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If you’re looking for a heifer bull, we have a couple in our founding class. Sound off in the comments - are you looking at actual birth weights or EPDs?

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We are pretty excited about this class of bulls. Take a look at our website or DM us if you have questions.

Next to every EPD is a small number most buyers skip. That’s accuracy.

It runs from 0 to 1. Near 0, the likely range around the EPD is wide. Near 1, it’s tight.

406’s weaning weight is +81 at .47 accuracy, about 8 lb either way. His sire, G A R Home Town, is +62 at .97, with more than 8,000 calves weighed behind it.

Low accuracy isn’t a knock on a bull. It means less data is in so far. Every calf recorded adds more, and the range tightens.

Start with the bull himself: his mother, his feet, his structure, how he moves. The EPD tells you if he fits your cows. Accuracy tells you how hard to lean on it.

Registered Angus bulls, private treaty, Fallon, Nevada. Link in bio.

EPD 1: How to read a bull catalog

Every bull catalog is a wall of numbers. Here’s how to read them in about a minute.

Those numbers are EPDs, expected progeny differences. They predict how a bull’s calves will perform compared to another bull’s calves.

Take R9R Home Town 406. His weaning weight EPD is +81. Put him next to a +61 bull on the same cows and you’d expect his calves to wean about 20 lb heavier on average.

A number means little on its own, so check the percentile. +81 puts him in the top 20% of Angus bulls.

Only compare EPDs within the same breed. And the numbers are one tool. Walk the bull and know what you’re buying.

Registered Angus bulls, private treaty, Fallon, Nevada. Link in bio.

The Founding Class. Nine registered Angus bulls, born in America’s 250th year and named for it.
That’s Minute Man and Battle Born out on spring grass in May.
Mark’s three picks:
🇺🇸 610 Minute Man, by our own Home Town 406. Top 4% of the breed for low birth weight. He’s the heifer bull.
🇺🇸 604 Battle Born, by Ellingson Prolific. Top 10% ribeye. 850 lb at weaning.
🇺🇸 607 Liberty, by Basin Jameson 1076. Top 25% weaning weight. 825 lb at weaning.
Also in the class: Militia, Patrick Henry, Washington, Freedom, Jefferson, Hamilton.
Selling private treaty off the ranch for 2027. Now taking inquiries.
Link in bio or DM us · rafter9.ag/bulls

Home. Fallon, Nevada has been home for over 40 years. Over those years we’ve learned a lot, but mostly that God is good.

Last week it was the heifers. Now the bulls.
That first shot is Battle Born at one week old, back in January. On September 24 he weighed 850 lb.
We weighed the nine registered bull calves on September 24. No grain, no creep feed. Raised on their mothers and stem hay.
• 688 lb average weaning weight, adjusted to 205 days
• 2.8 lb a day, birth to weaning
• Top of the pen: Battle Born 850 lb, Liberty 825 lb, Minute Man 750 lb
This is the Founding Class, selling private treaty off the ranch for 2027.
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Weaning weights are in on the 2026 heifers. The bull calves get weighed in the next few days.

These gals were raised on their mothers and stem hay. No grain, no creep feeding.

Adjusted 205-day average: 715 lb
Birth to weaning: 3.0 lb/day

📈 Top two:

🥇608 R9R Jilt: Boyd Bedrock x KR Jilt 0416. 980 lb actual, 120 ratio, 3.74 lb/day.

🥈606 R9R Burgess: RSA True Balance x R9R Burgess 216. 925 lb actual, 114 ratio

R9R Burgess 216 has now weaned calves at a 100, 113 and 114 ratio over the last three years. Her 2024 son, 412, sired 612 in this same pen, out of a first-calf heifer we raised.

Those numbers leave out 603. She’s one of the prettiest heifers we have, but she got hurt early, lost part of a hoof and hasn’t caught up on the scale. Ranch life.

We will have some bulls for private treaty starting early 2027, plus one lot at a bull sale in February.

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