HEIFER DEVELOPMENT

Add Value to your heifers

THE PROGRAM:

Consider this for herd improvement and/or marketing heifers though the KBT Sale. We will AI your heifers to help produce highly marketable seed stock for the upcoming sales. Producers may bring heifers at the same time as the bulls for development through the winter. Your heifers can be marketed through the KBT sale, sold private treaty or put right into your herd. All services will be available (but not mandatory) on custom developed heifers. However, on heifers to be sold at the 2017 KBT sale all items will pertain to heifers that are found on the main rules page, if applicable. One addition is they will be calfhood vaccinated at KBT if they are not done prior to delivery. The heifers will be delivered to the same location, checked in and then they will be taken to another location away from the bulls.

ELIGIBILTY FOR THE SALE:

Producers can bring as many heifers as they would like. However, there will be a minimum of 1 heifer and a maximum of 35% of the number of bulls entered into the test, eligible to market through the sale. (Enforcement depends on final target numbers) Total numbers for the sale will be between 15 and 30 heifers. Structure and overall marketability will also be a determination to make the sale. Depending on final numbers, we may put some fall bred or spring commercial heifers in the sale. These will be sold in lots of 5. Please contact Brian Hagedorn with questions or to discuss these heifers if they are not at KBD. If you have heifers to be consigned to the sale not in our possession, please call.

DATES & FEES:

Entry fees will be collected only on heifers going into the sale. These will be $60 for spring open and fall bred commercial heifers and $90 for fall bred registered heifers. There will be no entry fees for custom developed heifers. Furthermore, the heifers will be floored at $1300 for registered spring open heifers. As always, floors can be raised for any animal by request of producer.

**Feed costs for heifers are estimated at $2/head/day throughout the test.

Brian & Megan Hagedorn

Kansas Bull Development, LLC

Kansas Bull Test