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THINKING ABOUT ABOUT OUR HEIFERS

BUYING HEIFERS? • E & A Belgian and Cattle Farms will be offering 180
fancy commercial Angus heifers this fall. E & A follows
a very elite program.
OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING! • All heifers are put through the

Missouri Show-Me Select Heifer program.
• E & A 's replacement bred heifer program utilizes
E&A BELGIAN & CATTLE FARMS WILL BE OFFERING: strategic nutrition and health.

15 Fancy Bred Heifers Approximately 120 Fancy Heifers • All heifers are purchased from top local producers.
These heifers are born, raised, and bred on good old
Meyer Cattle Company EMCC ‘Missouri fescue’. They are developed and conditioned
Bowling Green, MO Bowling Green, MO to thrive in our local environment! Most of these
Friday, November 3rd, 6:00 p.m. Saturday, November 25th,12:30 p.m. heifers are sired by registered Angus bulls!

Approximately 40 Fancy Heifers • E & A 's Elite program includes track score, pelvic

measure, calf-hood vaccination, 8-way Blk Leg, Vira
Show-Me Select Heifer Sale Shield 6 VL5, two types of pink eye vaccinations,
Palmyra, MO Multimin 90, and dewormed several times. Heifers
Saturday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. are tested PI-3 negative. Heifers are ultrasounded 90
days after bull ‘turn-out’. Many heifers are fetal sexed.
Whether you are looking for a small set, or a large group
of heifers all handled the same way, developed with you • E & A 's Elite program also includes ‘hand feeding’ all
heifers and walking through heifers daily. Heifers must
in mind to stay profitable on the farm a long time take pass E & A 's disposition test!
the time to check these out! • All vet work is done by Dr. Neil Martin of Centralia

Missouri.

• E & A 's Elite replacement program synchronizes and
all heifers are naturally serviced to registered black
Angus bulls for calving dates starting February 2,
2023.

• Heifers developed through the E & A program have a
reputation of having moderate sized calves that grow
really, really well. E & A heifers milk exceptionally
well! E & A heifers have very good mothering ability!

• All E & A replacement heifers will have a BCS (or
body condition score) of 5 or 6. E & A heifers should
maintain this BCS through calving.
• E & A offers a ‘bred heifer guarantee’ - meaning if you
buy an E & A heifer and she does not calve,
E & A will take her back and replace her with another
bred female.

• All heifers will be ultrasounded twice and grouped into
‘tight calving’ windows.

ABOUT OUR BULLS

• E & A selects bulls from Meyer Cattle Company
in Bowling Green, Missouri and Mead Farms in
Versailles, Missouri.

• All bulls are registered black Angus with above breed
average EPDs. Most all of our bulls have ‘double-digit’
CEDs for calving ease. However, we do not just select
single trait EPDs.

• Currently we have bulls in Top 1% for $M; Top 1%,
CED, Top 1% $C, Top 2% foot structure, Top 2% $W,
Top 1% HP, Top 3% Milk, Top 10% WW, Top 10% YW.

Ernest and Anna Mae Girod