2024 Easter Semen Catalogue
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Kincardine Rainstorme R25
Eligible for Export to Australia - straws at Agrigene (Melbourne) available for immediate delivery.
Purchased for $81,000 in May 2022, Rainstorme was the star of the New Zealand 2022 selling season. A beautifully balanced, very sound young sire with a near perfect structural assessment score and a superb data set for efficient, sustainable beef production in any breeding programme. He excels in the key maternal and fertility traits of calving ease (both direct and maternal), short gestation, low birthweight, and the efficient moderate mature cow weight. His scrotal and milk EBVs rank him in the top 1% for the breed. He has the desirable strong early growth curve and outstanding EBV for eye muscle area which is clearly visible and supported by strong raw data. All this performance ensures he generates a Self Replacing Index in the top 5% for the breed. Thick and exceptionally well-muscled, he has a terrific back end, walks very well, and has a beautifully quiet disposition. We are hugely excited to have secured this bull, and the way he has developed a year later after paddock mating 80 females has to be seen to be believed.
Mark Ferguson (NextGen Agri) and John McKone (PGGW Genetics) give their thoughts on the tremendously exciting sire!
Meadowslea Q250
Qualified for export to Australia - straws at Agrigene (Melbourne) ready for immediate delivery.
Q250 was retained in 2021 to continue the exceptional EMA from the descendants of the great old cow G1000. Q250 scanned with the best EMA and IMF of his year group, as did his sire M564 who was a direct son of G1000. Q250 has a powerful pedigree being out of a daughter of Crump and going back to one of our greatest old cows A330, who was the granddam of Meadowslea N166 and the great-granddam of both P700 and Sudeley Viking. A330 descendants have plenty of IMF and Q250 has plenty himself ranking in the top 5% for the breed in NZ. His great grandam F530 was another great old cow with the top IMF of her year and sold as a 10-year-old cow to Helmsdale Angus. Q250 is a moderate-framed bull with great soundness and balance about him. He has a great data set with calving ease and low birth followed by strong growth and the efficient moderate cow size figure we look for, below his 400-day weight. His fertility traits are very strong and his carcass data is exceptional combining to give very good index figures. This is the classic F540 x Crump cross which has bred so many good cattle for us over many years. This semen has been highly sought after by some high profile studs in NZ for mating both heifers and adult cows.
Meadowslea R646
Qualified for export to Australia
We retained R646 as our first-choice keeper in 2022. He had been the stand-out yearling in the spring of 2021 with his exceptional width across the top and powerful hindquarter, making him a clear choice to use as a yearling over a top selection of adult cows. His sire Meadowslea M429 was sold to Red Oak stud at $18,000 and was himself sired by the $100,000 Rangatira 13-38. M429 is out of one of our greatest ever cows G922, who was also the dam of Meadowslea N166 who sired NZ’s highest price bull in 2022. R646 also has a strong maternal pedigree, with his dam M542 going back to Braveheart of Stern, and his maternal grandam H205 a great productive 10-year-old cow with very strong EMA and fats, who was sold in our 2022 Female Sale to Mt Albert Angus. R646 has an impressive data set with strong growth and a moderate mature cow weight. His fertility traits are impressive with a scrotal size EBV ranking in the top 5% for the breed. He scanned well with strong EMA inherited from both sides of his pedigree. His terrific easy-doing fats rank in the top 5% for the breed. He has developed in to a very impressive 4-year-old exhibiting all the easy doing attributes we value so strongly.
Meadowslea Q178
Qualified for export to Australia, USA, Canada
We retained Q178 in the stud in 2021. He had been a standout from weaning and we rated him as the best yearling we had ever bred when we selected him to mate a selection of top heifers. In the 2021 mating he was used heavily – firstly out with a selection of top heifers for a cycle and then 2 full cycles with adult cows. He maintained his condition exceptionally well and settled all in-calf. Q178 is very strong in the all-important fertility traits with both his scrotal size and short days to calving ranking in the top 5% for the breed. His exceptional easy doing ability is endorsed with strong rib and rump fats all in the top 25% for the breed. He exhibits superb breed quality and structural soundness with exceptional depth of body and hindquarter. His semen has sold to some of the leading studs in NZ as well as being exported to the US and Australia. The first of his sons, from his yearling mating, featured at lot 2 in our 2023 bull sale selling to Turihaua Angus.
Turihaua Crump E5
Eligible for Export to Australia
Recognised as one of NZ's most influential and long-lasting senior sires, he deserves his place in our front paddock at 14 years of age. Traditional NZ Angus hill country type with proven industry-leading fertility, Crump has sired over 450 outstanding progeny which are always highly sought after. His sons and grandsons have sold at top prices for studs across NZ, including grandson Meadowslea Mountain Man R705 sold for $92,500, the highest price 2-year-old bull sold in NZ in 2022. His daughters are the top breeding females in the Meadowslea herd, and are proving exceptionally fertile and productive in our hill country. This results in him now being a breed trait-leader for short days to calving at -9.1 days. He has been used with great results in over 25 Angus studs, both here in NZ as well as in Australia, and features in the pedigrees of many of the top breeding bulls in recent years. One son features in this sale; Meadowslea N166, as well as 2 grandsons; Meadowslea Q347 and Rangatira Rebel. He is no longer with us so only limited semen is left available.
Meadowslea N166
Sire of NZ's top price R2yr bull in 2022 - Meadowslea R705
Eligible for Export to Australia
We retained N166 in 2019 and rate him as possibly the best Turihaua Crump son ever! He is out of a top-performing Glanworth 08-16 cow (G922) who was sold in our 2021 Female Sale to Ballanee Angus Australia for $9,300 and featured as an ET donor. She also bred our top price bull in 2018; M429, sold to Red Oak Stud for $18,000, and the sire of R646. The first progeny from mating N166 as a 2-year-old were the outstanding feature of our 2022 bull sale catalogue, with lot 24, Meadowslea Mountain Man R705, selling for the highest price for any 2-year-old bull in NZ in 2022 at $92,500. N166 is a very powerful bull with tremendous head and jaw. He has a top pedigree behind him with his maternal grandam the great old cow A330, who is also the great-grandam of Sudeley Viking and Meadowslea P700. He has superb balance and outlook and is very sound footed.
Rangatira Rebel 19-798
Qualified for export to Australia, USA, Canada
Purchased at the final Rangatira bull sale in June 2021 for $35,000, this bull has an outstanding pedigree. Sire Turiroa Maverick has bred incredibly well at Rangatira and was himself a son of our very own Turihaua Crump. His dam 15-134 has bred exceptionally well too, with her first bull calf (also by Maverick) selling at lot 3 in the 2020 Rangatira bull sale for $35,000, and her third calf selling in the Rangatira yearling bull dispersal sale in March 2021 to Hallmark Angus. We selected 19-798 for his exceptional depth of body, easy fleshing, and moderate frame. He exhibits all the strength and soundness the Rangatira herd was known for, and with such a proven pedigree he is a very exciting prospect. Semen has recently been exported to the USA.
Meadowslea Q347
Qualified for export to Australia, USA, Canada
(On account of Glen R Angus)
Q347 was our top selling bull in the 2021 Bull Sale, bought by Glen R Angus for $32,000. An outstanding son of Rangatira 16-209 he scored with perfect 5’s for his structural assessment on the Beef-Class scoring system. Superbly sound and out of a top-performing Turihaua Crump daughter who scanned with the highest marbling score of her year. Q347 himself scanned with the 4th best IMF% of all 190 bulls on hand in 2020, and he is also strong in the fertility traits with his scrotal size, short days to calving, rib fat, and rump fat all in the top 20% for the breed. Thick, deep, and square with an outstanding hindquarter and exhibiting real quality throughout. This bull has developed into a tremendously powerful adult sire who offers the added bonus of heifer mating options. Semen has been recently exported to the USA.
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We have an exciting selection of embryos flushed out of cows who have lasted the 10 years on our hill country, sired by a variety of established and exciting new bulls!
Xcell Breeding Services offer an option to NZ clients to provide recipient cows and implantation services, only charging for those cows that scan pregnant, with the purchaser owning the recipients afterwards. Price is depending on the store cattle market in the spring. This is on top of the purchase price of the embryos.
For example, if you were to buy 5 embryos and achieve 3 pregnancies, you would pay Meadowslea for the 5 embryos, but only pay Xcell for 3 the pregnant recipients.
Embyros Available:
Meadowslea G1000 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 6 Embryos (NZ only)
Meadowslea G1000 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 6 Embryos (NZ only)
Meadowslea G895 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ / Australia)
Meadowslea G895 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ / Australia)
Donor Cows:
Meadowslea G1000
New Zealand's record price 10-year-old cow
Sold to Ballanee Angus Australia $16,050
G1000 was the standout cow of her year group and is one of our all-time favourites. She sold in our 2020 female sale to Ballanee Angus in Australia. She is a bigger-framed cow with exceptional EMA and fats which are being strongly inherited by all her descendants. She scanned with the biggest EMA and the second highest IMF% of her year group.
She is the dam of M564, our stud sire retained in 2018, who is a semen sire in this sale. M564 still holds the record for the biggest EMA we have ever scanned and passes this on to all his progeny. His EMA is now +9.1 and IMF +2.2
She is also the grandam of Meadowslea Q250 who is also a semen sire in this sale with an EMA of +6.0 and IMF +3.0
G1000 has a powerful pedigree being a daughter of the high performing Glanworth 08-16, whose daughters have proven to be some of the best cows in the herd with superb soundness and longevity. Her maternal pedigree line goes back to the well-known sires Stern Exact and Hingaia 469.
G1000 has exceptional figures for an 11-year-old cow with all her growth EBVs ranking in the top 10% for the breed in NZ. Her proven fertility traits are strong and she has the unusual combination of growth, rib and rump fats and proven exceptional EMA all in the top 10% for the breed.
Her embryos sired by Rainstorme are a very exciting prospect and we think almost the perfect mating. Rainstorme will double up on G1000’s exceptional EMA, with his own at +9.4 and his mothers’s at +11, both ranking in the top 2% for the breed. He brings calving ease with lower birth weight and his efficient low mature cow weight, to give the progeny an exciting potential data set with great soundness and longevity.
Meadowslea G895
Meadowslea G895 was also sold as a 10-year cow in our record breaking 2021 Female Sale to Ballanee Angus in Australia. She is another outstanding daughter of Glanworth 08 -16 who bred so many of our top breeding cows.
She has a strong maternal pedigree, being the daughter of another great old cow D056. D056 was the top priced 10-year-old cow in our inaugural Female Sale in 2017, selling to Linnburn Station for $5,500. D056 was an exceptional breeding cow who shows up in many of our top cattle pedigrees, including as the great-grandam of our stud sire K703 who is a semen sire in this catalogue.
G895 has bred consistently well including K924, a son of Turihaua Crump we used in the stud and later sold to Greg Hand at $9,500 and S506 who was a top son of L226 and sold in our 2023 bull sale at lot 48
She has exceptional fertility traits with a very good scrotal and short days to calving in the top 10% for the breed. Her easy doing rib and rump fats rank in the top 5% for the breed and her efficient moderate cow weight ensures she generates a good Self-replacing Index.
Her embryos sired by Rainstorme are an exciting prospect and his EMA will compliment her figures and double up on many of her great attributes including longevity and exceptional easy doing ability.