Join the British Simmental Cattle Society

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A membership pack consists of a membership form, Tel reg Form and a Direct debit form, please note that all 3 are required to be completed please.

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On-line Registrations
We have been receiving more than one batch of registrations per month, per member. ABRI advise us that to get the most benefit from the on-line system just one batch per member should be submitted per month.

Please note that once you have created a batch you are able to keep adding registrations to that batch throughout the month and save them until you have completed all your registrations for that month. Once they are all added then the batch can be transmitted.

NB: Please ensure that you transmit the batch no later than the 29th of the month if a 30 day month and the 30th of the month if a 31 day month. If on-line registrations are not received by the close of business on the last working day of the month they automatically fall into the following month.

LATE REGISTRATION PRICE MATRIX

• The following pricing matrix and late penalties will apply to all members who are registering calves under these circumstances.

• Calves not registered by the month end after the month of birth are subject to the fee schedule below.

• Cattle may be registered after 12 months of age, subject to proven DNA parentage testing.
Please note the fee that is quoted includes the parentage test for the calf only. The DNA typing of the Sire and Dam is £27.14 (inc vat, per animal), if not already on file.

• Please contact the Registration Department to process any registrations over twelve months of age as this cannot be processed online.

NB: If you have birth notified or registered your calf by the month end after the month of birth the normal fees will apply.

DNA - SIRE’S PROFILE If the Sire is no longer available to take tail hairs and semen is not available to obtain a DNA profile the Animal Health Trust have advised the following criteria to obtain a profile of the Sire:-

To obtain a Sire DNA profile if the Sire is no longer alive and semen is not available, we would need a number of calves sired by that bull together with the corresponding dams. We can then subtract out the contribution of the dam from the calf's profile leaving the sires profile. Because each calf only receives half the sire's DNA and in fact also half the dam's DNA it is necessary to do a number of dam-calf combinations in order to approximate the complete profile of the sire. Basically the more calf-dam combinations you can provide the more accurate the sire's profile would be but I would not recommend doing less than 5 calf-dam sets.

Therefore the Society would like to advise members that a minimum of five calves sired by the said bull, plus their dam’s will need to be DNA typed in order to obtain a sire DNA profile. To avoid this extra expense the Society advise all members to get all stock bulls DNA typed before they are sold on, or taken off farm for any other reason. Please also advise any potential purchasers of this requirement when you sell bulls that will be used on pedigree herds.

DNA RESULTS The results for a DNA profile can take up to 4/6 weeks from receipt of the tail hair. The Society is notified of the result and at that point invoices are issued to the members for the DNA charge. Any calf registrations on hold subject to DNA profile of the sire are then released and the certificates are sent out.

NB: If you do not receive an invoice charging you for the DNA profile after 8/10 weeks from sending in the tail hair sample, please contact Selina at the Society office in order that she can check with the Animal Health Trust that the sample has been received. Samples have been known to go astray in the post and therefore it is most important members keep a track of their submitted DNA samples.

DNA – HOMOZYGOUS BULLS For pedigree certificates to indicate that an animal is Homozygous polled it must have been proven by DNA testing. These tests are available via Animal Health Trust & Merial. If you have any animals that need to be DNA tested for this qualification, please contact the Society office for further information.

EMBRYO ET1 FORMS EMBRYO ET1 FORMS We would like to take this opportunity to remind our members that the Society Rules are that an ET1 form must be received into the Society office no later than 28 days after the flush date. Forms received after 28 days of the flush will be subject to a late fee of £10.00 per calendar month.

List of Bulls registered under the Pedigree Registration Levy Scheme

List of Semen available

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