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This breed offers exceptional weight gain, with Simmental crosses reaching weaning weight the fastest, and showing the heaviest yearling and carcase weights in commercial conditions. Homozygous dilution sires will distinctively colour-mark a high proportion of dairy-beef progeny. Simmental is the top performer in the B+LNZ Genetics Dairy Beef Progeny Test for reaching weaning weight quickly and achieving strong yearling and carcase weights.
Simmental Focus Pack Average within-breed ranking across all sires (can only compared to other Simmental). Frozen.
725059 Kerrah M489
Kerrah Simmentals is New Zealand's largest performance recorded Simmental herd. The Kerrah breeding programme is focused on selecting animals that perform in a difficult climate within a commercially run operation. Kerrah M489 is LIC’s pick of the 2023-born bulls from the Kerrah Simmental herd. He’s a homozygous dilution, quiet, easy calving bull that comes with a short gestation length. His Simmental EBVs place him in the top 14% for calving ease and the top 10% for gestation length. His carcase Weight EBV is in the top 5% of the breed (indicating thick, heavy carcasses).
725060 Waikite M2134
From the intensively performance-recorded Waikite Simmental herd, M2134 is a moderate framed, nuggetty sire who is easy fleshing and has a mild temperament. He has an excellent spread of EBVs, ranking in the top 10% of the breed for Calving Ease and top 15% for shorter gestation length. His progeny should grow through to heavy carcase weights with increased yield and eating quality through IMF.
Individual nominated sires and sires within the Simmental Focus 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 IGS genetic evaluation and are published by the Simmental NZ.
725059 Individual / Simmental Focus Pack Kerrah M489
725060 Individual / Simmental Focus Pack Waikite M2134
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