ITS OFFICIAL!! SIMMENTAL STEAKS TASTE BEST!!
Steaks from Simmental Steers Claim Top Two Places in Scotch
Steak Championships
Press Release - 29/06/09
Steaks from cattle consigned by Deeside and Buchan beef producers claimed
the top four places in the annual McIntosh Donald/Tesco Scotch steak
championships at the Royal Highland Show. [more]
Press Release - 16th April 2009
SIMMENTAL SELECTED FOR EBLEX YOUNG BULL PROVING
SCHEME
Omorga Volvo has been selected by EBLEX and the British Simmental
Society as their choice for this year's YBPS scheme. Volvo was bred by
HJW & JC Moore and has recently been sold privately to Barry Chambers
of the Shanehill herd in Northern Ireland.
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Volvo has the very desirable combination of high growth
rates, easy calving and high milk figures which combine to give him a
Terminal Production Index of 29 which is in the top 5% of the breed and
a Self Replacing Index of 39 which is in the top 1% of the breed. His
figures are a reflection of the quality of his breeding with Cleenagh
Flasher, Carnkern Titan and Raceview King among the well known bulls
in his pedigree.
The Simmental Society is so pleased with the quality of the
bull that they have acquired additional semen for distribution to performance
recording members to maximise the benefits and information resulting
from the bull's performance recorded progeny.
To purchase semen please contact Barry Chambers on Telephone:
028 388 30936 or Mob: 07715 321461
10 February, 2009
Clarity on Newsletter advice on selling cows and brain stem
testing charges
The NBA would advise all beef producers not to sell cows to any outlets
until the dispute is resolved on the payment for brain stem testing of
cattle over 48 months of age. [more]
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.
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
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.
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