to what we what we have available in this auction is lot one. Um, this lot one offering we actually videoed on our last auction podcast. So, in in the um May auction, we we sold an IVF aspiration on this female. Um, in the June auction, we are gonna sell the female in her entirety. So Jacob's got video of this female that that we'll go ahead and put on here from last time. But the female we're gonna be looking at is an Angus female. Uh, she'd have been the the last, I guess the only Angus female we've we filmed in May, um, right there at the tail end of that that filming session, but or recording session. But that uh that female would be the 9044 cow, the the Faith Rita 9044 female. And and so we'll we'll play that video and I'll I'll kind of talk through her and and what she is and and why you'd want her or where you'd be interested in a female like that. And then uh after that, we'll go through some of these other lots that we've just filmed today out on pasture. Um, and then I can walk you through uh a couple things there towards close. But looking at lot one, that Fei three to 9044, um, that female, like I mentioned, Angus female, so she's gonna be registered Angus, homozygous black, homozygous pulled, um, an elite growth female while maintaining calving ease. So in most cases, um birth weight and weaning weight are correlated. So what that turns into is if you want really, really low birth weights for really, really easy calving, um, you're gonna end up with lower weaning weights in most cases, uh, which is it's positive that you had the low birth weight, but it is negative that you had the low weaning weight. Positive for a low birth weight because they're born easy, negative for the low weaning weight because they're worth less because they weigh less if you're selling commercial calves. Um conversely, if we get into high performance high weaning weight cattle, and now there's a lot of pounds of pay weight to sell, which is a positive thing, but because birth weight's a correlated trait, in most cases you're gonna see more birth weight, so i.e., potentially more assisted births, more issues at calving, more problems that way, um, because the two traits are correlated. So the challenge is do I want low birth weight? Well, everyone wants low birth weight and everyone wants high weaning weight, but most of the time it is an either-or proposition. It is not I can have low birth weight and high weaning weight. And the 9044 female, that's what makes her so unique, is she's an exception to that rule in that she is a low birth weight female and a high weaning weight female. And so you're gonna see top 1% of the breed performance, so gainability, growth, weaning weight, yearling weight. Um, her EPDs are in the top 1% of the breed for growth, but then she's still in the top 15% of the breed for calving-yees, and so you're not gonna have to give you're not gonna have to have these, these, this hard calving, these hard calving genetics in order to get the performance. You get both the calving-ies and the growth. Um, and so looking at a female like that, you know, a really solid base. If you're looking at to get into the Angus marketplace, which Angus, I mean, to walk you through real briefly why we still breed both Angus and Akeushi, um, Angus is king when it comes to the commodity landscape in the United States. As far as commercial cattle in the United States, they are Angus or Angus based. They are it is a black cow herd in the United States that's driven by the demand for certified Angus beef, um program way ahead of its time, markets north of a billion pounds of product annually. That demand for certified Angus beef, which requires a black hide to qualify for, so you got to be black Angus or a derivative thereof. You gotta have a black hide to qualify for certified Angus beef. And if if you qualify for that, you know, it's the largest, most established premium program um in the United States, if not in the world. Um, and that demand for that beef trickles back to demand for those feeder calves, trickles back to demand for genetics, for for cows, bulls, things like that. So a female like this, 9044, positions you to be able to do things um like produce bulls, angus bulls, for sale into the commercial marketplace. It's gonna be very, very marketable because they're easy calving and fast growing. And the beauty of a female like this is that she is confirmed pregnant with a heifer calf and she comes with free delivery anywhere in the continental United States included. So if I'm sitting looking at lot one, I know that I'm gonna get not one female but two for this purchase price. I'm not gonna have to figure out how to get her from Idaho to home because the shipping's included. And the heifer calf, even better, is sired by Keneally Commerce. Um, commerce would be one of my all-time favorite bowls, massive barrel on the bowl, ton of spring of rib, super mellow mannered, put up some really impressive growth ratios and really impressive carcass ratios against really tough competition in the Keneally herd in Nebraska. Um, he's done us a wonderful job here. Been very, very happy with him. We've been using him consistently since 2022. Um, I see no reason to stop. We continue to plug in more and more commerce. Um, the bull's just been excellent. Uh, this 9044 female that is lot one is confirmed pregnant with a heifer calf sired by commerce, so you're gonna get not one but two females, both of which are bred to calve easy, grow fast, homozygous black, homozygous pulled, they fit excellent. If you're gonna sell calves rather than sell beef or carcasses, that's kind of what keeps you in Angus. If you're looking at saying, hey, I want to either sell calves and or I want to sell genetics to people who sell calves, so a weaned calf off the cow, not going all the way through and selling beef, Angus is the fit, right? Whereas if you're looking to be selling beef yourself andor you're looking to be selling to people who then they sell beef, not selling calves into a further further supply chain, that's where Akeushi fits best. The Akeyushi produces a superior quality carcass. Now, an Angus, Angus beef is still wonderful beef. It is it's a quality product, but it's kind of the baseline in today's in the the American consumer uh environment, you're gonna be looking at Angus more as that's what's expected. Whereas Akeushi Wagyu, you know, are is gonna be above and beyond uh the the baseline, I guess, for for quality for beef eating experience in the United States. So if you're looking for something that's gonna give you easy calving, fast-growing, homozygous black, homozygous pulled cattle that you andor your clients will sell as calves, look at lot one, look at the Angus female, Fei three to 9044. So lot two. So if you're looking for a red wagyu or Akiyushi female, which red wag you and Okiyushi interchangeable terms, um, you're gonna be looking for lot two. This is the loan opportunity to get into a red wagyu or Akiyushi female in this sale. Um, I'm gonna have Jacob show a little bit of video here of the 3464 female. So 3464, her mother, sold in a previous auction. Um, and 3464 would be a direct Rushaw daughter. And then this female is her daughter, is a heifer calf, sired by Star Lord, a Katie Maru son, out of 3464 Rushaw daughter. So, what you're gonna get in a female like this and what makes something like this so unique. Um, so this is a a heifer calf, is is what you'd be receiving if you purchase lot two. The the Fuyuko 5542 female, um, you're gonna be getting a female that is AWA registered, so registered with the American Wagyu Association. That makes it so you can easily double or triple register these calves, um, depending on your preference or your client's preferences with the Akeyushi Association and or Australian Wagyu Association. Um, this female's also got an extremely valuable pedigree. So when we look at some of the very highest demand bulls in the entire red wagyu or Akeushi breed, um, Rushaw is going to be the very most valuable bull there is at 22,000 up to 22,000 for a single straw of semen. He'd be the 1975 Japanese national champion, still very difficult to get a hold of. Um, and that is the sire of the dam of this heifer calf. So she's a granddaughter of 5542 on the bottom side of the pedigree. On the top side of this pedigree, I would say even more exciting than Rushaw. Rushaw being the most valuable bull in the breed, the top side of the pedigree, we have the Katy Maru cow. So this heifer calf in lot two is sired by Star Lord, which makes her a Katy Maru granddaughter. So the Katy Maru cow is is the most valuable cow in the breed, plain and simple. From a pedigree standpoint, she's the most unique cow in the breed. This is the only living daughter of Daitan Mitsumaru. The bull never that bull never left Japan, his semen never left Japan. So she's the most unique pedigreed cow in the breed. She's the most unique mannered cow in the breed. I mean, that is the mellowest cow, plain and simple, I have ever seen in the red wagyu breed. And I would I would be more than willing to, you know, would love to see any and all challengers, I guess, as far as you know, good quality mellow cows in the breed. I know there's good ones out there with other good breeders, but Katie Maroon is so mellow, and that docility is so needed in the red wagyu or aushi breed. So gonna be the most unique pedigreed cow, gonna be the most unique mannered cow. Um, if you look at this cow, just the sheer muscle, the mass, the power. Um, that this cow is incredible to look at in in person, in the flesh. Um, but looking at that, that Katie Maru cow, um, also gonna be our number one cow, the the highest marbling Akiushi female we have ever scanned on actual carcass ultrasound. So you're getting all the pedigree diversity, um, better manners, better looks, and better marbling. Anyway, most valuable cow in the in the the red wag you were Akiushi breed. And looking at that Katy Maroon female, um, and what you get in a lot too is you're stacking together both Katy Maru and Rushaw as the the Grand Dam on the top side of the pedigree and the grand sire on the bottom side of the pedigree. So, very, very valuable pedigree. This Africa, she comes with free delivery anywhere in the continental United States included. That's lot two, the Fuyuko 5542 female. Um, jump into lot three. Uh, lot three is gonna be the rhubarb 4442 M bowl. Um, this bull, this bull uh has gone down and and has done a lease for for Travis Jones there in Texas. Appreciate Travis and his purchase of that lease. Um, now that Travis is is done with with the bowl, um, we are gonna go ahead and sell the 4442 bowl. Um, this bull is one of them that's you know really unique from a performance standpoint. Um, and I apologize not to be able to show you a video of him where he is down in Texas right now. Um, but nice bull. You're you know, I'm sure Travis will be more than willing to give you his thoughts on the bowl, his insight on the bowl. You know, you'd be more than welcome to reach out to him. Travis has been on the the podcast before, also does um free advice Fridays on uh on Facebook. Appreciate him and his insights there. But um looking at the actual performance on this calf, um 74 pound birth weight, 660-pound weaning weight, and that's on nothing but hay and mama's milk. Um, so really I mean, this is a bowl I'd comfortably use on heifers. This is a bowl with enough gainability to comfortably use on cows, and then pedigree wise, you know, rhubarb over tamamaru over big owl over himawari, so so really unique pedigree. Uh, really liked the rhubarb bowl when I saw him in person there at Heartbrand, and he's a Rushaw son, so I add that value as well. And then when you look at the dam, the tamamaroo by big owl by himawari, um a sister to this bull um produced our guapisimo bull, um, which would be our record heaviest weaning calf uh to date. So, anyway, plenty of performance as we look at at this pedigree, calving ease as we look at this pedigree. Um, gonna be just a unique, unique deal there. And his mother as well continues in production at 14 years of age. So if you were looking at this lot, we're looking at lot three right now, which would be the rhubarb 4442 M bowl. If you need to breed cows right away, this is the bowl you want. If you need something that's got plenty of performance in the pedigree, this is the bull you want. If you need something that has got um longevity in the pedigree, this is the bull you want. Um this is this is a unique, unique individual. But if you're looking for an 18-month-old uh bull, a bull that's ready to breed right now, um, lot three is your guy. This is this is the one shot you've got at a bull that is ready to breed right now. Um, 4442M going to be a really, really high quality bull. You'd be welcome to reach out to to Travis there uh if you wanted any further insights on him in the flesh. Um, I'll take you through these these following lots that are gonna be primarily Akaushi lots um that we just filmed just now with Jacob. Went out and went through all of those cattle and and got a good look at all of them. We're looking at lot four. This is gonna be the 5606 bull. Um, and love, love, love the fact that this bull is cooperating so well. If you can have an individual sit here and be this quiet, be this mellow, be this easy to handle in this setting, this is literally the worst setting in the world to make a bull go off. He's split by himself. We've got four of us individuals right here monkeying with him. There's really not a whole lot of anything stopping him from going anywhere, other than this is a good-natured bull. Uh, docility, improving docility is hugely important to me and something that I definitely want to continue to improve on. I am sure that Aaron and Billy here with me will not complain if I continue to make them mellower, make them a little bit easier to handle, make more of them like this, and less of them that are problem children that cause issues or cause problems. You know, docility is number one in our selection criteria because people are way more valuable than cows, plain and simple. I don't care how cool the cow is, if it's gonna wipe me, my kids, or my friends out, we're getting rid of it. It's out. We've got to continue to improve docility, continue to make these cattle better to handle. And this bull is an awesome example of that. A bull like this is gonna treat you right from an attitude standpoint, a bull like this is gonna treat you right from a pulled standpoint. So again, we talk about making life easier. You know, when it comes to pulled genetics, if you breed horns into your cattle, which the average Awkeyushi is a horned animal, and frankly, the average Akeushi is gonna have some attitude issues. And if we can remove both of those things with a bull like this, we say, hey, they are gonna mellow out, they're gonna be easier to handle, you can hold them by themselves right in the corner of a temp fence. We're not blowing fences, we're not running around, we're not chasing people like this bull is easy to handle. And when it comes time to de-horn, instead of having to do all the time, effort, energy to go and dehorn those cattle, which is painful for the animal, reduces their performance, opens them up to infection. Takes a lot, you know, takes man hours to get that done. I mean, I can tell you for sure, if I ask Aaron here, hey Aaron, do you prefer pulled calves or horned calves at weaning time? What do you think? Pulled calves 100%. Pulled calves a hundred percent. I mean, it's a landslide. There's no question that it is more fun to run an animal through the chute that doesn't need the horns cut and burned than one that does need the horns cut and burned. And a bull calf like this is just so neat in the sense that we say, hey, we're getting all the good of the Akaushi. So we're getting all of that marbling that we love, we're getting that that added look and growth relative to the black wagyu, and we're not getting the the docility issues from Angus. So yeah, looking looking at a calf like this, if we say, hey, we're gonna get the docility, which is so important, we're gonna get the fertility. You know, I mean this this bull, this bull was one of a dozen embryos that all came out in the same flush out of the Pold Queen 88 donor. 12 of those are 11 of those 12 stuck. So I mean, all but one of them stuck. Incredibly, incredibly fertile embryos. Um, this bull calf was born below average for birth weight. So this is a bull that I'd be comfortable using on heifers. Um, so a below average birth weight, so the calving ease is there. So you've got that use on this bull. Um, the growth is there. I mean, these these guapo calves are thick, stout, impressive to look at, really just just enjoyable cattle to be around. And and um, and then we've got the pole gene in play, so we're not going to be dealing with with those horns. The marbling is there. You know, this this bull's granddam is one of our all-time best for marbling. Um, his granddam is our 919 female that's done 300,000 indirect progeny sales. She'd be a straight foundation bred cow, being a big owl over Hikari over Shigamru over Ume. Um, so this bull's got it going on. I mean, end to end, a calf like this, especially if you can get a good deal on him and and then get him delivered free of charge anywhere in the continental United States, included in the bid price. I mean, gosh, what a what a calf to tie into in this 5606 calf here. Um, I can't think of any reasons you wouldn't want to. You know, this bull is going to bring together the guapo bull, who has been extremely popular, um pulled bull for us and has produced a really nice set of calves, including this bull. And then his mother to be our polled queen 88. We can go ahead and throw a picture of the polled queen 88 into the video right about here, just to show who that female is and show how she looks. Really impressive, really good looking female, um, who is in turn back by that 919 cow who we know produces marbling. I'll have you throw in a quick image right here, Jacob, of of uh some stakes that that we just uh just harvested, just produced that are gonna be full siblings to the Atreides and uh Spectrum studs. So they would it would be stakes that are from a son of 919. So those stakes would be from a sibling to the dam of this bull. And if you take a look, if we can get all those things together, we get the docility, we get the pull gene, we get the muscle, we get the look, we get the carcass, you get the free delivery on a young bull calf that you can deliver how or develop how you want. Um, gosh, there's just a lot of reasons to tie into this bowl. This is gonna be the 5606 calf lot four in the June 2026 auction here at Christensen Genetics. All right, so the bowl we're looking at right now, this is gonna be the 5550 bull. So this is CGX Commerce 5550. Um this bull is gonna stack three of my all-time favorite individuals in Commerce over Ripper over 768, the DDA Jenna 768 female. Looking at this 5550 bull um and those three individuals he stacks in commerce over ripper over 768, really, really a unique pedigree here. This is a bull calf you could realistically get a pretty darn good buy on. He does come with free delivery anywhere in the continental United States included. But looking at a calf like that, commerce is the sire, and commerce is gonna be a thick, big-barreled, easy-mannered kind of a bull. Saw him in person in Tiffin, Ohio in fall of 2022. Commerce, the sire of this bull calf, smoked his contemporaries there at Keneely's, which is a big contemporary group. So I mean this bull is going up against 300 head of bulls and turning in big time ratios. Um, you know, weaning weight ratio 125, so 25% heavier than the average calf there. Uh 185 on IMF, so 85% higher than the average calf there for marbling. Um, and then just a huge barreled bull, super mannered, great to look at. So commerce is one of my all-time favorites. And look at this calf. I mean, you look at him right now, look at the way that calf centers up, squares up for us, and has given us that look there. The black calf is the one we're looking at here, the 5550. I mean, big, thick, stout, impressive, heavy muscled kind of an individual, sired by commerce, who's one of my all-time favorites, and then his grandsire, so the sire of his dam is gonna be the Ripper Bull. Now, Ripper's a Canadian bred bull, Reich Ripper 37B, and Ripper. I mean, just as impressive a bull on the hoof as I have ever seen in my life. I mean, incredible amount of muscle in the bull, incredible amount of top in the bull, and then just athletic as a cat. I mean, smooth, easy moving kind of an individual. Uh stayed in live cover service till he was nine, impressive longevity there. Um, so you're stacking together two really impressive bulls, and this bull's sire and grandsire. Commerce and ripper would be two of my favorites. Um, and then his granddam, his granddam is going to be the DDA Jenna 768 female. So Jenna 768 weaned 13 calves at a 107 weaning weight ratio, uh calved in the same 30-day window every year, in and out. So, I mean, we're looking at a female that lasted a long, long time, a highly fertile female, a female that's getting all of the getting those calves weaned at an impressive figure. So a 107 weaning weight ratio, meaning her average calf was 7% heavier than the average calf in that group. So not only did she stay in production for an extended period of time, not only did she wean an impressive number of calves, but she weaned them at an impressive level. I mean, 13 at 107 is almost unheard of. There's an awful lot of cows that are going to wash out seven years old, eight years old, ten years old, to have made it into production as long as she did to be in her teens. And then I mean, you can look at a picture of this cow, maybe we'll even throw a picture of this cow into the video here real quick. But the DDA Gen Gen a 768, still super level topped, bold sprung, perfect footed, perfect uddered as a teenage cow. And to have done to look like that after producing like that, just an incredibly unique, unique individual. So the buyer of this bull calf, realistically, you're gonna get a good buy. Realistically, you're gonna get free delivery anywhere in the continental US. Realistically, you're gonna have thickness, stoutness, muscle, and you're gonna have a really, really, really impressive, long-lasting kind of a cow to anchor that pedigree out. So the steer we're looking at here is the 4466 steer. So this is gonna be a full blood big owl son. Um 4466, you know, this is an opportunity to take and uh, you know, feed on an animal, put all that feed, put all that time, put all that effort into an animal that you know is gonna yield a really, really good stake. Um, you know, it's kind of one of those that I look at like if you're gonna put all that time and effort in, you'd just as well be sure that you're gonna get exactly the kind of a result that you want. And looking at this 4466, I mean, this is an impeccable pedigree. This is gonna be a Rushaw or a big owl over Rushaw over Shigamaru over a kiko. Um, so I mean just stellar pedigree. We'll put up an image of a steak here um from a really similarly bred steer. So that the image of this steak is sired by Rushaw Triple X out of a big owl cow. So it's gonna be a Rushaw over shigamaro over a Kiko on the top side and big owl on the bottom. So exact same as this bowl, just inverted, right? So this bowl's big owl on top, Rushaw Shiga Kiko on bottom. Uh the steak image you're looking at is Rushaw Shiga Kiko on top and is big owl on bottom. And so very, very, very similarly bred uh to what that steak is. So I mean, if you're looking at this steer, this this steer is already gonna be over a year old. Um, and so all he's gonna need, I mean, he's already got the age to him, he's just gonna need the feed put into him. He's just sitting out right now on pasture, as you can see, just out here on grass. Um, and so all he's gonna need is some feed put into him. If you want to be sure you're gonna get the the carcass that you need, um, go ahead and tie into a steer like that. Okay, so this is gonna be 4438. This is gonna be an American Wagyu Association registered Big Al son. If you're gonna feed a steer, feed a really good one. This steer is over a year old. Um, all he needs is feed poured to him to take him up over that 1500-pound mark, and you're gonna have an awesome carcass. But look at that steer, you can see the frame he's got there. The frame's there, all that's left to do is fill it. Go ahead and throw a year of feed into this bowl or into this steer, and you're gonna have fantastic, fantastic steaks. Sired by Big Al, American Wagyu Association registered. Um, that is gonna be the 4438 steer. So, this is the 1270 Z cow. We're offering an IVF aspiration on this cow in our auction. This is gonna be the closest living descendant of the original import cow hitomi in the entire American Wagyu Association database. So, with as tiny a gene pool as ever left Japan of these Akeushi cattle, there are only ever 13 females and six males. So, with that small of a gene pool, it is critically important to have as many outcross options as you can, as many different bloodlines available as you can. And this female offers tamamaru over big owl over Himawari, so an incredibly unique pedigree. She's posing right up, perfect shot right there. Look at this female. I mean, this female is gonna be 13 years young right now, still in fantastic flesh, bred back again via AI to female sex team in the guapo, posed right up there for us. Excellent udder, excellent feet, um, just showing off right here in the pasture. What a beautiful shot. I mean, we can see the mountains behind her, we can see the pasture behind her, but most importantly, we can just see that cow is posed perfectly as she sits right there, just showing off for us in the pasture. We're out here filming this on June 3rd, so as we get out into the cattle this time of year, they're not right there at home. So they're a little bit harder to get to, a little bit harder to get a video on, a little bit harder to get a picture on. But wow, what a look at that female there. I mean, just squared up perfect for us. That's an incredible shot, an incredible uh uh angle on that female. Um, again, we're gonna be selling an IVF aspiration on that cow so you can take and mate that cow to your choice of sires. Look at that female stretch out for us, look at her show off. Absolutely fantastic looking for a 13-year-old female and bred again via heifer sexed seminar to the guapo bull. Um we're gonna offer an IVF aspiration in this sale. So the winning bidder on this lot gets the chance to take this cow, take this incredibly unique American Wagyu Association papered Tamamaroo by Big Al by Hitomi Cow and can make this cow to their choice of sire. So you can put whatever bull on the breed you'd like to put over top. Like I mentioned, we went to Guapo Heifer Sex Semen, is what we did for her to make uh pulled heifer calf, is what she's carrying. Um, but the winning better will have the chance to use whatever bowl they want. Uh, it is one flat price for the aspiration, and then you pay for whatever semen you'd prefer, and then you do pay for the the embryo production cost separately, which are going to be 200 an embryo. Uh, those embryos will be made by Windstar Genetics, who uses Transova media and processes. Um, looking at this 1270 female, I mean just an incredibly unique female from a pedigree standpoint, an incredibly incredibly unique female from a longevity standpoint, an incredibly unique female from a paperwork standpoint, uh be an American Wagyu Association registered. She can also be dual registered with the Akeyushi Association and/or triple registered with the Australian Wagyu Association. So this female gives you an outcross pedigree, proven longevity. Um still looks fantastic, still still fertile, still productive. We will guarantee at least three embryos if you use female sexed semen, or at least five embryos if you use conventional semen, with the hope being you'll get at least one heifer calf from this cow. But what a unique opportunity. We've never offered an aspiration on this cow before. Um you can mate her to your choice of sires. CGX Atomi 1270Z is the female we're looking at here. Mark onto your calendars June 24th at 6 p.m. Mountain Time to be there when this auction closes. Um, make sure you subscribe at gotanycals.com so that you get an email at auction open and at auction close. Um, if you need any help at all with anything, please call or text me 208-589-9988. Uh, you're welcome to shoot me a text uh there andor call me there. You can give me an email at Seth at Christian Synergnetics.com. Um, and look forward to having you on the auction. 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