Our expectation is that every cow in our purebred herd should produce a calf worthy to enter the bull sale or replacement pen. If she doesn’t, she needs a new job as a recipient or commercial cow (or maybe just a trip to town!).
While one school of thought celebrates high cull rates in the bull sale pen, we have chosen a slightly different approach. Rather than having a large cow herd to raise a bull offering culled by a high percentage, our goal is to have a high percentage of bull calves worthy to work as breeding bulls in both commercial and purebred herds. Does this mean we don’t have strict culling criteria? Absolutely not. It means that we are constantly working toward lowering the number born that don’t measure up to the high standards of our customers.
We are proud to be a truly family run operation with our kids taking a keen interest in the cattle. Kylie and Owen are both excellent young cattlemen with growing cow herds of their own within the Wilbar herd.