2026 Bull Sale reference sires
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Kincardine Rainstorme R25
(Eligible for Export to Australia)
Purchased for $81,000 in May 2022, this is a beautifully balanced, very sound young sire with ideal figures for New Zealand hill country. Thick and very well-muscled, he has a terrific back end, walks very well, and has a beautifully quiet disposition.
His EBVs predicted exceptional maternal and fertility traits, and this has been endorsed with over 300 progeny recorded in 24 stud herds in NZ and Australia, confirming him as a trait leader for calving ease, milk, and scrotal size. He ranks in the top 10% of the breed for short gestation and low birth weight while his milk, low mature cow weight, and scrotal size are all in the top 1% for breed. He also features outstanding carcase data which is being passed on to his progeny very strongly with their genomics data recording exceptional results.
Rainstorme is a true “curve-bender” with strong early growth which levels out by the 600-day, and he has an exceptional low mature cow weight giving the true efficiency we seek in the modern Angus cow herd. His sons and daughters are standouts wherever he has been used.
We used 10 sons as yearlings in our 2025 mating season, and there are a total of 12 sons in this catalogue.
Mark Ferguson (NextGen Agri) and John McKone (PGGW Genetics) give their thoughts on the tremendously exciting sire!
Rainstorme's front feet as a rising 4 year-old.
Meadowslea T234
Meadowslea T234 was retained in the stud in 2024. He was used as a yearling to mate heifers together with his half-brother T172, who was later sold at lot 1 in our 2024 Bull Sale to Glen R Angus for $20,000.
His sire Meadowslea P674 is leaving exceptional depth and thickness in all his progeny with outstanding muscle and hindquarters. This a pedigree stacked with proven depth, performance and longevity and features all the great old sires used at Meadowslea in recent times, including Turihaua Crump, Meadowslea F540, Meadowslea Meat Machine, and Goldwyn 17 as well as two shots of Braveheart of Stern.
T234 has calving ease, short gestation, and low birthweight all ranking in the top 10% for the breed. He has moderate growth with very efficient smaller mature cow size well below his 400-day weight. He is unmatched for depth and thickness with a true sire’s head. His easy fleshing and do-ability is evident with his very strong fats and his EMA ranks in the top 10% for the breed in NZ. T234 is very suitable for mating heifers or cows to breed efficient, profitable females for the harder hill-country.
He has some good sons in this sale, they are all real nuggets with terrific heifer mating figures.
Meadowslea R818
On account of Jade Park Angus, Australia
Qualified for export to Australia
Meadowslea R818 was sold at lot 4 in our 2022 Bull Sale to Jade Park Angus in Australia for $23,500. The bull himself remains domiciled in NZ at Meadowslea where he has been used over stud heifers and cows with the first of his progeny looking very impressive. R818 was a standout calf right from the start and we consider him to be possibly the best Meat Machine son we have ever bred. We selected him to use as a yearling with his great calving ease, short gestation, and moderate birth weight making him an ideal choice for mating a top selection of stud yearling heifers. He has a powerful maternal pedigree with his grandam’s sire the well-known Meadowslea F540. His maternal great grandam C1047 was one of our greatest ever breeding cows and was the dam of F801, a cow sold to Australia for embryo transplant who shows up in many of our leading pedigrees. R818 has inherited the exceptional depth of body and massive hindquarter of his sire Meat Machine (who is also a semen sire in this catalogue) and passes on wonderful easy-doing and early maturing attributes to all his progeny. R818 is a very exciting prospect and has developed into a very impressive 4-year-old with superb muscle and thickness. The first of his two-year-old sons featured strongly in our 2024 bull sale including lot 38 T106 transferred to Turihaua Angus. In our 2025 bull crop he bred retained sire U181 and has a good son used as a yearling at lot 22 this year.
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. He offered us outcross bloodlines with a powerful pedigree. His sire Meadowslea M429 was sold to Red Oak stud at $18,000 and is sired by the $100,000 Rangatira 13-38. M429 is out of one of our greatest ever cows G922, who is also the dam of Meadowslea N166 who sired NZ’s highest price bull in 2022. G922 is a donor cow in this embryo sale. 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 transferred in our 2022 Female Sale to Mt Albert Angus. R646 has very, strong growth with good fertility traits and the easy doing fats ranking in the top 10% for the breed. R646 calves were standouts at weaning and have continued to impress with wonderful width across the loin and deep powerful hindquarters. They featured very strongly in our 2025 Bull Sale line-up.
Meadowslea Quartz Q250
Qualified for export to Australia
Quartz Q250 was retained in 2021 to continue the exceptional EMA from the descendants of the great old cow G1000 who was sold as a 10-year-old to Ballanee Angus in Australia, for a NZ record of $16000. Quartz scanned with the best EMA and IMF of his year group, as did his sire M564 who is a direct son of G1000 (and who also has semen in this sale). Quartz has a powerful pedigree being out of a daughter of Crump and going back to one of our greatest old cows A330 who is the granddam of Meadowslea N166 and the great-granddam of Meadowslea P700 and Sudeley Viking. A330 descendants all have plenty of IMF and Quartz is no exception, ranking in the top 10% for the breed in NZ. His great grandam F530 was another great old cow with the top IMF scan of her year and was sold as a 10-year-old cow to Helmsdale Angus. Quartz is a moderate-framed bull with great soundness and balance about him. He has a great data set with calving ease and super low birth weight, followed by strong growth and the efficient moderate cow size figure we look for that is below his 400-day weight. His fertility traits are very strong, and his carcase data is exceptional, all combining to give very good index figures. This is the classic F540 x Crump cross which has bred so many good cattle for us at Meadowslea over many years.
Meadowslea Q178
Qualified for export to Australia, USA, Canada
We retained Meadowslea 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 exhibits superb breed quality and structural soundness with exceptional depth of body and hindquarter. The first of his 2-year-old sons were the real feature of the 2024 bull sale with all 7 displaying the same depth, thickness and exceptional hindquarters. His semen has sold to some of the leading studs in NZ as well as being exported to the US and Australia. Q178 picked up and injury at the start of the 2024 mating season but has a number of top grandsons in this sale.
Turihaua Tornado Q336
Turihaua Tornado was purchased at the 2021 Turihaua bull sale. He is a deep bodied, thick barrelled bull with very good structure and superbly sound feet and legs. His sire Torpedo has bred some of the best carcase bulls at Turihaua in the last few years and the sire of dam, Rex, is also leaving thick cattle with great spring of rib. Tornado has great muscling throughout with a top hindquarter and easy doing fats with a strong EMA. He is very well balanced, and we love his soundness and docility. This bull is the unbreakable type that lasts and does the job in the toughest country. The first of his 2-year sons featured strongly in our 2024 Bull Sale with superb structural soundness and exceptional muscularity. We rate this bull highly and believe he will breed very functional productive females for the NZ hill-country environment. He bred our keeper bull this year as well as a number of top sons throughout the 2026 bull catalogue.
Meadowslea P700
P700. TRAIT LEADER for IMF. P700 was retained in the stud in 2020 for his carcase traits and heifer mating options. He has a very strong pedigree being sired by L226 who goes back to J514, a Meadowslea F540 son sold to Earnscleugh Station for $23,000, and also the great Turihaua Crunp. His dam H117 is an exceptionally moderate-framed 12-year-old cow who was sold at a leading price in our 2022 Female Sale to Albert Hill Angus for $3,900. She has exceptional IMF in the top 1% for the breed and bred very well for us also being mother of one of our 2022 keeper bulls R650. The paternal grandam is the great old cow A330 who is also the great-grandam of Sudeley Viking and Meadowslea Quartz Q250, as well as the grand-dam of Meadowslea N166. A330 has passed on exceptional IMF to all her descendants and P700 has certainly inherited plenty. His recently completed genomics test results rank him in the top 1% for the breed in NZ. His sons were a real feature of our 2023 bull sale selling to the top price of $20,500 and consistently scanning with IMF in the top percentiles for the breed in NZ. His data set shows his great strength in maternal and fertility traits with calving ease, short gestation, low birthweight, milk and scrotal all in the top 5%. His easy doing traits are plain to see with fats at the very top of the breed and the efficient low mature cow weight we look for in the hill-country.
Meadowslea N166
Sire of NZ's top price R2yr bull in 2022 - Meadowslea Mountain Man 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 features as an ET donor in this catalogue. She also bred our top price bull in 2018; M429, sold to Red Oak Stud for $18,000. 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. He has both sons and grandsons featuring throughout the catalogue.
Meadowslea M564
Retained in the stud in 2018, M564 is a son of the legendary Meadowslea F540 and out of our record-breaking cow G1000, who was sold to Ballanee Angus Australia in our 2021 Female Sale for a NZ record price of $16,000 and features as an ET donor in this catalogue. She was sired by the high-performing Glanworth 08-16 and also features the great Hingaia 469 in her pedigree. G1000 scanned with the biggest EMA of her year group and all her descendants have inherited this exceptional eye muscle. We selected M564 to use as a yearling after he had scanned with the biggest EMA ever recorded in the stud, and he is consistently passing this on to all his progeny. He has short gestation with moderate birthweight and very strong fertility traits of good scrotal size and short days-to-calving. A moderate-framed, easy-doing type reflected in his strong rib and rump figures featuring in the top 2%. With good IMF as well in the top 5%, he has a terrific spread of figures for hill-country resulting in very strong index figures. Two of the first of his 2-year-old daughters bred sons in our 2023 bull sale, both with strong EMA, sold to Turiroa and Tarangower Angus Studs. He has just the one son in the sale this year displaying his trademark outstanding carcass data.
Meadowslea T202
Meadowslea T202 was retained in the stud in 2024 after having been used as a yearling. His sire is Turihaua Jupiter who has bred exceptionally well, leaving beautifully sound cattle with outstanding feet and leg structure and very strong muscle. T202 is perfectly balanced with a wonderful clean shoulder and great top line. He is very well muscled along the loin and down through the hindquarter with deep rib and flank. His structural assessment score was near perfect 5’s, he moves with ease and pulls up perfectly every time. He has a nicely balanced moderate growth curve ideal for hill-country, with the efficient moderate cow size we look for below his 400day growth figure. Combine this efficient cow weight with his strong fertility, with a short days-to-calving figure in the top 2% for the Angus, and he generates a Self-Replacing Index ranking him at the very top of the breed. His carcase data is also impressive with strong muscle and fats in the top 20% for the breed in NZ. He has a number of powerful sons through the middle of the catalogue packing real punch!
Turihaua Jupiter Q353
Jupiter was purchased at the 2021 Turihaua bull sale and was selected for his terrific thickness and muscle pattern. His width of loin is exceptional, and this is endorsed with an EBV for EMA of +8.1 - as high as any Turihaua bull we had seen and ranking him in the top 5% for the breed in NZ. He is a moderate framed bull with real depth of body and is deceptively heavy, weighing in at over a ton. He has the super-efficient low moderate cow size for sustainable production in the harder hill-country, with very short days to calving in the top 2% for breed. His easy doing traits are plain to see. This very profitable range of data is rewarded with an SRI index of +$190 ranking in the top 1% for the breed! A very sound type who had a near perfect structural assessment score and very high serving capacity. The first of the Jupiter sons were standouts in the 2024 bull sale with sons at lot 2 and 3 being top picks. We used 5 sons as yearlings all with exceptional muscle an EMA and retained T202 who features as a semen sire in this catalogue. Jupiter breeds super sound cattle with serious muscle and much more growth than his figures would suggest.
Sudeley Bjorn S80
Purchased at the 2023 Sudeley bull sale for $20,000, Bjorn is a son of the high profile Sudeley Viking who was sold to Earnscleugh Station for $60,000. Viking’s mother is by a Meadowslea bull whose dam was one of our greatest ever cows A330, the grandam of our stud sires N166 and M429, the great-grandmother of P700, as well as the dam of the embryo donor cow G922. The A330 descendants exhibit terrific marbling and Sudeley Bjorn is no exception with an IMF figure of +4.0 ranking him in the top 1% for the breed. He has a nicely balanced data set with calving ease and moderate birth weight making him a great heifer mating option. Good growth and the efficient moderate cow weight we look for in the hill-country. He has good muscle with strong rib and rump fats and has an easy moving gait and quiet disposition.
Legacy sires
The following legendary bulls are in the background of many of the bulls on offer.
Meadowslea F540
Eligible for Export to Australia
F540 continues to have the biggest impact in the Meadowslea herd of any bull we have ever bred. His daughters and granddaughters are outstanding, weaning thumping calves and maintaining their condition all year round. This is a real testament to his rib and rump fats which rank in the top 5% for the breed in NZ. The exceptional fertility and maternal traits of his female progeny have resulted in him now ranking as a trait leader in NZ for short Days to Calving, at - 9.4 days, meaning he is in the top 1% for the breed in NZ. He is also a trait leader for both short gestation and milk, and excels in almost every maternal and fertility trait measurable. This bull exhibits the important longevity we look for in the Angus Breed and is still going strong at 11 years old. Deep, thick, easy-doing sire with an exceptional balance of figures for hill country. F540 has over 270 recorded progeny across 10 Angus Studs in NZ and Australia. He has been used successfully in commercial herds as well as in the BLNZ Beef and Dairy progeny tests, where his progeny performed even better than his EBV's would suggest.
Meadowslea "Meat Machine" G914
It is obvious why we named this fellow “Meat Machine” with his exceptional muscle pattern and his incredible easy doing attributes. He has now bred over 200 progeny in 9 herds in NZ. He has had a huge impact on the Meadowslea herd and has become an all-time favourite sire. He leaves terrific thickness and depth with his signature powerful hindquarter evident on all his offspring. The easy-doing ability that we value so strongly in the hill-country is evident in his exceptional rib and rump fat EBVs which are almost off the scale for the Angus breed. He has great calving ease with low birthweight and an incredibly efficient moderate cow size which is down at the same level as his 200-day weight. We believe he is the true Angus hill-country type, and this is accurately reflected in him being ranked in the top 5% of the breed for self-replacing index. He features in the pedigrees of many of the top animals we have bred recently at Meadowslea including our top priced bull in 2024 and our keeper bull T234 who also has semen on offer in this sale.
Turihaua Crump E5
(Eligible for Export to Australia)
Turihaua Crump is recognised as one of NZ's most influential and long-lasting senior sires of recent times. He earned his place in our front paddock until 14 years of age. Traditional NZ Angus hill country type with proven industry-leading fertility, Crump has sired over 450 outstanding progeny in NZ and Australia 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 to KayJay Angus, the highest price 2-year-old bull sold in NZ in 2022. His daughters have been the top breeding females in the Meadowslea herd and are proved to be exceptionally fertile and productive in our hill country. This results in him now being a breed trait-leader for short days to calving. 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. He breeds wonderfully sound females with exceptional fertility and longevity that provide a solid foundation for any breeding programme. Very limited semen is left available.