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Cattle producers across Western Canada have been invited to take part in a

cow-calf productivity sur-vey aimed at quantifying production benchmarks.

The Western Canadian Cow-Calf Productivity Sur-

vey was developed together by producer associations in four provinces, provincial ministries of agriculture, Canfax, the Beef Cattle

Research Council and the Western Beef Development Centre (WBDC).

The survey is open to any cow-calf producer from

British Columbia to Mani-toba, and can be completed in written form or through the WBDCs website.

In the Alberta Beef Pro-

ducers (ABP) newsletter of Jan. 16, it was noted that response rates have been disappointing so far.

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The newsletter stated that the survey results would be used to de-termine what aspects of production may be improved through manage-ment, research and extension.

Without these benchmarks, were basically guessing on where the industry is at, the newsletter read.

The survey was first made avail-able to the public in October, and has been distributed at Provincial Producer Association district meet-ings and other producer events, including Agribition, Cow-Calfen-omics, FarmFair, the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference and so forth.

The survey will continue to be open until the deadline of Satur-day, Feb. 28. It contains a total of 58 questions and should require

approximately 30 to 45 minutes to complete.

According to the WBDC web-site, the new survey is based on the former Alberta Beef Herd Analy-sis, first conducted in 1988 and last taken in November 1998 using a mail-in survey distributed across Alberta.

Over 1,700 producers took part in that years survey, a response rate of about 21 per cent. They an-swered questions relating to cur-rent production indicators, feeding, animal health, marketing and qual-ity assurance practices.

For the new survey, questions are related to the time between the 2013 breeding season and the 2014 weaning timeframe. For the first time, the survey is expanding be-yond Alberta to include producers in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The WBDCs website explains how herd productivity is related to profitability, and how benchmark productivity measures will provide an important gauge of the profit-ability of the cow-calf sector.

Thus, the survey will seek to provide an understanding of cow-calf producers production and management practices, and mea-sure the resulting productivity of their operations.

The WBDC stated that individu-al results will remain confidential, but the combined results will be ag-gregated in order to generate pro-ductivity and management practice benchmarks on a regional, provin-cial and herd size basis.

In turn, these benchmarks and survey findings will be shared widely throughout the industry be-ginning in the spring of 2015.

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The hard copy of the survey can be downloaded and printed from the web-site, including a postage-paid mailing label. Hard copies can also be request-ed from the ABP office.

Those who participate can also opt to receive a

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The decision to breed bucking bulls to a small herd of milk cows has paid off big time for a Botha-area family, creating a family passion and busi-ness and winning several major awards.

It is obvious within mo-ments of speaking with Warren Weatherly that he has the bucking bull bug, a passion for the business that cant be faked. When his parents, Stan and Elda Weatherly, bred bulls to his grandfather Normans cows nearly four decades ago, they couldnt have known theyd be build-ing a family business that would stretch generations.

The herd is kept small, each animals bloodline impeccably tracked back generations. As the years have gone by, each buck-ing bull has had increas-ingly prestigious blood-lines as bucking bulls and

cows bred from bucking bulls have contributed to provide the best possible traits.

To date, several of the Weatherly bucking bulls have won awards, includ-ing one bull that won best bucking bull twice at the Calgary Stampede, a rare double-win.

Bucking rodeo mythsAs a rodeo cattle raiser,

Weatherlys happy to talk about what he does from how he raises his cattle to what they do in the ring.

Its my responsibility as a rodeo man to help dis-pel myths, he said. A lot of people have misconcep-tions about what happens at a rodeo.

Weatherly notes that a lot of people believe the cattle are abused and ter-rified, or wild and uncon-trollable. In the case of the Weatherly bucking bulls, Weatherly is sure to buck all those assumptions.

Right from a young

age, the bulls are handled and are around people, he explained.

Some people think bucking bulls have to be wild to get the best kicks and spins, but we dont hold with that, he said. By working with the bulls from a young age, they be-come used to the presence of people, the noise and confinement of the chutes, the presence of riders on their back, and the excite-ment of a crowd, he said.

A scared animal does unpredictable things, he noted.

Already this years bulls, cattle still shy around strangers but more comfortable around the regular hands, have been at rodeo practice. Weath-erly takes them to Olds, getting them used to ve-hicle rides and strange pens, before putting them in chutes and setting them out into the rodeo arena.


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Bucking the trend leads to businesscontinued from page 14

Some are naturals, he said of the bulls. They buck and turn right away. Others need some help figuring it out.

Others dont figure it out at all, lacking the energy or desire to be a bucking bull.

Ever aware of the slim margins of the industrys budget, these bulls end up culled from the herd.Bull athletes

Weatherly likens the care and training of the bucking bulls to that of the training and care giv-en to athletes.

Our business is rais-ing the best athletes we can, he said.

All year round, the bucking bulls and the small herd of cows from which they are bred are raised on premium hay and feed, an expensive necessity to build the right type of muscle and sizing for the perfect ro-deo bull. Though costs are lower in the summer, when the cattle can graze, theres still a bale rolled

out every day, if not more frequently.

The herd of cows, about 20 strong, knows what it means when the forklift pulls down a bale, gathering around to wait for their dinner to be rolled out. After a meal of hay, it sometimes is time for oats, and the cows

gleefully follow after Weatherlys truck as the farmhand spills the grain from the back.

This serves a special purpose, Weatherly ex-plained of the process. It spreads out the grain and the feeding line, so theres no fighting over the grain.

An important thing, as several cows begin butt-ing heads over the grain piles as he drives.

Once separated from their dams, the bulls and the few heifers Weatherly chooses to keep for the breeding herd are penned with a single, older bull.


STACEY LAVALLIE/Independent reporter

The Weatherly bucking bulls, cows and heifers are raised on a healthy diet of grain, hay and naturalsummer grazing, something thats important for building strong athletes, according to rancher War-ren Weatherly.

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An older bull like this fellow is penned with the year-ling bulls and heifers to help teach them about cattle society. He teaches the youngsters herd society rules like pecking order and turn-taking, while teaching them how to forage and survive.


He shows them the ropes, Weatherly explains. The old bull introduces the yearlings to the idea of a social pecking order, how to find food and water, and other important parts of herd culture.

Unlike the cows and the older bulls, these youngsters are penned where they have near-constant exposure to people, keeping them from going wild and helping them become accustomed to people.

Theres not a lot you can do to train these boys, Weatherly said. Feed and care is the best tool we have.

However, once theyre about a year old they start chute training, which helps Weatherly determine if the bull has what it takes to be a bucking bull.

Some bulls take off bet-ter from the left or the right, and chute training tells us that, he noted.


Bucking the trend



As they get older, a ro-botic dummy is strapped to the bulls back as its in the chute. It weighs less than a human, since these bulls

arent yet big enough to support the weight of a full-grown human. Designed to hold on and give bucking bulls a taste of what its like to have a person on his back, it also is remote-controlled

so it can let go and fall off the bull if it performs prop-erly. A few good kicks and turns and the dummy will release, teaching the bull that the better he kicks and the more often he turns, the

faster he loses the weight on his back.

Family tiesEach Weatherly bull,

heifer and cow can trace his or her bloodlines back

to the jersey milk cows that started the familys buck-ing journey more than four decades ago. Since then, multiple bloodlines have been introduced, creating wonderfully coloured bulls.

While the majority of the cows are black, some are spotted like their jersey cow forebears, while others bear the horizontal stripe down their middles like their belted Galloway mothers. This year a Mexican fight-ing bulls bloodlines were added, creating a blue and white bull with patterns that look like drifting smoke.

When a bucking bull is particularly successful in its life, and then breeds successful bulls or cows that breed successful bulls, the Weatherly family does much to preserve the blood-line, up to and including sperm preservation.

Weatherlys most well-known bucking stock in-cludes the two-time Cana-dian Finals Rodeo (CFR) saddle bronc champion War Cry, the 1980 Calgary Stampede champion bare-back horse Tanya Tucker, and Stampede champion bulls Cowtowns Raisin Hell and Handyman.

Keeping track of those bloodlines is important business, not only to help ensure that theres no close familial bloodlines, but to help pass on the beneficial bucking traits that the fam-ily relies upon for success in the business.

We mostly breed our own bloodlines, Weatherly said, but noted that the fam-ily isnt closed to selling off excess cows, allowing those bloodlines out into the cattle community.

The business began when Weatherlys parents, Stan and Elda, decided to breed Stans fathers milk cows to bucking bulls. At the time, Weatherly noted, there wasnt a lot of specifi-cally bucking-bull breeding going on in the province.

Over the next four de-cades, Stan and Elda per-fected their craft, introduc-ing their son to it at a young age and kindling the passion that is so evident even to strangers as he speaks about being a bucking bull man.

You dont do this to get rich, Weatherly said with a grin. You do this because you love it. And I love it. Its the best.

Five years ago this June, Stan passed away, leaving the business to his wife, son, and daughters Diane and Donna. They all remain involved to some extent to-day, with Elda owning half of the herd.


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Shes still out here all the time, Weatherly said of his mother.

The land the cattle are raised on belongs to all four Weatherlys, with a bit here

and a bit there.Stan and Elda began Big

Country Rodeo and began supplying local rodeos with their bucking bulls, steers and horses, making a name in the business.

In addition to the local rodeos, the family provided

stock to the Calgary Stam-pede for nearly three de-cades as well.

In the end, theres sim-ply nothing else Weatherly would want to be doing, and its something he hopes the next generation will love as well.

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