We are sorry, but all of our private treaty bulls have been sold for this year. Please contact us and be sure you are on our mailing list for our upcoming 2010 Gibbs Farms Bull & Replacement Heifer Sale on November 13, 2010. We will sell 100 fall yearling bulls in the sale and as usual, we will have 50-60 private treaty bulls go on sale the following Friday after our bull sale.
Pasture Photos of the Private Treaty Bulls . . .
Just a few snapshots of the private treaty bulls taken in their pasture on December 3, 2009. These bulls are currently weighing 1,500 – 1,600 lbs. and are in good pasture condition & ready for breeding season.
Opening Day of Gibbs Farms Private Treaty Bull Offering a huge success . . .
After a tremendous bull sale on the previous Saturday, opening day of the Gibbs Farms Private Treaty Bull Offering on Friday, November 20th would prove to be more of the same. The 36 private treaty bulls that were available at that time were brought up from the development pastures & placed into 2 of the grass lots at the sale facility on Thursday night, anticipating early morning viewers on Friday morning. Just as it became light enough to see, there were 4 bull customers already in the pens evaluating the bulls. No bulls were allowed sold until 8:00 AM CT, at which time any buyers wanting the same bull were allowed to "bid off" the bull. After the necessary "bid offs" were completed, then the bulls remaining were offered as first come first serve. The most active bidding came on the 8109U Gambler son that was listed at $2,400. He sold to Russ Foster of Lineville, Alabama for $3,100 with contending bidder being Bubba Drewery of Greensboro, Alabama. By noon time, 16 bulls had been sold for an average of $2,694.
There are some very good bulls still available. We also have a few of our top sale bulls that were removed from the sale due to needing to be semen checked again. Most of these will likely pass on the next Breeding Soundness Exam and will then be listed on our website. We have already been ask to make the Lot 105 sale bull available for bidding if he passes the BSE. Anyone interested in him or any other sale bull that was removed from the sale, please let us know & we will contact you by phone when they are ready to be offered for sale..
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Fall Yearling Bulls, Developed The Gibbs Farms Way . . .
At Gibbs Farms, we develop our bulls a little differently from most operations and our satisfied, repeat customers are proof that it works. The only time a bull ever sees a dry lot at Gibbs Farms is during the week of weaning. They are  born on pasture in the fall, run with their dam on pasture all winter and early spring, and then see a dry lot for about a week while being weaned in the spring. After weaning, the bulls are run in large pastures from April until sale time in November. We feel that it is essential that our bulls be developed grazing endophyte infected fescue and common Bermuda grass because that’s what they will likely be grazing for the rest of their lives. Another important part of our development program is to never, and we do mean NEVER, feed our bulls high starch cereal grain products that disrupt normal rumen digestive function. While developing on pasture, our bulls are supplemented with a high carbohydrate ration consisting of soyhulls, dry distillers, and cottonseed hulls, enabling maximum efficiency of forage consumption while maintaining proper rumen function. Gibbs Farms bulls never have to be adjusted back to pasture conditions, they are developed that way all their life.
If you are from the southeastern states and have been purchasing bulls that are developed on high starch cereal grain products (a.k.a. corn), bulls that have been developed with no consumption of fescue and common Bermuda grass, and developed in small lots with limited exercise, then its time you sampled some bulls Developed The Gibbs Farms Way!
Fall Yearling Bulls vs. Spring Bull Calves . . .
For our western states customers, we ask, “Why would you wait until spring to purchase your bulls? ”. Comparing 12 month old spring born bulls to an 18 month old fall yearling bull is like comparing boys to men. Why send a boy to do a man’s job?
We are beginning to get more & more customers with spring calving seasons in the western states coming to Gibbs Farms to purchase fall yearling bulls. At bull turn-out time in the spring, they have an 18-20 month old bull, weighing 1,700 – 1,800 lbs. that’s ready to go get the job done.
Commitment To Performance & Carcass Excellence . . .
This year marks only the 4th Annual Sale at Gibbs Farms, but don’t think for a second the Gibbs family is new to the beef cattle industry. Currently, the fourth generation of Gibbs is active on the family farm that traces back for nearly a century. Wendell & Nan established their personal beef herd almost 50 years ago, introducing Simmental in 1972 and making the transformation to SimAngus in 1992. For close to 3 decades, Gibbs Farms has been a leader in group feeder calf board sales and retained ownership of their calves. Gibbs Farms has collected complete performance data on 10’s of thousands of calves along with ultrasound scans and carcass data on thousands. For the past few years, all Gibbs Farms steer calves have been custom fed with the carcass data being returned to the A.S.A. for processing into the Multi-Breed Genetic Evaluation.
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