Benelkay Hercules H030(P)
Hercules was purchased for the second top price at the Benelkay Sale in 2014. We were attracted to his dark slick coat and sire appeal combined with balanced performance and polledness. A bonus has been the ability to produce small calves. We have used and recommended Hercules bulls as suitable for yearling joining’s with a high degree of success over the last few years. His calves are above average growth by weaning and combine with high carcass and fertility performance as depicted by his graph.
Cree Ferrero F140(ET)(AI)(P)
Ferrero F140 (ET) (AI) (P) was retained out of an IVF program. He is by Diamond S Top Gun 244 (P) (USA) which provides out cross genetics to Australian bloodlines. He was used in our heifers and 2 x cows for the first few seasons until his calves began to shine through. This, along with his perfect sheath, early reproductive traits, performance, and temperament saw him elevated to stud duties. Ferrero is currently a trait leader for Days to calving and RBY. His IMF is a feature, and he ranks 10th on the list of sires in the breed for Exp $Index. “Ferrero combines the contradictory traits of high milk, high growth and high female fertility in one genetic package. Common thought is that cows cannot be heavy and super fertile, or they cannot be heavy milkers and be super fertile. When bulls such as Ferrero come along, they give us a tool to make genetic change quickly over a range of traits at once.” David Greenup. Rosevale Santa Gertrudis Like King 2021 was Ferrero’s last natural progeny to be sold. He has sired over 240 calves and produced 65 performing daughters and left us a son in Monte Carlo and was also the sire of the Dams of Mexico, Moritz, Morocco, Nemesis and Papalli.
Canowindra Jag J26 (P)
Canowindra Jag was the 2012 World Congress Grand Champion Santa Gertrudis bull. We purchased him for the Australian top price of $56000 in 2012. At 32mths he was 1200kg with 150cm eye muscle area and 41cm scrotal circumference. Immediately he was collected at Rocky Repro where he produced 856 straws from two collections at 81% Morphology. In his first two seasons he sired 151 calves before sustaining a partial tear to the cruciate ligament in his stifle, sadly resulting in his inability to serve. His calves appeared to be so small we began to record birth weights for confirmation. Over approximately 20 calves ranged from 27 to 40kg for an average of 34kg. This is slightly less than what is considered to be the breed average for birth weight. However due to the high correlation between birth weight and 200 day weight Breedplan has assumed his calves would be bigger. This is not the case. However, rapid growth from birth to weaning has resulted in his high 200 day EBV.