Fertility is king!
By placing such high regard on this trait in our females, we test at around 95% pregnancy across our entire herd year in, year out.
Females enter our program at 8-10 months of age and are yearling mated. We strive to do an AI program every year with our heifers. We believe A.I. is a valuable tool that can fast-track top level genetics into our herd that we could not afford to introduce through natural service.
Our cows remain in our program until ten years of age unless they fail to produce and raise a calf. Longevity and sustained fertility is the cornerstone of our cow herd with cows continuing to go in calf well after 10 years of age.
When selecting our keep heifers each year, Jeremy looks for a number of traits:
In 2018, the challenging seasonal conditions resulted in a scale down of our planned A.I. program, but we did use MM Kingdom K35 over a mob of 100 4-6 year old females.
At this stage our plan for the 2019 A.I. program is to do around 120 maiden heifers.
