Up-and-coming AI bulls available for spring

Charolais

Three-star terminal, one-star replacement, beef cow calving 12.2%

Junior male champion and reserve overall champion at the national livestock show in Tullamore last year. Full French pedigree. Sired by the £20,000 Sinndar his dam has produced three national champions. Use on mature cows to achieve that show type high-priced weanlings.

Supplier: Bova AI

Salers

Two-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 2.3%

Junior champion at French national show. Proven Salers bull in France with progeny inspected. Manclaux carries exceptional width at the platees and pins. Outcross pedigree with performance to match. Ideal bull for first time Charolais heifers.

Supplier: Bova AI

Aubrac

Five-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 1.5%

Pure French bull ideal for producing early maturing progeny. Super power and length, with a carcase index of 24kg. Sired by Orfevre with Martin Scea New Delhi as the grandsire. Another bull ideally suited to any type of maiden heifer to give easy calving and growth.

Supplier: Eurogene AI

Angus

Three-star terminal, four-star replacement, beef cow calving 4.5%

Jumbo Eric calves are now arriving in the UK and are very easily born. His carcase weight index is over four times the breed average as well as having a milk figure nearly double the breed average. Sired by the impressive Gretnahouse Blacksmith he is out of Joy Erica which has produced numerous AI bulls.

Supplier: Elite Pedigree Genetics

Belgian Blue

Three-star terminal, three-star replacement, beef cow calving 10.5%

An Adajio son suitable for suckler cows. The first crop of calves born in Belgium have been small at birth and exceptional quality. Nox is expected to be the ultimate weanling producer.

Supplier: Progressive Genetics and Munster Bovine

Limousin

Five-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 2.9%

Sired by the 45,000gns Ampertaine Jamboree and Claragh Lily. His dam is a full-sister to Claragh Franco and was junior interbreed champion at Balmoral show in 2016. A young bull with huge potential for commercial and pedigree.

Supplier: Eurogene AI

Angus

Three-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 0.8%

Sired by the easy-calving, high growth rate Rawburn Jagger Eric and back on a Bohey Jasper-bred dam. Carcase weight indices three times breed average with a daughter milk figure of 11.8kg. Suitable for beef cows and heifers with progeny that have the performance to hit top spec in the producer schemes.

Supplier: Eurogene AI

Parthenaise

Five-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 3.7%

Lancelot is an exceptional bull with superb carcase shape and an extra rib in length. He is a double carrier of the NT821 myostatin gene. He has several generations of top French breeding in his pedigree including Coquin, Escarden and Ripailleur.

Supplier: Bullbank

Belgian Blue

Five-star terminal, two-star replacement, beef cow calving 8.9%

Exceptional pedigree with Dafydd D’Ochain, Adajio De Bray and Ober Van Het Hubkeshof. Extreme muscle, style, length and pedigree all in the one package. A bull to produce high-value muscular weanlings.

Supplier: Dovea genetics

Limousin

Five-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 1.3%

Fuschia was bought in France by Whinfellpark at seven years old after being admired by many. Fuschia is a medium-sized bull with extreme muscling and carries two copies of the F94L myostatin gene. Ideal for producing easily calved stock that meet market specifications.

Supplier: Elite Pedigree Genetics

Limouisn

Five-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 2.7%

Double carrier of the F94L profit gene. Comes from three generations of easy-calving maternal bulls-Eravelle, Hawk and Highlander. Medium sized natural muscled Limousin sire selected in 2019 as part of the Dovea Genetics/Irish Limousin Imitative Maternal Improvement Programme.

Supplier: Dovea Genetics

Shorthorn

Tree-star terminal, four-star replacement, beef cow calving 3.6%

Jupiter is an easy-calving bull suitable for beef maiden heifers and suckler cows. His pedigree includes Chapelton Typhoon, Annaly Leo and Moydrum Castle King bloodlines. Jupiter has great length, topline development and spring of rib.

Supplier: Bullbank

Charolais

Three-star terminal, one-star replacement, beef cow calving 8.2%

Demon is an exceptional-quality homozygous polled Charolais sire. This is the first homozygous polled Charolais in Irish AI that is widely available to both commercial and pedigree herdowners. All of the calves will be polled. Demon is an outcross sire.

Supplier: Progressive Genetics and Munster Bovine

Limousin

Four-star terminal, five-star replacement, beef cow calving 2.4%

A complete bull high in both terminal and maternal traits. Marcus was selected by the Limousin Gene Ireland committee for entry into the programme. He boasts an exceptional sire stack of proven superior sires: Ampertaine Commander, Goldies Terence, Ronick Hawk and Eleazar.

Supplier: Progressive Genetics and Munster Bovine

Charolais

Five-star terminal, one-star replacement, beef cow calving 7.5%

A son of the highly popular Doonally New, with Pirate and Excellent also in the back breeding. Top priced bull sold at auction in 2019 when purchased for €11,500. One of the heaviest muscled CF52 sons seen and a perfect fit to produce in-demand weanlings from the Irish suckler herd.

Supplier: Dovea Genetics