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If you’re not proud, you should be!
Of all the bulls on Record of Performance feed test at Culpeper and at Dublin, there is no consignment any better, and few as good, than any one of those from Rappahannock.
For a bull to weigh 1000 lbs. or more at 365 days of age is much like a man running a mile in less than 4 minutes.
If you read the sports pages, listen to the news on your radio or TV, you have an idea of how many men have made such a record!
Yet every bull Ray Cannon put on test out of his herd sire, “Kingdom Elevate 223”, did better than a thousand pounds at 365 days!!
In eleven years of B.C.I.A. performance testing in Virginia, this is the first time all the get on test of any one sire has made such a record. Two of these bulls are at Culpeper and will sell March 14th. Don’t forget Angus sell first this year. They will start selling promptly at 10 a.m. Ned Johnson has a son of UTBE Eileenmere 534 that weighed 1068 lbs. at 365 days of age. H. L. Manwaring’s Charolais did 1055 lbs. at a year of age.
Now what about the other Rappahannock bulls?
Well, it hasn’t been but just a few years ago that any brute having a 2 pound daily growth rate was considered superior.
Now the Rappahannock bulls, (Alphaeus Cannon is the other consignor not mentioned so far), all have better than a 2.0 lbs weight per day of age. In fact, they range from 2.37 lbs. up to 2.92 lbs. and average 2.66 lbs. Tile average of all of the 110 bulls on test is 2.51 lbs. per day of age.
Growth rate is highly heritable. If you’re going to slay in the beef business, you’ve gotta breed this trait into your herd.
But many will say, "1 can’t afford to pay for such a bull”.
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