Medicine River 10U - Sold!
Medicine River 15U - Sold!
Galena Creek 48U - Sold!
Lochend 17U - Sold!
Lochend 34U - Sold!
Greywood 2U - Sold!
Medicine River 31U - Sold!
Lochend Achayella 34P - Semen available
Luing cattle for sale
Rising Two Year Old Bulls
(A few pictured left - please come visit and see them all)
Proven efficient foragers, reared in our central bull rearing/testing program outlined below. Where else can you buy bulls from people running their purebreds tougher than you run commercial cows?
Please enquire today as they are sold on a first come, first served basis. We will be happy to keep the bulls here until spring.
Luing Females for Sale
Lochend Luing Ranch - A selection of the 2009 purebred Luing heifers are offered for sale. Sold on a first come - first served basis. Donīt delay, call today!
Contact Dr. Bob Church (403) 208-3747.
Galena Creek Ranch - Four select 2009 purebred Luing heifers are offered for sale. They are located at Medicine River Luings, Rimbey but please contact Paul Galbraith at (250)346 3100 for further details.
Luing Semen for Sale
The Association is offering semen from Lochend Achayella 34P(pictured page bottom) With a 75lb birthweight this deep, well-fleshed, docile bull would be ideal for use on both cows and heifers producing calves with vigor, strong growth characteristics and excellent carcass traits. His daughters make top quality replacements and the steers fatten and marble well either on grass or in the feedlot.
Introductory offer $150 for 10 straws. Regular price $20/straw F.O.B Calgary. Please contact the Secretary for further information.
Central bull rearing station
Since the fall of 2007 we have operated a central bull rearing/testing program on our farm. Currently all the Canadian Luing breeders retaining bulls are sending us weaned calves to be reared in a comparative group on an all-forage system. Having the bulls at a central location allows customers the convenience of viewing and comparing all the available Luing bulls knowing that they have been reared under identical conditions.
Being a numerically smaller breed this offers a unique opportunity for members to co-operate for the constructive development of our breed rather than competing with each other to produce the heaviest yearling weights by being the most skillful feeder. Rearing all the bulls together ensures that we are comparing apples to apples - there are no favorites and no show cattle - they are all reared commercially and if they are not good enough they get banded and enter our grass-fed beef program.
We aim to develop bulls to sell at 20-24 months of age although the occasional larger bull may be sold as a yearling to meet customer requirements. The bulls are reared on an all-forage diet using hay/silage in winter and our intensively managed tame pastures in summer. We are growing the bulls out slowly for two reasons - to maximize longevity and to identify those that perform best under a foraging system. Most ranchers maintain their cowherds on forage so logically the bulls that will breed the type of replacements they want should also be proven under a foraging system rather than the grain-based feedlot program most bulls enjoy. We weigh and condition score the cattle periodically and are building up a data bank of information that will help guide our future breeding and selection decisions.
