Required Performance and Conformation Information:

1. The bulls must be produced in

   1. a registered herd that is enrolled in the Missouri On-Farm Production Testing Program, or

   2.  be tested individually at the Missouri Testing Station.

2. The bulls eligible for the 2004 Spring Sale must have been born Jan. 1, 2002 to March 13, 2003.

3. All calves in the herd eligible for registry must have been weighed and graded at weaning for the season.  (Herd definition: All cattle on a given farm and handled as a separate unit or sire group of thirty or more calves.)

4. The bull's yearling weight must be taken at 350 to 440 days of age and adjusted to 1,000 pounds or more at 365 days.  He must grade B- or better. He must be 49 inches high at 1 year of age.

5. All weighing must be supervised by the Extension Livestock Specialist or other authorized personnel.

6. No nurse cows will be used for the bulls entered in the sale without special permission of the committee. These calves approved for nurse cows will receive no adjustment for age of dam.  If twins raised by dam, use a 2-year age dam adjustment for 205-day weight.

7. If the bull has been used or in service prior to the sale, this will be announced on the auction block.

8. Bulls to be eligible for the sale will have to be owned as a cow-calf unit prior to the time the calf is 120 days of age.  Exceptions to this rule, in partnership cattle will be determined by the sale committee.

9. All bulls must be examined for breeding soundness by a veterinarian within 90 days of sale, using stand­ard assay analysis of semen approved by the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri.  All bulls must be free of obvious defects of conformation unsoundness.

10. Health certificates.  A complete general physical ex­amination of the bull by a veterinarian is required including Bangs disease test and vaccination for all five strains of Leptospirosis within 30 days of sale and tested for Anaplasmosis.  All bulls must have semen test and scrotum minimum of 33 cm.

11. Bulls are not required to be broke to lead or tie.  Bulls may be broke to lead (optional).

12. Bulls that are halter broke must be led with a nose lead.

13. All bulls consigned to this sale are on the farms of the consignors until the day prior to the sale.

14. All bulls must be at sale location by 6:00 p.m. the day prior to sale. Late arrivals will be placed at the bottom of sale order.

15. Weighing and grading at 8:00 a.m. on day of the sale.

16. Individual weights and conformation grades will be obtained by a three man committee, starting at 8:00 a.m. the day of the sale.

17. The sale will begin at 7:00 p.m. on March 26, 2004.

18. $5.00 per member per year membership dues will be deducted from sale of bulls sold in sale.

19. All percentage bulls must be 3/4 or better or recorded.  

20. Bulls must meet minimum sale day weight per day of age requirements.

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