YOUNG STOCK

We have used 5 bulls this season, Satchmo (B&W, horned), Sniper and U-Man (homozygous polls) Starfire (fullblood, polled) and Unix (by Haller Fex, polled).
Picture updates to be posted soon!

We have managed to have a defined calving time this year, most calves have hit the ground Sept/Oct.
Success with AI from Haller Fex over our kr Mars daughter, and our first home bred black and white calves - 3 polled black and white females included. A great start!

A fair while ago our Austrian friends Ossie and Melanie Dick were so kind to lend their bull “Haller Fex” to the Salzburger Rinderzuchtverband to send to the Semen Station for collection. We met the bull on their Alm in the summer and really wanted him for breeding to our Australian herds – a bull that was not too massive and able to sire calves on the Alm that can be born without trouble. The Salzburger Rinderzuchtverband, and then Genetic Austria made this possible – huge thanks to everyone involved !!
Once the semen arrived in Australia we started a first round of Artificial Insemination and got the first 9 pregnancies. They finished calving yesterday, we got 9 calves, small and swift on their feet, as we had hoped.
We joked and said surely all 9 cows inseminated within one hour would kindly have their calves within the same hour on the same morning of day 287 just like in the textbook. Sadly no such luck - but we did the statistics on our small sample space ….. and indeed the average gestation length was 287 days, with a standard deviation of 4 days. What did however not fit averages is the gender distribution –8 females out of 9 calves, (the boy calf was not out of a purebred cow so won’t be in the breeding pool). So we have 8 Purebred Haller Fex females from our best foundation cows to build up the herd – happy days!

Success with our AI Attempts - we are expecting 12 calfs from Haller Fex, the first round is due in November. Very good news we have pregnancies. It is very exciting to have a new polled bloodline from Austria in the mix.

An absolutely fantastic calf drop from Glentariff Derek, with more females than males so that should boost our registered female herd numbers at our farm!

Early season calves included a lovely heifer out of a Lockwood Lodge heifer by Shalni Park J-Man, a couple of bull calves by J-Man and Bimbadeen Park Liam, as well as 14 calves by Vestfold Park Trigger.
Success with AI as well: 3 calves by Austrian bulls - 1 heifer by kr Mars and 2 black and white heifer and bull calves by MAX - the first black and white purebred Pinzgauers in Australia. We are thrilled.