BUILD A LEGACY

Get $Ranch & $Profit on Your Replacement Heifers

Generations of breeding decisions have laid the foundation for your herd. Now you can continue—and improve— that legacy with INHERIT Select,™ a genomic tool to help cow-calf producers with crossbred cattle make more informed selection and breeding decisions.

The Value Of More Informed Decisions

A replacement can take about 4 years to break even.1 Identifying females that produce more valuable calves can add value long term.

With GEPDs and indexes provided by INHERIT Select, you can make earlier and better selection decisions to identify future replacements. Selecting the right replacements is critical to the future of your herd, and has a direct impact on short-term profitability.

• Earlier marketing decisions can help reduce heifer-raising costs and generate revenue.

• Future herd productivity is accelerated by selecting females with more favorable predictions.

Harness Hybrid Vigor And Sire Parentage

INHERIT Select identifies genomic approximations of breed composition to help harness hybrid vigor and optimize production efficiency by:

INHERIT Select provides the industry with Genomic Expected Progeny Differences (GEPDs) for 16 traits that inform three economic indexes which simplify complex information to make better management decisions easier. SELL

• Determining emphasis by breed contributing to crossbred GEPDs

– Incorporating parent information for improved accuracy

• Indicating potential maternal hybrid vigor that favorably impacts reproduction, fitness and survival traits

• Helping to inform breeding decisions in future calf crops

Commercial producers around the country are signing up to use Inherit Select to pick their replacement heifers. By doing so, they are accelerating their herd’s genetic improvement so that their future cows will be more productive a nd their future feeder calves will be more valuable. It’s just that simple. They are building a legacy of future profitability!

What you get: The following information will come back on every female you test.

• DNA matching to the sire and dam if they have DNA on file with Zoetis.

• BW, WW, YW, DMI (Dry Matter Intake), Feed:Gain, Yearling Height, Milk, Teat & Udder Composite Score, Docility, Scrotal, Carcass Weight, Fat, Ribeye Area, IMF (Marbling), and Tenderness. Plus, you will receive the new Zoetis Fertility EPD. All EPD’s are expressed in the same format and are scaled in a way to make them comparable to EPDs shown in all Leachman catalogs. Plus you get % rank on your animals compared to all other Inherit Select Animals.

• Indexes: Zoetis Total Return, Zoetis Cow Calf, and Zoetis Feedlot Carcass, $Profit, and $Ranch.

• Breed composition: %Angus, % other British, %Continental, and %Other (dairy or Indicus).

• Optional traits: Pulmonary Artery Pressure EPD, Color, Horned/ Polled status.

Pricing:

• Inherit Select costs $28 / head.

• To receive $Ranch & $Profit, the cost is $33 / head.

• PAP, Color, Polled, genetic defect testing, and BVD are all add on costs.

How to Order? Contact Any Leachman Representative

After contact, you will receive tissue sampling equipment via mail. This equipment is included in the cost of the tests. Then you will fill out an order form and mail the tests to Zoetis directly. Results will be returned to you electronically within 4 weeks of Zoetis receiving the tests.

What are herds seeing from the data?

• The test tells you WHERE YOU RANK within the industry on all of the key traits including $Profit and $Ranch.

About Zoetis

In the typical herd, we see a range of approximately $10,000 between the top 10% of the females and the bottom 10% of the females on $Profit.

On $Ranch, the top 10% of the females are typically $50 lower than the top 10% of the females.

• The test helps you identify females that you may NOT want to keep as replacements. For example, you might want to consider culling heifer calves for the following reasons:

• Too little growth rate.

• Too much or too little milk for your environment.

• Too much potential mature cow size.

• Poor future udder quality.

• Poor docility.

• Poor feedlot and carcass traits.

• Excessive feed requirements.

Seeing this information on replacement heifers that you have already chosen is particularly eye opening. Once they see the data, most ranchers want this information to help pick future heifers.

• Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by testing you can accelerate your herd’s rate of genetic improvement.

What you should do next?

• Take samples on 30 to 50 (or the entire group) of heifers that you plan to breed this Spring. This will tell you where you are and tell you what you could improve on the heifers you plan to breed.

• Plan to take samples on your 2021 Spring born heifer calves. Ideally, you should sample two heifers for every one you plan to keep – this will give you optimal selection pressure to eliminate heifers with undesirable traits AND improve your index values for $Ranch and $Profit.

Zoetis is the leading animal health company, dedicated to supporting its customers and their businesses. Building on more than 60 years of experience in animal health, Zoetis discovers, develops, manufactures and markets medicines, vaccines, and diagnostic products, which are complemented by biodevices, genetic tests and a range of services. Zoetis serves veterinarians, livestock producers and people who raise and care for farm and companion animals with sales of its products in more than 100 countries. In 2017, the company generated annual revenue of $5.3 billion with approximately 9,000 employees.