About Us
Jim & Karyl
Lazy E Bar Ranching is a family run Registered Angus farm located a few minutes east of Bashaw, Alberta for over 30 years by Jim and Karyl Bleakley, as well as their youngest son Wade and his family.
They have been working hard to increase both the size and the quality of the herd using experience and knowledge gained from years of commercial breeding and feed lot operation.
What started as 20 cows from a herd dispersal sale has worked its way into over a 250 cows and heifers with genetics reaching to many of the top breeders in the industry.
The Lazy E Bar Program:
We have developed a program that we feel represents what the bulls will see in a commercial herd. The heifers are bred to start calving approximately the 20th of March and the cows on the first of April. In late May the pairs are sorted, vaccinated and hauled to grass pastures 120 -150 miles from Bashaw. The cattle are hauled home in October, where they spend a couple weeks grazing prior to weaning. The cattle are not creep fed at any point during their lives as we feel that creep feed doesn't allow us to see a fair representation of how hard the cows can work to raise a good strong calf. We weigh the calves after weaning to give a fair and honest weaning weight in late October. The calves are fed a nutritionally balanced ration of silage, grain and high protein premix to develop them at a proper rate. This ensures structurally correct, viable breeding cattle. The bulls are turned out on grass to develop during their second summer without additional feed to ensure that they maintain a sustainable rate of growth during the summer months. They are then brought back into the corrals to be fed, clipped and semen tested prior to being offered for sale.
Our goal when selling bulls has always been to produce a cow-ready, structurally correct, long lasting bull that will help put high yielding calves into your herd.
We have a strong selection of 36 Two-Year Old bulls coming up for sale along with the pick of the bull and heifer calf pens.
We welcome anyone to come by, have a coffee, and take a look. The herd bulls and the entire cow herd, as well as yearlings for sale next year, are available for viewing anytime.
If you have any questions about what is being offered for sale or would like to come by the farm to see the bulls please feel free to contact us anytime.
Thanks,
Jim & Karyl
Wade, Laura, Adilane, Matthew & Ryan
We welcome anyone to come by, have a coffee, and take a look. The herd bulls and the entire cow herd, as well as yearlings for sale next year, are available for viewing anytime.
If you have any questions about what is being offered for sale or would like to come by the farm to see the bulls please feel free to contact us anytime.
Thanks,
Jim & Karyl
Wade, Laura, Adilane, Matthew & Ryan