2023 Yearling Steers
Note: These Steers were Sold at a price of $262/cwt and are no longer available for purchase.
2023 Yearling Steers for Sale
Moore Livestock will be selling 210 head of yearling steers in the 2023 Northern Livestock Summertime Classic video sale (July 24th to 26th). They will be contracted at a weight of 925lbs to be delivered in the first week of October, at the ranch scales 25 miles southwest of Harlowton, Montana.
This group of yearlings will be aproximately 18 months old at time of sale, having been born in late April through the end of May in 2022. They were weaned at 6 months of age.
The entire group was raised here at Moore Livestock, and none of them have ever left the ranch. They have only one brand, a monogramed HF on the right hip.
All of these steers were sired by bulls from VanDyke Angus out of Manhattan Montana and the Fort Logan Ranch out of White Sulphur Springs, Montana. The dam’s for these cattle weigh between 1150 and 1300lbs, depending on how fat they are. The dam’s were mostly sired by bulls from the same ranches, with a few being sired by bulls from Green Mountain Angus out of Rygate, Montana. We try to select well balanced bulls with an eye towards maternal characteristics, good visual conformation, and growth potential.
This group of steers has been raised strictly on grass and grass hay grown here at the ranch. We have a very low copper environment here, so they have been given quite a bit of RangePro Breedback Mineral from Mountain West Ag out of Garneill, Montana. They also received just a little bit of Flaxlic to keep them from losing ground over the winter. Total Flaxlic consumption was 20lbs per head for their entire lifetime. Other than Flaxlic, they have never received any other supplementation such as grain or cake.
These steers have been grazed in a fairly conventional fashion on mostly native pastures of medium to good quality. We are very confident that if they are given access to good finishing quality feed that they will explode, and grade very well to boot.
We have never sent any cattle off to be grass finished, however, we do believe that these steers would do very well in a grass finishing situation. We have never been able to measure average daily gains on the yearlings, however, we do know that a group of 4 to 8 year old cows being synchronized last summer gained an average of 109lbs over the course of 24 days (4.5lbs/day). They started at an average of 1218lbs.
These cattle have all been exposed to temporary electric fence for over six months, and should be pretty well trained to it. They should have no problems adapting to rapid grazing rotations using temporary electric fence. That will have been several months before shipping however, so you may want to keep an eye on them for the first half day or so, but after that they should be good.
We will be glad to work with you if you would like these cattle to have any certifications they don’t already have. They should be eligible for pretty much anything. We may ask you to cover the cost of the audit, but other than that, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Thank you, and we hope you enjoy them!
For any questions please contact Sanford Moore at 406 224 0334. Email is sanfordjmoore@gmail.com