11TH ANNUAL RAVENSCROFT RED ANGUS SALE FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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We will have another great group of Red Angus Bulls to offer you at Valentine Livestock Auction on February 24, 2024. 2:00 Central Time in Valentine, NE     ON-LINE BIDDING AT DVAuction

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, February 23 bulls will be on display at Valentine

Livestock.

Saturday February 24 2:00 PM (CST) Red Angus bulls sell first,

immediately after Bowlin Cattle Co Black Angus bulls sell.

Comments by Eric Ravenscroft 

Thank you for taking the time to look at our bull line up. This is our eleventh annual bull sale. The majority of our bulls sold have stayed in the Nebraska Sandhills region. Our first goal was to make bulls that thrive in our own ranch environment. By doing this our bulls have done well in west Texas, the high desert plains of Wyoming and Colorado and in the Dakota’s. The best compliment we receive from our customers is how great our bulls look when they come out of the cows in the fall. We want to develop bulls that are going to get the job done and hold up in any type of environment.

We are the fourth-generation family to be ranching in the Nebraska Sandhills of Cherry County. The family ranch is the Three Bar Ranch. The ranch is a commercial cow/calf and yearling operation that has focused on rotational grazing practices since the 1980’s. We calve our heifers in April and the cows will pasture calve in May and June. In the winter our cows are run on cake and range. We run our registered cows in the same manner as the commercial herd. We feel there should not be a difference between how you run a seed stock cow and a commercial one. We believe the slower development of our bulls adds to the longevity of them. The bull calves are weaned and fed in a pasture environment, then will graze throughout the summer like our yearling steers; this shows us which calves have the performance to grow in our environment. Performance is still a must in how we develop our bulls. The bulls continue grazing throughout the summer until November, when we start feeding them a protein pellet and hay until sale day.

The protein pellet is “Bull Plus” a pelleted bull developer from J & R Feeds that is formulated in a way that delivers an amino acid package designed to balance the existing amino acids found in the “on-ranch” feed stuff being fed by Ravenscroft Red Angus. Along with native grass hay, Bull Plus creates a ration that is extremely efficient at turning forage into muscle, paving the way for a bull that holds up to the demands of a breeding animal without showing the wear and tear that can be found with bulls developed on rations that are higher in starch. Bulls developed on Bull Plus consistently have a large scrotal measurement and pass fertility evaluations with flying colors, without compromising production excellence. These sale bulls are the top half on the 2022 Bull crop.

Thank you for taking the time to look at our program.

Eric & Shannon Ravenscroft

If you have any questions please call us:  402.322.9248 (Eric Mobile)