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ORARI GORGE POLL HEREFORD STUD

We would like to welcome you to our 57th sale of Polled Hereford Pedigree has the biggest effect on EBV accuracy, every calf born
bulls after over 70 years of breeding. This year’s sale catalogue of at Orari Gorge has been sire verified for over 20 years now which
thick, growthy, meaty bulls all have genetics in the top bracket for means our pedigrees are 100% accurate and our EBVs can be
growth, fertility and carcass quality. This shows up very strongly trusted. Our sale bulls have also been gene tested for the polled
in the Hereford Prime index and the new Beef Heifer Index. The gene and almost all of our sale bulls are Homozygous Polled which
indexes give the dollar return expected from the progeny of these means all their progeny are guaranteed to be polled.
bulls, with the catalogue average in the top 15% of the Australasian
breed. Most are in the top 10% and some in the top 1%. As always, all our sale bulls sell fully guaranteed.
We are getting many compliments already about how even All bulls have been semen tested and checked for abnormalities.
the bulls are, possibly even more even than last year. They are
possibly slightly smaller framed than we used to breed a few All bulls have been assessed and passed for structural
soundness of feet and legs by an accredited assessor, Bill
years ago but they are meatier and slightly heavier than previously.
Austin. This year we are including the full structural assessment for
This is something we have consciously tried to do in the process
each bull on their Lot page along with their other details.
of trying to breed efficient cows for the hill and high meat yields for
the processors.
As long as there are no last-minute changes to Covid levels then the
sale will be business as usual, but it will also be live-streamed on
This demonstrates that clear breeding objectives for both Phenotype
BIDR for anyone that can’t make it on the day. We have an official
and Genotype can quite quickly have positive results on the herd.
open day on Tuesday 25th May which we recommend people take
The big news on our herd this year is the step to fully record all our advantage of just in case they cannot make it on sale day. As usual,
commercial cows (over 400 of them). We have always recorded we are always open to visitors to view the bulls so if you can’t make
quite a bit of data on the commercials (probably more than some the 25th then give us a call to arrange another time.
studs do) but this year we have DNA tested the cows and calves
for pedigree and registered them with the NZ Hereford Association Graham and Rosa, Robert and Alex
so they will gain Breeding Values. This means we have registered
well over 600 calves this season which will give us greater selection
pressure for our sale bulls going forwards.

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