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Kincardine Rainstorme R25
(Eligible for Export to Australia)
Purchased for $81,000 in May 2022. 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 200 progeny recorded in NZ and Australia confirming him as a trait leader for calving ease. 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 has an exceptional low mature cow weight giving the true efficiency we seek in the modern angus cow herd. His yearling sons and daughters are standouts wherever he has been used.
Mark Ferguson (NextGen Agri) and John McKone (PGGW Genetics) give their thoughts on the tremendously exciting sire!
Tangihau T613
Tangihau T613 was purchased at the record-breaking 2024 Tangihau Bull sale. For us he was the standout bull there with exceptional muscle and soundness in a moderate frame. Weighing in as one of the heaviest bulls on sale day at 850kg, he has now grown out to an impressive 900kg. Sired by the high performing Shian 18-563, who bred all the high priced Tangihau Stud bulls in 2023, his pedigree features the very successful cross of the Reality and Braveheart bloodlines. T613 displays exceptional 200-day growth, levelling out at the 600 day, and with the very efficient mature cow weight below his 400-day. Very strong muscle is matched an exceptional hindquarter and immaculate feet and leg structure. T613 is a very complete bull with wonderful style, presence, and superb temperament.
Atahua 59-22
Atahua 59-22 was purchased at the final Atahua bull sale in June 2024. He was selected for his exceptional depth and thickness together with outstanding eye muscle area which ranks in the top 2% for the breed. He was sired by the $60,000 Kaharau 589, who was a top Braveheart son of his year, and carries some of the best known Kaharau blood lines with Waihohonu 113 and Kaharau Class 790 featuring in the pedigree. His dam is a proven 11-year-old cow who produced 9 calves in 9 years. 59-22 is a moderate framed, deep bodied bull with strong calving ease, short gestation, and low birthweight. He has moderate growth with a very efficient moderate cow weight that is well below his 400-day. His scrotal size ranks in the top 2% for breed, as does his exceptional eye muscle area at +9.3. He has the easy doing ability we look for in the hill-country with good fats and IMF above breed average. This is a very well-balanced, stylish bull with true Angus quality head and bone, and a wonderful skin and coat. Suitable for mating heifers and cows to produce easy-doing efficient females for profitable hill-country beef production.
Woodbank 22365
Woodbank 22365 was purchased at the 2024 Woodbank sale. He was selected for his unique data set unmatched by any animal in the NZ Angus animal search. 22365 has wonderful maternal and fertility traits with calving ease, low birth weight, milk, and scrotal size all in the top 10% for breed. His carcase data is exceptional with EMA, rib fat, and rump fat in the top 1% of the breed. His growth is in the ideal efficient range with the low mature cow weight we look for in the hill country for a profitable beef herd. 22635 is upstanding on good feet, free moving, with a quiet disposition and great outlook. A bull that will add performance to any programme and a superb heifer mating option.
Meadowslea T234
Meadowslea T234 has been retained in the stud this year. 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 15% for the breed in NZ. T234 is very suitable for mating heifers or cows to breed efficient profitable females for the harder hill-country.
Meadowslea T202
Meadowslea T202 has been 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 of $176 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.
Meadowslea T238
Meadowslea T238 was used in the stud as a yearling and went on to be sold at lot 6 in our 2024 Bull Sale. He is sired by Turihaua Avenger, a bull we used in the AI programme who was sold as a two year old to Ratanui Angus, and then re-purchased by Turihaua as a 4 year old. His maternal pedigree features both Meadowslea F540 and Turihaua Crump, giving him a double shot of the great Turihaua Crumble. T238 is a powerful headed young sire with a very strong hindquarter who scanned with the second biggest EMA of all 220 bulls measured. This has now been further recognised with his recent genomics results lifting his EMA into the top 5% of the breed in NZ. He features exceptional fertility data with good scrotal and a short days to calving figure in the top 2% of breed. All this performance combines to generate an SRI index in the top 5% of the breed in NZ. T238 is a very sound, traditional NZ-bred sire with a very good structural assessment, wonderful temperament, strong performance and exceptional carcase data.
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 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 is also the sire of embryos offered in this sale.