Fall Program
We offer this program to cattle producers who want to retain
their genetics or buy replacement heifers to develop. Heifers delivered to Calamus Cattle Company can be weaned or non-weaned. Your heifers are then developed until breeding time, either bull-bred or AIed, and then sent home.
Summer Program
Our Summer program is the same as the Fall Program, with the exception that heifers are not sent home at breeding. The developing heifers are AI’d, or your choice of bulls are turned out with the heifers and will stay at the Calamus Cattle Company facility for the 5-month grazing season. By continuing to feed a simple low megacal diet, the heifers will continue to grow and develop throughout the traditional grazing period. This is a sustainable way to overcome the unique obstacle of the 21st -century. Your heifers can be pregnancy-checked at our facility and then sent home.
Complete Development Program
This is our long-term program that helps cattle producers overcome the challenges of ranching today. By following the heels of the Fall Program, the Complete Development program also addresses the labor issues behind AIing and the loss of agricultural land for summer grazing. This program continues to develop the now-bred heifers through their first pregnancy to ensure their body condition and devote time to young cattle in the herd. By keeping the cattle for more months until calving, they are kept consistent and are conditioned to be sent on for the calving season. These bred heifers have cut down on labor, opened up grass to grow your original cowherd, and retained genetics to complete the cowherd cycle on each individual operation.
Sustainable Solutions for
21st-Century Producers
CCC implements this mission by utilizing a proper nutrition program to allow the cattle to easily transition back to your feed at home.
We feed a simple ration of native grass hay, modified distillers, a small amount of corn, and a balancer pellet to complete the ration. By feeding these three feedstuffs in the backgrounding sector, grow yard sector and the heifer development sector, cattle can easily transition to higher protein or higher energy feeds, all while being completely sustained but never pushed. By not feeding silage, earlage, or any fermented feed to breedable stock, we lower the risk of nitrate problems.
Short Term/
Custom Programs
We are often asked questions such as, “How long will you develop a heifer?”, “Will you take her for just two months?”. The answer is yes. Calamus Cattle Company is devoted to making every operation more profitable, so we will gladly tailor a program to your specific needs. Keep your heifers offsite, and utilize our facilities for heifer selection (sorting), and AI or bull breed the heifers, all while consistently growing and developing your preferred genetics.
AI Services
Calamus Cattle Company provides AI services to your heifers by utilizing our local ABS Representative and Select Sires sales representatives or owner’s custom-collected semen. This service offers you the opportunity to overcome the 21st-century obstacles of land availability and labor issues in the AI breeding season. Calamus Cattle Company offers traditional backgrounding, which is the most common form of growing an operation while retaining genetics or getting a return on investment. Backgrounding cattle are brought to us as weaned or non-weaned cattle and fed a grow ration that adds pounds and value and stretches their stomachs so they can adjust adequately once sold or moved to a feedyard.
Backgrounding
This service is offered to cattle producers as a way of growing their operation. Calamus Cattle Company can take weaned or unweaned steers or heifers and limit feed them. By feeding a high roughage ration, the cattle's stomach is stretched and ready for a feedlot ration or to return to the sale barn.
Grow Yard
By using Calamus Cattle Company as a grow yard program in a cattle producer's operation, one can be more adaptable. We welcome weaned or unweaned spring cattle or fall cattle. Calves will be fed a ration that will not turn their rumen, making it easier for cattle to return back to summer grass.
