Recent content by waihou

Yes, we Murray Grey breeders here in NZ sell most of our bulls to dairy herds. Some of the bigger herds will buy 6 at a time. We never have enough! Murray Greys have got the reputation for being easy calving over yearling heifers and then have a good survival rate and grow like weeds. Their...

Heifers calves can often be carrying the best genetics if you are selecting your breeding stock on improving the herd. We always calve heifers at around 2 years old (MG herd in NZ) and even though the calves may be smaller at birth they catch up rapidly if the genetics are right! Your bull looks...

Your stock, and grass, are looking great! So says us from the middle of a wet southern hemisphere winter!

Calves due August! Backbone Ranch, the breeder has also used Melaleuca Entertainer and has 158 calves registered to him in NZ. Melaleuca Locky, the sire of Quasi, has better EBVs and is a trait leader for carcase weight. Here is the blurb from the sales catalogue. The figures have changed...

Probably not to everyone's taste but this is our new herdsire, Quasi Q80. Purchased in October 2020 as a 13 month old, selected for his good carcase figures (EMA and marbling top 5%), low birthweight, average growth, good milk, good calving ease and short gestation EBVs. All the things we were...

Great looking sire BB. Proof that the old genetics can still be worth a look. I look forward to seeing his progeny. I saw a photo of him on another breeders facebook page too!

"One thing I do differently than you (waihou) is I pick the bull by visual and reports of offspring - then - I match a bull to a cow." So do you physically look at a prospective bull, or view video etc? You have much vaster distances to cover than our little country! As most of our best blood...

Totally agree with the comments that figures are only half the picture! However one without the other can lead you astray just as easily! We tend to use the mating predictor function which is attached to our EBV's in which you combine the sire and dam names and it spits out expected progeny...

Murphy went off to the abattoir in April, after 2 years in our small herd and no-one wanting to buy 3 year old bulls in autumn. With his daughters and half sisters in the herd of 25 females we needed a new bull! Pictured is Murphy aged 30 months. Also pictured a 2 yr old heifer by Mount Major...

TwoByrdsMG, yes frame size of the Wallawong UTR will be bigger than your current ones! Our overall cow size was getting a bit big, well over 1650lbs I would expect so have tried to downsize with our latest bull purchase, but improve the carcase EMA and IMF% ! This is heifer Mulberry at 2yrs...

I know this is an old thread but relating to our Mount Major Kingswood (au) bull Murphy, that earlier posts were not impressed by his looks, yes we used him for 2 seasons and he has passed on his marbling and low birthweight genes to his offspring. Twenty seven calves on the ground, never...

Great photos BB, your stock is looking good!

Not that this site gives actual measurements for any particular breed, but it does explain the measurements relative to each other and their significance. The crown to rump measurement is called the Top Line on here. http://www.bovineengineering.com/linera_male.html, there is a page for females...