Nationwide, there’s a high demand for calves that grow rapidly and maintain exceptional weight gains. LIC’s Charolais offer excellent colour-marking options and exceptional dairy-beef progeny performance. Consistently popular, Charolais has seen the greatest increase in demand for beef straws in each of the past four years. LIC-selected sires are true breed outliers for calving ease, moderate gestation length, growth, and heavy carcase weights.
Focus Pack Average within-breed ranking across all sires (can only compared to other Charolais). Frozen. Homozygous Polled.
722402 Kakahu Apollo
One of the most impressive looking Charolais bulls we’ve seen, and much admired by visitors to LIC’s bull farm. Apollo’s EBVs match his amazing phenotype. Within the NZ Charolais evaluation, he’s in the top 5% for calving ease and top 15% for gestation length. His growth figures place him in the top third of the breed and his eye muscle area is in the top 5%. Like Milestone, he’s a ‘go-to’ option for calves that will grow through to heavier weights and will command attention in the marketplace. According to 2024 MINDA calving records, he was one of the more reliable calving ease Charolais bulls.
722400 Kakahu Milestone
Milestone continues to set the standard for Charolais. His results from the B+LNZ Genetics Dairy Beef Progeny Test sees Milestone ranked 12th of 170 sires for his beef x dairy progeny to reach weaning weight in the shortest timeframe (76 days). Milestone’s beef x dairy calves had a lighter birth weight than the 11 sires above him, and he had a shorter gestation length than all but three of them. Milestone is a true outlier. Within the NZ Charolais evaluation, he’s in the top 2% for calving ease and top 1% for gestation length. His growth figures place him in the top 1% of the breed for yearling weight and top 5% for carcase weight.
Individual nominated sires and sires within the Charolais Pack.
Subject to availability. Availability of a Focus Pack sire throughout the year and delivery of straws will depend on bull collection status, size of order and allocation of a sires’ straws to an order. Note: EBVs in these links are updated monthly in the BREEDPLAN genetic evaluation and are published by the NZ Charolais Association.
722402 Individual KAKAHU APOLLO
722400 Individual KAKAHU MILESTONE
723404 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 210802
723404 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 210803
723407 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 210812
723409 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 220801
724406 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 220806
724411 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 220811
724426 Charolais Focus Pack KAKAHU 220826
724056 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON ULYSSES U1 (ET)
724057 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON USHER U4 (ET)
724058 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON UTAH U5 (ET)
724059 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON UGO U6 (ET)
724062 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON UMBERTO U10 (ET)
724063 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON UMAR U11 (ET)
724064 Charolais Focus Pack RISSINGTON URI U12 (ET)
Current LIC Beef + SGL catalogue
For further information on individual beef bulls and packs, please contact your local Agri Manager.
