Hereford Breed Improvement Scheme Brochure

Hereford Breed Improvement Scheme

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Irish Hereford Breed Improvement Scheme Brochure The Hereford Breed Improvement Scheme was first introduced in the 1980s. Set up as a revolving fund with a subscription of £25 from each participant at the time, the scheme has provided an opportunity for smaller herds in particular to have greater access to a choice of bulls and semen from Ireland and across the world.

Potential sires are identified and semen purchased with a view to providing the best possible genetics at minimum cost to scheme members. Society members not currently participating in the scheme can join for a once off payment of €65.

Semen of bulls featured in the brochure is, in most cases, available for export. The Breed Improvement Committee is continuously on the lookout for new and improved genetics. Please allow at least 2/3weeks for delivery of semen.

• Typically straws are available at €40 each or 4 for €150.

• Some sires may have discounts applied (Please see semen order form).

As ICBF have announced that they will be conducting bimonthly genetic evaluations please see their website (https://webapp.icbf.com/v2/app/bull-search/) for up to date star ratings for each of the animals listed.

Kaludah Jolly L267

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DOB: 13/03/2015

AI Code: HE4650 Jolly was selected at Kaludah having run with cows. He was subsequently sold to John & Liz Craig, Inverell Herefords, Victoria for $15,000.

He weighed 1156 kgs at Wodonga and had an EMA of 145 cms at 26 months.

He was a 1st Prize winner at Wodonga.

Kaludah won the most successful exhibitor at Wodonga in May 2017, achieving the massive average of $10,500 for 18 bulls.

o HH Advance 9169W

o Kaludah Regal

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• Dam: Kaludah Lass F118

Sire: Kaludah Bradman H608

o Kaludah Fancy Fair Y101

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o Kaludah Lass C594

Kaludah Powerhouse L478

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DOB: 26/06/2015

AI Code: HE4658 A very aptly named bull from the Herd of Pam Shelley – he has a tremendous back end and lots of power. He was selected at Kaludah along with Kaludah Jolly. Both were sold at Wodonga and the new owners were willing to do a semen deal with the IHBS. Powerhouse was 2nd in a strong class at Wodonga and went on to sell for $16,000 to Battalion Herefords. He had the largest EMA of all the Junior and Intermediate Bulls at Wodonga (136 cms) and weighed 976 kgs at 22 months. o Kaludah Mission F037 • Sire: Kaludah Nugget J920 o Kaludah Lass F118 o Red Hill Insight • Dam: Kaludah Chloe B557 o Kaludah Chloe X884

Karoonda Sampson |

DOB: 19/03/2015

AI Code: HE4654 Karoonda Sampson was bred by Paul & Judi Sykes and family. He shows great fleshing ability, length and conformation.

His Sire, Glenwarrah Men at Work is also the Sire of Waiau Men at Work, a hugely successful stock bull for Colin King in New Zealand.

“Quality” is the first word to come to mind when describing Sampson. His low birth weight of 3.5 is another very appealing quality.

o Red Hill Idle Rich ET • Sire: Glenwarrah Men At Work o Glenwarrah Minerva U44

o Curracabark Satellite • Dam: Karoonda Cora H232 o Karoonda Cora Z812 

Battalion Frontier M015

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DOB: 03/04/2016

AI Code: HE4648 The Battalion Herd of Grant & Kylie Kniepp is becoming a very successful young herd. It is fair to say the females in this herd were the most appealing to Irish eyes. Frontier was only 9 months old when selected when he showed tremendous promise with great conformation, easyfleshing and breed character. His dam is oozing the traits of easy fleshing and overall quality and conformation which should make Frontier a great asset to the Irish Hereford Herd. o Churchill Yogi B090 • Sire: Glendan Park Frontline F119 o Glendan Park Moonbeam Z124 o Smithston Xemption ET1 • Dam: Battalion Princess Christian H19 o Battalion PR Christian 3

Mawarra Mustang (Polled) |

DOB: 24/05/2013

AI Code: HE4508 Mawarra Mustang (P) was bred by the Sykes Family from Longford, Victoria, Australia, one of Australia’s leading producers of top class Hereford genetics. The herd has built up an envied reputation across the continent and beyond over several years now.

Mustang has grown out into an impressive young sire with carcase, softness and all the length and carriage his pedigree suggests. His first calves were born in 2015 and they have proved our expectations were not misplaced.

o Karina Cherry Z8 • Sire: Tycolah Jovial F77 o Tycolah Countess W48 

o Bowen Vincent V1 • Dam: DebarryTabitha Y177 o Debarry Tabitha T81

Battalion Undertaker M023 ET

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DOB: 25/09/2016

AI Code: HE5019 Another bull from the battalion herd, Undertaker, is of very correct structure, with big solid feet that is fluid and correct in his motion, arguably looking his best when he begins to walk. A bull of tremendous power, Undertaker, possesses ample top, hip and explosive mass, excellent testicle size and a balanced set of EPDs. He has great length and will add pounds and performance to progeny all while maintaining appeal.

Sired by Cara Park Unique and from the stud’s top female Battalion Constance, Undertaker topped the 2018 Glen Innes bull sale securing $20,000.

o Mawarra Unique C041 • Sire: Cara Park Unique J324 o Cara Park Treasure F037

Haven Kingpin |

o Echo Park Waratah • Dam: Battalion Constance 42 o Courallie Constance V086

DOB: 04/03/2013

AI Code: HKP Semen from the UK’s oldest & best known herd! This sire from the Haven herd at Dilwyn, Hereford, one of the oldest and best known in the UK was selected by members of the Society’s Breed Improvement Committee. Kingpin was selected on his looks, and on his pedigree background. This young bull combines thickness with length. The dam line is one of the best at the Haven herd. His dam Haven Splendour 25th is a very good cow with milk while the grandam is a very consistent cow that has produced a number of top progeny including Haven Governor.

o GH–Adams Shadow 144S • Sire: GH Adams 144S Bulge 138W o GH–Adams 45L Twinette 5525

o Border Rory A36 • Dam: Haven Splendour 25th o Haven Splendour 23rd 

CCR 57G Stamina ET 199S (Polled)

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DOB: 06/01/2006

AI Code: S861 Stamina had a very strong and successful show career and has added a new dimension to muscle shape. His progeny have commanded attention worldwide. He is well decorated having some notable awards; Canadian Hereford Association (CHA) Mark of Excellence Silver Award, 2006: Herefords Today’s Canadian Allstars Reserve Grand Champion Bull, Edmonton Farmfair International Senior Polled Bull Calf Champion & Reserve Grand Champion Bull, A Stamina son, TLELL 199S Xplosive 18S, bred by Richarson Ranch and owned by Clay Enterprises, was named Grand Champion Bull at the 2012 Canadian Western Agribition.

Stamina progeny are growthy and stout boned and are traditionally coloured, with a little extra white. Daughters are good mothers and have nice tight udders with good milk production. We are not as familiar with his bull progeny.

Disposition in all his progeny that we know has been excellent. Sire of Tlell 199S Red Bull 20U 2010 Williams Lake Champion.

BW 40.4KG, 365 day 534kg. Sire of Tlell 199S Xplosive 18X 2010 Western National Hereford Show & Bull Calf Champion 2010 Farmfair International Harvie Ms Gwen 46U sired by CCR 57G Stamina ET 199S was purchased by Edenburg Family farms, Penfield IL for $8000 full possession.

o Remitall Keynote 20X • Sire: RU 20X Boulder 57G o RU 10A Dew 57D

Mawarra Sentimental ET1

o Remitall Boomer 46B • Dam: Golden-Oak 46B Keepsake 23K o Golden-Oak Y166 Donna 5D

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DOB: 01/11/2005

AI Code: MWZ Sentimental was purchased by South Boorook Stud for $24,000 at the National Hereford Show and Sale at Wodonga in 2007. His first nine sons sold at their on farm bull sale in Feb. 2010 to a top price of $22,000 to average $7,333. At Wodonga another son, Mawarra Van Dieman, sold at $16,000 while Mawarra Victorious sold at $15,000, a further son Jacandra HS was Res. Senior Champion and sold at $13,000.

A trait leader for 200, 400 and 600 day weight, he is breeding a consistency of type, carcase and growth for age, also seen in his full brother Mawarra Nostalgia, the Supreme Hereford exhibit at the 2004 Sydney Royal, later sold at auction for $60,000 to the Fraser Family’s Red Hill Stud.

Sentimental’s dam is the Mawarra herd’s most successful breeder selling seven sons to average $16,500. She has proven to be a very successful donor dam in the herd’s ET program and has eleven daughters retained in the herd.

o Vena Park Sharka • Sire: Yalaroo Tornado T008AI o Yalaroo Amaze L048 

o Dunrobin Superstar ET 2A • Dam: Mawarra Miss Titania 123 ET6 o Mawarra Miss Titania 53

Smithston Darby

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DOB: 24/08/2008

AI Code: SZY This is a very promising bull from the Smithston herd of Dugald & Billy McIndoe. A well grown bull he shows good muscling and easy fleshing and was the top price bull at the Smithston on farm Autumn production sale.

His sire has bred a very consistent type while his grandsire, Red Hill Rockford Roy, was an exceptional breeding bull and a trait leader for 200, 400 and 600 day weight and also for scrotal size and retail beef yield on Australian Breedplan.

Darby’s maternal Grandsire Smithston, Wee Dram was a successful sire with exceptional figures for milk while his sire, Park Grove Impressionist, was +4 for EMA and +1.9 for retail beef yield.

In recent years the Smithston herd has been downsized retaining some of their top females while the sheep herd has increased to take advantage of local markets.

o Strelley Excalibur • Sire: Corilla All The Way o Corilla Hetty

Hollow Point Broker

o Smithston Wee Dram ET1 • Dam: Smithston Doreen Z044 o Smithston Doreen W170

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DOB: 18/10/2006

AI Code: HWP Broker is a bull of depth and thickness who’s progeny have enjoyed success at numerous shows and sales in Australia and also here in Ireland in recent years. Bred

by AJ Townsend in Tasmania better known in Ireland as Van Diemans land, he has exceptional EBV’s for 200, 400 & 600 day weight placing him in the top 5% of the breed in Australia. His EMA at +2.8 is in the top 20% while his RBI 1.4 is in the top 6%.

His sire, the very successful Churchill Titanic whose dam was by SNS Generator 28X is a trait leader for 200, 400 & 600 day weight and retail beef yield. His dam Smithston PR Royal W088 is by Parson Hill Rocktime and was selected as an ET donor dam at Hollow Point.

o Vena Park Sharka • Sire: Churchill Titanic ET2 o Widgiewa Hillary K368 ET5

o Parson Hill Rocktime • Dam: Smithston PR Royal W088 o Glanmonnow PR Royal R008 

Bowmont Vancouver D103

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DOB: 24/04/2008

AI Code: BJW Vancouver is a very smooth easy fleshing bull with exceptional performance figure who was top price bull at the Bowmont Autumn on farm sale, he weighed 865 kgs at 22 months and measured 144 cm at the hips or frame score 7.

His Australian EBV’s place him in the top 6% for 200, 400, & 600 day weight. With an EMA of +3.3 he is in the top 1% while his EBV’s for carcase weight and RBY place him in the top 10%.

He is sired by Courallie Vancouver whose sons had the highest average of the sale. His grandsire Alkira Vancouver is a trait leader for 200, 400 and 600 day weight and for IMF. His dam Bowmont Queen, is a very wide cow born in March 2003, she already has five calves on the ground. Her sire, Cara Park Xpress, is in the top 5% of the breed while her maternal sire Red Hill Time Bomb is a trait leader for Eye Muscle Area and Retail Beef Yield.

Vancouver’s pedigree on the sires side is related to Yarram Pompeii V055 and is not recommended for use on his progeny.

o Alkira Vancouver • Courallie Vancouver Z438 o Courallie Fancy M276

Banemore Pompeii T036 |

o Cara Park Xpress T311 • Dam: Bowmont Queen Y318 o Bowmont Queen W115

DOB: 14/04/1998

AI Code: PPI This exciting proven bull is a half brother to Yarram Pompeii V055 both being by the same sire Courallie Pompeii. Bred by David Jenkin of Penhurst Victoria, he was purchased by Pat Pearse as a herd sire at the Yavenvale Herd for the then record price of $10,000 at the 2000 Banemore on-property sale. He has bred exceptionally well at Yavenvale siring the top priced bull at the 2003, 2006 and 2007 sales including Yavenvale Freedom, $22,000 to Cara Park and Raratonga Herefords in 2006.

Pompeii T036 boasts exceptionally well-balanced figures with outstanding carcase merit ranking in the top 1% of the breed for EMA and IMF EBVs. He has been used successfully over heifers and his daughters are displaying tremendous doing ability and thickness.

If growth and eye muscle is required then T036 may well be the solution. With Breedplan Australia this bull is in the top 1% of the breed for eye muscle area (+5.1 EMA), top 5% for intra- muscular fat (+0.4 marbling) and in the top 10% for 400 and 600 day weight bending the curve with moderate birth weight. Progeny here include Roscommon Autumn Show Champion 08 Cloonbracken Gina, sold at 13 months for €2,800 and Champion April Bull Sale Kilkenny 2010, Cloonart Trevor.

o Lyonbank Jack Knife • Sire: Courallie Pompeii o Courallie Jeanna L238 

o I H Solomon 86090 • Dam: Banemore Summer Day L041 o Banemore Summer Day 78

Border General V85

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DOB: 07/10/2001

AI Code: BGV Sired by Canadian bull Brit General, this 2001 born bull was identified at the Royal Welsh Show 2004 where he was Supreme Champion. Following further inspection with his progeny at Llancillo Hall near Abergavenny, Wales a deal was struck with owners Ralph and Liz Bailey to take semen for the BIS. Since then the bull has become U.K. Bull of the Year 2004 and Supreme Champion at The Three Counties Show. The bull is bred by S.W. Quan & Co. The Border Herd, Wormlow, Hereford, UK. This is an exceptional bull producing outstanding progeny. The back pedigree includes High Voltage 80S, 1087, L1 Pacesetter, Super Voltage 15W and ET Lad 17L. One of his first calves Llancillo Hill Beauty 11th was 1st Reserve Female Champion Monmouth Show, UK.

o HR General 65D • Sire: MT 65D Brit General 1071F o MT 563 Legacy Promise ET 1071A

Balleen Generator 6th |

o Broombeck Pacesetter • Dam: Border Curly J15 o Border Curly D31

DOB: 05/07/1997

AI Code: BG0 BGO – Successful herd sire for Tom Hickey of Ballydehob, Co Cork, and bred by G & T Brennan, Balleen, Freshford.

The Breed Improvement Committee believes this to be an outstanding Irish bred bull. He was chosen on the strength of his progeny. By ‘SNS Generator’ he is out of ‘Balleen Fergie’ by ‘Dunlever Tony’. Also included in the pedigree are such notable sires as ‘Kenmare Ivo’ ‘Bell L Stan’ Dom 39E and Millbrook Optimist. A son Skehanore Jason stood 3rd in the All Ireland bull calf class at the National Hereford Show 04. Munster calf champ Bantry Show 2004 and exhibited at NPC 2004.

He sold for €3,800 to Mr. George Stanley, Co. Meath.

o LCI High Voltage 80S • Sire: SNS Generator 28X o SNS L1 Pacesetter

o Dunlever Tony • Dam: Balleen Fergie o Balleen Moira 

Rathcor Ranger

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DOB: 25/04/1997

AI Code: RRA One of the most consistent sons of the well known Bishophill General, Ranger, was himself a 1st prize winner at Roscommon when sold as a yearling at 1,900 gns. An outstanding sire at the now dispersed Drumakeenan herd of Mr. R.S. Kenny of Drumakeenan, Brosna, Birr, he was never photographed.

Several of his sons sold into pedigree herds and bred with considerable success.

His best-known son is perhaps Drumakeenan Doa-Lot, Champion at Roscommon and winner of the Purdon Memorial Trophy, he sold at 4,500 gns. and proved a successful sire at Ballyaville.

o Standard Lad 93J • Sire: Bishophill General o Bishophill Temptress

o Fortfarm Judo • Dam: Rathcor Pam 2nd o Rathcor Pam

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GH Adams 144S Bulge 138W

AI Code: GHZ

Sired by GH-Adams Shadow 144S

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Wiranya Batavia (Polled)

AI Code: WIA

Sired by Vena Park Sharka

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Kairuru Xavier (Polled)

AI Code: KUX

Sired by Leelands Transition T7

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