Black Angus – 12 Head – EH08132612

Twelve Black Angus heifers, around 800 pounds at a year and a half old, bred to calving-ease SimAngus bulls and due between March 15 and May 15.

The bull choice is the headline on this group. The biggest risk in buying bred heifers is the first calving, and calving-ease bulls exist to reduce it. They’re selected for lower birth weights so a first-calf heifer can deliver on her own. If you’ve ever spent a February night pulling a calf out of a heifer, you understand exactly what you’re paying for here. This is the difference between a heifer group that works out and one that costs you calves, cows, and sleep.

The SimAngus cross is worth a note too. Simmental-Angus calves out of Angus heifers tend to combine growth and maternal traits, and they market well as feeders.

The calving window runs March 15 to May 15, which is a genuine 60-day spread rather than a tight AI-bred window. For a smaller operation that can be an advantage: your calving work is spread out instead of concentrated into two weeks, which is easier if you’re checking heifers around an off-farm job.

Twelve head suits a family farm, a homestead, or a producer adding a modest replacement group rather than restocking a pasture. Buying twelve heifers out of one matched group beats assembling twelve out of four different sale barn trips.

Health program is 6VL5, Safeguard, Cleanup, and injectable Dectomax. They’ve been on Wind and Rain mineral. These heifers can be worked on foot and will follow a feed truck.