The bulls produced by Mound Creek Ranch and our Genetic Partners are designed to add pounds to your calf crop, a shorter time in the feedlot, premiums on the rail, higher valued replacement females, and overall more total dollars to your bottomline!

We firmly believe our future will dictate producing more product on less….less land, less feed per pound of gain, less fuel, less labor, and less dollars tied up. Premiums will be given for a quality product and average will not even pay for the annual cost of production. Our bulls are genetically engineered to do more. They are designed to win the battle for dollars. We still believe pounds are important, replacement females are the lifeblood of our breed, and that we can compete with any breed for premium dollars both in the yard and on the rail. Period!

The evolution of the bulls we annually sell in “The Cowman’s Kind” Brangus Bull Sale started about 18 months prior to sale date when these calves started hitting the ground at birth. On the other hand it really began about nine to ten months prior to calving when breeding decisions were made in our effort to genetically design a better group of beef bulls. Come to think of it, this process really started years and years ago when we designed and produced their sires, dams and grand dams. Point we are making is that we are constantly looking into that “crystal ball” and understand we have to look many years into the future in an effort to always stay a step ahead of the pack in genetic design. At mating time each year we strive to raise the bar in our effort to design genetic resources intended to increase our bull buyer’s ability to create profit for future calf crops while always addressing an ever-changing industry.

The bulls we raise represent the leading edge of economic breeding value and have more thought in their genetic design than any group of bulls you can find. Each have been evaluated, scrutinized and culled harder than any in the country. You will find the bulls we raise for “The Cowman’s Kind” to be stout, rugged, durable, fertile, sound, and backed by hard facts. Facts that indicate their value for convenience, growth, maternal traits and carcass merit. Facts that will mean more dollars returned for each calf crop born. Don’t take our word, ask around, come take a look, or give us a call. Like we guarantee our bulls, we guarantee you will like our product.

More Pounds
More Dollars
The Cowman’s Kind

The Mound Creek Bull Program is the most demanding development program in the country. Period. Our goal is to demand the most from our genetic design and develop the best beef bulls in the country. Period. The final product from our development program is a fault-free group of ranch ready bulls genetically designed to stand the trials and rigors of their new life in any production program in any environment.

Birth to Weaning

Within 12 hours of birth each calf is documented for date of birth, birth weight, leg length, assigned a hair color code, tagged with sire and dam information, and noted for sex. Three to four months later all calves are started on creep feed and administered vaccinations for clostridial, viral complex, pasturella, vitamins, minerals, and de-wormed. Just prior to weaning all calves are given boosters for the disease related vaccinations and de-wormed once again. Immediately after the calves are split from their mothers at weaning we individually weigh each calf while confirming sex, scurs and color codes.

Yearling Gain Test

All weaned calves are dried out on medicated receiving feed for two weeks. We warm up the weaned calves for about two weeks on their intended gain test feed and then weigh all bull calves on gain test. Gain test feed is designed to achieve about 3.25 lbs. daily gain. The bulls are gain tested in 25 to 30 acres pastures which is considerably more pasture space than most other bull development programs provide their gain test bulls. These bigger gain test pastures insure the bulls will exercise and forage at will while providing a cleaner, healthier environment for this important development stage. At yearling time we again weigh bulls, measure testicles, evaluate for soundness, score for quality, and ultrasound for carcass merit. The yearling bulls are vaccinated for clostridials, respiratory, and de-wormed along with vitamin
and mineral vaccinations.

The Wilderness Development

Upon completion of gain test our spring bulls that have made the cut are turned in the biggest and roughest pastures we have in an area we call “The Wilderness.” We cool the bulls down from their gain test, harden them up during the late spring and summer, while monitoring the physical and structural changes that each bull goes through. This Wilderness monitoring period is our most important time frame because it separates the “men” from the “boys” by helping us identify those bulls capable of fault-free use in any ranch environment.

In late summer we select those bulls that have passed all previous tests and are worthy of “The Cowman’s Kind” Bull Sale. Each step of our selection and culling process particular attention is always given to soundness of hoof and leg along with their ability to withstand wear and tear in this rough and forage intensive environment. The Mound Creek Bulls are nationally recognized as the soundest structured, most fault-free bulls in the country.

Demanding The Most
The Sale Ring

Since the fall yearlings are brought off gain test just prior to the Bull Sale they do not get the opportunity to go through our “Wilderness” development program. However, the yearlings still have to pass the same number of tests as all other sale bulls. To make the final step to the sale ring all bulls, including the fall yearlings, must pass their Breeding Soundness Evaluation which includes actual semen test, physical examination, and testicle measurement. Those that fail this BSE test are immediately culled and sold for slaughter only. Also prior to the sale, all bulls are Brucellosis tested, de-wormed, and vaccinated with Cattle Master 4 along with Vibrio/Lepto 5. During sale week all bull groups are moved from their large pastures into the sale display area, screened for a final time and sorted into the sale display pens. If they make it to “The Cowman’s Kind” Bull Sale then you can rest assured they have met our final approval.

Meeting the Challenge

There is not another set of bulls in the country that has to make as many cuts as those that survive our standards. These ranch raised bulls have more demanded of them and expected from them than any other group of sale bulls in the country.

• First they are culled at weaning time if they don’t measure up or weigh up off their mother.
• Second time bulls are culled when weighed on gain test and fail quality control and structural soundness standards.
• Third time culls are made when weighed and measured off gain test for bulls failing soundness, testicle, performance, ultrasound, and quality measurements.
• Fourth level culls happen in early summer while in the middle of “The Wilderness” treatment due to marginal hardiness, soundness, fleshing ability and post gain test performance.
• Fifth time culls are sorted out when “The Cowman’s Kind” sale selections are made. Sale bulls are again monitored for soundness, vigor, hardiness, and quality.
• Sixth time culls failed an intensive breeding soundness evaluation with a last evaluation for overall quality.
• Finally, they are screened for the seventh time on the day we actually place them in sale display pens. Final and absolute evaluations are made for all traits of importance.

Seven times our bulls passed everything we could throw at them.
Seven times they earned the right to stay.
Seven times they made the cut.
We have to be hard.

The next test is the toughest of all. It’s the real-world test of surviving in the beef industry. The entire design of the Mound Creek Bull Development Program is based upon winning that final test. After all, our goal remains the same after all these years. It is our job to raise the best beef bulls in the country. Period.