Beef Herdplus Journal 2013 by ICBF

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2013 | 2014 JOURNAL Issue Number 3

In this issue: • • • •

Beef Herdplus User’s Guide History of Beef Progeny Testing in Ireland International Beef Evaluations explained €uro-Stars Update & Beef AI Sire Lists

• Beef Breed Statistics 2012 • G€N€ IR€LAND Maternal Beef Breeding Program

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Contents Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................................4 Beef Breed Statistics 2012 .......................................................................................................................................5 Numbers of Pedigree calves & Countries of origin of Sires.....................................................................................8 Distribution of AI & Stockbull sires of calves .........................................................................................................9 Top 10 most popular sires of Pedigree calves.....................................................................................................11 Countries of origin of Dams...............................................................................................................................19 Numbers of ET calves born ...............................................................................................................................20 Numbers of Pedigree animals exported & imported.............................................................................................21 Numbers of Speciality/Rare pedigree animals.....................................................................................................26 Numbers of Commercial calves born by breed of sire & dam ...............................................................................29

Beef Herdplus Guide ...............................................................................................................................................30 Joining Beef Herdplus.......................................................................................................................................31 Logging in........................................................................................................................................................31 Getting your password ......................................................................................................................................31 Finding your way around the Herdplus Homepage...............................................................................................32 Herdplus Reports..............................................................................................................................................33 Calving Report .........................................................................................................................................34 €uro-Star Report.....................................................................................................................................35 Suckler Cow Report..................................................................................................................................36 Bull Tracker Report...................................................................................................................................37 Dry-Stock Report .....................................................................................................................................38 Weighing Report ......................................................................................................................................39 Slaughter Report......................................................................................................................................39 5 Year Trend Report..................................................................................................................................40 Herdplus Applications .......................................................................................................................................41 Herd Info .................................................................................................................................................41 Record Events..........................................................................................................................................41 Stock Report............................................................................................................................................42 Inbreeding Checker..................................................................................................................................43 Sales Catalogue.......................................................................................................................................44 Teagasc Profit Monitor..............................................................................................................................45 AHI – BVD Results ...................................................................................................................................45 DAF Schemes..........................................................................................................................................46

Cover photographs provided by O’Gorman Photography – www.ogorman.dphoto.com.

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Beef Progeny Testing in Ireland ..............................................................................................................................47 Genetic Trends by breed....................................................................................................................................47 History of Ireland’s beef progeny test system......................................................................................................49 Influential Animals ............................................................................................................................................58 Maternal Beef Breeding Program ...........................................................................................................................62 Overview & benefits of the program ...................................................................................................................63 Frequently Asked Questions ..............................................................................................................................66 International Beef Evaluations ...............................................................................................................................69 Interbeef Backround & Overview........................................................................................................................69 €uro-Stars Update .................................................................................................................................................77 Catalogue page changes…...............................................................................................................................77 €uro-Stars User’s Guide...................................................................................................................................78 €uro-Star breed averages masterlist.................................................................................................................80 Active Beef Bull Lists ..............................................................................................................................................81 Weight Recorders Contact List................................................................................................................................97 Industry Contact List...............................................................................................................................................98 Herdplus Sign-Up form .........................................................................................................................................103

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Introduction Welcome to this year’s edition of the Beef Herdplus Journal. This publication gives an uptodate overview of the Beef Herdplus Service. All of the various Beef Herdplus reports and applications are explained in a user-friendly way. It also contains articles about the latest beef breeding developments such as the Maternal beef breeding program which started in 2013. Updated cattle breeding statistics and listings of Active Beef AI Sires are also included. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that contributed material to this Journal. A great debt of gratitude is owed to Valerie Seary and the team at Johnswood Press for all of their help and patience in producing this publication. We really hope you enjoy reading this year’s Journal. In particular, please ensure that you are familiar with the reports and applications that are described herein, thus ensuring that you are getting maximum value from being a Beef Herdplus member. As always, if you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 1850-600-900 or query@icbf.com.

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Beef Breed Statistics 2012 Introduction Following is an analysis of the 2012 beef pedigree calf crop, placing particular emphasis on the countries of origin of sires & dams that are represented across the various breeds.

Main Beef Breeds – Origins

Breed

First Imported

Origin

Current Numbers Breeders Calves Born in 2012

Hereford

1775

463

3390

Angus

1843

1600

6468

Shorthorn

1882

246

968

Charolais

1964

France

2109

9887

Simmental

1971

Austria

522

2468

Limousin

1972

France

1712

9974

Blonde d'Aquitaine

1974

France

492

Belgian Blue

1980

Belgium

191

752

Piedmontese

1982

Italy

207

Aubrac

1992

France

527

Salers

1997

France

120

806

Parthenaise

1997

France

294

Table 1: Origin, year of first importation & current numbers of the main beef breeds in Ireland.

Table 1 summary: • Of the beef breeds that have been brought into Ireland the Hereford, Angus & Shorthorn breeds are here by far the longest. • The majority of the other breeds were first imported in the 1960’s and 70’s.

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Following are some photos of some of the first animals to be imported in some of the breeds.

A Charolais Heifer moving to her new home following 5 months quarantine on Spike Island, April 1966 (Photo: Irish Farmers Journal).

‘Violin’ (CF7), born Feb 1st 1964. One of the first Charolais AI Sire’s – Imported from France by the Dept. of Agriculture. Owned by Dovea AI.

‘Hervin’ (FL1), born 16th March 1972 was Ireland’s first Limousin AI Sire. He was imported from France and owned by Munster AI.

A group of progeny by ‘Violin’ (CF7) sold at Templemore Livestock mart in 1974. Weight: 620kgs. Age: 2 Years

Paddy & Mary Clancy with the first Irish born Limousin calf, Cregg Harmonie, June 1972.

‘Lord Mentor of Knockbrown’ – Champion at the Munster Bull Sale 1960. Sold to Munster AI Society for 370 guineas – top price for all breeds on the day.

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‘Deerpark Leader VI’, born 20th March 1972. Shorthorn AI Bull whose sire was the famous ‘Deerpark Leader’.

’Siegfried’, born 10th June 1971. Imported from Austria, he was one of the first Simmental AI Sire’s in Ireland.

‘Brackford Valiant’, born 4th January 1963, was one of the first Hereford AI Sire’s. He stood in Dovea AI.

RDS March 1967 – Pictured is William Stroker with Connaught Champion ‘Crossroads Evergay’ and Connaught Reserve Champion ‘Crossroads Echo’.

‘Nigaud de Miecret’, born 1st September 1986, was one of the first Belgian Blue Sire’s to stand in an Irish AI Station (Dovea AI).

’Rio’, born 6th March 2000, was one of the first Salers AI Sire’s to stand in Ireland (Munster AI).

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Sires - Countries of Origin Countries of origin for Sires of Beef Pedigree* Calves born in 2012

Pedigree Calf Totals by Sire Origin

% of Totals

310

0.03%

498

0.03%

0.04%

0.20%

7367

20%

Simmental

Shorthorn

Saler

Piedmontese

Parthenaise

Limousin

Hereford

Charolais

B.Blue

Blonde

Origin of Sires

Aubrac

Angus

Number of Pedigree Calves

310

Australia

Austria 498

Belgium 14

Canada Germany

Denmark

USA

15 78

Italy 213

France UK

1293

Ireland Pedigree Calf Totals by Breed % of all Pedigree Breeds

5160

4002

2601

156

217

331

140

2224

314

227

178

5554

2939

5148

138

6468

527

492

752

9887

3390

9974

18%

27%

28%

340 54

131

642

5108

14%

129

412

822

1781 22802

63%

294

207

806

968

2468 36233

*Pedigree: Any calf whose breed fraction is 100% of the same breed and has a name. Only breeds with at lease 100 registrations in the ICBF database included

Table 2: Numbers of Beef Pedigree calves born in Ireland in 2012 – analysed by breed & by country of Origin of Sire.

Table 2 summary: ✦ Almost 90% of all pedigree beef calves come from 5 breeds: Limousin, Charolais, Angus, Hereford & Simmental. • The remaining 10% of calves are from 7 different breeds: Aubrac, Blonde d’Aquitaine, Belgian Blue, Parthenaise, Piedmontese, Saler & Shorthorn (Graph 1). ✦ 63% of all pedigree calves born in 2012 were sired by Irish Sires.

✦ Consequently, 37% of all pedigree calves, across the breeds, born in 2012, were sired by foreign sires. • These foreign Sires originated from 10 different countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Denmark, USA, Italy, France & the UK (Graph 2). • Within the various breeds, the proportion of calves sired by foreign sires varies from 13% (Hereford) to 76% (Belgian Blue) (Graph 3).

37% of all pedigree calves born in 2012 were sired by Foreign Bulls, who came from 10 different countries. 8

AI Sire

699 53 6530 3356 1161 2231 6211 3762 114 180

81 29 231 877 88 296 216 787 29

53 154

23 23

284

12 98

10 53 190

522 392

576 1580 888

88 54 111 115 205

52 41

*Pedigree: Any calf whose breed fraction is 100% of the same breed and has a name. Only breeds with at least 100 registrations in the ICBF database included.

38% 62% 20% 80% 34% 66% 93% 7% 66% 34% 35% 65% 62% 38% 39% 61% 26% 74% 35% 65% 40% 60% 64% 36%

Sired by AI/Stockbull

63 820 69 289 47 758

2458 4010 107 420 169 323

Progeny Totals

99 252 17

20 26

Stock Bull

Sire Totals

AI Sire

Stock Bull

132 12

Stock Bull

55 234

Stock Bull

146 51

AI Sire

Ireland

AI Sire

Stock Bull

Shorthorn Simmental

AI Sire

Saler Stock Bull

40 18

Stock Bull

Blonde Stock Bull

B. Blue Stock Bull

Aubrac

AI Sire

France

Italy

USA

Denmark

Germany

Canada

Belgium

Austria

Australia

Origin of Sires

Charolais Hereford Limousin Parthenaise Piedmontese Stock Bull

Angus Stock Bull

Number of AI Sires & Stockbulls

Numbers of AI Sires and Stockbulls used to sire Beef Pedigree* Calves born in 2012

55%

19758

1014

366

192

360

45%

16475

2837

2615

118

AI Sires Stock Bull Totals Totals

36233

3851

2981

285

478

Grand Totals

Origin of Sires Totals

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Types of Sires Distribution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AI Sires / Stockbulls

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Proportion of 2012 Pedigree Beef calves born by Breed

Countries of Origin for Sires of 2012 born Pedigree Calves

Graph 1: Proportion of Pedigree beef calves born in each breed in 2012.

Graph 2: Distribution of Countries of origin for the Sires of the 2012 born pedigree calves.

% of 2012 born Pedigree Calves sired by Foreign Sires

% of 2012 born Pedigree Calves sired by AI Sires

Graph 3: Percentage of 2012 born Pedigree Calves that were sired by Foreign Sires.

Graph 4: Percentage of 2012 born Pedigree Calves that were sired by AI Sires.

Table 3 (Previous page): Numbers of AI Sires & Stockbulls used to sire Beef Pedigree calves born in 2012 - analysed by breed & by country of Origin of Sire.

% of 2012 born Pedigree Calves sired by Stockbulls

Table 3 summary: ✦ 55% of all pedigree calves are sired by AI Sires. • Within the various breeds, the proportion of calves sired by AI Sires ranges from 20% (Aubrac) to 93% (Belgian Blue) (Graph 4). ✦ 45% of calves were sired by Stockbulls. • Within the various breeds, the proportion of calves sired by Stockbulls ranges from 7% (Belgian Blue) to 80% (Aubrac) (Graph 5).

Graph 5: Percentage of 2012 born Pedigree Calves that were sired by Stockbulls.

45% of all pedigree calves born in 2012 were sired by Stockbulls.

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Popular Beef AI Sires - 2012 The following tables underline the influence that foreign sires have on Ireland’s crop of pedigree beef calves every year.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Angus calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

LFG

GBR

LUDDENMORE FIONN G441

128

MLJ

IRL

MOGEELY JOE H979

124

FIW

IRL

FRIARSTOWN EDITION

117

AYR

GBR

AYNHO ROSSITER ERIC B125

CYI

IRL

CONEYISLAND LEGEND

IE311812640056

IRL

BALLYCAHER DANCER

ERW

GBR

CHEEKLAW EIRWYN D165

IE141163830808

IRL

GABRIEL EDWARD 808

GJB

IRL

GOULDING JUMBO KING K436 ET

BJP

IRL

BOHEY JASPER

Total

722

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

11%

Table 4: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Angus calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Aubrac calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

IE391032040720

IRL

DREYLANDS DANE

FR4803010031

FRA

MOURGUES ULTRA

DPZ

FRA

DESPAGNOU

IE201185670161

IRL

MERVILLE BRUTUS

IE361414330993

IRL

JOHNSTOWN DARRAGH 730

S581

FRA

VULCANIA

FR1529116185

FRA

EQUATEUR

PRZ

FRA

PERLOU

FR4806026863

FRA

BOISSIEUR AGRUME

IE201038480330

IRL

CALVERSTOWN TENNESSEE

Total

185

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

35%

Table 5: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Aubrac calves in 2012.

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Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Blonde calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

UK933268500836

GBR

APPLECROFT VAN

IE211355240894

IRL

CLIFDEN CONWAY

DGK

GBR

DONCOMBE AGA KHAN

S985

GBR

BLACKWATER AINSLEY

UK107023600264

GBR

SHAPFELL VIMTO

IE121329750084

IRL

LARAGH CHIEFTAN

EJW

GBR

EDENDALE JIGSAW

UK912178506025

GBR

DRUMRAYMOND DOLLAR

UK522798500899

GBR

STRATHISLA EGOR

BUH

GBR

BUDORE UTAH

Total

192

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

39%

Table 6: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Blonde’d’Aquitaine calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree B.Blue calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

S598

BEL

HEROS DU PEROY

EZN

BEL

EMPIRE D'OCHAIN

S859

IRL

BOHERARD CANTONA ET

S658

BEL

IMPORTANT DE LA HASSE

S657

BEL

HARISSON ET DE LA PLATTE

S905

BEL

IMPERIAL DE L'ECLUSE

S1109

GBR

SOLWAY VIEW DYNAMITE

TIY

BEL

TINTIN DE MY

S847

BEL

JACKPOT 9831 ET TER REYBROECK

7986103002

BEL

BARBIER

Total

377

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

50%

Table 7: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Belgian Blue calves in 2012.

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Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Charolais calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

PTE

FRA

PIRATE

749

DEZ

IRL

COTTAGE DEVON

519

CF85

FRA

BALTHAZAR

349

CXY

IRL

CLOVERFIELD EXCELENT

246

LGL

IRL

LISNAGRE ELITE (ET)

236

CF52

FRA

DOONALLY NEW

182

RHI

IRL

ROUNDHILL DOC 1068 (ET)

167

LSP

IRL

LISCALLY ETI ET

149

MJR

FRA

MAJOR

135

TZA

IRL

LYONSDEMESNE TZAR

131

Total

2863

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

29%

Table 8: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Charolais calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Hereford calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

WMO

AUS

BOWMONT STORM A584

115

KSG

IRL

KILSUNNY GOLIATH

GSQ

IRL

GLASLOUGH ESQUIRE

AGI

IRL

ARDLAHAN GINGER

BWU

IRL

BALLINASCRAW ULTRA

TIB

IRL

TRILLICK BEST

SZY

AUS

SMITHSTON DARBY

GCT

IRL

GOULDINGPOLL 1 CAPTAIN

MWZ

AUS

MAWARRA SENTIMENTAL

IE281288620374

IRL

ARDMULCHAN ELVIS

Total

647

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

19%

Table 9: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Hereford calves in 2012.

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Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Limousin calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

NHL

GBR

NETHERHALL EPIC

428

ADX

IRL

ARDLEA DAN

338

HCF

GBR

HALTCLIFFE DANCER

288

SYP

FRA

SYMPA

257

MBP

IRL

MILBROOK DARTANGAN ET

248

ROX

FRA

ROCKY

205

ERE

IRL

ELITE ERASMUS ET

202

APM

GBR

AMPERTAINE COMMANDER

193

WGE

GBR

WILODGE CERBERUS

191

MUC

FRA

MAS DU CLO

172

Total

2522

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

25%

Table 10: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Limousin calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Parthenaise calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

IE141855180282

IRL

FIANNA HERD EDWIN

LRY

IRL

LISNAGRANCHY CARLO

BUF

FRA

BUFFALO

IRX

FRA

SIREX

FR7969870993

FRA

BALOU

FR1586055709

FRA

BOLIDE

IE361213610375

IRL

AILESBURY FARM DARCY

FR8609389829

FRA

FANFARON

IE361213670356

IRL

AILESBURY FARM CAESAR

IE361276610125

IRL

PODERE LE BIANCHE DONATELLO

Total

153

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

52%

Table 11: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Parthenaise calves in 2012.

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Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Piedmontese calves - 2012 Rank

Brd

Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

IE251358610611

IRL

KILCOURSEY FRED

IE341394740304

IRL

BALLYKIVEEN EXCALIBUR

IE331411650707

IRL

CLOUGHSAN GORDON

IE371242210442

IRL

BALLYROE FERGUS

IE381064730304

IRL

GORT NA NGEALT FRANK

IE201121540338

IRL

BALLYCAGHAN ENZO

IT004990298944

ITA

OBLIO

IT004990177256

ITA

MUNTOR

IE341394730303

IRL

BALLYKIVEEN EQUINE

IT004902176085

ITA

INTERNET

Total

124

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

60%

Table 12: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Piedmontese calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Salers calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

BHU

IRL

BALLYMACKEOGH HUGH

FR7984001545

FRA

VAILLANT

FR1583004347

FRA

UGOLIN

IE121616950182

IRL

LATASTER IVAN

FR6337522913

FRA

URUGUAY (FR 11)

UK910230613505

GBR

BALLYWILLAN LEWIS (UK 08)

LZR

IRL

LATASTER ERIC

IE321237630482

IRL

MOYGARA INVINCIBLE

S619

FRA

UBLO

TUZ

FRA

TURBULENT

Total

269

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

33%

Table 13: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Salers calves in 2012.

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Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Shorthorn calves - 2012 Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Rank

Brd

CZB

IRL

CREAGA DICE (P)(ROAN)

106

IE151494990619

IRL

KNOCKAGARRY GUS 619 P

UK541500600140

GBR

FINGASK WELLINGTON (H)

SBU

IRL

SLIABHBHUI PRINCE 2ND

S869

CAN

ALTA CEDAR PERFECT STORM 11U

UK910076807464

GBR

CLANSMAN OF BALLYVADDY

SFT

IRL

SEAFIELD TITAN

SZD

GBR

STONMOUR THUNDER CLOUD (P)

IE341364420340

IRL

CLOUGHREADY BUSTER (RO)

IGL

AUS

INGLETON C111

Total

275

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

28%

Table 14: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Shorthorn calves in 2012.

Most Popular Sires of Pedigree Simmental calves - 2012 Rank

Country of Origin Name

Pedigree Calves

Brd

APZ

IRL

CURAHEEN APOSTLE ET

158

CQA

IRL

CURAHEEN VIO (ET)

148

KFY

GBR

KILBRIDE FARM NEWRY

140

IS4

IRL

SEEPA TEE JAY

S699

GBR

BANWY T-REX

S1048

GBR

DRUMLONE ANCHOR 09

TBE

GBR

DELFUR T-BONE

GFY

GBR

GLEBEFARM TYSON

IE221283390783

IRL

CLONAGH AWESOME TRUELY

TSO

IRL

CURAHEEN TYSON (ET)

Total

877

% of all 2012 born pedigree calves

35%

Table 15: List of the most popular sires of pedigree Simmental calves in 2012.

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% of 2012 Calf Crop sired by the 10 most popular Sires in each Breed 70%

✦ On average, across all of the breeds, the 10 most popular bulls sired 35% of the pedigree calves.

60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% %

Avg

11%

35%

39%

50%

29%

19%

25%

52%

60%

33%

28%

35%

Table 16: Percentage of 2012 born Pedigree Calves that were sired by the 10 most popular sires in each breed.

‘Luddenmore Fionn’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Angus calves in 2012.

‘Perlou’ Born in 1999 and still in the top 10 most used sire of pedigree Aubrac calves.

‘Applecroft Van’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Blonde d’Aquitaine calves in 2012.

‘Heros du Peroy’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Belgian Blue calves in 2012.

On average, about 35% of a breed’s pedigree calf crop is sired by just 10 Bulls.

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‘Pirate’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Charolais calves in 2012.

‘Bowmont Storm A584’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Hereford calves in 2012.

‘Netherhall Epic’ Most Popular Sire of Pedigree Limousin calves in 2012.

‘Fianna Herd Edwin’ Most popular Sire of Pedigree Parthenaise calves in 2012. (Pictured above is his Grandsire – ‘Ronchon’.

‘Fred’ Sire of ‘Ballykiveen Excalibur’ who sired the most number of Pedigree Piedmontese calves in 2012.

‘Ballymackeogh Hugh’ Most popular Sire of Pedigree Salers calves in 2012.

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‘Creaga Dice’ Most popular Sire of Pedigree Shorthorn calves in 2012.

Curaheen Apostle Most popular Sire of Pedigree Simmental calves in 2012.

Dams – Countries of Origin Countries of origin for Dams of Beef Pedigree* Calves born in 2012

Pedigree Calf Totals by Dam Origin

% of Totals

Austria

Simmental

Shorthorn

Saler

Piedmontese

Parthenaise

Limousin

Hereford

Charolais

B.Blue

Blonde

Angus

Origin of Dams

Aubrac

Number of Pedigree Calves

0.04%

0.01%

0.21%

741

405

Belgium

Denmark Germany

Italy 107

110

6446

419

424

679

9729

3359

9633

194

6468

527

492

752

9887

3390

9974

294

France UK Ireland Pedigree Calf Totals by Breed

113

231

100

179 7

129

620

939

2409 34980 96.5%

207

806

968

2468 36233 100%

*Pedigree: Any calf whose breed fraction is 100% of the same breed and has a name. Only breeds with at least 100 registrations included.

Table 17: Numbers of Beef Pedigree calves born in Ireland in 2012 - analysed by breed & by country of Origin of Dam. Table 17 summary: ✦ Not surprisingly, nearly 97% of all the dams of pedigree beef calves born in 2012 are Irish. ✦ The majority of the foreign pedigree dams come from the UK and France with the remainder coming from Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium & Austria (Graph 6).

Only 3% of the Dam’s of Irish Pedigree beef calves were themselves imported into Ireland. 19

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Countries of origin for Dams of 2012 born pedigree calves

% of ET Calves in each breed’s 2012 pedigree calf crop

Graph 6: Distribution of Countries of origin for the Dams of the 2012 born pedigree calves.

Graph 7: % of ET Calves in each breed’s 2012 pedigree calf crop

ET – Embryo Transfer Calves Number of Pedigree ET Calves born in 2012

% of 2012 calves ET Calves

Avg

0.20%

58%

0.50%

0.20%

0.10%

437

317

293

104

1190

Table 18: Numbers of ET (Embryo Transfer) Beef Pedigree calves born in Ireland in 2012. Table 18 summary: ✦ 1,090 ET Pedigree beef calves were born in 2012 which represents 3% of the total pedigree calf crop. ✦ ET calves in the Belgian Blue breed account for 58% of their 2012 calf crop. ET calves make up no more than 4% of all other breeds calf crops (Graph 7).

ET calves in the Belgian Blue breed account for 58% of their 2012 calf crop. ET calves make up no more than 4% of all other breeds calf crops. 20

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Journal 2013/14 Exported Pedigree Beef Bulls Numbers of Irish Pedigree Bulls Exported (2003 – 2012) Breeds

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Breed Totals

Angus

122

135

142

130

793

Aubrac

–

221

Blonde

177

Belgian Blue

243

Charolais

282

248

331

351

238

242

478

471

321

351

3313

Hereford

111

421

Limousin

117

142

263

172

291

608

696

358

320

3048

Piedmontese

–

104

Parthenaise

–

Saler

131

Shorthorn

101

Simmental

125

102

714

Total

576

447

614

785

596

730

1576

1770

1129

1151

9374

Table 19: Numbers of Pedigree Bulls exported out of Ireland between 2003 & 2012.

Number of Irish Pedigree Bulls Exported in 2012

Table 19 summary: ✦ 9,374 Pedigree Bulls have been exported out of Ireland over the last 10 years. ✦ 1,151 Bulls were exported in 2012 which represents about 9% of all pedigree males born. ✦ Northern Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales is where most bulls are exported to. Graph 8: Number of Irish pedigree bulls exported in 2012.

✦ In 2012, the breakdown of numbers of bulls exported by breed is shown in graph 8.

2,969 pedigree males & females were exported in 2012. This represents 8% of all pedigree calves born in Ireland. 21

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Exported Pedigree Beef Females Numbers of Irish Pedigree Females Exported (2003 – 2012) Breeds

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Breed Totals

Angus

101

208

230

826

530

2114

Aubrac

–

123

Blonde

123

Belgian Blue

585

Charolais

211

236

263

249

221

245

365

353

180

335

2658

Hereford

464

401

1103

Limousin

104

142

272

505

355

523

278

188

343

2790

Piedmontese

–

Parthenaise

–

Saler

–

101

Shorthorn

155

Simmental

121

577

Total

434

474

571

669

981

832

1499

1264

1880

1818

10,422

Table 20: Numbers of Pedigree Females exported out of Ireland between 2003 & 2012. Table 20 summary: ✦ 10,422 Pedigree Females have been exported out of Ireland over the last 10 years. ✦ 1,818 females were exported in 2012. ✦ Northern Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales is again where most females are exported to. ✦ However, large exports of mostly Hereford & Angus females are now being made to Kazakhstan & Russia – who are restocking their national herds. ✦ Exports of Angus cattle have also been made to Portugal, Spain & Germany. ✦ In 2012 the breakdown of numbers of females exported by breed is shown in graph 9. ✦ Total exports of pedigree males and females in 2012 was 2,969. This is 8% - when expressed as a percentage of the 36,233 pedigree calves born in 2012. ✦ While the numbers of pedigree females being exported has increased steadily over the last 10 years the numbers of pedigree bulls being exported has decreased since 2010.

Number of Irish Pedigree Females Exported in 2012

Graph 9: Number of Irish pedigree females exported in 2012.

Number of Irish Pedigree Males & Females Exported out of Ireland (2003-2012)

Graph 10: Numbers of Beef Pedigree males & females exported out of Ireland (2003-2012).

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‘Seaview Prince Charming’ bred by Tony O’Leary, Co.Cork was exported to the UK. He has 228 progeny in the British Simmental Society Database.

‘Ballynerrin Vertigo’ bred by Jim & Ann O’Neill, Co.Wicklow was exported to France. He has 177 progeny in the French Limousin Society Database.

‘Lisduff Dinky’ bred by Leo Mc’Enroe, Virginia, Co.Cavan. was exported to Italy. He has 100 progeny in the Italian Angus Society Database.

‘Hollymount Vagabond’ bred by Thomas Jennings, Hollymount, Co.Mayo. was exported to the UK. He has 78 progeny in the British Charolais Society Database.

‘Lataster Eric’ bred by Brendan Clarke, Virginia, Co.Cavan was exported to France. He has 163 progeny in the French Genetic Evaluation database.

‘Virginia Andy’ bred by Leo McEnroe Virginia, Co.Cavan was exported to the UK. He has 236 progeny in the British Limousin Society database.

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‘Kilkelly Ulick’ bred by Liam O’Grady, Kilkelly, Co.Mayo was exported to America. He has 159 progeny in the American Angus Association database.

‘Lakelodge Storm 2’ bred by Henry Dudley, The Populars, Dovea, Co.Tipperary was exported to the UK. He has 96 progeny in the British Hereford Society database.

Irish Hereford Heifers being loaded for export to Kazakhstan at Hubert Maxwell’s yard, Co.Roscommon.

Irish Angus Heifers – having arrived at their new farm in Kazakhstan – also exported by Hubert Maxwell.

The Maxwell’s, from Ballinagare, Co.Roscommon. Exporters of large numbers of pedigree animals from Ireland every year.

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Journal 2013/14 Imported Beef Pedigree Animals In terms of imported pedigree beef animals,22,381 animals were imported into Ireland in 2011 (AIM Statistics Report 2011), however in terms of Pedigree registered breeding

animals – the following table gives the number of live imported animals that were registered as being either the sire or dam of at least 1 pedigree calf in 2012:

Live Imported Sires & Dams of 2012 born Pedigree Calves Country Imported from

Imported Stockbulls

Austria Belgium

Germany

Denmark

Imported Dams

Totals

4 1

France

102

548

650

298

376

Totals

186

924

1110

Italy

Table 21: Numbers of live imported animals that were registered as being either the Sire or Dam of at least 1 pedigree calf in 2012. Table 21 summary: Not surprisingly, the vast majority of imported pedigree stock comes from France & the UK. ✦ 97% of Imported Stockbulls come from the UK & France. ✦ 92% of imported females come from UK & France. ‘Banwy T-Rex’ imported by Pedigree Simmental Breeder Gareth Behan from the UK. He has 341 progeny in the ICBF database.

‘Badlingham Boxer’ imported by the Allowdale pedigree Irish Hereford Herd from the UK. He has 57 progeny in the ICBF database.

‘Tistou’ imported by the Ardlea pedigree Irish Limousin herd from France. He has 235 progeny in the ICBF database.

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Speciality/Rare Pedigree Breeds of Cattle Speciality/Rare Breeds Statistics 2012 Breeds

Origin

Breeders

2012 Calves

Bazadais

FRA

Belted Galloway

Dexter

IRL

443

Highland

Irish Maol

Longhorn

Luing

Romagnola

ITA

Speckled Park

CAN

Table 22: Numbers of speciality/rare pedigree registered calves born in 2012 together with the number of breeders for each breed. Table 22 summary: ✦ The Dexter breed had the largest number of pedigree calves registered in 2012 in this category of beef breeds (Graph 11). ✦ There are 9 breeds in total in this category with animals pedigree registered in a herdbook. ✦ The ‘Speckled Park’ herdbook is here in Ireland. ✦ The other breeds are registered in the UK Herbooks for their respective breeds.

Number of Specialised/Rare pedigree registered calves born in 2012

Graph 11: Numbers of specialised/rare pedigree registered calves born in 2012

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Longhorn Cattle in the herd of John Murphy, Nicholastown, Kilcock, Co.Kildare.

Belted Galloway Bull ‘Castlemartin Den’ in the herd of Lady C. O’Reilly, Castlemartin Stud Farm, Co.Kildare

Bazadais calf ‘Cabin Hill Heidi’, the only pedigree registered Bazadais calf born in Ireland in 2012 in the herd of John Macken, Cabin Hill, Naul, Co.Dublin

Bazadais cow ‘Legamaddy Daisy’, dam of the only pedigree registered Bazadais calf born in Ireland in 2012 ‘Cabin Hill Heidi’, in the herd of John Macken, Cabin Hill, Naul, Co.Dublin

‘Cornahir Outlaw’ is an Irish Dexter AI Sire who stood in Dovea AI Centre, Thurles, Co.Tipperary and whose semen has been exported to Canada and Australia.

‘Castlehill Tiberius’ is an Irish Romagnola Bull, owned by Seamus Costigan, Graigue, Rathdowney, Co.Laois.

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Highland cattle in the herd of Howard Konick, Derrycragg, Tubber, Co.Galway

Luing Stockbull ‘Dirnanean Hawk’ in the herd of James Cosgrave, Newcastle House, Enfield, Co.Meath.

‘Knockane Usherette’ – Irish Speckled Park female in the herd of Ivan Ryall, Knockane, Castlemartyr, Co.Cork

Irish Droimean cattle. The Droimeann breed is in the process of establishing its own herdbook. Numbers of pedigree animals will then be available. It is estimated there are about 10 Breeders of Droimeann cattle in Ireland.

Irish Moiled cows in the herd of Helen & Christopher Kelly, Lough Bishop House, Derrynagarra, Collinstown, Co.Westmeath

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Journal 2013/14 National Beef Breed of Sire statistics Total Numbers of Beef Calves Born in 2011 (AIM Statistics Report 2011) Breed of Beef Sire AA

Number of Calves 215,535 10,705 107,367 385,840 129,542 382,919 10,362 14,513 % of Total

16%

29%

10%

29%

Total

67,523 1,324,306 5%

Table 23: Total numbers of pedigree & commercial calves sired by the main Sire breeds in 2011

Table 23 summary: â&#x153;Ś Almost 90% of beef sired calves born in Ireland come from 6 breeds: Charolais, Limousin, Angus, Hereford, Belgian Blue & Simmental (Graph 12).

Proportion of calves born in 2011 by Breed of Sire

Proportion of calves born in 2011 by Breed of Dam

Graph 12: Proportion of calves born in 2011 by Breed of Sire

Graph 13: Proportion of calves born in 2011 by Breed of Dam.

National Beef Breed of Dam statistics Total Numbers of Beef Calves Born in 2011 (AIM Statistics Report 2011) Breed of Beef Dam AA

Number of Calves 120,154 9,252 % of Total

12%

52,852 233,485 94,919 309,774 14,315 33,987 123,673 5%

24%

Table 24: Total numbers of pedigree & commercial beef calves born in 2011 by breed of Dam.

10%

31%

Total 992,411

13%

Table 24 summary: â&#x153;Ś 90% of beef calves born in Ireland come from 5 breeds of Dam: Charolais, Limousin, Angus, Hereford, & Simmental (Graph 13).

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Beef Herdplus benefits greatly from being at the centre of the ICBF Cattle Breeding database. This database has very deep banks of animal breeding data.

Region

NORTH

Beef Herdplus is a Beef Cattle Breeding Information Service which contains facts & figures about animals in your herd, covering all aspects of performance from calving to slaughter. Beef Herdplus was launched in 2007. Currently, April 2013, there are over 10,000 farmers signed up to Beef Herdplus with a further 6000 farmers using Dairy Herdplus.

Beef Herdplus Membership Analysis 2012/2013

Irish Suckler Farmers engage with many different Organisations over the course of an animalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifetime on their farm. Like any business, farmers are continually trying to track the progress of their herd so as they can make the best possible decisions.

The Herdplus program has pulled all of this information together and has produced easy to follow reports from which farmers can easily gauge how their animals have performed and also allow them to compare their herdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stats to national average figures. Joining Herdplus gives you access to these reports, web screens and applications.

West 34.3% South 31.3%

Monaghan

284

2.7%

Louth

106

1.0%

Donegal

546

5.3%

Cavan

375

3.6%

Waterford

225

2.2%

Tipperary South

340

3.3%

Tipperary North

351

3.4%

Limerick

414

4.0%

Kerry

491

4.7%

Cork North

301

2.9%

Cork South

578

5.6%

Clare

546

5.3%

Wicklow West

0.3%

Wicklow East

119

1.1%

Wexford

331

3.2%

Westmeath

277

2.7%

Offaly

287

2.8%

Meath

248

2.4%

Laois

273

2.6%

Kilkenny

333

3.2%

Kildare

168

1.6%

Dublin

0.2%

Carlow

149

1.4% 21.7%

WEST

Beef Herdplus Membership by Region 2012/2013 North 12.7%

Number

31.3%

EAST

Farmers will have recorded a certain amount of information on their own animals throughout the year e.g. Calf Registration, Weight Recording, Insemination data etc. Their cattle will also have data recorded on them by other people & organisations, all of which will have been stored in the ICBF database.

County

12.7%

SOUTH

Beef Herdplus Guide

Sligo

299

2.9%

Roscommon

560

5.4%

Mayo

1040

10.0%

Longford

250

2.4%

Leitrim

336

3.2%

Galway

1071

10.3% 34.3%

East 21.7%

10355 100.0% Table 1: Summary of Beef Herdplus members by county & region 2012/2013.

Graph 1: Distribution of Beef Herdplus members by region

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Journal 2013/14 % of Pedigree Breeders in Beef Herdplus AA

66%

27%

100%

62%

21%

18%

31%

43%

34%

63%

35%

51%

Joining Beef Herdplus

Logging In

✦ An application form to join Beef Herdplus can be found online at www.icbf.com or can be requested by calling 1850-600-900. ✦ The cost is €60 if paying by Cheque, Credit card or Laser but sign up by Direct Debit and you get one year’s Herdplus Service at a Special Offer of €20 for the 1st Year! ✦ After you join Beef Herdplus you will be texted a Username & Password. This allows you to access your Herdplus information through the computer. This is very useful for running the various applications. ✦ However, not having access to a computer is not a barrier to using Herdplus. The main Beef Herdplus reports are posted out to all members during the year.

✦ Enter www.icbf.com in your internet browser bar. You then need to enter your Username & Password as shown below, and then click on ‘Log In’.

Getting your Password ✦ If you have forgotten your Password you can get it texted to your phone by texting the word ‘Pass’ to 089-4577663. ✦ If your mobile number is not registered with ICBF you will get a text telling you this. ✦ You should then ring Herdplus (1850-600-900) and register your mobile number with ICBF.

Enter your Username This is your herd designator – first seven digits of animal tag including the IE e.g. ‘IE1234567’.

Enter your Password

Click ‘Log in’

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Finding your way around the Herdplus Homepage The Herdplus menu screen below is the next screen that you will see after you log in. â&#x153;Ś The latest Cattle Breeding news is shown on the ICBF Facebook page.

9 10 1

2 7 12

1-8 11

16 15 6

â&#x153;Ś Click on the menu buttons to look at the various reports that have been created for your herd. You can also run applications that will generate new listings & reports for your herd.

Herdplus reports and applications are widely used by Farm advisors when giving advice on farm

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Beef Herdplus Reports & Applications

APPLICATIONS

REPORTS

Name

Purpose

Calving Report It analyses your herd’s calving performance for important performance indicators such as ‘Calving Interval’ & ‘Calves per cow per year’.

€uro-Star Report

Of most interest to Suckler Famers (Pedigree & Commercial)

This report gives an overall summary of the genetic makeup of your herd as well as listing the individual animal €uro-Star values for breeding animals in your herd.

(Pedigree & Commercial)

Suckler Cow Report

Each cow’s: Registration, Ancestry & €uro-Star information is displayed. All progeny out of that cow are also listed.

Bull Tracker Report

This report will show you how a Pedigree Bull that you owned or bred has performed in the years after it was sold in terms of the quantity and quality of stock that it sired.

Suckler Famers

Suckler Famers Suckler Famers (Pedigree & Commercial)

Dry-Stock Report

This report gives details as to what the genetic merit of your cattle are for being slaughtered.

Dry-Stock Farmers

Weighing Report

This report shows the weights recorded for animals in your herd after they have been weight recorded. It also predicts what weight each animal will be at a target date in the future.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

Slaughter Report

This report analyses the slaughter records of your cattle in terms of their Lifetime value per day in your herd.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

5 Year Trend Report

This report tracks your herd’s progress for important traits over the past 5 years.

Suckler Famers (Pedigree & Commercial)

Herd Info

This section allows you to edit your contact & mobile phone details. It also allows you to run the HDQI (Herd Data Quality Index) for your herd.

(Pedigree & Commercial)

Suckler Famers

Record Events The 'Record Events' section allows you to record data on your animals. Suckler & E.g. Missing Sires, weight data,Inseminations, Within herd ID's etc Dry-Stock Farmers

Stock Report

This report calculates the average number of animals in the herd each month. Suckler & It also calculates the Kgs of Nitrogen & Phosphorus produced in the herd Dry-Stock Farmers

Inbreeding Checker

This allows you to check for how closely related AI Sires or Stockbulls are to your cows.

Sales Catalogue This application allows you to generate a sales catalogue for any animals in your herd.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

Teagasc Profit Monitor

It allows you generate the ICBF data that is required by the Teagasc Profit Monitor.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

AHI - BVD Results

This section allows you to view all of the BVD results and generate declarations for all animals in your herd and also for those that have left your herd.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

DAF Schemes

This section allows you to record data for DAF schemes. It also shows you what data you still need to record in order to comply with the rules of a National recording scheme.

Suckler & Dry-Stock Farmers

Suckler Famers (Pedigree & Commercial)

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Herdplus Reports

Calving Report ✦ This report makes it clear what aspects of your herd’s calving performance needs attention. ✦ The black bar is your herd’s performance & the grey bar is the average performance of all other herds in Ireland. 1. Summary Data Report is based on beef cows with a calving record in the cattle breeding database and where the calving date is between 01/07/2011 and 30/06/2012 (Embryo births excluded)

Total Calvings No. of Calves - Live at Birth No. Calves - Dead at Birth No. Male Calves - Live at Birth No. Female Calves - Live at Birth

All Heifers 82 7 80 6 3 1 37 2 43 4

No. of Cows not calved No. of Calves - Live at 28 days 1 No. of eligible females

All 6 80 88

Average age at calving

Cows Heifers 5y 9m 2y 8m

2. Performance Statistics - relative to all beef herds in the database Btm 15% 433 days 1. Calving Interval (days)

Your Herd 376 days National Average 396 days

2. Mortality - Dead at Birth (%)

Your Herd 3.6% National Average 5%

3. Mortality - Dead at 28 Days (%)

Your Herd 3.6% National Average 6.12%

Average number of days between successive calvings for cows calved during the period

Number of calves born dead (3) as a proportion of all births during the period (83)

Achievable

Top 15% 359 days

8.3%

2.2%

10%

2.6%

17%

0.69

Number of calves born dead or dead within 28 days, (3) as a proportion of all births recorded during the period. (83)

4. Females not calved in Period (%) Number of females not calved during the period, (6) expressed as a proportion of all eligible females. (88)

5. Calves per cow per year

Your Herd 7% National Average 8%

Your Herd 0.89 National Average 0.85

Number of calves per cow per year, expressed as a proportion of all eligible females in the herd. (88)

6. Births with known sire (%)

Number of births with a known sire (valid in database) (83) ,expressed as a proportion of all calf births recorded during the period. (83)

100%

50%

Your Herd 100% National Average 72%

7. Births with calving survey data (%) Your Herd 100% Number of births with calving survey data (82) National Average 75% as a proportion of all calvings during the period. (82)

8. % of Heifers calved 22-26 months of age

The number of heifers calved in the period (7) that were between 22 and 26 months of age. (0)

Your Herd 0% National Average 16%

Beef Calving Report - Section A Cows calved more than once (ordered by last Calving Interval) Note: Attention should be given to those cows with high Calving Intervals (>390) - They may have reproductive problems and should be investigated further.

Age at First Age No of Calvings Calving (mths)

Last Calving

Avg. Calv Interval

29-Dec-12

694

1009

30-Aug-12

424

564

5y 1m

25-Aug-12

457

535

LMX 6y 3m

14-Aug-12

419

503

Jumbo

Animal Number

Breed

839

IE341130940839

AAX 6y 2m

820

IE341130920820

LMX 6y 3m

941

IE341130980941

813

IE341130930813

✦ An action list is also included which identifies cows with poor calving intervals.

Last Calv Interval

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€uro-Star Report ✦ The €uro-Star report identifies the overall strengths and weaknesses of your herd. ✦ The genetic merit of your herd can also be compared against national average figures.

€uro - Star Report Summary Page: Commercial - Summary

1. Beef uro-Star Herd Summary - Cows

Average Beef uro-Star Values for Commercial cows on your farm. Only animals with a sire are included.

Commercial

Maternal

Terminal

Index Value Rel% Within Breed Across Breed

Group

No.

All cows

1st calving

2nd calving

3rd calving+

Dairy Beef

Index Value Rel% Within Breed Across Breed

158 31%

Index Value Rel% Within Breed Across Breed

62 31%

150 21%

75 24%

158 32%

61 32%

2. Beef uro-Star Herd Summary - Female Young Stock Average Beef uro-Star values for Commercial young-stock on your farm.

Commercial

Maternal

Group

No.

>12 months

0-12 months

3. Beef

Terminal

Dairy Beef Index Value Rel% Within Breed Across Breed

Index Value Rel% Within Breed Across Breed

117 19%

75 22%

125 19%

91 22%

uro-Star Herd Summary - Genetic Trends

Genetic Trends for Commercial females on your farm.

Your Herd

Breed Avg.

Trends in Maternal Index

200

Terminal Index

Maternal Index

200 160 120 80 40

Trends in Terminal Index

160 120

3rd+ calv 2nd calv 1st calv 12 mths + 0-12 mths

80 40

3rd+ calv 2nd calv 1st calv 12 mths + 0-12 mths

€uro-Star Report Animal Page: €URO-STAR REPORT INDEX - Ordered by Birth Date Maternal

Animal Details FB

Date of Birth

390 386

Sex

Breed *

14-JAN-2013

COM

06-JAN-2013

384

29-DEC-2012

383

27-DEC-2012

382

26-DEC-2012

381

24-DEC-2012

COM

378

20-DEC-2012

COM

377

17-DEC-2012

COM

Name

Sire

Dam

Index Value

Rel%

Within Breed

Terminal Across Breed

Index Value

Rel%

11181

10729

120

14%

15%

10919

80333

115

23%

119

27%

COM

71229

40839

138

12%

13%

10919

81163

19%

123

24%

60763

71154

114

14%

113

16%

11181

40640

110

15%

11181

50815

111

13%

14%

11181

90827

136

13%

M ISAAC 2

M HOLLY 2

Within Breed

Across Breed

✦ €uro-Star details for the Overall indexes is given for all animals with a known sire, both pedigree and commercial.

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Suckler Cow Report ✦ The Suckler Cow Report is a booklet which devotes a page to each Suckler Cow in your herd. ✦ Each cow’s registration, ancestry & €uro-Star information is displayed. ✦ All progeny out of each cow are also listed together with summary performance information. ✦ It is designed to give Suckler Farmers a reference book that they can use before making a culling or breeding decision. ✦ E.g. Following are 2 Suckler Cow Report pages for 2 cows in the herd of Jim Parkinson, Newinn, Cashel, Co.Tipperary Jumbo: Official Tag:

Animal Details

Ancestry Details

333

Sire's Sire:

IE341299780333

Animal Name: DERRY TUDOR

Sire's Dam:

Date of Birth: 01/10/2002 Breed:

Sire:

LM (100%)

Herdbook: Scored:

Pedigree Registered 11/08/2003

Dam:

Weighed: MUSCLE

SKELETAL

DOCILITY

111

113

-0.2

Index

Rel%

44%

1987003331

Terminal

100

40%

CALYPSO

Dairy Beef

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Tag Number

10/12/2004 05/01/2006 02/02/2007 04/03/2008 01/03/2009 19/02/2010 10/02/2011 01/02/2012 06/01/2013

IE341130990629 IE341130920713 IE341130960816 IE341130970932 IE341130951012 IE341130921100 IE341130931200 IE341130931290 IE341130981386

LOUXOR

Docility (1-5 scale)

-0.20

52%

VJB861183

Carcass Weight (Kg)

+24 Kg

46%

BALLINVOHER GERTIE

Carc Conf. (1-15 scale)

+2.44

44%

BENBULBEN CHARLIE

Daught Milk (Kg) Daught Calv Int. (Days)

Dead Dead Dead Dead Sold Sold Sold In herd In herd

831 Jumbo: Official Tag:

Animal Details

OMA F137 F137 40718 30404 30404 30404 10919 10919

Sire's Sire:

IE341130950831

Sire's Dam:

Date of Birth: 08/02/2007 Sire:

Herdbook: Scored:

Dam:

Weighed: SKELETAL

245 227 231 295 282

389 352 333 478 378

DOCILITY

Within Breed

1 2 3 4 5

04/03/2009 06/04/2010 20/03/2011 27/02/2012 30/03/2013

IE341130971014 IE341130911132 IE341130911223 IE341130961302 IE341130971410

Age at Carcass Slaught. Conf. Carcass Docility (months) & Fat Weight

Quiet Quiet Quiet Quiet Average

0 28 39 59

U2 E-3= U-1+

Rel%

147

34%

IE341130970453

Terminal

32%

MARLHILL TRUDY

Dairy Beef

367 562 437

Across Breed

Expected Progeny Performance

MARLHILL VERON

Docility (1-5 scale)

-0.10

27%

IE341130910539

Carcass Weight (Kg)

+14 Kg

43%

GLENBANE DENISE 539

Carc Conf. (1-15 scale)

+1.31

40%

3.2%

34%

Expected Daughter Breeding Performance

IE341468910689 FREIGHDUFF JACOB

31%

4.8 Kg

61%

0.20 Days

26%

Daught Calv Diff (%3&4) Daught Milk (Kg) Daught Calv Int. (Days)

Weanling & Carcass Performance

Normal Normal Normal Difficult Normal

Dead Dead Dead Dead In herd

M M M M F

Economic Indexes

Calving Difficulty (%3&4)

Sire Age Weight Growth Price/Kilo Current Status Sire Breed days Kgs Kg/Day*

397 347 343 396

uro-Star Index Index

Calving Calving Survey Interval Sex

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

39%

Maternal

IE341130970461 MARLHILL TARVIS

Dam's Dam: IEMTCZ0104S GLENBANE EZG DENISE

-0.1

Tag Number

Calf Quality

V.Good Excellent Average Average Average

1.42 1.37 1.27 1.48 1.2

Calving & Fertility Performance

Calving Date

76%

1.18 Days

IE341130980611

Dam's Sire:

BLUP Index (Reliability %) MUSCLE

LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM

Ancestry Details

831

HO (25%), FR (25%), LM (50%)

44%

11 year old pedigree Limousin cow. Age of first calving was 25 months old. Has had 9 live calves. Avg Calving Interval of 367 days. Progeny with growth rates of 1.42 Kgs/Day & excellent carcass weights & grades.

Animal Name:

Breed:

Weanling & Carcass Performance

Difficult Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

46%

4.1 Kg

Daught Calv Diff (%3&4)

Current Sire Age Weight Growth Price/Kilo Status Sire Breed days Kgs Kg/Day*

333

5.9%

Expected Daughter Breeding Performance

BBL

Calving Calving Survey Interval Sex M F M M M M M F M

Across Breed

Expected Progeny Performance

Dam's Dam: BINE001 BALLINVOHER EMMA

390 392 395 361 354 355 355 339

Economic Indexes

Calving Difficulty (%3&4)

Calving & Fertility Performance

Calving Date

uro-Star Index

Maternal

LOX

Dam's Sire:

BLUP Index (Reliability 48%)

Within Breed

1990000891 FURIOSO

30673 40921 10919 10074 60811

AA LM LM LM LM

356 476 216 378 256 365

1.22 1.56 1.27

1.92

Calf Quality

Age at Carcass Slaught. Conf. Carcass Docility (months) & Fat Weight

Average Average V.Good V.Good

Quiet Difficult Average Quiet

20 13 18 13

U=2+ U+2= U=3=

413 303 413

6 year old commercial Limousin x Friesian cow. Age of first calving was 25 months old. Has had 5 live calves. Avg Calving Interval of 370 days. Progeny with growth rates of 1.56 Kgs/Day & excellent carcass weights & grades.

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Bull Tracker Report ✦ This report will track how a Bull has performed in the years after it was sold by its breeder, in terms of the quantity and quality of stock that it sired. ✦ This report will also be of interest to commercial suckler farmers who want to compare Stockbull’s progeny performances against each other. ✦ It is made up of an Index and an Individual Bull section. • The Index section (see below) will list all of the Bulls that were ever in the herd and which have had calves registered to them in the ICBF database over the previous 5 years

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

77 Limousin bulls bred in this herd have sired a total of 4,248 calves. The calves were born in 121 herds. That is an average of 55 per bull. Pedigree cow ‘333’ from the previous page has 3 sons that have sired 90 calves between them in 3 herds.

• The Individual Bull section (see below) dedicates a full page per bull, giving details as to the performance of each Bull’s progeny (calving performance, average daily gains, slaughter grades etc).

Within Breed

Economic Indexes Terminal

Index

Rel%

€156

74%

Replacement €164 Dairy Beef Expected Progeny Performance Calving Difficulty (%3&4)

+1.8%

Across Breed

59%

83%

Docility (1-5 scale)

0.06 scale

70%

Carcass Weight (Kg)

+34.0 Kg

89%

Carcass Conformation (1-15 scale)

+2.5 scale

86%

Expected Daughter Breeding Performance Daughter Calving Diff (%3&4) Daughter Milk (Kg) Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

+7.4% -0.08Kg 5.33 Days

24% 25% 43%

6 year old homebred Limousin Stockbull. Weighed 369Kgs at 9 months old. Sired 185 calves to-date. Weanlings have growth rates up to 1.32 Kgs/Day. Carcass results of progeny averaging 380Kgs & U=3=. 5 Star Bull for Terminal & Replacement Indexes.

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Dry-Stock Report ✦ This is a new report that is specifically designed for Dry-Stock farmers so as they can see what the genetics of the cattle they are feeding are. ✦ It will show farmers what proportion of the cattle they are working with are sired by bulls that have good €uro-Star figures for the ‘Terminal Index’.

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Weighing Report ✦ The Weighing Report shows the history of weights for an animal as well as weight predictions as to how the same animal is expected to weigh in the future. Weight Recording - Animal Report Herd owner: Herd No: Print date: Weigh date:

John Farmer IE1234567 29/07/2011 29/07/2011

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Bulls Animal Details

Animal Weights

Animal ID I&R Tag DOB Sire Dam Sex

Weighing Details

29-Jul-11

05/02/2011 IE201057480719 Male

Weight / Age A.D.G from Birth A.D.G from Last Wt

247Kgs/ 5mts 1.16

954 IE123456740954 IE201057460766 IEHMBF0004U

08/02/2011 Male

Weight / Age A.D.G from Birth A.D.G from Last Wt

310Kgs/ 5mts 1.54

955 IE123456750955 IE201057460766 IE201057490711

11/02/2011 Male

Weight / Age A.D.G from Birth A.D.G from Last Wt

262Kgs/ 5 mts 1.29

951 IE123456710951

FL22

Weight Predictor

Weighing Dates

29-Aug-11

29-Sep-11

29-Oct-11

277 Kgs

305 Kgs

335 Kgs

340 Kgs

370 Kgs

400 Kgs

292 Kgs

325 Kgs

355 Kgs

Slaughter Report ✦ The Slaughter Report analyses the slaughter records of your cattle in terms of their lifetime value per day. Their carcass records are also compared against national average figures. Table 1. Summary Data - Based on all Home Bred Heifers slaughtered in the period (only generated if 3 or more slaughtered) Animal Details No. Of Animals

Carcase Age Index (€ ) (Months)

€ 65

Factory performance

Range In Age (Months)

Days On Farm

Predicted Live Wgt At Slaughter (kg)

18 - 22

617

558

Most Recurrent Grade

Cold Wgt (kg)

308

KPI

Most Recurrent Fat

R+

Predicted ADG (ADG kg)

0.83

Explanatory Notes; ICBF Live weight predictor uses the carcase wgt, grade, conformation as well as age, sex and breed of the animal. Predictions are only done for animals within following ranges; Females < 30 months, Steers < 36 months, Bulls < 24 months.

Table 2. Quality Payment System Grid (Home Bred Heifers)

U+

U-

R+

R-

O+

O-

1 22= 2+ 3-

4- (L)

1 1

1 2 1

4+ (H)

Table 3. Your Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) vs National Statistics (Home Bred Heifers) Your Herd

Nat Avg

1. Predicted Avg Daily Gain (kg/day)

0.83 kg/day

0.73 kg/day

2. Carcase weight (kg)

308 kg

304 kg

3. Carcase Quality

65%

34%

The predicted average weight gain from birth to slaughter

The average cold carcase weight for these slaughtered animals in the period

Bottom 10%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Top 10%

0.54 kg/day

0.97 kg/day

251 kg

359 kg

71%

(% of carcases achieving high price grades, E2+, E3, E4, U2+, U3, U4, R2+, R3, R4-, R4=, see shaded area)

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5 Year Trend Report â&#x153;Ś The 5 Year Trend Report tracks your herdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progress for important traits over the past 5 years.

5 Year Beef Trend

Your Herd

Calving Interval (Days)

Top 15% Average

470

Days

450

430

410

399

390

370

399

398

399

361

374 364

380 363

350 2006

364 2007

2008

2009

406

366 2010

Your Herd

Calves Per Cow Per Year

Top 15% Average

Calves

1.2

1 0.96 0.82

0.99 0.86

0.95

0.94

0.81

0.8

0.7 .6

.4 2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Your Herd Top 15%

Average Age Of First Calving

Average

Months

30.5

31.2

31.4

24.8 23

24.9

27 25.5

24.5 23

20 2006

24.8 23

2007

2008

2009

2010

* When lines are very close only one label is shown for display purposes

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Herdplus Applications

Herd Info ✦ This section allows you to edit your contact & mobile phone details. It also allows you to create a sales catalogue and run the HDQI (Herd Data Quality Index) for your herd.

Record Events ✦ The ‘Record Events’ section allows you to record data on your animals. E.g. Missing Sires, weight data, inseminations, within herd ID’s etc: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Suckler Sire Errors Dairy Sire Errors Record AI/Natural Service Record Pregnancy Diagnosis Record Dry Offs Record Health Events Mark for Culling Record weight event Record Freezebrand/Stockbull Within Herd ID Record Sire Errors Record Missing Sires Record Body Condition Score Record Missing Slaughter Data Record Missing Sires (Incl historic) Record Animal Purpose Record Suckler Cow Survey

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Stock Report â&#x153;Ś The Stock Report calculates the average number of animals in the herd each month. It also calculates the Kgs of Nitrogen & Phosphorus produced in the herd. â&#x153;Ś The Stock Report has proven to be a very valuable report for helping with end of year financial accounts.

Stock Report:

1 0

74 39 29 40 26

74 40 29 37 29

76 48 22 38 33

77 50 26 47 33

77 40 32 45 36

77 40 29 47 36

76 33 35 45 34

74 30 36 46 34

78 26 38 43 29

84 23 44 53 23

84 29 36 54 27

86 33 36 50 29

This report calculates the number of animals in the herd on the last day of each month

Nitrates Report:

1 78 68 54 32

1 74 68 40 26

1 75 70 37 29

1 77 73 46 34

1 77 74 45 35

1 77 69 47 36

1 77 69 46 35

1 74 66 46 34

1 74 64 44 33

1 83 69 51 24

1 85 67 57 23

1 84 66 51 30

85 65 24 57 65

13 10 3 8 10

This report calculates the average number of animals in the herd each month and calculates the Kgs of Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) produced in the herd based on these figures.

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Inbreeding Checker ✦ The Inbreeding Checker allows you to check for how closely related AI Sires or Stockbulls are to your cows. ✦ Matings between animals that are too closely related are highlighted in red.

Beef Herdplus - Inbreeding Checker Animal Number

Date of Birth

1438

IE391063451438

10/01/08

12.5

1448

IE391063471448

19/01/08

12.5

1450

IE391063411450

19/01/08

12.5

1482

IE391063491482

01/02/08

12.5

1680

IE391063491680

23/03/09

Jumbo

BYU( CF52( HKG( HTA( 90346( LNV( LSC( MBU( SEV( UNI BB) CH) SI) LM) CH) HE) AA) LM) SI) (PT)

6.25% or greater has been set as the cut-off for inbreeding. A mating resulting in inbreeding below this is allowed. This figure is a generally accepted 'rule of thumb' for the maximum level of inbreeding

6.25% 12.50% 12.50% 25%

Inbreeding Table

Two Common Grandparents Half Brother - Half Sister mating Grandfather - Granddaughter mating Full brother - Full sister mating

Charolais Heifers in the Vexour herd,Chiddingstone,UK.

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Sales Catalogue ✦ The Sales Catalogue application allows you to generate a Sales catalogue for animals in your herd.

Step 1 – Select the animals to go into the Sales Catalogue

Step 2 – Select the type of Catalogue required and add in any relevant comments about each animal.

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Teagasc Profit Monitor ✦ This application allows you to generate the ICBF data that is required by the Teagasc Profit Monitor. ✦ Following is an example of one of the data input screens:

AHI – BVD Results

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DAF Schemes ✦ National Data recording schemes (e.g. Suckler Scheme, BTAP, BDP) can be accessed through your Herdplus login. ✦ Following is an example of the BTAP screen for indicating what tasks a farmer will complete.

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Beef Progeny Testing in Ireland A new Era is upon us ICBFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall responsibility is to improve the genetic merit of the National Herd. That means improving the genetics in the majority of Suckler Herds in Ireland i.e. Suckler Cows with better calving intervals, drystock with better feed efficiency and carcass grades etc. There are lots of methods, techniques & tools for helping us do this but the underlying logic as to how a country can do this is by: â&#x153;Ś Identifying superior animals in the population who are producing more profitable stock than others. â&#x153;Ś Dispersing these profitable bloodlines as widely as possible, into every suckler herd in Ireland.

Following are some examples of the trends that ICBF has to reverse in order for farmers to see a difference in the genetics of the pedigree bulls they are buying which in turn will affect our success in improving the genetics of the National herd:

Graph 1: Pedigree Belgian Blue genetic trends (1980-2012)

Terminal traits constantly improving over time at the cost of Maternal traits

Graph 2: Pedigree Charolais genetic trends (1980-2012)

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Graph 3: Pedigree Simmental genetic trends (1980-2012)

Graph 4: Pedigree Limousin genetic trends (1980-2012)

Graph 5: Pedigree Angus genetic trends (1980-2012)

Graph 6: Pedigree Hereford genetic trends (1980-2012)

Graph 7: Pedigree Salers genetic trends (1980-2012)

Graph 8: Pedigree Blonde genetic trends (1980-2012)

The one standout similarity across nearly all of the breeds is the direction of the blue trendline for the Terminal Index. It has been consistently rising over the years as breeders continuously selected bulls whose progeny excelled for growth and carcass merit.

(Milk & Fertility of daughters) over the same time period. This has generally disimproved over the same time period however is now thankfully starting to rise again as Breeders start to feel the effects of selecting too much on growth and carcass traits and are encountering milk & fertility problems in their replacement females.

Focusing on one trait however came at a cost â&#x20AC;&#x201C; illustrated by the red line which shows the Maternal performance

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Beef Progeny Test Program Beef Progeny Testing has been ongoing in Ireland for well over 50 years at this stage. For the vast majority of that time, the progeny testing of AI Sires was carried out exclusively by the various Irish AI Stations through what was called ‘Centralised Progeny Testing’. Only young Beef Bulls that were purchased by AI Stations in Ireland were ever progeny tested. Graph 9: The Ideal Genetic Trend that could be achieved through a structured Breeding Program

A graph similar to the one above is the type of graph that you would like to see for all breeds in the future i.e. Terminal & Maternal genes being improved in the national herd at a constant rate.

The AI Stations purchased calves from their Beef Testbull’s first crops of calves. They would rear them on their AI Station farms under uniform conditions (same feeding & management treatment for all), weigh them regularly and send them from there straight to the factory. The resulting liveweights and carcass grades were then all submitted to the Department of Agriculture, who ran the genetic evaluations and produced the bull proofs.

In order for a country to bring about such a change in the genetics of its National herd the first step is the establishment of a Beef Breeding Program. As mentioned earlier, there are 2 essential requirements that must be in place for a Beef Cattle Breeding Program to be successful: 1. Beef Progeny Test program Having a system that identifies and measures the performance of the progeny of Testbulls accurately & efficiently, underpins the confidence that can be put in the index figures that the bulls subsequently receive. 2. Sourcing Beef Testbulls Getting large numbers of the ‘right’ type of Beef Testbulls progeny tested each year is crucial. ICBF’s interpretation of the ‘right’ type of bull is a bull with very high Maternal/Terminal indices, is free of genetic defects, has a DNA confirmed parentage and is of course structurally sound. The structure of the progeny test program itself, how data is collected etc, was one of the first tasks taken on by ICBF shortly after its establishment in 2000. Now, 12 years later it is the second part of the equation – the selection of Beef Testbulls for AI that is now being progressed in quite a radical way – hence the title of this article, that a new era in Beef cattle breeding is truly upon us.

Calf Rearing & finishing of purchased AI Testbull Progeny at Dovea AI Centre (pre 2000)

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Graph 10: Progress of the Animal Events animal recording system (2004-2011)

Shortly after ICBF was established in 2000, this all changed. A national database was created and an on-farm data recording system called ‘Animal Events’ was put in place. This meant that all farmers could contribute information on the progeny of a bull (calving, weights, gestation length etc). The practice of AI Stations purchasing calves and rearing them to slaughter ceased. Instead, the progeny of Testbulls are left in the farms they are born in and are picked up by the Animal Events system, which all farmers can use to register their calves with. Even if the progeny move to other herds go into marts or end up being slaughtered or exported, the ICBF database tracks their movements through the AIM system and stores the relevant data i.e. mart weights, slaughter grades, survival rates etc. The ICBF Animal Events system has recorded registration data on all Pedigree calves since 2004 and has been registering commercial calves since 2000. The number of farmers using the system has increased gradually over the years. The large increase in 2008 was due to the introduction of the Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme (SCWS). Approximately 77,000 herds, with 1.8 million calvings, representing 90% of the entire Irish cattle herd, were participating in one or more aspects of the ICBF database by the end of 2010. Along with the registration data comes data on calving ease, Sire ID and much more.

Pictured above in 2004 is Willie John Kehoe with the first ever pedigree animal to be registered through the Animal Events system – ‘Clifden Venus’. She was a pedigree registered Blonde d’Aquitaine heifer born on the 1st of January 2004. Also pictured is Willie’s son Jim, proudly holding the ICBF Animal Events On-Farm recording Book.

There are many advantages from a genetic improvement point of view from having this on-farm data collection system in place instead of a centralized progeny test system, here are just a few: 1. Index Figures regularly updated Under the Centralized progeny test system, each Testbull got one set of Index figures based solely on his purchased progeny out of dairy cows. Those figures would remain the same forever more with no new data ever being added. However, under the new ICBF system a Bull is constantly adding more calves, more liveweights, and more progeny related data to his index figures at each evaluation run (carried out 3 times per annum). New progeny being constantly included ensures that the estimation of what a Bull’s strengths & weaknesses are is getting more accurate over time.

Journal 2013/14 2. Stockbulls & Foreign AI Sires included The ICBF Animal Events recording system has also meant that all types of Beef Sires could have their progeny evaluated and not just those that are standing in Irish AI Stations. For the first time ever, Stockbulls & Foreign AI Sires could have their progeny evaluated, side by side with the progeny of Irish AI Sires. Beef Progeny Test Bull Types (1952 - 2013) Period Type of Beef Bull progeny tested 1952-2000 Young Beef Bull standing in an Irish AI Station 2000 Stockbull present Imported semen of Foreign Bull (Proven or Test) Young Beef Bull standing in Irish AI Station Table 1: Types of Beef Bulls eligible for progeny testing in Ireland (1952-2013)

3. Female traits evaluated It was only male calves that were purchased for the old centralized progeny test program. The performance of the daughters of a bull (calving ability, milk & fertility etc) was not recorded. The ‘Animal Events’ system corrected this. The daughters of Beef Bulls in Ireland are tracked throughout their lives and a range of data is recorded on them which then allows ICBF to estimate the genetic merit of the sire for siring replacements for the suckler herd.

Sourcing Beef Testbulls The sourcing of young Beef Bulls for AI has nearly always been carried out by the AI Companies. To-date there has been 3 main routes through which a Beef Testbull would be purchased by an AI Station. 1. Imported It is no surprise that a lot of young Pedigree Beef Bulls are imported into Ireland for use in AI given that the vast majority of beef breeds in use in Ireland are not native to these shores.

Beef HerdPlus 3. Show / On-farm purchased Bulls Of course a lot of Bulls were not imported but they did not go through Tully either. They were purchased on-farm, normally after a successful show career and were taken straight into the AI Station. Taking the Hereford breed as an example, following are 3 bulls that were selected for AI through each of the above routes. Imported - CH 3223 Visa ET 57X ‘Visa’ was purchased by the Dublin District Milk Board, now known as Progressive Genetics at the Sale of Mr Garth H. Cutler, Lacombe Alberta, Canada on November 6th 1988. On the next page there is a copy of his sale catalogue page: His Actual 198 day weight was 367Kgs and his average daily gain was 1.85Kg/day. His maternal sister sold for $9100 in the same sale. The sale’s catalogue page, photographs & commentary on his bloodline is typical of the information that accompanies most imported Beef Testbulls. His career in AI is also typical of most Irish AI Sires who go on to become proven sires – they remain in AI until they stop producing semen. He stood in the AI Station in Enfield until the mid 1990’s. He was an extremely popular bull siring a huge amount of show winners and sale toppers. He crossed extremely well onto traditional Irish Hereford cows in particular and being an imported Canadian bull, his outcross appeal went down very well with the pedigree breeders here. When he stopped producing semen for AI he was released for natural use onfarm. He went to Denis Purdon’s noted ‘Lisnabin’pedigree Hereford Herd in Killucan, Co.Westmeath. He then returned to the AI Station again to try and get more semen collected but was then permanently released from AI. He was then jointly purchased by Stanley Heaslip, Glebe House, Carrickaboy, Co.Cavan & Harold Fitzell, Lislaughtin, Ballylongford, Co.Kerry. He spent the Autumn time in Cavan in Stanley’s pedigree Hereford herd and then spent the remainder of the year down in Kerry covering the hereford cows in the ‘Lislaughtin’ herd.

2. Performance Tested at Tully The Performance Test Centre at Tully, Co.Kildare took in young, nearly exclusively Irish bred pedigree bulls, and following a feeding period of a couple of months identified bulls that had excellent growth rates but who were also very efficient at converting the feed they ate into liveweight.

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After a great deal of deliberation we decided to include "Visa" in our sale offering. He is the largest framed calf out of our very good "Express X 79R" flush. This athletic, youthful calf shows excellent muscle expression and natural thickness. "Visa" is backed by two outstanding individuals. "Express" is one of the breed's biggest framed bulls - measuring 65" and weighing 3000 lbs. He was Reserve Champion at Denver in 1986 and was the '85-86 show bull of the year in the US. His offspring were a force in Denver in 1988 as a daughter was named heifer calf champion and a son, "All Pro", was bull calf champion and the Reserve Grand Champion Bull. We feel "Express" progeny have a great deal to offer the breed with their extra length of body and frame combined with a strong maternal background. "79R" is playing an important role in our program. As an individual she is top notch. Presently measuring 58 1/2" she was Champion at the Alberta Junior show in 1983 with her mother, "83L", and again in '84 as a yearling heifer. In 1984 she was the Champion at the Stettler Fair and a class winner at the National Junior Show. Her dam, "83L", is in great demand as an embryo donor for breeders in Australia. We are using "79R's" first son, "Cando", heavily in our program with exciting results. "Visa" is a powerful calf with great credentials.

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Sire – CL1 Express 3223 ET

Dam – CH 073 Dominette 79R

Grandam Miss Britisher 83L

Dam with a half brother of ‘Visa’ called ‘CH 481 Can Do 22U’ who was retained as a Herdsire.

Visa at 18mths old in Enfield AI Station

Progeny of Visa with Hereford Breeder Stanley Heaslip

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CH Visa 3223 57X out on-farm in Carrickaboy, Co.Cavan

Performance Tested – Bishophill General In terms of being self sufficient and being able to produce our own Irish Beef Testbulls, a National Bull Performance Test Station was set up in 1973. Callan Gates through which to feed the Bulls were put into Tully from the start so as to gauge how efficient each Bull was at converting the feed they were eating into liveweight. Ultrasonic measurements (Backfat & Eye Muscle) and liveweights were taken routinely on the Bulls. Feed intake, weight and several other measurements were painstakingly recorded on each bull using pen & paper through the 1970’ & 80’s. This information was then keyed into a computer from the early 1990’s on and data is now recorded on cattle in Tully using an electronic handheld device. AI Stations would routinely purchase some of the top performing Bulls across all the breeds from Tully – many of whom went on to become very successful AI Sires. One such bull who is a classic example of what a Performance Test Centre was capable of doing i.e. identifying a superior individual in a breed thus allowing his genes to be disseminated into the National herd, was the Hereford Bull ‘Bishophill General’. Bred by Peter Lawlor, Ballymore Eustace, Co.Kildare he was performance tested at Tully in 1984, where he outperformed all his contemporaries including the Continental breeds. He weighed 656 Kgs at 410 days and had a daily liveweight gain of 1.6 Kgs. His final weight on test was 21% above breed average.

Pedigree Hereford Cow ‘Aldra Dolly 16th’ (by GSQ) in the herd of Thomas & Michael Ormond, Whitefield, Loughmore, Co.Tipperary. Her heifer calf at foot, born in April 2013 is sired by ‘Visa’ and will probably be one of the last ever ‘Visa’ calves born in Ireland.

Bred by: Peter Lawlor Ballymore Eustace Co. Kildare

Born: 16 - 8 - 83

On the next page is a copy of the actual page from the Tully Ledger in which data was recorded on him throughout his 6 months at Tully. The data recorded is also reproduced underneath and underlines the level of detail in terms of individual animal measurements that was achieved at Tully. He was also purchased by the Dublin District Milk Board (now Progressive Genetics) and went on to become the most popular Hereford Sire in Ireland. In the pedigree context he sired numerous Supreme Champions at shows and sales all around Ireland and to this day is regarded as one of the greatest ever Hereford AI Bulls.

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Table 2: Copy of the actual data sheet from a Tully Ledger for ‘Bishophill General’

Table 3: Reproduced copy of the actual data sheet from a Tully Ledger for ‘Bishophill General’

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Show /On farm purchased Bull – Clone Justice Of course, the most natural and logical way for a Bull to be selected for use in AI is purely based on how he looks. Countless numbers of Beef Bulls have been selected as Testbulls purely based on how successful they have been in the showring. Numerous Show champions have been purchased for top prices at sales by AI Stations. ‘Clone Justice’ above is a classic example of a Bull that was purchased for use in AI (by the same AI Station as the previous 2 bulls) on the back of an outstanding show career.

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The previous pie-chart shows the source of Beef Testbulls in Ireland from 2007 – 2012. There were 213 Pedigree Beef Bulls purchased for AI Progeny Testing in Ireland between 2007 & 2012. The purpose of this analysis is to show that only 14% (a little more than 1 in 10) of these bulls had come through Irelands National Bull Performance Test Centre which would have at least assessed each bull for growth and carcass traits. The majority of the Bulls were either imported or were generally bought based on their physical appearance (shows or on-farm etc) here in Ireland.

To put some figures on the above 3 categories of animals – following is an analysis of the last 5 years of Beef Testbulls:

Pie Chart 2: Countries of origin of Beef Testbulls that went on progeny test 2007-2012.

Pie Chart 1: Proportion of Beef Testbulls that were imported, came through a Performance Test at Tully or were selected from shows or on-farm (2007-2012).

Added to this is the complication that the imported Bulls came from 5 different countries – all with their own unique genetic evaluation system. So the index figures they were imported with are not always fully convertible to Irish equivalent figures (different traits recorded, no common ancestors in both countries etc).

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Stockbulls

AI Sires

What also has to be taken into consideration is the overall effect that Beef AI bulls have on the national calf crop anyway which is very little when compared to the percentage of calves that Stockbulls are responsible for. For example, the pie chart below represents a sample of 350,00 beef calves born in Ireland in 2010.

In the absence of a Breeding program which identifies even better bulls year after year, certain AI Sires can dominate a breed for several years, being the sires of many breeding females, Stockbulls for Pedigree herds and AI Sires themselves. So although they are now long gone, their imprint on the breed remains. Dr Sinead McParland from Teagasc Moorepark has carried out detailed analysis work on this very issue. Sinead looked at the % contribution of an individual’s genes to six individual beef populations. Table 4 shows the Sires who contributed the most to the genes of calves born in 2011 in their respective populations. Calves were included in a population if at least 87.5% of their breed fraction were for that population.

Pie Chart 3: Types of sires for beef calves born in Ireland in 2010

The pie chart shows that: • 76% of calves are sired by Stockbulls. • 13% are sired by foreign AI Bulls. • 7% are sired by Irish bred AI Bulls. • 2% are sired by AI Bulls that have come through Tully. • 1% are sired by Stockbulls that have come through Tully. • 1% are sired by foreign Stockbulls. As can be seen from this pie chart, the group of bulls that are having the biggest impact on the genetics of the National calf crop each year are Stockbulls. Therefore, in order for ICBF to influence the genetics of the National herd, reverse negative trends (as shown earlier) and improve the profitability of the cattle that farmers work with, the national beef breeding program must not only increase the number of desired bulls that go into AI and are progeny tested, but the best of these bulls must also be used as the sires of young Stockbulls, sold by pedigree breeders to commercial farmers every year.

The numbers of calves analysed for each breed were: • 10,374 Angus calves • 1,268 Belgian Blue calves • 36,211 Charolais calves • 5,764 Hereford calves • 37,164 Limousin calves • 7,957 Simmental calves

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Journal 2013/14 If you talk to a lot of Breeder’s, it’s the lack of availability of semen of bulls such as the ones on this list that prevents Breeders from continuing to use them, and not the fact that they are convinced that anything better has come along in the meantime. Imagine however if Bulls as good as these and even better were being identified every year? – imagine the progress that a breed could make? – that is what a well organized Breeding Program can deliver.

G€N€ IR€LAND Maternal Bull Breeder Scheme. It is against this backround that ICBF has launched a new method of sourcing young Beef AI Testbulls – which is now called the G€N€ IR€LAND Maternal Bull Breeder Scheme. Basically, it is a program through which ICBF will be involved in the purchasing of young Beef Bulls with excellent Maternal Indexes, collecting semen from them and then dispersing this semen into commercial suckler herds. ICBF will then purchase the resulting male progeny and rear them through to slaughter at Tully. The female progeny will be followed through on farm. The semen inventory of the best Testbulls will then be targeted back into selected pedigree herds so as to generate Stockbulls for use in the National herd. Some more detail on this new program which is replacing the old Tully Pedigree Bull Performance Test system is as follows: • Pedigree Breeders sign up to the program (€250/annum). They have their data checked by ICBF to ensure that the dates of birth are correct, weight gains are within biological limits and that in general all of the breeding data has been recorded accurately & on time on the farm. ICBF will use a new index called the ‘Herd Data Quality Index (HDQI)’ to assess each Pedigree herd’s data quality. Herd’s with excellent HDQI ratings are then qualified as being official ‘Bull Breeder’ Herds. • These qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ Herds will: – Have a ‘Bull Breeder Stamp’ printed on Sales Catalogues & on Bull Searches etc to signify the status of the herd the animal is coming from. – Have potential Beef Progeny Test Bulls purchased from them for use in the G€N€ IR€LAND Maternal Progeny Test program.

Beef HerdPlus • The G€N€ IR€LAND Maternal program (which is operated by ICBF in conjunction with Beef Breed Societies, AI Companies & Commercial farmers) will decide which Bulls will be purchased from the Bull Breeder herds. The main criteria for Bull selection will be that large numbers of bulls with excellent Maternal indexes go on test, thus maximizing the chances of a number of top bulls being discovered. • 1000 straws are collected off each of these progeny test bulls. 500 are stored away and the other 500 are all used to inseminate commercial cows within the G€N€ IR€LAND progeny test herds. A sample of each bull’s male progeny are DNA parentage verified, purchased by ICBF and brought through to slaughter at Tully. Meat quality, taste and tenderness tests are also done on the carcasses at this stage. The females are followed through on-farm to assess their milk and fertility. • Following the progeny test – the 500 straws of the top bulls are taken back out of storage & made available to just the qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ herds. • A stream of sons of these top bulls will then start to be produced by these ‘Bull Breeder’ herds and get sold into commercial suckler herds thus starting to spread their desirable genes into the national herd. • Setting up the Breeding Program in this way means that over time, an increasing amount of the Stockbulls used to sire the majority of calves each year (pie chart 3) will have balanced indexes and we can improve the currently skewed nature of those genetic trendlines seen earlier (Graphs 1 - 8). The design of this Breeding program will guarantee that large numbers of Beef Testbulls with excellent genetic indexes will get semen taken off them for progeny testing ever year. This automatically increases the chances of identifying bulls with superior genetics. It is also important to note that these new topbulls will be emerging every year, surpassing the bulls from the previous year. Two of the bulls featured earlier – ‘Bishophill General’ & ‘Visa’ dominated their breeds for a long time. In 1997 nearly 20% of all AI sired pedigree Hereford calves were sired by one or other of these bulls.

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Journal 2013/14 It works on the basis of getting large numbers of young dairy bulls with very high EBI indexes (equivalent of Terminal or Maternal index in beef) purchased by AI Companies. Genomics also plays a part but the basic formula is still the same – by progeny testing large numbers of the ‘right’ bulls every year then more top bulls start to come through each year than ever before was the case. The genetic trend of the national herd then also starts to automatically lift as the graph below shows:

Pie Chart 4: Proportion of AI sired pedigree Hereford calves sired by the AI Bulls ‘Visa’ & ‘Bishophill General’ in 1997.

ICBF has already put such a Cattle Breeding program in place for the dairy industry here. In 2004, ICBF,AI Companies, IHFA, pedigree breeders and commercial dairy farmers began working very closely together to establish a new Dairy Breeding Program called G€N€ IR€LAND.

Very little Genetic Progress being made before the Dairy G€N€ IR€LAND Breeding Program was established.

G€N€ IR€LAND Dairy progeny test program established in 2004

60 High EBI Dairy Progeny Test bulls being selected for Progeny Testing every year causes a large and sustained increase in the genetic merit of the calves being born year after year.

Graph 11: Progress in Genetic Trend for Dairy Herds due to the G€N€ IR€LAND Dairy progeny test program.

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Summary This new Beef Breeding program is not a one or two year project. It will be a permanent part of ICBF’s mission statement to ‘achieve the greatest possible genetic improvement in the national cattle herd’. It is only now that the cattle breeding infrastructure is at a highly developed stage (e.g. Animal Events, AI Handhelds, On-farm Weight Recording) & that National Beef Breeding Indexes have been agreed upon (Maternal & Terminal Indexes) that the timing is right for a comprehensive Beef Breeding Program to be initiated.

Beef HerdPlus It will require several sectors of the cattle breeding industry working very closely together, but this is not seen in any way as an obstacle but more as an advantage, given how closely these same organisations and others currently work together on a daily basis – such is the nature, thankfully, of the Irish Cattle Breeding Industry in 2013. It will take time for this program to develop whereby its full effects are being felt on a National level (National Average Calving Interval figures improving etc) but the benefits that will accrue from this program will be cumulative and permanent. ICBF looks forward to working closely with its member organisations and various industry partners to help deliver a world class Beef Breeding program for Ireland.

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Maternal Beef Breeding Program Explanatory Material Backround In 2012, ICBF completed a major review of its beef G€N€ IR€LAND (GI) program. One of the key outcomes from the review was the need to increase the number of beef bulls being progeny tested on an annual basis. As a result, the ICBF, Irish Beef Breed Societies and Industry Partners are working very closely together in order to get the very best bulls into the new G€N€ IR€LAND® (GI) Maternal Beef Breeding program.

Main Aims of the program 1. Identify Top Maternal Bulls: The main aim of the program is to identify the top Maternal bulls within each beef breed. However, by progeny testing a high number of bulls, the program will also identify bulls that excel on terminal traits, calving ease and other key profit traits. 2. Identify Top Data Recording Pedigree Herds: Pedigree Herds that constantly record accurate data on their cattle will also be identified through this program. The level of transparency as regards record keeping will give commercial farmers purchasing stock from such herds an extra guarantee as regards the integrity of the data behind an animal’s €uro-Star figures.

Process 1. Sign Up ✦ All Irish Pedigree Beef Breeders can sign up to the program by filling in an application form (available from ICBF) & returning it to ICBF. There is an annual fee of €250/herd which must also be included with the application form (Cheque or Direct Debit).

2. ‘Bull Breeder’ Qualification Process ✦ Once your herd is signed up to the program you will begin the process of getting your herd qualified as an official ‘Bull Breeder’ herd. ✦ Your herd will be assessed using the Herd Data Quality Index (HDQI). This is a new tool which will analyse all of the data that you record on your animals for its accuracy & quality. ✦ The data from a herd is assessed for its completeness & timeliness. For example: • Dates of birth on all calves recorded accurately. • Insemination dates recorded for all females at time of insemination. • Stockbull introduction & removal from the cows recorded accurately. • Gestation lengths for all females are within biological limits. • All eligible animals in the herd are linear scored & weight recorded. – All cows in the herd will be linear scored to assess their functionality, udder quality etc. – All youngstock will be weighed & scored to confirm their birth dates, growth rates etc. – All Stockbulls will be weighed & scored to assess their functionality etc. – ICBF will work closely with each Breeder to help them improve their index, in order to become a qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ as quickly as possible.

3. Qualified Maternal ‘Bull Breeder’ Herds ✦ Herds that have achieved excellent ‘Herd Data Quality Index’(HDQI) ratings and attain the ‘Bull Breeder’ status now enter a different phase of the program and start reaping the benefits of being a fully qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ herd (listed below). ✦ Qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ herds will have to still achieve a very high ‘HDQI’ rating on an annual basis in order to retain their ‘Bull Breeder’ status.

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Benefits of being a qualified ‘Maternal Bull Breeder’ herd 1. Mating Advice ✦ Guidance on best practice in relation to herd health & the rearing of young bulls & heifers for breeding. i.e. ensuring that all animals produced from the herd are fit and & ready for breeding purposes. ✦ Mating advice on all breeding females in the herd – minimizing inbreeding and maximizing genetic gain. ✦ Provide priority access to new technology’s such as genomics.

2. G€N€ IR€LAND Stamp ✦ A G€N€ IR€LAND (GI) stamp will be displayed on all publically available ICBF material. ✦ All Bulls & Heifers being sold will have this stamp printed beside them in Sales Catalogues, on Bull Search Web Pages, in Breed Society Online Herdbooks etc. • This stamp demonstrates to a purchaser that the herd from which the animal is being sold from has achieved an extremely high standard of data quality (i.e. correct dates of birth, accurate insemination/ mating dates etc.).

3. AI Bull ✦ There is the possibility that the GI program will purchase a bull from your herd from which semen will be collected. • Bulls will only be purchased from breeders that signup to the program. • Each bull that is purchased for AI will have 1000 semen straws collected. • 500 semen straws will be used as part of progeny testing the bull: • The remaining 500 semen straws will be stored until the bull is proven (high reliability for either terminal or maternal index or both). • At this stage the semen will then be distributed for use in elite mating’s to herds that have signed-up to the program. Only bulls that excel in the program will have their semen disseminated to pedigree herds. ✦ As a participating Bull Breeder, your Herd will have complimentary access to semen from those AI Sires that have been purchased by the program and which have performed extremely well on progeny test. The cost of this semen is covered by the annual fee to join the program.

✦ The Herds which have achieved this level of data quality will also be listed as qualified Maternal Beef Breeding Herds on the ICBF & Breed Society Websites & Yearbooks.

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1. Sign Up All Irish Pedigree Beef Breeders can sign up to the program by completing an application form (available from ICBF - 1850-600-900). There is an annual fee of €250/herd which must also be included with the application form (cheque or Direct Debit) 2. Maternal Bull Breeder Qualification Process Herds that sign up to the program will begin the process of getting themselves qualified as oﬃcial ‘Bull Breeder’ herds. • All data records are assessed using the ICBF ‘Herd Data Quality Index’ (HDQI). 3. Qualified Maternal Bull Breeder Herds Herds that have achieved an excellent HDQI rating become qualified Maternal ‘Bull Breeder’ herds. • Each ‘Bull Breeder’ herd will have to maintain a very high ‘HDQI’ rating in order to retain their ‘Bull Breeder’ status 4. Bull Breeder Advice Guidance on best practice in relation to herd health & the rearing of young bulls thus ensuring that all

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Bulls produced from the herd are fit & ready for breeding. • Mating advice on all breeding females in the herd - minimizing inbreeding and maximizing genetic gain. • Provide priority access to new technology’s such as genomics. 5. G€N€ IR€LAND STAMP A G€N€ IR€LAND (GI) stamp will be displayed on all publically available ICBF material. • All Bulls & Heifers being sold will have this stamp printed beside them in Sales Catalogues, on Bull Search Web Pages & in Breed Society Online Herdbooks etc. • This stamp demonstrates to a purchaser that the herd from which the animal is being sold from has achieved an extremely high standard of data quality (i.e. correct dates of birth, accurate insemination/mating dates etc.). 6. AI Bull There is the possibility that the GI program will purchase a bull from your herd from which semen will be collected • 500 Semen straws will be used as part of progeny testing the bull. • The remaining 500 semen straws will be stored until the bull is proven. • Only ‘Bull Breeder’ herds will then receive complimentary straws from the very best of these proven bulls.

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Frequently Asked Questions Bull Breeder Herds 1. Is this program open to all beef breeds? Yes this program is open to all Beef Pedigree Breeders in the Republic of Ireland. 2. I run a Stockbull with my Pedigree herd. Can I still join the program or is it only for those Breeders that use AI? Yes this program is open to all types of pedigree breeders. Those that just use Stockbulls or 100% AI as well as those that use a mixture of both may join the program. 3. I wouldn’t be pushing my cattle as regards feeding them up for shows etc. I treat my pedigrees the same as if it was a commercial herd. Would this be a disadvantage in terms of partaking in the program? Absolutely not, ensuring that the young bulls for breeding in these ‘Bull Breeder’ herds are fit & ready to work is very important. Animal Husbandry & Bull preparation presale is something tha will be covered in the ‘Mating Advice’ part of the program. 4. I don’t normally sell any of my pedigree bulls at society bull sales. I don’t show cattle either. Would joining such a program be out of the question for me? No, breeders who normally sell their Bulls off-farm through repeat customers etc are ideal breeders for this program. Keeping accurate records on each individual animal in your herd (Insemination, date of birth etc) is what is important in this program – not what your method of herd promotion & sales is. 5. If I join the program and don’t become a qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ in the first year am I then expelled from the program? No, ICBF will be working very closely with all Breeders to help their herds get qualified with the ‘Bull Breeder’ status as quickly as possible. If a Breeder does not reach this standard in year one of the program then the work will continue in terms of getting that herd’s individual animal records up to the required standard. 6. I have only 2 pedigree cows. €250 is a lot for me to pay. Is this program really only designed for big Pedigree herds? No, it is designed for all Pedigree Herds. The €250 (68

cent/day) goes towards covering the cost of the work that will be undertaken with your herd in order for it to achieve and retain its ‘Bull Breeder’ status e.g. Data collection & keying, weight recording, herd visits etc. 7. Do I have to be a member of HerdPlus®? Yes, everyone has to be joined HerdPlus for the duration of the scheme. Herds that are not currently joined will be given complementary membership for year 1 provided they supply their direct debit details. The cost of HerdPlus ® is €60/year.

Bull Breeder ‘Stamp’ 8. Where will this stamp be published? The ‘Bull Breeder stamp will be published on the Bull Search beside the details of any Bull in your herd e.g. young bull being sold off-farm. The stamp will also be published with your animals in the online herdbooks. A listing of all qualified ‘Bull Breeders’ will also be published on the ICBF & Breed Society websites. 9. How long will it take me to get this stamp? This very much depends on the level of record keeping in the herd. Once a herd’s HDQI (Herd Data Quality Index) reaches a certain level then the herd is automatically given the stamp. Herds that have excellent records kept on all animals will obviously receive the stamp quicker than those herds that have to improve their level of record keeping and get their HDQI to the desired level. 10. Once I get the stamp – how long does it last for? Your herd will continue to receive the stamp for as long as it’s HDQI is achieving the required ‘Bull Breeder’ standard. 11. Could a Herdowner that is not a qualified Bull Breeder get this stamp? No, only qualified Bull Breeder herds can receive the stamp.

Bulls purchased for AI 12. If I join the program and pay the €250 does ICBF automatically come out and buy bulls for AI off me? No. Your herd first of all has to go through the Bull Breeder qualification process. Then bulls from your herd may be considered for AI progeny testing. However, don’t forget

Journal 2013/14 that all bulls bred in your herd will receive the Bull Breeder stamp – not just any that are selected for AI. 13. Who picks which bulls are purchased for AI? Breeding Committees will be in place for each breed – made up of Pedigree Breeders and ICBF personnel. ICBF will generate the initial list of bulls – which will be obviously strong on the Maternal traits. Different criteria will then be in place to make the final selection decisions i.e. Outcross & new Bloodlines, calving ease & growth rate limits etc. 14. If a bull of mine is bought for A.I. can I take a share in him? No, below is the three ways that a bull is eligible to have semen collected as part of the program. 1. ICBF purchases the bull(s) directly from herd owners that are participating in the program. 2. Breeders put their bull privately onto the program. The bull must meet certain criteria to be eligible and the breeder must make available 1000 doses of semen to the program. 500 doses of the semen go towards progeny testing the bull and the remainder are retained for elite mating’s. 3. AI company put their own bulls onto the program. Again the bulls must meet certain criteria. 15. If I sell a bull for AI into the program can I request for extra semen to be collected off the bull for my own use & sale while the 1000 doses is being collected off the bull by ICBF? No, if the bull is sold to ICBF then the breeder would not be in a position to collect or request extra semen. However, additional semen can be collected on privately owned breeder bulls which are eligible to be selected for the program. For every breeder owned bull, the herd owner must pay upfront a fee of €1000, which is refundable on the condition that a thousand doses of high quality semen is made available to the program. The fee is non-refundable in the event that (a) the bull produces fewer than a thousand doses of semen or (b) in ICBF’s opinion, the semen is not of high quality pre-freezing or not viable post-freezing. ICBF will cover costs incurred in collecting the 1,000 doses to be used in the program such as: ✦ Transport of the bull to the A.I center. ✦ Collection and storage for the first 1000 doses of high quality semen that the bull produces. ✦ Health tests and maintenance costs from the time the bull enters the AI center until 14 days after the first 1,000 doses of high quality semen have been collected for the GI program.

Beef HerdPlus ✦ Allocation of an AI code and payment of relevant A.I code and genetic evaluation fees. The herd owner shall be responsible for all costs in respect of any additional semen collected above 1,000 doses.

16. When the 1000 straws is taken off the bull, 500 go for progeny test inseminations, what happens the other 500? The other 500 straws are put into storage. If a Bull comes through the progeny test with excellent figures then this batch of 500 straws is taken back out of storage for use in the Bull Breeder herds. 17. Can Pedigree Breeders who are not qualified ‘Bull Breeder’ herds get access to any of those 500 straws? No, those 500 straws are strictly for use within the Bull Breeder herds. If the bull was purchased by an AI Station or if a Breeder took extra straws off him after ICBF collected their 1000 straws – then farmers outside of the Bull Breeder herds may get access to his straws, but they will have to purchase them and availability would not be guaranteed. Bull Breeder herds do not have to pay for this semen and as it has been reserved for them, availability will not be an issue. 18. Where will the young bulls have their semen collected? The Bulls will be divided between all of the participating AI Stations for semen collection. 19. The AI Bulls that come out on top of the progeny test – do the ‘Bull Breeder’ herdowners all have to use these bulls on their pedigree cows? Yes, obviously Breeders will have a choice of which bulls to use but by breeding young bulls and daughters out of these 500 straws – that Sire’s superior genes for the maternal traits will be increased within the national suckler herd. 20. Although the main objective of this program is to find Bulls that sire excellent daughters, if a Bull comes through with an excellent Terminal Index what will happen his semen? If a Bull comes through with an excellent Terminal index – his semen will also be used within the Bull Breeder herds but only after the matings have been selected for the top ranking maternal bulls.

Beef HerdPlus Performance Test Centre 21. Will all the cattle be finished with concentrates? Will any be finished off grass? Intakes of cattle at the Performance Test Centre will be finished on a concentrate diet however it is planned that in time, as part of the progeny test, that a portion of the cattle will also be finished off grass. 22. Where are the cattle that are bought for finishing in the Performance Test Centre bought? The cattle are bought from commercial suckler herds that are part of the G€N€ IR€LAND ® progeny test program. These are the herds that will be using those first 500 straws off the Testbulls that are purchased by the program. 23. Is it only the very best progeny of each Testbull that are brought into the Performance Test Centre? No, a random sample of progeny from each Testbull will be purchased. They are weighed on-farm and and are DNA parentage tested before they come into Tully. 24. What age do the cattle start their performance test at and what age are they slaughtered at? They start their performance test at 11-12 months of age and are slaughtered at about 15 – 16 months old. They are purchased and slaughtered at set ages so as the progeny of each Testbull can be fairly compared against each other. 25. Is it possible to go up to view the cattle in the Performance Test Centre? Yes, ICBF are in the process of developing the Performance Test Centre into a focal point for beef breeding in Ireland. Individuals or groups (by appointment) are always welcome to vist the centre (located near the Irish National Stud).

Journal 2013/14 26. Could progeny of other bulls be brought into Tully – for example could ICBF purchase progeny of AI sires with high priced semen who would normally never have progeny fattened & slaughtered? Yes this is a possibility. The priority for the intakes of cattle are that they will only contain progeny from the G€N€ IR€LAND Testbulls. However, there are many different options now available to the Irish Cattle Breeding Industry as regards the usage of the performance test centre which heretofore was not the case.

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International Beef Evaluations Backround All of the main beef breeds of cattle in use across Ireland are not native to these shores. As obvious as this statement sounds, it is still fascinating to see just how new a lot of commonly known breeds are to Ireland. Hereford, Angus & Shorthorn cattle were first imported into Ireland well over 100 hundred years ago. However all the other commonly known beef breeds have been here less than 50 years. In all cases, the original populations from which the Irish imports were selected are still in existence. The majority of these countries also operate performance recording programmes, and compute genetic evaluations on their animals. Up until recently there was no sharing of Beef genetic evaluation data between countries. When an animal, a straw of semen or an embryo was imported into Ireland for example, that animal’s genetic evaluation results from its country of origin did not come with it. Oftentimes, the reason for the importation is so as to introduce an outcross pedigree into the population here. A recurring problem however for Irish Pedigree Breeders, that import pedigree stock, has been that their foreign genetic evaluation figures were not being incorporated into their new Irish Index figures. The resulting breeding values typically had very low reliability figures and did not mirror the index figures the same animal had in its country of birth for comparable traits. The Irish Breeder that would have gone to a lot of trouble and expense to bring in the imported animal would obviously feel very frustrated that the first genetic evaluation figures on the animal didn’t reflect its true genetic potential. Interbeef however, is an organization that has been specifically set up to address this problem.

Interbeef Interbeef is an Organization that has recently been established to facilitate the sharing of beef data internationally between organizations. The foundations of this new organization were largely initiated by ICBF. ICBF

recognized that Pedigree breeders that imported animals into Ireland were at a real disadvantage in terms of foreign genetic evaluations not being included in their Irish breeding values. This situation was gradually tackled over the years as the following timeline shows:

2006 ✦ In Spring 2006, ICBF began working closely with the Institute de L’Elevage & INRA in France to convert French breeding values into Irish equivalent figures. ✦ Weaning Weight, Maternal weaning weight, Muscle & Skeletal BLUPS were the traits that were involved initially. These traits were used to predict equivalent Irish breeding values. Breeding values for carcass weight, conformation and calf quality were also predicted from this French data. Calving Ease (direct and maternal) has subsequently been added. ✦ After the routine genetic evaluation run was completed by ICBF, an imported animal’s breeding values for these traits were then adjusted – using their equivalent figures from France. ✦ This was carried out for the Limousin & Charolais Breeds. ✦ This procedure was repeated at each subsequent ICBF genetic evaluation run. 2009 ✦ A more streamlined process was developed whereby the French breeding value data was put directly into the Irish evaluations instead of being incorporated in after the evaluations were run. ✦ Building of the Interbeef database began in 2009. 2010 ✦ Angus, Simmental, Limousin & Belgian Blue data was received from the UK for the first time. ✦ Weaning Weight & Maternal Weaning Weight, Muscle & Calving ease were the traits that were used. 2011 ✦ Hereford & Charolais data began to be received from the UK for the above traits. 2012 ✦ Calving Ease data began to be received from France.

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2013 ✦ Calving Ease data from both the UK & France will be used together for the first time in the April genetic evaluation run.

Funding: ✦ The current annual budget for Interbeef is €100,000, which is funded by a number of beef cattle performance recording and genetic evaluation interests along with a contribution from ICAR.

Interbeef progress to-date Building of the Interbeef database began in 2009. Since then, excellent progress has been made on several fronts:

Database: ✦ A prototype database has been established and tested for 2 breeds, 8 countries, and 1 trait set. ✦ Methods for resolving animal identification conflicts have been developed and tested. ✦ A multi-trait genetic evaluation system has been developed and tested by INRA and transferred to the Interbull Centre where it has been implemented using MIX99 (MTT,2011) software.

Structure: ✦ Interbeef is guided by a steering committee appointed by the board of ICAR and includes a geographical and technical spread of enthusiastic supporters. ✦ A scientific advisory committee has also been established to give advice on technical issues. ✦ The Interbull Centre, which is part of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala, Sweden, has been chosen to be the operational unit of Interbeef because it already provides a very successful and similar service for dairy cattle.

Interbeef – Countries & Traits 2013 Traits Countries

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Milk (Maternal Weaning Weight

Direct Calving Ease

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Breeds

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Charolais, Limousin

France

Charolais, Limousin

Limousin

Spain

Limousin

Sweden

Charolais, Limousin

Finland

Charolais, Limousin

Denmark

Charolais, Limousin

Czech Rep.

Charolais, Limousin

Table 1: Table of the Countries and traits that are involved in Interbeef in 2013.

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Journal 2013/14 Importance of Interbeef – a real example A real example as to how important international beef evaluations are, is the Irish Simmental Bull ‘Curaheen Apostle’ (AI Code:APZ). He is ‘Irish’ as he was born in the ‘Curaheen’ simmental herd of David Wall, Curaheen, Newcastle, Co.Dublin. He was the result of an embryo that was imported from Canada.

Table 2 below shows that when 6 generations of this bull are traced, over 50% of his ancestors come from Germany, 20% are Canadian, 10% are South African and the remainder come from Austria, USA, UK & Ireland. The Irish connection is very interesting: ✦ ‘Cregg Emperor’ is an Irish bred Simmental bull (Co.Tipperary) that was performance tested at Tully in the 1970’s and was exported to the U.S.A ✦ ‘Star Palm’ was another Irish bred bull (Co.Kildare) that was exported to the U.S.A around the same time. ✦ ‘Ballybane Hal’ was bred in the Ballybane herd in county Westmeath – he was also exported to America. ✦ ‘Siegfried’ & ‘Dovea Ignaz’, two Austrian bulls that stood in AI in Ireland in the 1980’s (Dovea AI Centre) and whose semen was exported to North America also appear in his backpedigree. ✦ Mr Dermot Cahill (manager of Dovea AI Station 19722008) was responsible for exporting semen from ‘Siegfried’ & ‘Dovea Ignaz’ as well as many other AI Sires to America & Canada in the 1970’s & 80’s. Dublin District Milk Board also exported semen from Simmental bulls such as ‘Hamlet’ to America at that time also.

His parents and grandparents are all Canadian animals however after that, his backpedigree reveals that he has Simmental ancestors from no less than 6 different countries, including Ireland! An overview of the numbers of countries and amounts of data that would be involved in an international beef evaluation for a bull like ‘APZ’ can be seen in graphic 1. Given the numbers of countries, variations in animal ID’s and different types of performance data that is involved, it is obvious to anyone that it is not a trivial task, to combine all of this data together, but it is definitely one that is well worth pursuing.

Countries of Origin for Ancestors of 'APZ' Country

Number of Ancestors

% of all Ancestors

Germany

53%

Canada

20%

South Africa

10%

Austria

USA

Ireland

Table 2: Distribution of ancestors by country of origin for ‘APZ’.

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Graphic 1: Six generation backpedigree of ‘APZ’ including countries of origin & numbers of progeny for all ancestors.

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Cregg Emperor

Star Palm

Ballybane Hal

Siegfried

Dovea Ignaz

Mr Dermot Cahill

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Journal 2013/14 Apart from linking all of these ancestors together in a genetic evaluation system, Interbeef would also be combining the performance data from the progeny of these ancestors together so as a bull such as ‘APZ’ would receive accurate initial breeding values, while he is waiting for his progeny to be born & evaluated in Ireland. His expected calving difficulty, progeny growth rates and expected daughter performance are all questions that the first users of his semen would have had in Ireland when his semen first became available in 2011. They were’nt however questions that could be fully answered as the genetic evaluations of his ancestors for these traits were not (and are still not) combined together. Instead, he was basically treated by the genetic evaluation system as a completely unknown quantity, until his own progeny began to be born in 2012. Following is a table showing the reliability % figures for some of the first breeding values of ‘APZ’ in December 2011.

First Reliability % Figures for ‘APZ’ (December 2011) Traits

Dec 2011 Reliability %

Calving Difficulty

11%

Carcass Conformation

Daughter Milk

Daughter Fertility

Table 4: The reliability % figures for ‘APZ’ in December 2011 (when his semen first became available). A search through the various websites where his ancestors progeny records are stored shows that in his immediate 4 generations of backpedigree there are over 13,000 progeny registered with performance records available (Table 3).

Numbers of Progeny for Ancestors of ‘APZ’ Ancestors Countries of origin

Number of progeny

% of all Ancestors Progeny

Interbeef Status (April 2013)

Germany

6471

47%

Not in Interbeef

Canada

3466

26%

Not in Interbeef

South Africa

307

Not in Interbeef

Austria

2608

19%

Not in Interbeef

USA

648

Not in Interbeef

Ireland

0.05%

In Interbeef

0.05%

In Interbeef

Table 3: Distribution of numbers of progeny records for ancestors of ‘APZ’.

If all of this ancestry & performance data was included in an international evaluation for him, then his initial €uroStar indexes would have been more reflective of how his bloodlines have bred, drawing on all available international data sources. His reliabilities would be higher and a breeder would be more informed about his genetic merit for important traits.

For example, ‘APZ’ started off with a reliability of ‘1%’ for ‘Daughter Milk’, in other words, there was virtually no information on this trait in his genetic evaluation for any of his relatives. However, 2 ancestors of his from Germany, ‘Rogant’ and his sire ‘Roger’ between them have almost 8000 milk recorded daughters in Germany & Austria.

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Milk Proof Rel

Number of Milk Recorded Daughters

Total

Germany

Austria

Roger

99%

7900

6420

1480

Rogant

90%

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Table 5: Example of the amount of foreign milk recording data that is available on ancestors of ‘APZ’.

Interbeef is only starting, but it is clear that it has a huge role to play and all the countries that participate have a lot to gain from being involved. ‘APZ’ for example already has 1426 progeny in Ireland (March 2013) – the performance of these animals would also be of benefit to his ancestors breeding values in the countries already mentioned. Ireland is enthusiastically supporting Interbeef because of its potential to improve the profitability of beef production in Ireland through better informed decisions on selective imports of breeding stock. ICBF is heavily involved in the development and progression of Interbeef. Indeed, Interbeef is of particular relevance to Beef Pedigree breeders in Ireland given that in 2012, 37% of all pedigree beef calves were sired by foreign bulls from 10 different countries. Only 5 of these countries are currently in Interbeef. Dr Brian Wickham (ICBF Chief Executive 1998-2012) is the Chairman of the Interbeef working group of ICAR. Dr Thierry

Dr Brian Wickham Chairman of the Interbeef working group of ICAR

Pabiou & Dr Ross Evans have been responsible for incorporating foreign beef evaluation data into the routine ICBF beef genetic evaluations since the Interbeef project started in 2006. Other Countries will benefit greatly from becoming involved in Interbeef. There are lots of bulls like ‘APZ’ in other countries around the world, who are currently not in Interbeef. The users of such bulls would be a lot better informed about their genetic merit for traits of economic importance if their home country was in Interbeef. The sharing of beef breeding data between countries will bring a range of benefits of great value to beef producers. Interbeef has made tremendous progress in a short amount of time – we would strongly urge all countries with beef breeding populations of cattle to become involved in Interbeef.

Dr Thierry Pabiou ICBF Beef Geneticist

Dr Ross Evans ICBF Beef Geneticist

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New N ew Beef Beef € €uro-Star uroo Star EEvaluations valuations IIntroduction ntroduction ✦ The €uro-Stars are the end result of a series of routine steps known as a ‘Genetic Evaluation Run’. A genetic evaluation run will identify all of the relatives of your Bull and compares their performance records (Calving Difficulty scores, Liveweights, Carcass grades, Calving Intervals) to those of their herdmates. ✦ It then applies the economic values to the data, as some traits are more valuable than others e.g. ‘Liveweight’ is a more valuable trait than ‘Coat Colour’. ✦ The results (Breeding values) of this calculation are then expressed in €uro’s as ultimately this whole process is describing how profitable (or not) progeny of a Bull are.

Catalogue Page changes – 2013 11.Calving .Calving D Difficulty ifficulty % %:: It was clear that while the €uroStars do a very good job in relation to the overall economic indexes, they do not present as clear a picture when it comes to calving difficulty. The impression that the €uro-Stars were giving of a bull’s ‘calving difficulty %’ was a lot more severe than what his actual calving difficulty percentage figure was saying. For example: The Aberdeen Angus Bull ‘Aynho Rossiter’ (AYR) has a ‘calving difficulty %’ breeding value of ‘2.60%’ so that means that approximately 2.6 calves out of every 100 will result in a difficult calving. The average for the Angus breed is 2.18% so again he is only slightly above breed average within the Angus breed and compared to the average calving difficulty figure for all beef breeds (5.04%), he is an easy calving bull. The problem however is that the €uro-Star rating of this bull of 1.5 stars makes him look like a hard calving bull which is not the case. Therefore, it was decided to remove the €uro-Stars off ‘Calving Difficulty %’ and ‘Daughter Calving Difficulty %’ so as people will focus more on the actual percentage difficulty

Star Star Rating Rating (within (within Angus Angus breed) breed)

Key Key profit profit traits traits

figure and compare it against the within and across breed average figures instead. 2.Replacement 2.Replacement IIndex: ndex: It was also felt that it was not clear how a bull was getting his maternal index rating, given that the maternal index is made up of 30% milk & fertility traits with the remainder being beef, calving & docility traits. The reason for the inclusion of the beef traits in this index is to account for the quality of progeny that the daughters of a bull will produce. So this index was renamed the ‘Replacement Index’ and was split in two so as to clearly show the strengths & weaknesses of a bull’s daughters: ✦ Maternal Cow Traits: Indication of the performance of a Bull’s daughter’s for important maternal traits that they express themselves. – (Maternal Cow Traits: Milk, Calving Interval, Survival, Age at 1st Calving, Maternal Calving, Heifer & Cow Feed Intake, Docility & Cull Cow Weight). ✦ Maternal Progeny Traits: Indication of the profitability of progeny that the daughter’s of a bull will produce for economically important traits. – (Maternal Progeny Traits: Calving Difficulty, Gestation, Mortality, Docility, Feed Intake, Carcass Weight, Conformation & Fat).

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Comment

Bull Type

Explanation

0- 20%

Low

Young Bull

€uro- Stars mostly based on those of the bull's Parents & Grandparents.

20- 50%

Low- Medium

Young Bull

€uro- Stars influenced by the Bull's own Liveweight & Linear Score data.

50- 90%

Medium- High

AI Sire/Stockbull

€uro- Stars increasingly affected by the bull's progeny performances

> 90%

High

AI Sire/Stockbull

€uro- Stars dominated by the bull's progeny performances

Any Young Bull that has not yet sired a calf will not have a reliability % figure greater than 50%.

Terminal Index This is an indication as to how profitable progeny of the bull will be, when they are sold or slaughtered. E.g. A Bull with a Terminal Index of €148 is expected to sire cattle for the meat industry that are €148 more profitable than the average animal.

Traits

% Emphasis

Calving

29%

Beef

68%

Docility

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Lot 1 Aynho Rossiter Eric B125

Breed: Angus DOB: 23-Jan-2002

ID: AYR Sex: Male

Owner: National Cattle Breeding Cntr - Kilcorney Enfield Co. Meath Breeder: Great Britian - Gbr Sire: Belvin Kincaid 27'00 1007476

Dam: Aynho Rosa Erica Y294 UKN846800294

Woodlawn Stockyard 208

Mca Courtyard 95

Belvin Georgina 43'97

Belvin Boardwalk 11`92 Belvin Georgina

Carlhurlie Deceiver

Carlhurlie Excalibur

Rosa Erica 7th Of Penguin

Glen Islay Masterpiece 2z Rosa Erica 2nd Of Penguin

Maternal Cow Traits: Maternal Progeny Traits:

Svf Rachel 152d

Ashley Delia Sc O26

€222 (55%) €48 (79%)

Replacement Index

(Across all Beef Breeds)

This is an indication as to how profitable daughters of the bull will be when they calve down. E.g. A bull with a Replacement Index of €264 is expected to sire daughters that are €264 more profitable that the average suckler cow.

Traits

% Emphasis

Calving

24%

Beef

43%

(% Of daughters expected to have diﬃcult or vet assisted calvings)

Breed Ave: 6.48%, All breeds ave: 5.19%

Additional Information:

Animal scored. Linear scores and weaning weights in evaluations Copyright, Irish Cattle Breeding Federation ICBF Dec 2012

Fertility

19%

Milk

11%

Docility

Linear composites Value Reliability Muscle

108

81%

Skeletal

113

78%

Function

37%

Herd data quality index N/A

Page – User’s Guide

Beef HerdPlus

Understand a Bull’s Catalogue page in 3 steps…

1. Look at the Reliability % figures •

Reliability % is the most important figure to look at on a bull’s catalogue page. ALWAYS look at the reliability % figure BEFORE looking at a Bull’s €uro-Stars or breeding values. – They tell you how much importance you should attach to a Bull’s figures when deciding whether to purchase him or not. Any young Bull that has not yet sired a calf will not have a reliability % figure greater than 50%.

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2. Look at the Overall Economic Index that best suits your needs • • • • •

Terminal Index – This is for Beef farmers that want a bull to breed cattle for live trade or finishing. Replacement Index – This is for Beef farmers that want a bull to breed their own Replacement females with. Dairy Beef Index – This is for Dairy farmers that are looking for a beef bull to use in their dairy herd. The ‘Key Profit Traits’ section gives extra detail on the figures that make up these Overall Economic Indexes. Remember to look at the ‘Reliability %’ figures at all times.

3. Look at the Calving Difficulty % figure • • •

This shows the % of calvings that are expected to be difficult or require veterinary assistance. The ‘Calving Difficulty %’ figure must be compared against breed average figures (both within & across breed). Again, always look at the ‘Reliability %’ figure when assessing a bull’s breeding figures.

80 €184 €61 -€29 -€29 €5 €49 €96 €130 €145 €243 €162 €127 €82

€106

€111

€97

€19

€105

€135

€114

€87

€7

€49

€92

Aubrac

Blonde

B.Blue

Charolais

Hereford

Limousin

Parthenaise

Piedmontese

Saler

Shorthorn

Simmental

All Breeds

4.99%

5.37%

2.95%

2.25%

4.00%

5.30%

4.75%

4.05%

7.48%

14.50%

5.19%

2.65%

2.25%

2.79 Days

1.25 Days

0.75 Days

2.3 Days

1.9 Days

4.15 Days

1.85 Days

2.75 Days

0.75 Days

4.27 Days

1.55 Days

1.05 Days

-0.01

0.03

0.05

-0.11

-0.02

-0.07

0.07

0.03

0.17

-0.03

-0.07

0.01

Docility

Average figures given above are within breed averages which cannot be compared against each other

€138

Replacement Calving Gestation Index Difficulty (%) Length (Days)

€38

Terminal Index

Angus

Breed

22.43 Kgs

20.88 Kgs

2.92 Kgs

16.75 Kgs

18.63 Kgs

29.0 Kgs

22.88 Kgs

6.38 Kgs

31.88 Kgs

31.5 Kgs

25.13 Kgs

16.75 Kgs

6.88 Kgs

Carcass Weight (Kgs)

Breed Averages - Masterlist (April 2013)

1.91

1.45

0.63

1.26

2.11

2.32

2.13

0.76

1.98

2.84

2.01

1.98

0.9

Carcass Conformation (1-15 scale)

5.19%

5.09%

7.05%

5.35%

10.70%

7.75%

4.65%

5.15%

4.87%

16.10%

4.85%

6.80%

6.45%

Daughter Calving Difficulty %

0.49 Kgs

9.02 Kgs

10.48 Kgs

10.35 Kgs

-1.14 Kgs

-3.85 Kgs

-0.28 Kgs

4.28 Kgs

-5.85 Kgs

2.89 Kgs

-6.45 Kgs

-1.10 Kgs

7.42 Kgs

Daughter Milk (Kg)

-0.02 Days

-0.55 Days

-6.41 Days

-5.38 Days

-2.21 Days

-3.46 Days

1.58 Days

-3.87 Days

0.88 Days

5.02 Days

-0.45 Days

-4.51 Days

-5.36 Days

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

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€-val Rel Stars % Within €97 62 1.5 €91 88 1 €68 81 0.5

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €77 66 5 €60 87 5 €60 87 5 €59 58 5 €58 87 5 €58 80 5 €58 64 5 €58 62 5 €57 56 5 €54 87 5 €54 86 5 €42 61 3.5 €41 73 3.5 €40 80 3 €30 86 1.5 €25 94 1 €25 88 1 €22 90 0.5 €22 76 0.5 €21 82 0.5

Terminal Index

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 3 €91 54 0.5 3 2.5 €131 82 1 4 2 €64 67 0.5 2.5 Calving Difficulty - Aubrac Breed Average

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 2 €266 52 5 5 2 €128 77 2 4 2 €265 72 5 5 2 €95 53 1 3 2 €197 68 5 5 2 €336 70 5 5 2 €170 47 4 4.5 2 €233 43 5 5 2 €180 50 4.5 5 1.5 €65 77 0.5 2.5 1.5 €180 69 4.5 5 1.5 €208 50 5 5 1.5 €40 60 0.5 2 1.5 €152 71 3.5 4.5 1 €195 64 5 5 1 €84 92 0.5 3 1 €98 83 1 3 0.5 €103 86 1 3.5 0.5 €151 63 3.5 4.5 0.5 €91 79 1 3 Calving Difficulty - Angus Breed Average

Replacement Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 6.4 75 4.3 95 1.3 83 2.65

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 2.2 76 2.7 97 5.1 96 3.2 74 3.1 98 2.2 93 2.3 96 0.7 60 1 76 6.6 97 3.1 96 3.2 98 5.4 92 2.9 92 3.1 98 2.5 99 2.7 96 2.1 99 3.6 88 1.6 87 2.25

0.02 -0.03 -0.06

0 -0.03 0.18 0.07 0.01 0.06 -0.08 0.08 0.16 0.1 -0.06 0.09 -0.04 -0.11 0.08 0.08 0.05 0.04 -0.04 0.01

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 63 5 3.5 91 4 2.5 80 3.5 2

Docility

Aubrac

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 44 2.5 3 93 2 2.5 95 5 5 55 4 4 97 3 3 84 4 4 82 1 1.5 46 4.5 4.5 51 5 5 97 4.5 4.5 93 1.5 2 93 4.5 4.5 82 1.5 2 77 0.5 1 96 4.5 4.5 98 4.5 4.5 88 4 4 98 3.5 3.5 67 1.5 2 64 3 3

Docility

Angus

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 26 5 5 55 0.5 2.5 39 5 5 70 1.5 4 23 1.5 4 72 5 5 4 3.5 4.5 4 2 4 38 2 4 62 0.5 3 22 2.5 4.5 22 5 5 26 1.5 4 57 5 5 21 5 5 91 4 4.5 76 2.5 4.5 80 1 3.5 46 5 5 81 2.5 4

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across -3.4 57 1 1.5 -6.86 75 0.5 1 -1.6 41 2.5 2

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg) PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 20 71 4 3 15 98 2 1.5 10 90 0.5 1.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

16.85 -0.07 16.1 5.51 5.93 26.1 8.72 6.32 6.55 1.46 7.01 13.02 5.52 13.08 11.51 9.18 7.3 4.69 13.78 6.93

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 19 78 5 2 15 97 5 1.5 23 97 5 3 19 66 5 2 13 95 5 1.5 23 82 5 3 11 61 4.5 1.5 8 81 3.5 1 7 58 3 1 20 98 5 2.5 14 97 5 1.5 10 50 4 1.5 13 78 5 1.5 18 91 5 2 12 89 4.5 1.5 2 99 1 0.5 10 96 4 1.5 0 99 1 0.5 12 83 4.5 1.5 5 94 2 1

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 37 5 5 NCBC 62 2 4.5 Dovea 54 2 4.5 Dovea 32 0.5 4 NCBC 46 3 5 Dovea 49 3 5 NCBC 27 1.5 4.5 Eurogene 24 5 5 Dovea 38 4.5 5 Eurogene 63 0.5 4 NCBC 53 2.5 4.5 NCBC 33 4.5 5 NCBC 39 0.5 3 Dovea 53 2 4.5 NCBC 39 4 5 Dovea 86 0.5 4 Dovea 69 0.5 4 Bova AI 77 3.5 5 Bova AI 45 1.5 4.5 Bova AI 59 2.5 4.5 NCBC

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across -1.33 31 0.5 3.5 NCBC -4.5 68 2.5 4.5 NCBC 0.98 47 0.5 2 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-7.15 -4.96 -4.85 -3 -5.59 -5.69 -4.63 -7.33 -7.08 -3.1 -5.08 -6.63 -0.73 -4.65 -6.31 -2.7 -3.34 -6.06 -4.51 -5.31

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

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Rank

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Code Name

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Bull Details

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Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €182 76 5 €175 91 5 €166 87 5 €161 59 5 €156 76 5 €155 64 5 €152 63 5 €151 88 5 €148 90 5 €147 74 5 €147 70 5 €145 92 5 €141 83 5 €141 77 5 €140 91 5 €140 91 5 €140 82 5 €138 71 5 €133 66 4.5 €133 65 4.5 €132 88 4.5 €132 85 4.5 €130 91 4.5 €130 82 4.5

Terminal Index

Stars Across 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

€-val Rel Stars % Within €206 54 5 €121 89 5 €18 74 4 €127 44 5 €133 59 5 €134 52 5 €17 48 4 €32 83 4.5 €227 87 5 €141 58 5 €31 56 4.5 €133 78 5 €85 66 5 €174 60 5 -€25 90 3 €58 90 5 €80 68 5 €80 53 5 €17 55 4 €15 53 4 €115 73 5 €92 80 5 €22 91 4 €111 58 5 Stars Across 5 3.5 1.5 4 4 4 1.5 1.5 5 4 1.5 4 3 4.5 0.5 2 2.5 2.5 1.5 1.5 3.5 3 1.5 3.5

Replacement Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 7.2 89 8.4 99 10.7 98 8.2 74 8.1 88 10.4 87 14.2 92 11.9 96 5.6 99 9.7 90 13.2 92 8.4 99 11 96 9.1 90 10.8 99 6.9 99 9.1 93 9.5 83 7.4 85 11.6 72 9.5 98 9.5 92 10.2 99 10.3 98

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 8.4 60 5.8 94 7.7 94 7.7 73 6.6 91 5.9 96 7.4 84 16 78 5.19 Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 73 0.5 0.5 92 5 4.5 93 2.5 2 71 1 0.5 90 0.5 0.5 96 1 0.5 77 1.5 1 66 1.5 1.5

0.05 0.21 0.23 0.15 0.13 0.29 0.29 0.34 0.28 0.29 0.27 0.25 0.15 0.21 0.23 0.17 0.17 0.36 0.05 0.12 0.27 0.11 0.19 0.19

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 90 0.5 4 99 4.5 5 98 4.5 5 74 2.5 5 86 2 5 84 5 5 91 5 5 96 5 5 99 5 5 80 5 5 92 5 5 99 5 5 96 2.5 5 90 4.5 5 99 4.5 5 94 3 5 95 3 5 79 5 5 81 0.5 4 67 1.5 4.5 97 5 5 87 1.5 4.5 98 4 5 98 4 5

Docility

Belgian Blue

-0.17 0.08 -0.06 -0.15 -0.18 -0.16 -0.11 -0.09

Docility

Carcass Weight (Kg) Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 23 4 1.5 83 0.5 0.5 21 5 2.5 15 0.5 0.5 77 0.5 0.5 88 1 0.5 82 5 2 9 0.5 0.5

0.95 5.42 -3.21 -0.38 0.52 4.89 2.82 5.22 0.29 3.56 4.24 5.15 4.01 1.67 -6.11 4.86 -3.62 0.1 2.91 -0.27 10.16 1.46 9.05 2.95

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 4 1.5 3 90 4.5 4 47 0.5 1.5 12 1 2.5 17 1 3 24 4 4 16 2.5 3.5 77 4 4 85 1 2.5 25 3 3.5 22 3.5 3.5 31 4 4 17 3.5 3.5 15 2 3 90 0.5 1 91 4 4 40 0.5 1.5 11 1 2.5 29 3 3.5 32 1 2.5 39 5 5 67 1.5 3 91 5 4.5 5 3 3.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 35 86 4 5 31 99 2.5 4.5 37 96 4.5 5 41 66 5 5 35 88 4 5 35 65 4 5 39 61 5 5 38 98 5 5 20 99 0.5 2.5 30 81 2 4 38 73 5 5 31 99 2.5 4.5 42 90 5 5 30 88 2 4 32 99 3 4.5 13 99 0.5 1.5 31 93 2.5 4.5 28 81 1.5 4 31 70 2.5 4.5 35 78 4 5 26 98 1 3.5 28 98 1.5 4 22 99 0.5 2.5 34 78 3.5 5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

-4.95 -10.32 -0.58 -19.62 -10.01 -8.92 -2.89 -11.98

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 42 72 5 5 32 96 5 4.5 30 80 4.5 4 36 72 5 5 32 93 5 4.5 29 98 4 4 29 89 4 4 37 52 5 5

Blonde d’Aquitaine

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €133 63 5 5 €28 49 1.5 1.5 €123 86 4.5 5 €2 83 1 1 €122 79 4.5 5 €84 60 4 3 €120 60 4 5 -€21 44 0.5 0.5 €116 83 3.5 4.5 -€18 74 0.5 1 €107 92 2.5 4 €38 89 2 1.5 €95 78 1 3 €57 73 2.5 2 €91 52 0.5 2.5 -€87 40 0.5 0.5 Calving Difficulty - Blonde d’Aquitaine Breed Average

Terminal Index

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013) Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 31 1.5 2 Dovea 73 1 1.5 Eurogene 34 2.5 2.5 Dovea 24 4 3.5 Bova AI 54 1 1.5 Dovea 78 5 4 Dovea 56 3 3 Dovea 23 2 2 Eurogene

5.68 8.47 5.98 3.68 1.92 6.48 7.46 8.34 1.2 5.62 6.29 6.27 3.49 1.36 8.01 9.53 1.8 5.26 8.24 4.12 2.85 3.76 8.42 2.89

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 32 2 0.5 Dovea 85 0.5 0.5 Dovea 61 1.5 0.5 NCBC 25 4 0.5 Eurogene 41 5 1.5 Bova AI 37 1 0.5 Eurogene 28 0.5 0.5 Dovea 72 0.5 0.5 NCBC 80 5 2 Bova AI 41 2 0.5 Eurogene 40 1.5 0.5 Dovea 69 1.5 0.5 Dovea 50 4.5 0.5 Dovea 42 5 2 Bova AI 86 0.5 0.5 Dovea 83 0.5 0.5 NCBC 53 5 1.5 Eurogene 31 2.5 0.5 NCBC 41 0.5 0.5 Bova AI 39 4 0.5 Bova AI 59 5 1 Dovea 58 4 0.5 NCBC 87 0.5 0.5 NCBC 32 4.5 1 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

1.32 2.12 0 -1.76 2.04 -3.66 -0.51 0.8

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

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€-val Rel Stars % Within €125 94 5 €120 95 5 €118 93 5 €116 84 4.5 €111 67 4.5 €109 71 4 €103 57 3.5 €101 83 3 €101 79 3.5 €101 52 3 €100 84 3 €99 89 3 €99 53 3 €98 94 3 €98 94 3

Replacement Index

Stars Across 5 5 5 4.5 4.5 4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5

€-val Rel Stars % Within €7 95 3 -€23 94 1.5 €31 91 4 €195 73 5 -€46 60 1 -€37 60 1 €94 48 5 -€26 68 1.5 €35 65 4 €59 41 4.5 -€104 81 0.5 -€76 85 0.5 €91 35 5 -€59 96 0.5 -€87 96 0.5 Stars Across 1 0.5 1.5 5 0.5 0.5 3 0.5 1.5 2 0.5 0.5 3 0.5 0.5

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 5 €71 74 5 2.5 5 -€42 66 2.5 0.5 5 €48 92 4.5 2 5 €133 56 5 4 5 -€55 89 2 0.5 5 €14 82 4 1.5 4.5 €62 50 5 2.5 4.5 €96 72 5 3 4.5 €52 90 4.5 2 4.5 €37 41 4.5 1.5 4.5 -€41 65 2.5 0.5 4.5 -€41 52 2.5 0.5 4 €80 78 5 2.5 3.5 -€6 54 3.5 1 3.5 -€46 68 2.5 0.5 3 -€167 72 0.5 0.5 3 -€47 58 2 0.5 2 -€31 88 2.5 0.5 Calving Difficulty - Belgian Blue Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €127 87 4 €123 84 4 €121 91 4 €119 75 3.5 €117 92 3.5 €117 89 3.5 €116 68 3.5 €114 79 3 €113 91 3 €113 56 3 €111 81 3 €111 61 2.5 €106 85 2.5 €100 69 2 €99 86 1.5 €97 85 1.5 €94 72 1.5 €81 91 0.5

Terminal Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 10.1 99 9.5 99 7.3 99 6.9 93 6.6 75 10.2 98 2.1 66 10.6 98 8.7 87 4.5 58 11.1 89 12.9 97 7.3 57 9.6 99 8.9 99

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 9.8 95 13.3 96 11.2 99 8.4 72 17.1 99 13.4 97 12.5 87 7.7 83 10.4 99 8.1 85 12.7 85 13.1 95 10.4 93 14.2 97 14.4 96 18.5 94 17 90 14.6 96 14.5

87 96 30 99 99

0.03 0.06 0.16 0.03 0.07

3 3.5 5 3 4

3.5 4 5 3.5 4

1 2

-0.1 -0.06

0.5 1

98 79

0.15 0.06 -0.03 0.15 0.23 0.03

Docility

Charolais

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 94 5 5 97 3.5 5 98 4.5 5 46 2 5 99 5 5 97 5 5 84 4 5 73 2 5 96 5 5 70 1 4.5 91 3.5 5 81 4.5 5 91 3.5 5 97 2 5 97 4 5 96 4.5 5 91 4.5 5 95 1.5 4.5

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 99 5 5 99 3.5 4 98 1.5 2.5 91 5 5 69 5 5 97 3 3.5

0.27 0.18 0.21 0.14 0.29 0.31 0.2 0.14 0.24 0.09 0.18 0.22 0.18 0.14 0.19 0.21 0.21 0.12

Docility

Carcass Weight (Kg) Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 52 1 2.5 24 2.5 3 95 4.5 4 21 5 5 88 0.5 2.5 74 0.5 1.5 6 1.5 3 72 4.5 4 92 3 3.5 7 3.5 3.5 31 3 3.5 30 4.5 4 80 2.5 3 15 2.5 3 22 5 5 48 0.5 1 29 3.5 3.5 90 5 4.5

-11.33 -12.44 -12.47 9.09 -7.96 -9.73 -5.46 -5.53 -0.13 -6.63 -1.3 -1.29 -7.41 -9.54 -7.2

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 97 0.5 0.5 94 0.5 0.5 90 0.5 0.5 58 5 4.5 72 1.5 0.5 34 0.5 0.5 74 3 1 35 3 1 67 5 2.5 53 2 1 78 5 2 82 5 2 5 1.5 0.5 98 0.5 0.5 98 2 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 42 99 5 5 39 99 5 5 29 99 2 4 38 95 5 5 35 80 4 5 39 60 5 5 23 76 0.5 3 38 85 5 5 35 91 4 5 27 74 1.5 3.5 43 93 5 5 39 99 5 5 22 71 0.5 2.5 33 99 3.5 4.5 33 99 3.5 4.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

0.08 2.41 5.4 11.74 -0.75 -4.91 1.14 5.59 3.35 3.84 2.93 5.73 2.53 2.26 9.98 -6.59 3.68 7.63

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 23 97 0.5 3 31 93 2.5 4.5 22 99 0.5 2.5 19 94 0.5 2 35 99 4 5 28 98 1.5 4 31 75 2.5 4.5 17 94 0.5 2 20 99 0.5 2.5 25 53 1 3.5 33 87 3.5 4.5 28 54 1.5 4 23 96 0.5 3 31 65 2.5 4.5 31 96 2.5 4.5 33 95 3.5 4.5 28 75 1.5 4 21 98 0.5 2.5

Belgian Blue contd.

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 57 4.5 1 Eurogene 48 2.5 0.5 Bova AI 88 0.5 0.5 NCBC 30 4 0.5 NCBC 83 1 0.5 NCBC 69 2.5 0.5 Eurogene 31 4.5 0.5 Sligo AI 47 1 0.5 NCBC 83 3 0.5 NCBC 21 3.5 0.5 Eurogene 49 1.5 0.5 NCBC 37 0.5 0.5 NCBC 60 4.5 0.5 NCBC 37 4.5 1 NCBC 52 1 0.5 Dovea 57 0.5 0.5 NCBC 41 2 0.5 Dovea 75 1 0.5 Bova AI

-1.2 4.11 0.49 1.44 6.75 3.51 -2.14 0.27 1.45 -0.23 7.48 6.71 0.46 4.39 4.74

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 92 4.5 3.5 NCBC 89 0.5 0.5 Dovea 84 3 2.5 NCBC 51 2 2 Eurogene 37 0.5 0.5 NCBC 45 1 0.5 NCBC 22 5 3.5 Eurogene 49 3.5 2.5 Dovea 36 2 2 NCBC 17 4 3 NCBC 65 0.5 0.5 NCBC 75 0.5 0.5 NCBC 15 3 2.5 NCBC 94 0.5 0.5 NCBC 95 0.5 0.5 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

3.19 5.39 8.52 3.71 6.99 5.49 3.51 6.74 4.75 4.5 6.4 8.2 3.49 3.06 6.9 7.53 5.65 6.49

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

M M L M H H M H L M H H L H H M H M

10 10 10 10 65 10 14 12 12 38 99 10 12 10 10

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10 8 10 10 12 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 10

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CROSSMOLINA EURO PICADOR DOONALLY OLMETO NAPOLEON LIVAROT LYONSDEMESNE TZAR MAERDY SINNDAR PANAMA MANDELA VERON (ET) REPAIR BLAKESTOWN SEIGNEUR TREZEGOAL OLDGRANGE SINDURAIN DOVEA PINOCCHIO BOVA NEBULEUX ROUNDHILL DOC 1068 (ET) CELTIC VICHY BOVA BANKER (ET) BALTHAZAR MARQUIS OSCAR VAGABOND ICARE BLAKESTOWN TRUSTEE NIPPUR ROCHEFORT ENFIELD NEWLOOK LISCALLY ETI ET COOLNASLEE UNIVERSE PHENIX COTTAGE DEVON BLAKESTOWN ARTISTE P.T.I PRINCE BOVA SYLVAIN ECLAIR DOVEA ALCAZAR LTINTIN ANNESKEAGH ULYSSES DAKAR TONGA RANCARD DONCAMILLO USUFRUIT

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CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH

€-val Rel Stars % Within €98 59 3 €97 73 2.5 €96 94 2.5 €96 89 2.5 €96 83 2.5 €95 94 2.5 €94 83 2.5 €94 78 2.5 €93 92 2 €92 71 2 €90 85 2 €90 57 2 €88 92 1.5 €85 92 1.5 €85 91 1.5 €85 91 1.5 €85 82 1.5 €84 89 1 €84 87 1 €83 86 1 €82 93 1 €82 89 1 €82 89 1 €82 78 1 €82 77 1 €81 54 1 €79 93 1 €79 59 1 €78 88 1 €75 87 0.5 €74 92 0.5 €73 74 0.5 €71 89 0.5 €70 92 0.5 €70 59 0.5 €67 89 0.5 €65 90 0.5 €63 89 0.5 €63 59 0.5 €55 51 0.5 €49 55 0.5 €41 60 0.5 €40 62 0.5

Replacement Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 13.1 96 9.4 79 10.1 99 10.3 97 14.3 93 10.2 99 12.2 87 9 87 11.4 99 7.1 80 9.6 94 3.7 64 5.3 99 11 99 9.1 98 9.2 98 15.3 86 12.8 98 17.2 96 9.4 93 11.8 98 10.1 99 11.9 95 9.7 87 6.5 96 8.9 63 10.4 99 11.7 94 10.4 97 11.8 93 17.4 99 9.3 89 12.5 94 12.9 99 12.3 93 10.3 98 14 99 15.3 96 10.6 77 13 71 7.3 68 11.9 90 11 89 7.48 0.13 0.05 0.05 0.07 0.21 0.01 0.22 -0.21 0.11 0.09 -0.02 0.08 0.13 0.07 0.03 0.1 0.1 0.12 0.08 -0.07 0.02 0.08 0.1 0.01 -0.1 0.04 0.06 0.05 0.06 -0.06 0.1 -0.02 0 0.08 0.11 -0.01 0.16 0.21 0.12 0.2 -0.17 0.13 0.2

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 92 5 5 73 3.5 4 98 3.5 4 95 4 4 93 5 5 99 2.5 3 84 5 5 84 0.5 0.5 99 4.5 4.5 73 4.5 4.5 92 1.5 2.5 29 4 4.5 99 5 5 99 4 4 97 3 3.5 98 4.5 4.5 90 4.5 4.5 98 4.5 4.5 96 4 4.5 90 1 1.5 98 2.5 3.5 99 4 4.5 91 4.5 4.5 86 2.5 3 91 0.5 1 54 3 3.5 99 3.5 4 89 3.5 4 96 3.5 4 93 1 2 99 4.5 4.5 87 1.5 2.5 92 2 3 99 4 4.5 91 4.5 4.5 98 2 3 99 5 5 95 5 5 54 4.5 4.5 68 5 5 34 0.5 0.5 83 5 5 79 5 5

Docility

Charolais contd.

-0.85 -20.26 -7.84 -11.41 -13.19 -14.22 -26.87 -8.42 -16.24 2.09 -5.98 7.76 -9.46 -13.48 -4.6 -7.4 -3.1 -12.61 -9.1 -8.3 -11.79 -16.43 -10.49 -11.57 -4.49 -1.39 -7.2 -5.24 -6.1 -2.19 -8.31 -8.41 -11.36 -4.41 -9.01 -13.84 -7.78 -6.29 -4.51 -3.68 5.58 -2.2 -1

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 17 5 2.5 72 0.5 0.5 97 1.5 0.5 87 0.5 0.5 52 0.5 0.5 95 0.5 0.5 65 0.5 0.5 70 1 0.5 88 0.5 0.5 66 5 3 82 2.5 1 37 5 4.5 93 0.5 0.5 97 0.5 0.5 92 3.5 1.5 54 1.5 0.5 45 4.5 1.5 50 0.5 0.5 45 1 0.5 73 1 0.5 94 0.5 0.5 80 0.5 0.5 87 0.5 0.5 55 0.5 0.5 71 3.5 1.5 62 5 2 97 2 0.5 27 3 1 45 2.5 1 69 4.5 2 29 1 0.5 51 1 0.5 84 0.5 0.5 93 3.5 1.5 8 1 0.5 61 0.5 0.5 81 1.5 0.5 33 2.5 1 3 3.5 1.5 22 4 1.5 44 5 4 17 4.5 2 19 5 2.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 39 50 5 5 31 86 2.5 4.5 36 99 4.5 5 39 99 5 5 43 95 5 5 38 99 5 5 41 94 5 5 36 86 4.5 5 35 99 4 5 34 80 3.5 5 38 95 5 5 24 75 1 3 21 99 0.5 2.5 31 99 2.5 4.5 32 99 3 4.5 34 98 3.5 5 48 91 5 5 35 99 4 5 44 97 5 5 30 97 2 4 36 99 4.5 5 33 99 3.5 4.5 39 94 5 5 31 90 2.5 4.5 23 82 0.5 3 32 71 3 4.5 34 99 3.5 5 39 52 5 5 31 98 2.5 4.5 33 98 3.5 4.5 46 96 5 5 33 84 3.5 4.5 39 95 5 5 38 99 5 5 29 56 2 4 35 98 4 5 31 99 2.5 4.5 37 96 4.5 5 24 71 1 3 33 54 3.5 4.5 23 71 0.5 3 27 59 1.5 3.5 14 62 0.5 1.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 3.5 -€16 48 2 1 3 -€86 63 0.5 0.5 3 -€29 94 1.5 0.5 3 -€31 87 1.5 0.5 3 -€111 71 0.5 0.5 3 -€5 93 2.5 1 3 -€140 73 0.5 0.5 3 -€65 70 0.5 0.5 3 -€13 88 2 1 3 €95 60 5 3 2.5 -€19 84 1.5 0.5 2.5 €153 43 5 4.5 2.5 €88 92 5 3 2.5 -€67 93 0.5 0.5 2.5 €8 91 3 1 2.5 €2 78 2.5 1 2.5 -€78 68 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€93 77 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€95 73 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€85 80 0.5 0.5 2 -€30 92 1.5 0.5 2.5 -€49 84 1 0.5 2.5 -€74 83 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€125 70 0.5 0.5 2.5 €55 65 4.5 2 2 €42 45 4.5 2 2 €12 94 3 1 2 -€94 50 0.5 0.5 2 -€75 76 0.5 0.5 2 -€46 80 1 0.5 2 -€95 69 0.5 0.5 2 €9 66 3 1 2 -€155 84 0.5 0.5 2 -€85 91 0.5 0.5 2 -€32 45 1.5 0.5 2 -€136 79 0.5 0.5 2 -€172 85 0.5 0.5 2 -€86 72 0.5 0.5 2 -€18 40 2 1 1.5 €22 43 3.5 1.5 1.5 €47 41 4.5 2 1.5 -€42 45 1 0.5 1.5 €29 47 4 1.5 Calving Difficulty - Charolais Breed Average

Terminal Index

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013) Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

3.35 -0.85 1.64 -0.24 5.12 -5.6 2.03 1.13 -2.56 0.13 1.45 -1 -3.19 1.53 -1.96 -0.57 5.23 1.88 3 3.41 -2.22 -2.44 2 3.32 -2.65 1.05 -2.49 6.14 4.34 0.33 1.62 0.97 1.43 2.17 -0.35 0.24 6.59 2.48 -0.45 -1.35 -2.61 1.13 0.99

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 32 1 0.5 Dovea 42 4.5 3 NCBC 89 2 1.5 NCBC 77 4 3 Dovea 56 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 90 5 5 Dovea 57 1.5 1.5 NCBC 49 2.5 2 Dovea 82 5 4 NCBC 32 3.5 2.5 NCBC 79 2 2 Sligo AI 18 4.5 3 NCBC 89 5 4 Dovea 90 2 1.5 Dovea 84 5 3.5 Bova AI 61 4 3 Dovea 54 0.5 0.5 Celtic Sires 67 2 1.5 Bova AI 58 1 1 NCBC 65 1 0.5 Eurogene 87 5 3.5 Dovea 74 5 3.5 Dovea 66 1.5 1.5 NCBC 56 1 0.5 Sligo AI 32 5 4 NCBC 19 2.5 2 NCBC 92 5 3.5 NCBC 35 0.5 0.5 Dovea 64 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 67 3.5 2.5 NCBC 46 2 1.5 NCBC 50 2.5 2 Sligo AI 71 2 2 NCBC 86 1.5 1.5 Bova AI 25 4 3 Bova AI 69 3.5 2.5 Dovea 77 0.5 0.5 NCBC 54 1.5 1 Eurogene 18 4 3 Bova AI 29 4.5 3.5 Eurogene 12 5 4 NCBC 23 2.5 2 Bova AI 26 2.5 2 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

10 99 10 10 15 18 55 99 10 38 99 38 10 10 20 10 20 10 10 12 70 10 12 10 10 65 10 10 10 10 18 40 75 10 12 10 10 10 8 15 12 8 10

H L M H L L M H L H M M H H L H L H H M L H H M H M H H M M L M M M M H H M M L H H H

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SYMPA ROUNDHILL SATURN ET BROOKMILL VINDICATOR (ET) WILODGE CERBERUS GRAHAMS SAMSON SAUVIGNON NELSON AMPERTAINE ABRACADABRA JOCKEY HALTCLIFFE DANCER CLOUGHEAD UMPIRE RAMSES VISON MILBROOK DARTANGAN ET BAILEYS DUNCAN RUBIS PACHA 08 ACAJOU ACHILE DAHLIA CASTLEVIEW CASINO (ET) ARDLEA UBOY ARTI

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RH STAR BURST LAD 7G KILRONAN LEADER CLOONBRACKEN CICERO (ET) GLASLOUGH ESQUIRE GOULDINGPOLL 1 CAPTAIN WOODVIEW SERGEANT BANNER DANDY DUNSINANE FREEMAN LISRACE LIBERATOR IV CLOONFREE BRIT LAD TEMPLEGLANTINE BOXER

Code Name

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Bull Details

LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM

HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE

€-val Rel Stars % Within €161 89 5 €151 83 5 €147 77 5 €139 57 5 €128 89 5 €128 83 5 €124 73 5 €123 73 5 €123 80 5 €121 63 5 €118 51 4.5 €118 89 4.5 €118 83 4.5 €117 91 4.5 €115 88 4.5 €114 91 4 €114 85 4 €114 67 4 €113 64 4 €112 67 4 €110 95 3.5 €108 80 3 €107 86 3

Replacement Index

Stars Across 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4 4

€-val Rel Stars % Within €236 81 5 €186 76 5 €145 67 4.5 €176 49 5 €77 84 2 €39 73 0.5 €145 68 4.5 €200 66 5 €104 74 3 €135 54 4.5 €153 46 4.5 €118 85 3.5 €136 73 4.5 €90 72 2.5 €142 75 4.5 €45 92 1 €309 79 5 €36 53 0.5 €77 52 2 €80 49 2 €211 83 5 €91 68 2.5 €94 80 2.5 Stars Across 5 5 4.5 5 2.5 1.5 4.5 5 3.5 4 4.5 3.5 4 3 4 2 5 1.5 2.5 2.5 5 3 3

Replacement Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 4.9 97 4.1 90 4.6 88 5.1 88 5.8 94 7.2 94 4.7 84 2.8 89 5.0 89 9.3 95 4.7 80 5.1 96 7.6 95 7.6 99 6.1 99 6.3 98 4 93 11.4 85 4.1 94 5.8 92 6.4 99 3.8 90 6.8 94

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5 97 3.3 85 4.8 95 4 98 8 92 3.8 93 6.3 95 7.4 94 4.5 97 3.4 86 3.5 92 2.65

0.00 0.05 -0.2 -0.18 -0.17 0.05 -0.03 -0.03 -0.05 -0.08 -0.10 -0.03 -0.04 -0.08 -0.07 -0.19 -0.09 0.05 -0.11 -0.03 -0.12 -0.14 -0.17

0.1 0.19 0.08 0.18 0.26 0.06 0.01 0.09 0.12 -0.05 0

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 96 4.5 3 90 5 4 84 0.5 0.5 88 1 0.5 94 1 0.5 93 5 4 80 4 2.5 90 4 2.5 87 3.5 2 93 2.5 1.5 83 2 1 95 4 2.5 94 3.5 2 98 2.5 1.5 99 3 1.5 98 0.5 0.5 91 2.5 1.5 86 5 4 84 2 1 91 4 2.5 99 1.5 1 89 1.5 1 95 1 0.5

Docility

Limousin

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 88 3.5 4.5 72 5 5 91 3 4.5 95 5 5 86 5 5 82 2.5 4 90 1.5 3 83 3.5 4.5 84 4 4.5 68 0.5 2 79 1 3

Docility

Hereford

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 76 5 4.5 82 0.5 2.5 60 4.5 4 66 0.5 3 13 3.5 4 70 1 3 51 5 4.5 38 0.5 3 34 4 4 61 3 3.5 87 5 4.5

0.2 0.01 0.43 -1.2 0.3 -9.89 0.88 8.9 -5.9 -2.05 -5.0 -0.15 6.31 -8.14 3.94 -0.39 22.07 -12.08 -5.6 -13.78 3.3 1.23 -10.55

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 80 3 2.5 74 3 2.5 52 3.5 2.5 49 2 2.5 87 3 2.5 65 0.5 0.5 74 3.5 3 61 5 4.5 71 0.5 1 48 1.5 2 64 0.5 1.5 90 3 2.5 56 5 4 35 0.5 0.5 43 5 3.5 95 2.5 2.5 78 5 5 22 0.5 0.5 23 0.5 1 12 0.5 0.5 65 4.5 3.5 51 4 3 81 0.5 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 40 92 5 5 33 86 5 4.5 37 83 5 5 36 52 5 5 30 94 5 4 31 88 5 4.5 32 82 5 4.5 26 76 4 3.5 30 88 5 4 36 56 5 5 28 50 4.5 4 30 96 5 4 28 91 4.5 4 31 94 5 4.5 30 98 5 4 29 99 5 4 28 95 4.5 4 41 70 5 5 24 62 3.5 3 28 70 4.5 4 27 99 4.5 3.5 22 85 2.5 2.5 32 97 5 4.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

8.45 -0.45 5.97 0.68 4.83 1.8 7 0.63 5.83 4.49 7.46

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 13 99 4.5 1.5 6 93 2.5 1 15 98 5 1.5 5 99 2 1 12 70 4.5 1.5 5 96 2 1 4 98 2 0.5 7 96 3 1 7 98 3 1 -6 97 0.5 0.5 -8 97 0.5 0.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 1.5 €106 85 5 3.5 1.5 €43 78 2.5 2 1 €71 76 4 2.5 1 €52 81 3 2 0.5 €73 52 4 2.5 0.5 €33 78 2 1.5 0.5 €29 77 1.5 1.5 0.5 -€6 69 0.5 1 0.5 €68 70 4 2.5 0.5 €51 73 3 2 0.5 €71 83 4 2.5 Calving Difficulty - Hereford Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €41 88 5 €39 85 5 €30 86 4.5 €27 89 4 €20 69 3 €17 86 2.5 €12 91 1.5 €8 84 1 €6 86 1 -€2 82 0.5 -€6 87 0.5

Terminal Index

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013) Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 73 3.5 4 NCBC 52 0.5 3 NCBC 61 1.5 4 Bova AI 68 5 5 Dovea 30 0.5 3.5 Dovea 57 1 3.5 Sligo AI 64 1 3.5 Dovea 51 5 4.5 NCBC 50 4 4.5 Eurogene 52 5 5 NCBC 65 5 5 NCBC

1.56 4.1 0.09 1.14 3.69 3.62 0.42 1.66 1.93 0.93 0.21 4.27 3.46 0.35 3.44 3.27 -1.91 2.93 3.72 -1.18 -2.91 1.88 -3.87

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 66 3 1.5 Powerful Genetics 60 0.5 0.5 NCBC 51 4.5 2.5 NCBC 27 3.5 2 Powerful Genetics 75 1 0.5 Powerful Genetics 55 1 0.5 Dovea 48 4 2.5 NCBC 48 2.5 1.5 Powerful Genetics 57 2.5 1.5 Powerful Genetics 34 3.5 2 Powerful Genetics 22 4.5 2.5 Powerful Genetics 74 0.5 0.5 NCBC 58 1 0.5 NCBC 52 4 2.5 Dovea 60 1 0.5 Bova AI 88 1 1 NCBC 66 5 3.5 Dovea 31 1.5 1 NCBC 33 1 0.5 NCBC 27 5 3.5 Bova AI 68 5 4 Dovea 50 2.5 1.5 Eurogene 70 5 4 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-4.24 -0.75 -2.89 -5.65 -1.87 -2.32 -1.96 -5.55 -4.74 -5.73 -6.55

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

H H M H H M H L H L M

185 38 12 80 60 25 40 60 60 12 35 40 10 10 8 10 10 40 10 8 10 15 10

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TEDDY ARITA - BEN HALTCLIFFE HERCULES AMPERTAINE BRIGADEER RUTABAGA ARDLEA DAN OEILLET MILBROOK VIC PALMARES BENZENE ULTIME RI SAMY ROUNDHILL BOTAN 983 (ET) OLIVER TAROT 6057 NEWTOWN BUNTY 1 (ET) URBINO HAUTECLAIR PELLETSTOWN POMPERNEL ET RAHONEY UMAR ODERIM NAVARIN OZEUS ROUNDHILL DARA 1069 UTILE-BEN ODEON CARMORN DAUPHIN SOUCI DON-JUAN ELITE ERASMUS ET

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Rank

Bull Details

LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM

Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €105 75 3 4 €172 62 5 4.5 €102 90 2.5 3.5 €155 83 5 4.5 €101 83 2 3.5 €96 78 2.5 3 €101 90 2 3.5 €113 77 3.5 3.5 €98 92 1.5 3 -€28 90 0.5 0.5 €98 77 1.5 3.5 €116 59 3.5 3.5 €96 93 1.5 3 €5 95 0.5 1 €95 91 1.5 3 €58 85 1 2 €93 95 1 3 €58 96 1 2 €92 87 1 3 €95 69 2.5 3 €92 62 1 3 €65 48 1.5 2.5 €91 73 1 2.5 -€90 65 0.5 0.5 €90 90 1 2.5 €92 79 2.5 3 €89 86 1 2.5 €102 82 3 3.5 €88 90 1 2.5 €49 87 1 2 €88 78 0.5 2.5 €0 67 0.5 1 €86 89 0.5 2.5 €29 84 0.5 1.5 €84 80 0.5 2.5 €167 71 5 4.5 €83 91 0.5 2.5 -€36 89 0.5 0.5 €83 88 0.5 2.5 -€41 79 0.5 0.5 €83 71 0.5 2.5 €110 59 3.5 3.5 €82 95 0.5 2.5 €32 95 0.5 1.5 €82 76 0.5 2 €139 63 4.5 4 €78 93 0.5 2 €81 80 2 2.5 €73 91 0.5 2 -€31 88 0.5 0.5 €72 89 0.5 2 -€60 87 0.5 0.5 €70 61 0.5 2 -€1 55 0.5 1 €64 83 0.5 2 €68 74 1.5 2.5 €61 70 0.5 2 €66 52 1.5 2.5 €18 70 0.5 0.5 -€152 56 0.5 0.5 Calving Difficulty - Limousin Breed Average

Terminal Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 4.9 88 7.3 99 3.8 90 7.7 98 6.2 99 7.7 99 5.2 99 7.4 95 5.2 99 10.1 94 8.3 93 10.5 85 6.7 95 5.2 96 8.3 99 8.7 87 8.1 97 3.8 98 7.6 96 9.1 96 3.3 94 7.9 99 6.7 98 6.1 99 8.2 99 6.7 96 5.8 90 7.6 90 8.4 94 20.4 98 4.75 -0.03 -0.08 -0.18 -0.09 -0.14 -0.11 -0.25 -0.15 -0.11 -0.06 -0.18 -0.07 -0.02 -0.01 -0.2 -0.08 -0.13 -0.09 -0.14 -0.18 -0.01 0.01 -0.01 -0.17 -0.12 -0.11 -0.33 -0.15 -0.03 -0.06

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 89 4 2.5 99 2.5 1.5 89 1 0.5 97 2.5 1.5 99 1.5 1 98 2 1 99 0.5 0.5 96 1 0.5 99 2 1 94 3 2 89 1 0.5 84 3 1.5 96 4 2.5 93 4 3 99 0.5 0.5 88 2.5 1.5 97 1.5 1 91 2.5 1.5 95 1.5 1 96 1 0.5 89 4 3 99 4.5 3 96 4 3 99 1 0.5 99 1.5 1 95 2 1 90 0.5 0.5 87 1 0.5 94 4 2.5 97 3 2

Docility

Limousin contd.

2.7 -6.26 -1.7 -1.92 -7.03 6.66 1.08 -4.92 -1.92 2.98 -1.24 -13.4 -3.58 10.73 -3.8 -3.67 3.05 7.97 -2.37 -8.49 3.73 2.5 9.98 -2.04 -4.01 -7.46 7.91 3.33 2.71 -0.66

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 40 4.5 3.5 81 0.5 1 77 1.5 2 61 1.5 2 90 0.5 1 25 5 4 98 3.5 3 83 0.5 1.5 99 1.5 2 29 4.5 3.5 25 2 2 61 0.5 0.5 65 1 1.5 82 5 5 87 1 1.5 45 1 1.5 80 4.5 3.5 77 5 4.5 89 1.5 2 70 0.5 0.5 30 5 3.5 98 4.5 3 64 5 5 59 1.5 2 87 0.5 1.5 88 0.5 0.5 56 5 4.5 65 4.5 3.5 7 4.5 3.5 26 2.5 2.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 23 85 3 3 31 98 5 4.5 19 89 1.5 2 27 96 4.5 3.5 20 99 1.5 2.5 26 75 4 3.5 19 99 1.5 2 22 97 2.5 2.5 22 99 2.5 2.5 25 94 3.5 3.5 28 60 4.5 4 29 80 5 4 26 96 4 3.5 20 96 1.5 2.5 29 99 5 4 28 86 4.5 4 21 99 2 2.5 12 83 0.5 1.5 26 98 4 3.5 24 98 3.5 3 15 70 0.5 1.5 22 99 2.5 2.5 20 79 1.5 2.5 22 98 2.5 2.5 21 99 2 2.5 14 99 0.5 1.5 19 54 1.5 2 13 94 0.5 1.5 14 74 0.5 1.5 27 60 4.5 3.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

-0.69 -4.58 -1.70 0.27 4.63 0.96 6.93 2.52 1.29 0.75 1.23 5.38 -0.32 2.27 -1.37 2.6 3.4 0.93 5.26 3.06 1.52 5.69 -0.02 -1.33 1.6 2.29 5.9 0.84 -0.54 5.94

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 41 5 3 Powerful Genetics 74 5 4.5 NCBC 61 5 3.5 Powerful Genetics 59 4.5 2.5 Eurogene 84 0.5 0.5 NCBC 38 3.5 2 NCBC 94 0.5 0.5 NCBC 74 1.5 1 Eurogene 96 3 2 Dovea 50 4 2.5 Dovea 24 3 2 NCBC 47 0.5 0.5 Powerful Genetics 66 4.5 3 NCBC 67 2 1 NCBC 80 5 3.5 Bova AI 53 1.5 1 Dovea 74 1 0.5 Dovea 44 3.5 2 NCBC 82 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 66 1 1 Eurogene 41 3 1.5 Eurogene 93 0.5 0.5 Bova AI 29 4.5 3 NCBC 62 5 3.5 Dovea 83 2.5 1.5 Dovea 78 2 1 NCBC 39 0.5 0.5 ABS Ireland 57 3.5 2 Eurogene 30 5 3 Bova AI 36 0.5 0.5 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

25 10 25 12 10 10 10 15 10 10 14 60 10 10 10 12 10 10 15 10 11 20 14 10 10 10 10 12 8 10

H L M H L H L H L H H H L H M H H H M H M L H H H H M L H H

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BTAP Approved YES YES YES No No No No No No No No NO YES No No No No YES No No No No YES No No No No No No No

Journal 2013/14

Beef HerdPlus

UNI LRY CBQ KCP VUL SNX

Code Name

RIO BHU LZR OUR ARZ TUZ

Code Name

CZB VTG LYJ KZF WPK SFT SZD NBB DJM CSI KVG SBU ALO KKJ MCK

1 2 3 4 5 6

Rank

1 2 3 4 5 6

Rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

CREAGA DICE (P)(ROAN) KILFRUSH VANTAGE 7TH LISSOY JUMBO KILFRUSH FINCH WAUKARU COPPERTOP 464 SEAFIELD TITAN (RO) STONMOUR THUNDER CLOUD (P) NEWBLISS BROADHOOKS BOY 3RD DOVEA SIR JAMES 2ND CASTLETROY BERTIE KILFRUSH VANTAGE 2ND SLIABHBHUI PRINCE 2ND ANNALY LEO KILKELLY MAJOR MOYDRUMCASTLE KING

Bull Details

RIO BALLYMACKEOGH HUGH LATASTER ERIC CORLURGAN OURSON (FR 02) AMIRAL (FR 05) TURBULENT

Bull Details

UNIVERSEL LISNAGRANCHY CARLO CAMBRIDGE KYLE CHAP VULAIN SANSONNET

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH

SA SA SA SA SA SA

PT PT PT PT PT PT

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 4 €289 93 5 5 4 €233 65 2 5 3.5 €251 78 3 5 3 €209 86 1 5 2 €223 73 1.5 5 2 €152 52 0.5 4.5 Calving Difficulty - Saler Breed Average

Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €36 87 5 1 €188 73 4 5 €29 77 5 1 €91 75 0.5 3 €25 74 5 1 €178 60 4 5 €24 79 5 1 €120 73 0.5 3.5 €24 63 5 1 €206 52 5 5 €22 65 4.5 0.5 €146 53 2 4.5 €21 82 4.5 0.5 €139 73 1.5 4 €12 83 3.5 0.5 €126 83 1 4 €11 88 3.5 0.5 €183 88 4 5 €7 87 3 0.5 €75 87 0.5 2.5 €6 92 2.5 0.5 €80 93 0.5 2.5 €3 82 2 0.5 €162 72 2.5 4.5 €2 91 2 0.5 €161 93 2.5 4.5 -€3 89 1.5 0.5 €85 90 0.5 3 -€8 88 1 0.5 €89 90 0.5 3 Calving Difficulty - Shorthorn Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €109 94 5 €105 84 5 €101 88 4.5 €94 89 4 €78 86 1.5 €60 68 0.5

Terminal Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 4.7 97 6.2 85 4.4 90 4.4 89 3.1 73 4.5 81 2.8 93 4.4 89 3.7 96 6.4 95 5.3 99 3.4 94 2.1 98 5.7 96 4.6 95 2.95

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 2.2 99 3.6 95 4.4 94 3.2 96 2.8 90 2.4 85 2.25

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 10.3 97 5.6 83 5.9 92 8.4 92 6.8 83 14.6 86 5.3

0.09 0.07 0.08 0.23 0.05 0.17 0.03 -0.03 0.03 0.14 0 0.1 0.09 0.2 -0.04

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 98 3 1 95 1.5 0.5 93 1 0.5 93 1 0.5 92 2 0.5 80 3 1.5

Docility

Saler

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 97 2 2 79 3.5 3 90 0.5 0.5 94 0.5 0.5 65 4 4 87 0.5 0.5

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 97 4 4.5 80 3.5 4 87 3.5 4.5 88 5 5 56 3 4 78 5 5 92 2.5 3.5 85 1 2.5 95 2.5 3.5 92 4.5 5 98 2 3 93 4 4.5 98 4 4.5 94 5 5 93 1 2

Docility

Shorthorn

-0.1 -0.17 -0.24 -0.2 -0.16 -0.09

-0.06 0.01 -0.27 -0.22 0.05 -0.19

Docility

Parthenaise

9.88 13.07 12.07 10.29 10.5 0.68

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 96 2.5 5 22 4.5 5 68 4 5 87 2.5 5 61 3 5 20 0.5 3

4.18 8.18 11.68 8.53 7.04 11.26 3.69 6.44 18.14 13.69 8.03 14.13 8.68 7.97 16.15

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 40 0.5 3.5 81 1 4.5 32 3.5 5 69 1.5 4.5 39 0.5 4.5 29 3.5 5 72 0.5 3.5 94 0.5 4 93 5 5 93 4.5 5 98 1 4.5 61 5 5 98 1.5 4.5 95 1 4.5 97 5 5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 14 96 5 1.5 23 90 5 3 13 81 5 1.5 9 92 4.5 1 11 76 5 1.5 12 63 5 1.5 4 94 3 0.5 5 96 3.5 1 -1 98 1.5 0.5 9 97 4.5 1 9 99 4.5 1 3 91 3 0.5 -1 99 1.5 0.5 1 98 2 0.5 9 98 4.5 1

Carcass Weight (Kg)

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 82 2 1 27 3.5 2 3 4.5 2.5 32 0.5 0.5 27 5 3.5 28 1.5 1

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 20 99 4 2.5 22 90 4.5 2.5 28 95 5 4 16 97 2.5 2 16 94 2.5 2 6 76 0.5 1

Carcass Weight (Kg)

-5.61 -2.92 -0.42 -10.73 4.07 -6.2

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 36 98 5 5 30 59 3.5 4 21 71 0.5 2.5 30 92 3.5 4 24 68 1 3 36 85 5 5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €127 90 1.5 5 €87 85 1 3 €123 57 1 5 €156 47 4 4.5 €122 71 1 5 €100 51 1.5 3 €119 86 0.5 5 €64 70 0.5 2.5 €114 61 0.5 4.5 €143 46 3.5 4 €83 75 0.5 2.5 -€17 59 0.5 1 Calving Difficulty - Parthenaise Breed Average

Terminal Index

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013) Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 74 0.5 2 NCBC/Dovea 31 1 3.5 Bova AI 30 3 4 NCBC 54 1 3.5 Dovea 18 4.5 4.5 Eurogene/NCBC 40 4 4.5 Eurogene/Dovea

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 90 3.5 5 NCBC 46 0.5 3.5 Dovea 64 1 4 NCBC 78 0.5 4 NCBC 59 0.5 4 Dovea 29 5 5 Eurogene

-8.05 -5.15 -5.21 -5.1 -6.37 -5.69 -7.45 -5.5 -3.55 -3.12 -4.52 -5.2 -8.53 -4.82 -2.67

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 58 4.5 5 Dovea 58 1.5 4.5 Bova AI 39 1.5 4.5 NCBC 57 1.5 4.5 Bova AI 32 2.5 5 Bova AI 35 2 5 NCBC 51 4 5 NCBC 69 1.5 4.5 NCBC 79 0.5 4 Dovea 75 0.5 4 Dovea 89 1 4.5 NCBC 51 1.5 4.5 NCBC 90 5 5 NCBC 83 1 4.5 NCBC 81 0.5 4 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-5.78 -1.8 -4.24 -3.75 -3.55 -7.67

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

0.92 -1.96 -3.8 -1.95 -5.07 -4.28

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

H M H H M L

H H M H H L

10 30 10 8 30 10 12 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

H L H M L M M M H H M H M H M

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10 10 10 10 10 14

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12 10 10 10 12 25

€ Avail

Supplier Details

BTAP Approved YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES No No YES YES No No

BTAP Approved YES YES YES YES YES YES

BTAP Approved YES YES YES YES YES No

Beef HerdPlus Journal 2013/14

TSO CQA GFY RWV SEV DRU RKZ ROE HUZ TBE MIF HUR SKU HTY AS12 SKB DBO FBX MDD

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI

Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €134 82 5 5 €250 73 5 5 €128 76 5 5 €192 66 5 5 €81 74 5 2 €161 63 4 4.5 €79 86 5 2 €193 73 5 5 €77 89 5 2 €214 84 5 5 €72 94 5 2 €168 91 4 4.5 €67 85 4.5 2 €78 81 1 2.5 €54 91 3.5 1.5 €126 87 2.5 4 €54 74 3.5 1.5 €266 66 5 5 €53 90 3 1.5 €39 80 0.5 1.5 €51 92 3 1.5 €117 91 2.5 3.5 €45 75 2.5 1.5 €217 71 5 5 €42 86 2 1.5 €55 75 0.5 2 €24 94 0.5 1 €36 95 0.5 1.5 €23 91 0.5 0.5 €71 91 1 2.5 €22 89 0.5 0.5 €97 89 1.5 3 €21 87 0.5 0.5 €126 87 2.5 4 €7 96 0.5 0.5 -€9 97 0.5 1 €2 82 0.5 0.5 €43 79 0.5 2 Calving Difficulty - Simmental Breed Average

Terminal Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5.3 91 5 93 8.4 88 8.1 94 7.4 98 7.3 99 8.8 93 5.1 98 4.5 81 9 98 7.4 98 3.7 78 8.2 91 7.6 99 5.4 98 6.3 92 5.8 90 6.7 99 7.5 86 5.37 0.24 0.1 0.19 0.21 0.03 0.02 0.12 0.12 0.16 0.03 0.05 -0.05 0.19 -0.07 0.02 -0.1 0.15 -0.09 0.1

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 91 5 5 93 4 4.5 87 5 5 95 5 5 98 3 3.5 99 2.5 3.5 94 4.5 4.5 98 4.5 4.5 76 5 5 97 3 3.5 98 3 4 68 1 2 94 5 5 99 1 1.5 97 2.5 3.5 91 0.5 1 87 5 5 98 0.5 1.5 83 4 4.5

Docility

Simmental

5.8 -0.57 2.5 5.73 10.47 5.71 5.7 8.92 25.03 0.3 8.74 14.64 1.1 4.69 9.72 10.38 9.13 6.07 6.21

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 63 1 4 42 0.5 2.5 49 0.5 3 39 1 4 82 3.5 5 90 1 4 85 1 4 90 2.5 4.5 71 5 5 68 0.5 2.5 95 2.5 4.5 80 4.5 5 64 0.5 3 98 0.5 3.5 94 3 5 96 3.5 5 92 3 4.5 99 1 4 81 1 4

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 47 86 5 5 40 77 5 5 33 80 5 4.5 28 94 4.5 4 32 98 5 4.5 29 99 5 4 40 95 5 5 22 99 3.5 2.5 25 89 4 3.5 25 98 4 3.5 29 99 5 4 22 91 3.5 2.5 26 93 4.5 3.5 19 99 2.5 2 12 99 0.5 1.5 13 97 1 1.5 21 97 3 2.5 11 99 0.5 1.5 12 92 0.5 1.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

3.01 3.92 0.0 -1.94 -3.93 -2.69 1.82 1.12 0.47 1.97 -2.89 -4.13 -1.29 -0.96 -2.2 -4.91 -1.51 -2.05 -0.15

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 61 0.5 1 Celtic Sires 53 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 44 2 2.5 Celtic Sires 63 4.5 3.5 Dovea 74 5 4 Dovea 84 5 4 Dovea 73 0.5 1.5 Celtic Sires 80 1 2 Dovea 46 1.5 2.5 Dovea 64 0.5 1.5 Bova AI 86 5 4 Bova AI 51 5 4 Dovea 59 3.5 3.5 Celtic Sires 93 3.5 3 NCBC 86 4.5 3.5 NCBC 79 5 4.5 NCBC 77 4 3.5 NCBC 94 4.5 3.5 NCBC 66 2.5 3 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

50 22 50 10 10 10 20 10 10 10 50 10 45 10 10 10 10 10 10

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Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

CURAHEEN TYSON (ET) CURAHEEN VIO (ET) GLEBEFARM TYSON RACEVIEW VAN HALEN SEAVIEW TOMMY DERROUGH SAMUAL CELTIC ROCK (ET) MONESS ROSCOE HARUM DELFUR T-BONE MILTON LORD-TIFFANY ET HAUER CELTIC STARBUCK HILLCREST NAUGHTY PLANET SEABANK BLANCO DRUMNEIL BOLERO FREIGHDUFF BRENDAN MONADUFF DESTINY

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in green. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Terminal Index, Calving Difficulty % & Carcass Weight

Terminal Index Active Bull List Criteria:Terminal Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%.

Terminal Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

BTAP Approved YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES No No YES YES No No No YES No No

Journal 2013/14

Beef HerdPlus

RWB KDU JRM CYI SYT VPH RHG CUI LZE

Code Name

PRZ

Code Name

DRP APX GWJ OXY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Rank

PRZ

Rank

1 2 3 4

Bull Details

DROP ARDCLONE PYXIS GANAWAY JASPER ONYX

PERLOU

Bull Details

RAWBURN LORD ROCKET F609 KILKELLY DUKE JERUSALEM FARADAY C071 CONEYISLAND LEGEND SANDYLANE TADGH BELVIN PATRIARCH RAINBOW HILLS GOVERNOR 128X COLCAGH UNION LANIGAN RED BLAZE ET

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

BA BA BA BA

AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA

Replacement Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

€-val Rel Stars % Within €95 78 1 €107 92 2.5 €123 86 4.5 €116 83 3.5

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 2 €265 72 5 5 1.5 €180 69 4.5 5 1.5 €152 71 3.5 4.5 2 €128 77 2 4 0.5 €103 86 1 3.5 1 €98 83 1 3 0.5 €91 79 1 3 1 €84 92 0.5 3 1.5 €65 77 0.5 2.5 Calving Difficulty - Angus Breed Average

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 3 €57 73 2.5 2 4 €38 89 2 1.5 5 €2 83 1 1 4.5 -€18 74 0.5 1 Calving Difficulty - Blonde Breed Average

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 2.5 €131 82 1 4 Calving Difficulty - Aubrac Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €91 88 1

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €60 87 5 €54 86 5 €40 80 3 €60 87 5 €22 90 0.5 €25 88 1 €21 82 0.5 €25 94 1 €54 87 5

Terminal Index

0.18 -0.06 -0.11 -0.03 0.04 0.05 0.01 0.08 0.1

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 91 4 2.5

Docility

Aubrac

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 95 5 5 93 1.5 2 77 0.5 1 93 2 2.5 98 3.5 3.5 88 4 4 64 3 3 98 4.5 4.5 97 4.5 4.5

Docility

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 7.4 84 5.9 96 5.8 94 6.6 91 5.19 -0.11 -0.16 0.08 -0.18

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 77 1.5 1 96 1 0.5 92 5 4.5 90 0.5 0.5

Docility

Carcass Weight (Kg)

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across -6.86 75 0.5 1

-2.89 -8.92 -10.32 -10.01

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 82 5 2 88 1 0.5 83 0.5 0.5 77 0.5 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg) PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 29 89 4 4 29 98 4 4 32 96 5 4.5 32 93 5 4.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 39 5 5 22 2.5 4.5 57 5 5 55 0.5 2.5 80 1 3.5 76 2.5 4.5 81 2.5 4 91 4 4.5 62 0.5 3

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 15 98 2 1.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

16.1 7.01 13.08 -0.07 4.69 7.3 6.93 9.18 1.46

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 23 97 5 3 14 97 5 1.5 18 91 5 2 15 97 5 1.5 0 99 1 0.5 10 96 4 1.5 5 94 2 1 2 99 1 0.5 20 98 5 2.5

Blonde d’Aquitaine

Calving Diff % PD Rel PD % 4.3 95 -0.03 2.65

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5.1 96 3.1 96 2.9 92 2.7 97 2.1 99 2.7 96 1.6 87 2.5 99 6.6 97 2.25

Angus

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in blue. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Replacement Index, Calving Difficulty %, Carcass Weight and Daughter Calving Interval

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 54 2 4.5 Dovea 53 2.5 4.5 NCBC 53 2 4.5 NCBC 62 2 4.5 Dovea 77 3.5 5 Bova AI 69 0.5 4 Bova AI 59 2.5 4.5 NCBC 86 0.5 4 Dovea 63 0.5 4 NCBC

-0.51 -3.66 2.12 2.04

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 56 3 3 Dovea 78 5 4 Dovea 73 1 1.5 Eurogene 54 1 1.5 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across -4.5 68 2.5 4.5 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-4.85 -5.08 -4.65 -4.96 -6.06 -3.34 -5.31 -2.7 -3.1

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Replacement Index Active Bull List Criteria: Replacement Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. Daughter Calving Interval Rel%>50%

L H H H H M M M H

19 10 10 10

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10 10 20 30 8 12 10 10 12

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BTAP Approved No YES YES YES

BTAP Approved No

BTAP Approved YES YES YES YES No No No No YES

Beef HerdPlus Journal 2013/14

SFL BBQ MNZ CGF KTN RFC USU RSA SPX SRI AED GUY BIG VAP AZL CEQ RYP SOY BLQ DEP ANX

Code Name

TUT OSI PCO NWK BZT NXB ODI RHI TZA

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

THRUNTON NOSTRADAMUS OLDGRANGE SINDURAIN ENFIELD PICASSO ENFIELD NEWLOOK BLAKESTOWN ARTISTE BOVA NEBULEUX ORGANDI ROUNDHILL DOC 1068 (ET) LYONSDEMESNE TZAR

Bull Details

DU STORDEUR FLANEUR BALLYFIN BORAT (ET) MAGNOLIA 0103 DE SOMME CASTLECUFF BRADLEY KILLANETIG NOBEL RINGFORT CORMAC ET USUS 6018 DE JENEFFE ROSS A CAJOLEUR DE SENONCHAMPS STRUPAR ET DE RADELINGA D'OZO ADMIRE ET GENERAL DU GORTIL GAYOT BUTINEUR DU GRAND COURTY VALENTIN 2235 PAPILLON ROSS ALO (ET) COLOSSE ET DES TOURELLE ROCKY DU PONT DE MESSE SAMARKAND OSYMANDIAS BOHERARD BULLSEYE (ET) DESPOTE DE L'EAU D'EPPE ROSS ANON (ET)

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH

BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB BB

Replacement Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

€-val Rel Stars % Within €116 84 4.5 €88 92 1.5 €118 93 5 €79 93 1 €73 74 0.5 €85 91 1.5 €125 94 5 €85 91 1.5 €95 94 2.5

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €148 90 5 €145 92 5 €175 91 5 €132 88 4.5 €132 85 4.5 €141 83 5 €106 85 2.5 €140 82 5 €127 87 4 €140 91 5 €113 91 3 €121 91 4 €151 88 5 €130 91 4.5 €166 87 5 €117 89 3.5 €140 91 5 €81 91 0.5 €99 86 1.5 €117 92 3.5 €97 85 1.5

Terminal Index

Stars Across 4.5 2.5 5 2 2 2.5 5 2.5 3

€-val Rel Stars % Within €195 73 5 €88 92 5 €31 91 4 €12 94 3 €9 66 3 €8 91 3 €7 95 3 €2 78 2.5 -€5 93 2.5 Stars Across 5 3 1.5 1 1 1 1 1 1

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 5 €227 87 5 5 5 €133 78 5 4 5 €121 89 5 3.5 5 €115 73 5 3.5 5 €92 80 5 3 5 €85 66 5 3 4 €80 78 5 2.5 5 €80 68 5 2.5 5 €71 74 5 2.5 5 €58 90 5 2 4.5 €52 90 4.5 2 5 €48 92 4.5 2 5 €32 83 4.5 1.5 5 €22 91 4 1.5 5 €18 74 4 1.5 5 €14 82 4 1.5 5 -€25 90 3 0.5 2 -€31 88 2.5 0.5 3.5 -€46 68 2.5 0.5 5 -€55 89 2 0.5 3 -€167 72 0.5 0.5 Calving Difficulty - B.Blue Breed Average

Replacement Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 6.9 93 5.3 99 7.3 99 10.4 99 9.3 89 9.1 98 10.1 99 9.2 98 10.2 99

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5.6 99 8.4 99 8.4 99 9.5 98 9.5 92 11 96 10.4 93 9.1 93 9.8 95 6.9 99 10.4 99 11.2 99 11.9 96 10.2 99 10.7 98 13.4 97 10.8 99 14.6 96 14.4 96 17.1 99 18.5 94 14.5 Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 99 5 5 99 5 5 99 4.5 5 97 5 5 87 1.5 4.5 96 2.5 5 91 3.5 5 95 3 5 94 5 5 94 3 5 96 5 5 98 4.5 5 96 5 5 98 4 5 98 4.5 5 97 5 5 99 4.5 5 95 1.5 4.5 97 4 5 99 5 5 96 4.5 5

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 91 5 5 99 5 5 98 1.5 2.5 99 3.5 4 87 1.5 2.5 97 3 3.5 99 5 5 98 4.5 4.5 99 2.5 3

Docility

Charolais

0.15 0.13 -0.03 0.06 -0.02 0.03 0.15 0.1 0.01

0.28 0.25 0.21 0.27 0.11 0.15 0.18 0.17 0.27 0.17 0.24 0.21 0.34 0.19 0.23 0.31 0.23 0.12 0.19 0.29 0.21

Docility

Belgain Blue

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 85 1 2.5 31 4 4 90 4.5 4 39 5 5 67 1.5 3 17 3.5 3.5 80 2.5 3 40 0.5 1.5 52 1 2.5 91 4 4 92 3 3.5 95 4.5 4 77 4 4 91 5 4.5 47 0.5 1.5 74 0.5 1.5 90 0.5 1 90 5 4.5 22 5 5 88 0.5 2.5 48 0.5 1

9.09 -9.46 -12.47 -7.2 -8.41 -4.6 -11.33 -7.4 -14.22

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 58 5 4.5 93 0.5 0.5 90 0.5 0.5 97 2 0.5 51 1 0.5 92 3.5 1.5 97 0.5 0.5 54 1.5 0.5 95 0.5 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg) PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 38 95 5 5 21 99 0.5 2.5 29 99 2 4 34 99 3.5 5 33 84 3.5 4.5 32 99 3 4.5 42 99 5 5 34 98 3.5 5 38 99 5 5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

0.29 5.15 5.42 10.16 1.46 4.01 2.53 -3.62 0.08 4.86 3.35 5.4 5.22 9.05 -3.21 -4.91 -6.11 7.63 9.98 -0.75 -6.59

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 20 99 0.5 2.5 31 99 2.5 4.5 31 99 2.5 4.5 26 98 1 3.5 28 98 1.5 4 42 90 5 5 23 96 0.5 3 31 93 2.5 4.5 23 97 0.5 3 13 99 0.5 1.5 20 99 0.5 2.5 22 99 0.5 2.5 38 98 5 5 22 99 0.5 2.5 37 96 4.5 5 28 98 1.5 4 32 99 3 4.5 21 98 0.5 2.5 31 96 2.5 4.5 35 99 4 5 33 95 3.5 4.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in blue. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Replacement Index, Calving Difficulty %, Carcass Weight and Daughter Calving Interval

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 80 5 2 Bova AI 69 1.5 0.5 Dovea 85 0.5 0.5 Dovea 59 5 1 Dovea 58 4 0.5 NCBC 50 4.5 0.5 Dovea 60 4.5 0.5 NCBC 53 5 1.5 Eurogene 57 4.5 1 Eurogene 83 0.5 0.5 NCBC 83 3 0.5 NCBC 88 0.5 0.5 NCBC 72 0.5 0.5 NCBC 87 0.5 0.5 NCBC 61 1.5 0.5 NCBC 69 2.5 0.5 Eurogene 86 0.5 0.5 Dovea 75 1 0.5 Bova AI 52 1 0.5 Dovea 83 1 0.5 NCBC 57 0.5 0.5 NCBC

1.44 -3.19 0.49 -2.49 0.97 -1.96 -1.2 -0.57 -5.6

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 51 2 2 Eurogene 89 5 4 Dovea 84 3 2.5 NCBC 92 5 3.5 NCBC 50 2.5 2 Sligo AI 84 5 3.5 Bova AI 92 4.5 3.5 NCBC 61 4 3 Dovea 90 5 5 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

1.2 6.27 8.47 2.85 3.76 3.49 3.49 1.8 3.19 9.53 4.75 8.52 8.34 8.42 5.98 5.49 8.01 6.49 6.9 6.99 7.53

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Replacement Index Active Bull List Criteria: Replacement Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. Daughter Calving Interval Rel%>50%

L H M H L H H M M M M H H H H H L M H H M

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12 10 10 10 10 10 10 14 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 12 10

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

MANDELA VERON (ET) BLAKESTOWN SEIGNEUR PRIME ROBERTO DOONALLY OLMETO OSCAR NAPOLEON PHENIX VAGABOND MOGADOR DOVEA PINOCCHIO ICARE COOLNASLEE UNIVERSE TROPHEE BOVA SYLVAIN MARQUIS ANNESKEAGH ULYSSES MOZART BOVA BANKER (ET) BALTHAZAR MAERDY IMPECCABLE LIVAROT BLAKESTOWN TRUSTEE DOVEA ALCAZAR MAERDY SINNDAR P.T.I PRINCE LTINTIN

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH

Replacement Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

€-val Rel Stars % Within €93 92 2 €90 85 2 €120 95 5 €96 94 2.5 €82 93 1 €96 89 2.5 €75 87 0.5 €82 89 1 €98 94 3 €85 92 1.5 €82 89 1 €78 88 1 €99 89 3 €70 92 0.5 €83 86 1 €63 89 0.5 €98 94 3 €84 89 1 €84 87 1 €100 84 3 €96 83 2.5 €82 78 1 €67 89 0.5 €94 83 2.5 €71 89 0.5 €65 90 0.5

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 3 -€13 88 2 1 2.5 -€19 84 1.5 0.5 5 -€23 94 1.5 0.5 3 -€29 94 1.5 0.5 2 -€30 92 1.5 0.5 3 -€31 87 1.5 0.5 2 -€46 80 1 0.5 2.5 -€49 84 1 0.5 3.5 -€59 96 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€67 93 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€74 83 0.5 0.5 2 -€75 76 0.5 0.5 3.5 -€76 85 0.5 0.5 2 -€85 91 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€85 80 0.5 0.5 2 -€86 72 0.5 0.5 3.5 -€87 96 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€93 77 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€95 73 0.5 0.5 3.5 -€104 81 0.5 0.5 3 -€111 71 0.5 0.5 2.5 -€125 70 0.5 0.5 2 -€136 79 0.5 0.5 3 -€140 73 0.5 0.5 2 -€155 84 0.5 0.5 2 -€172 85 0.5 0.5 Calving Difficulty - Charolais Breed Average

Terminal Index Calving Diff % PD Rel % 11.4 99 9.6 94 9.5 99 10.1 99 11.8 98 10.3 97 11.8 93 10.1 99 9.6 99 11 99 11.9 95 10.4 97 12.9 97 12.9 99 9.4 93 15.3 96 8.9 99 12.8 98 17.2 96 11.1 89 14.3 93 9.7 87 10.3 98 12.2 87 12.5 94 14 99 7.48 0.11 -0.02 0.06 0.05 0.02 0.07 -0.06 0.08 0.03 0.07 0.1 0.06 0.06 0.08 -0.07 0.21 0.07 0.12 0.08 0.03 0.21 0.01 -0.01 0.22 0 0.16

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 99 4.5 4.5 92 1.5 2.5 99 3.5 4 98 3.5 4 98 2.5 3.5 95 4 4 93 1 2 99 4 4.5 99 3 3.5 99 4 4 91 4.5 4.5 96 3.5 4 96 3.5 4 99 4 4.5 90 1 1.5 95 5 5 99 4 4 98 4.5 4.5 96 4 4.5 87 3 3.5 93 5 5 86 2.5 3 98 2 3 84 5 5 92 2 3 99 5 5

Docility

Charolais contd.

-16.24 -5.98 -12.44 -7.84 -11.79 -11.41 -2.19 -16.43 -9.54 -13.48 -10.49 -6.1 -1.29 -4.41 -8.3 -6.29 -7.2 -12.61 -9.1 -1.3 -13.19 -11.57 -13.84 -26.87 -11.36 -7.78

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 88 0.5 0.5 82 2.5 1 94 0.5 0.5 97 1.5 0.5 94 0.5 0.5 87 0.5 0.5 69 4.5 2 80 0.5 0.5 98 0.5 0.5 97 0.5 0.5 87 0.5 0.5 45 2.5 1 82 5 2 93 3.5 1.5 73 1 0.5 33 2.5 1 98 2 0.5 50 0.5 0.5 45 1 0.5 78 5 2 52 0.5 0.5 55 0.5 0.5 61 0.5 0.5 65 0.5 0.5 84 0.5 0.5 81 1.5 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 35 99 4 5 38 95 5 5 39 99 5 5 36 99 4.5 5 36 99 4.5 5 39 99 5 5 33 98 3.5 4.5 33 99 3.5 4.5 33 99 3.5 4.5 31 99 2.5 4.5 39 94 5 5 31 98 2.5 4.5 39 99 5 5 38 99 5 5 30 97 2 4 37 96 4.5 5 33 99 3.5 4.5 35 99 4 5 44 97 5 5 43 93 5 5 43 95 5 5 31 90 2.5 4.5 35 98 4 5 41 94 5 5 39 95 5 5 31 99 2.5 4.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in blue. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Replacement Index, Calving Difficulty %, Carcass Weight and Daughter Calving Interval

-2.56 1.45 4.11 1.64 -2.22 -0.24 0.33 -2.44 4.39 1.53 2 4.34 6.71 2.17 3.41 2.48 4.74 1.88 3 7.48 5.12 3.32 0.24 2.03 1.43 6.59

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 82 5 4 NCBC 79 2 2 Sligo AI 89 0.5 0.5 Dovea 89 2 1.5 NCBC 87 5 3.5 Dovea 77 4 3 Dovea 67 3.5 2.5 NCBC 74 5 3.5 Dovea 94 0.5 0.5 NCBC 90 2 1.5 Dovea 66 1.5 1.5 NCBC 64 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 75 0.5 0.5 NCBC 86 1.5 1.5 Bova AI 65 1 0.5 Eurogene 54 1.5 1 Eurogene 95 0.5 0.5 NCBC 67 2 1.5 Bova AI 58 1 1 NCBC 65 0.5 0.5 NCBC 56 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 56 1 0.5 Sligo AI 69 3.5 2.5 Dovea 57 1.5 1.5 NCBC 71 2 2 NCBC 77 0.5 0.5 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Replacement Index Active Bull List Criteria: Replacement Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. Daughter Calving Interval Rel%>50%

10 99 10 10 70 10 10 10 10 10 12 10 10 10 12 10 10 10 10 99 15 10 10 55 75 10

H M H M L H M H H H H M M M M M H H H H L M H M M H

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RSL TGB ICB LTX GSQ CFB KNL WVG BXD FEA

Code Name

PCH SYP CWI AIA RHN FL21 VDT BYQ VZN RMX ABI JOZ OLI HIU ZEN AIZ RBU UBY MBP RHF

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

PACHA 08 SYMPA CASTLEVIEW CASINO (ET) AMPERTAINE ABRACADABRA ROUNDHILL SATURN ET ARITA - BEN BROOKMILL VINDICATOR (ET) BAILEYS DUNCAN VISON RAMSES AMPERTAINE BRIGADEER JOCKEY OLIVER HALTCLIFFE HERCULES BENZENE ARTI ROUNDHILL BOTAN 983 (ET) ARDLEA UBOY MILBROOK DARTANGAN ET ROUNDHILL DARA 1069

Bull Details

RH STAR BURST LAD 7G TEMPLEGLANTINE BOXER CLOONBRACKEN CICERO (ET) LISRACE LIBERATOR IV GLASLOUGH ESQUIRE CLOONFREE BRIT LAD KILRONAN LEADER WOODVIEW SERGEANT BANNER DANDY DUNSINANE FREEMAN

Code Name

Rank

Bull Details

LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM

HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE

Replacement Index - Active Beef Bull List (April 2013)

€-val Rel Stars % Within €114 85 4 €161 89 5 €110 95 3.5 €123 73 5 €151 83 5 €102 90 2.5 €147 77 5 €115 88 4.5 €118 83 4.5 €118 89 4.5 €101 90 2 €123 80 5 €89 86 1 €101 83 2 €92 87 1 €107 86 3 €90 90 1 €108 80 3 €117 91 4.5 €78 93 0.5

Replacement Index

Stars Across 4.5 5 4.5 5 5 3.5 5 4.5 5 5 3.5 5 2.5 3.5 3 4 2.5 4 4.5 2

€-val Rel Stars % Within €309 79 5 €236 81 5 €211 83 5 €200 66 5 €186 76 5 €155 83 5 €145 67 4.5 €142 75 4.5 €136 73 4.5 €118 85 3.5 €113 77 3.5 €104 74 3 €102 82 3 €96 78 2.5 €95 69 2.5 €94 80 2.5 €92 79 2.5 €91 68 2.5 €90 72 2.5 €81 80 2 Stars Across 5 5 5 5 5 4.5 4.5 4 4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3 3 3 3 3 3 2.5

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 1.5 €106 85 5 3.5 0.5 €71 83 4 2.5 1 €71 76 4 2.5 0.5 €68 70 4 2.5 1 €52 81 3 2 0.5 €51 73 3 2 1.5 €43 78 2.5 2 0.5 €33 78 2 1.5 0.5 €29 77 1.5 1.5 0.5 -€6 69 0.5 1 Calving Difficulty - Hereford Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €41 88 5 -€6 87 0.5 €30 86 4.5 €6 86 1 €27 89 4 -€2 82 0.5 €39 85 5 €17 86 2.5 €12 91 1.5 €8 84 1

Terminal Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 4 93 4.9 97 6.4 99 2.8 89 4.1 90 7.3 99 4.6 88 6.1 99 7.6 95 5.1 96 7.7 98 5.0 89 5.2 96 3.8 90 10.1 94 6.8 94 6.7 95 3.8 90 7.6 99 6.1 99

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5 97 3.5 92 4.8 95 4.5 97 4 98 3.4 86 3.3 85 3.8 93 6.3 95 7.4 94 4.05

-0.09 0.00 -0.12 -0.03 0.05 -0.08 -0.2 -0.07 -0.04 -0.03 -0.09 -0.05 -0.01 -0.18 -0.06 -0.17 -0.02 -0.14 -0.08 -0.17

0.1 0 0.08 0.12 0.18 -0.05 0.19 0.06 0.01 0.09

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 91 2.5 1.5 96 4.5 3 99 1.5 1 90 4 2.5 90 5 4 99 2.5 1.5 84 0.5 0.5 99 3 1.5 94 3.5 2 95 4 2.5 97 2.5 1.5 87 3.5 2 93 4 3 89 1 0.5 94 3 2 95 1 0.5 96 4 2.5 89 1.5 1 98 2.5 1.5 99 1 0.5

Docility

Limousin

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 88 3.5 4.5 79 1 3 91 3 4.5 84 4 4.5 95 5 5 68 0.5 2 72 5 5 82 2.5 4 90 1.5 3 83 3.5 4.5

Docility

Hereford

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 76 5 4.5 87 5 4.5 60 4.5 4 34 4 4 66 0.5 3 61 3 3.5 82 0.5 2.5 70 1 3 51 5 4.5 38 0.5 3

22.07 0.2 3.3 8.9 0.01 -6.26 0.43 3.94 6.31 -0.15 -1.92 -5.9 10.73 -1.7 2.98 -10.55 -3.58 1.23 -8.14 -2.04

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 78 5 5 80 3 2.5 65 4.5 3.5 61 5 4.5 74 3 2.5 81 0.5 1 52 3.5 2.5 43 5 3.5 56 5 4 90 3 2.5 61 1.5 2 71 0.5 1 82 5 5 77 1.5 2 29 4.5 3.5 81 0.5 0.5 65 1 1.5 51 4 3 35 0.5 0.5 59 1.5 2

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 28 95 4.5 4 40 92 5 5 27 99 4.5 3.5 26 76 4 3.5 33 86 5 4.5 31 98 5 4.5 37 83 5 5 30 98 5 4 28 91 4.5 4 30 96 5 4 27 96 4.5 3.5 30 88 5 4 20 96 1.5 2.5 19 89 1.5 2 25 94 3.5 3.5 32 97 5 4.5 26 96 4 3.5 22 85 2.5 2.5 31 94 5 4.5 22 98 2.5 2.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

8.45 7.46 5.97 5.83 0.68 4.49 -0.45 1.8 7 0.63

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 13 99 4.5 1.5 -8 97 0.5 0.5 15 98 5 1.5 7 98 3 1 5 99 2 1 -6 97 0.5 0.5 6 93 2.5 1 5 96 2 1 4 98 2 0.5 7 96 3 1

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in blue. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Replacement Index, Calving Difficulty %, Carcass Weight and Daughter Calving Interval

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 73 3.5 4 NCBC 65 5 5 NCBC 61 1.5 4 Bova AI 50 4 4.5 Eurogene 68 5 5 Dovea 52 5 5 NCBC 52 0.5 3 NCBC 57 1 3.5 Sligo AI 64 1 3.5 Dovea 51 5 4.5 NCBC

-1.91 1.56 -2.91 1.66 4.1 -4.58 0.09 3.44 3.46 4.27 0.27 1.93 2.27 -1.70 0.75 -3.87 -0.32 1.88 0.35 -1.33

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 66 5 3.5 Dovea 66 3 1.5 Powerful Genetics 68 5 4 Dovea 48 2.5 1.5 Powerful Genetics 60 0.5 0.5 NCBC 74 5 4.5 NCBC 51 4.5 2.5 NCBC 60 1 0.5 Bova AI 58 1 0.5 NCBC 74 0.5 0.5 NCBC 59 4.5 2.5 Eurogene 57 2.5 1.5 Powerful Genetics 67 2 1 NCBC 61 5 3.5 Powerful Genetics 50 4 2.5 Dovea 70 5 4 Dovea 66 4.5 3 NCBC 50 2.5 1.5 Eurogene 52 4 2.5 Dovea 62 5 3.5 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-4.24 -6.55 -2.89 -4.74 -5.65 -5.73 -0.75 -2.32 -1.96 -5.55

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Replacement Index Active Bull List Criteria: Replacement Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. Daughter Calving Interval Rel%>50%

H M M H H H H M H H

10 185 10 60 38 10 12 8 10 40 12 60 10 25 10 10 10 15 10 10

H H H M M M M H M M H H H M H H H M H H

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10 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

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Code Name

UNI KCP

Code Name

RIO LZR ARZ OUR

Rank

1 2

Rank

1 2 3 4

Bull Details

RIO LATASTER ERIC AMIRAL (FR 05) CORLURGAN OURSON (FR 02)

Bull Details

UNIVERSEL KYLE CHAP

GRX SCI PAM MBV TXT RUZ SVG NVI UBI OEI NEU RUA UBN POP RUR ODE

GRAHAMS SAMSON SOUCI PALMARES MILBROOK VIC TAROT 6057 RUBIS SAUVIGNON NAVARIN URBINO OEILLET NEWTOWN BUNTY 1 (ET) RUTABAGA UTILE-BEN PELLETSTOWN POMPERNEL ET RAHONEY UMAR ODEON

Code Name

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

Rank

Bull Details

SA SA SA SA

PT PT

LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM LM

Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €109 94 5 €101 88 4.5 €78 86 1.5 €94 89 4

Terminal Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 4 €289 93 5 5 3.5 €251 78 3 5 2 €223 73 1.5 5 3 €209 86 1 5 Calving Difficulty - Saler Breed Average

Replacement Index

€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €127 90 1.5 5 €87 85 1 3 €119 86 0.5 5 €64 70 0.5 2.5 Calving Difficulty - Parthenaise Breed Average

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across Across 2.5 €77 84 2 5 2.5 €68 74 1.5 2 2 €58 96 1 3 2 €58 85 1 3 2 €49 87 1 2.5 2 €45 92 1 4.5 1.5 €39 73 0.5 5 1.5 €32 95 0.5 2.5 1.5 €29 84 0.5 2.5 1 €5 95 0.5 3 1 €0 67 0.5 2.5 0.5 -€28 90 0.5 3 0.5 -€31 88 0.5 2 0.5 -€36 89 0.5 2.5 0.5 -€41 79 0.5 2.5 0.5 -€60 87 0.5 2 Calving Difficulty - Limousin Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within 5 €128 89 €64 83 0.5 1 €93 95 €95 91 1.5 1 €88 90 4 €114 91 5 €128 83 €82 95 0.5 €86 89 0.5 €96 93 1.5 €88 78 0.5 €98 92 1.5 €73 91 0.5 €83 91 0.5 €83 88 0.5 €72 89 0.5

Terminal Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 2.2 99 4.4 94 2.8 90 3.2 96 2.25

-0.1 -0.24 -0.16 -0.2

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 0.5 1 94 0.5 1 87 1 2 99 0.5 1 96 0.5 99 0.5 0.5 98 0.5 4 5 93 3 99 4.5 1 97 1.5 0.5 99 0.5 1.5 88 2.5 1 99 1.5 1 99 1.5 1 95 1.5 0.5 1 96 1 2 95

Docility

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 98 3 1 93 1 0.5 92 2 0.5 93 1 0.5

Docility

Saler

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 97 2 2 94 0.5 0.5

Docility

Parthenaise

-0.17 -0.15 -0.11 -0.15 -0.2 -0.19 0.05 0.01 -0.13 -0.25 -0.08 -0.14 -0.12 -0.14 -0.18 -0.11

Calving Diff % PD Rel PD % 10.3 97 -0.06 8.4 92 -0.22 5.3

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5.8 94 7.6 90 5.2 99 7.4 95 8.3 99 6.3 98 7.2 94 7.9 99 8.1 97 5.2 99 8.7 87 6.2 99 8.2 99 7.6 96 9.1 96 6.7 96 4.75

Limousin contd.

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across -5.61 82 2 1 -10.73 32 0.5 0.5

9.88 12.07 10.5 10.29

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 96 2.5 5 68 4 5 61 3 5 87 2.5 5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg) PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 20 99 4 2.5 28 95 5 4 16 94 2.5 2 16 97 2.5 2

Carcass Weight (Kg)

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 2.5 87 3 3.5 65 4.5 2 99 1.5 1.5 83 0.5 1.5 87 1 2.5 95 2.5 0.5 65 0.5 3 98 4.5 3.5 80 4.5 3 98 3.5 1.5 45 1 1 90 0.5 1.5 87 0.5 2 89 1.5 0.5 70 0.5 0.5 88 0.5

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 36 98 5 5 30 92 3.5 4

Carcass Weight (Kg)

0.3 3.33 -1.92 -4.92 -3.8 -0.39 -9.89 2.5 3.05 1.08 -3.67 -7.03 -4.01 -2.37 -8.49 -7.46

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 4 5 30 94 1.5 13 94 0.5 2.5 22 99 2.5 2.5 22 97 2.5 4 5 29 99 4 5 29 99 4.5 5 31 88 2.5 22 99 2.5 2.5 2 21 99 2 19 99 1.5 4 28 86 4.5 2.5 20 99 1.5 2.5 2 21 99 3.5 4 26 98 3 24 98 3.5 1.5 14 99 0.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

High Reliability Bulls are shaded in blue. They have reliability % figures > 80% for Replacement Index, Calving Difficulty %, Carcass Weight and Daughter Calving Interval

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 0.5 Powerful Genetics 1 75 Eurogene 2 57 3.5 Dovea 2 3 96 Eurogene 1 74 1.5 3.5 Bova AI 5 80 NCBC 1 1 88 0.5 Dovea 1 55 0.5 Bova AI 93 0.5 0.5 Dovea 1 74 0.5 NCBC 94 0.5 Dovea 1 53 1.5 0.5 NCBC 84 0.5 1.5 Dovea 83 2.5 0.5 Eurogene 82 0.5 Eurogene 1 1 66 NCBC 1 2 78

-5.78 -4.24 -3.55 -3.75

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 90 3.5 5 NCBC 64 1 4 NCBC 59 0.5 4 Dovea 78 0.5 4 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 0.92 74 0.5 2 NCBC/Dovea -1.95 54 1 3.5 Dovea

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

3.69 0.84 1.29 2.52 -1.37 3.27 3.62 5.69 3.4 6.93 2.6 4.63 1.6 5.26 3.06 2.29

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

Replacement Index Active Bull List Criteria: Replacement Index Rel % >50%. Calving Difficulty Rel %> 50%. Carcass Weight Rel %>50%. Daughter Calving Interval Rel%>50%

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€-val Rel Stars Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars % Within Across % Within Across €134 82 5 5 €250 73 5 5 €45 75 2.5 1.5 €217 71 5 5 €77 89 5 2 €214 84 5 5 €79 86 5 2 €193 73 5 5 €128 76 5 5 €192 66 5 5 €72 94 5 2 €168 91 4 4.5 €54 91 3.5 1.5 €126 87 2.5 4 €21 87 0.5 0.5 €126 87 2.5 4 €51 92 3 1.5 €117 91 2.5 3.5 €22 89 0.5 0.5 €97 89 1.5 3 €67 85 4.5 2 €78 81 1 2.5 €23 91 0.5 0.5 €71 91 1 2.5 €42 86 2 1.5 €55 75 0.5 2 €2 82 0.5 0.5 €43 79 0.5 2 €53 90 3 1.5 €39 80 0.5 1.5 €24 94 0.5 1 €36 95 0.5 1.5 €7 96 0.5 0.5 -€9 97 0.5 1 Calving Difficulty - Simmental Breed Average

Replacement Index

Stars €-val Rel Stars Stars Across % Within Across 1 €188 73 4 5 0.5 €183 88 4 5 0.5 €162 72 2.5 4.5 0.5 €161 93 2.5 4.5 0.5 €139 73 1.5 4 0.5 €126 83 1 4 1 €120 73 0.5 3.5 1 €91 75 0.5 3 0.5 €89 90 0.5 3 0.5 €85 90 0.5 3 0.5 €80 93 0.5 2.5 0.5 €75 87 0.5 2.5 Calving Difficulty - Shorthorn Breed Average

Terminal Index

€-val Rel Stars % Within €36 87 5 €11 88 3.5 €3 82 2 €2 91 2 €21 82 4.5 €12 83 3.5 €24 79 5 €29 77 5 -€8 88 1 -€3 89 1.5 €6 92 2.5 €7 87 3

Terminal Index

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 5.3 91 3.7 78 7.4 98 8.1 94 5 93 7.3 99 5.1 98 5.8 90 7.4 98 6.3 92 8.8 93 5.4 98 8.2 91 7.5 86 9 98 7.6 99 6.7 99 5.37

Calving Diff % PD Rel % 4.7 97 3.7 96 3.4 94 2.1 98 2.8 93 4.4 89 4.4 89 6.2 85 4.6 95 5.7 96 5.3 99 6.4 95 2.95

0.24 -0.05 0.03 0.21 0.1 0.02 0.12 0.15 0.05 -0.1 0.12 0.02 0.19 0.1 0.03 -0.07 -0.09

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 97 4 4.5 95 2.5 3.5 93 4 4.5 98 4 4.5 92 2.5 3.5 85 1 2.5 88 5 5 80 3.5 4 93 1 2 94 5 5 98 2 3 92 4.5 5

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 91 5 5 68 1 2 98 3 3.5 95 5 5 93 4 4.5 99 2.5 3.5 98 4.5 4.5 87 5 5 98 3 4 91 0.5 1 94 4.5 4.5 97 2.5 3.5 94 5 5 83 4 4.5 97 3 3.5 99 1 1.5 98 0.5 1.5

Docility

Simmental

0.09 0.03 0.1 0.09 0.03 -0.03 0.23 0.07 -0.04 0.2 0 0.14

Docility

Shorthorn

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 40 0.5 3.5 93 5 5 61 5 5 98 1.5 4.5 72 0.5 3.5 94 0.5 4 69 1.5 4.5 81 1 4.5 97 5 5 95 1 4.5 98 1 4.5 93 4.5 5

5.8 14.64 10.47 5.73 -0.57 5.71 8.92 9.13 8.74 10.38 5.7 9.72 1.1 6.21 0.3 4.69 6.07

Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 63 1 4 80 4.5 5 82 3.5 5 39 1 4 42 0.5 2.5 90 1 4 90 2.5 4.5 92 3 4.5 95 2.5 4.5 96 3.5 5 85 1 4 94 3 5 64 0.5 3 81 1 4 68 0.5 2.5 98 0.5 3.5 99 1 4

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 47 86 5 5 22 91 3.5 2.5 32 98 5 4.5 28 94 4.5 4 40 77 5 5 29 99 5 4 22 99 3.5 2.5 21 97 3 2.5 29 99 5 4 13 97 1 1.5 40 95 5 5 12 99 0.5 1.5 26 93 4.5 3.5 12 92 0.5 1.5 25 98 4 3.5 19 99 2.5 2 11 99 0.5 1.5

Carcass Weight (Kg)

4.18 18.14 14.13 8.68 3.69 6.44 8.53 8.18 16.15 7.97 8.03 13.69

Key Profit Traits Daughter Milk (Kg)

PD Rel Stars Stars % Within Across 14 96 5 1.5 -1 98 1.5 0.5 3 91 3 0.5 -1 99 1.5 0.5 4 94 3 0.5 5 96 3.5 1 9 92 4.5 1 23 90 5 3 9 98 4.5 1 1 98 2 0.5 9 99 4.5 1 9 97 4.5 1

Carcass Weight (Kg) Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 58 4.5 5 Dovea 79 0.5 4 Dovea 51 1.5 4.5 NCBC 90 5 5 NCBC 51 4 5 NCBC 69 1.5 4.5 NCBC 57 1.5 4.5 Bova AI 58 1.5 4.5 Bova AI 81 0.5 4 NCBC 83 1 4.5 NCBC 89 1 4.5 NCBC 75 0.5 4 Dovea

3.01 -4.13 -3.93 -1.94 3.92 -2.69 1.12 -1.51 -2.89 -4.91 1.82 -2.2 -1.29 -0.15 1.97 -0.96 -2.05

Rel Stars Stars Supplier % Within Across 61 0.5 1 Celtic Sires 51 5 4 Dovea 74 5 4 Dovea 63 4.5 3.5 Dovea 53 0.5 0.5 Eurogene 84 5 4 Dovea 80 1 2 Dovea 77 4 3.5 NCBC 86 5 4 Bova AI 79 5 4.5 NCBC 73 0.5 1.5 Celtic Sires 86 4.5 3.5 NCBC 59 3.5 3.5 Celtic Sires 66 2.5 3 NCBC 64 0.5 1.5 Bova AI 93 3.5 3 NCBC 94 4.5 3.5 NCBC

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

-8.05 -3.55 -5.2 -8.53 -7.45 -5.5 -5.1 -5.15 -2.67 -4.82 -4.52 -3.12

Daughter Calving Interval (Days)

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CURAHEEN TYSON (ET) HAUER SEAVIEW TOMMY RACEVIEW VAN HALEN CURAHEEN VIO (ET) DERROUGH SAMUAL MONESS ROSCOE DRUMNEIL BOLERO MILTON LORD-TIFFANY ET SEABANK BLANCO CELTIC ROCK (ET) PLANET CELTIC STARBUCK MONADUFF DESTINY DELFUR T-BONE HILLCREST NAUGHTY FREIGHDUFF BRENDAN

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CREAGA DICE (P)(ROAN) DOVEA SIR JAMES 2ND SLIABHBHUI PRINCE 2ND ANNALY LEO STONMOUR THUNDER CLOUD (P) NEWBLISS BROADHOOKS BOY 3RD KILFRUSH FINCH KILFRUSH VANTAGE 7TH MOYDRUMCASTLE KING KILKELLY MAJOR KILFRUSH VANTAGE 2ND CASTLETROY BERTIE

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