2024 Donor Cow catalogue
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We have an exciting selection of embryos flushed out of cows who have lasted the 10 years on our hill country, sired by a variety of established and exciting new bulls!
Xcell Breeding Services offer an option to NZ clients to provide recipient cows and implantation services, only charging for those cows that scan pregnant, with the purchaser owning the recipients afterwards. Price is depending on the store cattle market in the spring. This is on top of the purchase price of the embryos.
For example, if you were to buy 5 embryos and achieve 3 pregnancies, you would pay Meadowslea for the 5 embryos, but only pay Xcell for 3 the pregnant recipients.
Embyros Available:
Lot 188: Meadowslea G1000 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 6 Embryos (NZ only)
Lot 189: Meadowslea G1000 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 6 Embryos (NZ only)
Lot 190: Meadowslea G895 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ / Australia)
Lot 191: Meadowslea G895 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ / Australia)
Lot 192: Meadowslea Q274 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ only)
Lot 193: Meadowslea Q274 x Kincardine Rainstorme R25: 5 Embryos (NZ only)
Donor Cows:
Meadowslea G1000
New Zealand's record price 10-year-old cow
Sold to Ballanee Angus Australia $16,050
G1000 was the standout cow of her year group and is one of our all-time favourites. She sold in our 2020 female sale as a 10yr old to Ballanee Angus in Australia for a NZ record price of $16,050. She is a bigger-framed cow with exceptional EMA and fats which are being strongly inherited by all her descendants. She scanned with the biggest EMA and the second highest IMF% of her year group.
She is the dam of M564, our stud sire retained in 2018, who is a semen sire in this sale. M564 still holds the record for the biggest EMA we have ever scanned and passes this on to all his progeny.
She is also the grandam of Meadowslea Quartz Q250 who is another semen sire in this sale.
G1000 has a powerful pedigree being a daughter of the high performing Glanworth 08-16, whose daughters have proven to be some of the most productive cows in the herd with superb soundness and longevity. Her maternal pedigree line goes back to the well-known sires Stern Exact and Hingaia 469.
G1000 has incredible figures for a 13-year-old cow with all her growth EBVs ranking in the top 25% for the breed in NZ. Her proven carcase traits are strong with rib and rump fats in the top 5%, and her exceptional EMA ranks her in the top 10%. All this performance combines to give her a self-replacing index in the top 10% for the breed in NZ.
She is home at Meadowslea now, looking fantastic at rising 13 years of age, and back in calf naturally.
Her embryos to Rainstorme are a very exciting prospect and we think almost the perfect mating. Rainstorme will double up on G1000’s exceptional EMA, with his own at +9 and his mother’s at +10.5, both ranking in the top 2% for the breed. He brings trait leading calving ease with lower birth weight, and his efficient low mature cow weight, to give the progeny an exciting potential data set with great soundness and longevity.
As predicted, the first progeny born from this embryo flush have an exceptional genomically enhanced set of EBV’s and look to be very exciting prospects.
Meadowslea G895
Meadowslea G895 was also sold as a 10-year cow in our record breaking 2021 Female Sale to Ballanee Angus in Australia. She is another outstanding daughter of Glanworth 0816 who bred so many of our top breeding cows.
She has a strong maternal pedigree, being the daughter of another great old cow D056. D056 was the top priced 10-year-old cow in our inaugural Female Sale in 2017, selling to Linnburn Station for $5,500. D056 was an exceptional breeding cow who shows up in many of our top cattle pedigrees, including as the great-grandam of our stud sire K703 who is a semen sire in this catalogue.
G895 has bred consistently well including K924, a son of Turihaua Crump we used in the stud and later sold to Greg Hand at $9,500, and S506 who was a top son of L226 and sold in our 2023 bull sale at lot 48.
She has strong fertility traits with a very good scrotal and short days to calving in the top 20% for the breed. Her easy doing rib and rump fats rank in the top 5% for the breed and her efficient moderate cow weight ensures she generates a good Self-replacing Index.
Her embryos sired by Rainstorme are an exciting prospect and his EMA will compliment her figures while his exceptional data will double up on many of her great attributes including longevity, and exceptional easy doing ability.
Meadowslea Q294
Meadowslea Q294 was sold in our 2023 Female Sale to Mark Bolzon, Pound Creek Angus, Australia for embryo collection. She is at present back on farm at Meadowslea. A very deep, thick bodied, traditional style NZ bred cow with a strong pedigree behind her. Her sire Meadowslea M452 was retained in the stud as a 2-year-old before being sold to Stu Millar at Peak Hill Station where he is still going strong. M452 is out of an outstanding cow by Turihaua Crump who had previously bred another retained top stud sire Meadowslea L226. M452 is sired by the $100,000 Rangatira 13-38 who we used in our AI programme. The maternal side of her pedigree is equally strong going back to our legendary home bred sire F540 as well as the great Matauri Reality 839. Her performance data shows terrific maternal traits with good calving ease, short gestation, low birthweight and a good milk figure. Very strong fertility with a good scrotal EBV while her short days to calving figure places her in the top 5% for the breed. Her carcase traits almost all rank in the top 10% for the breed and she scanned with very strong EMA and IMF at the very top her contemporary year group.
Q294 is a wonderful mate for Rainstorme doubling up on many of his key performance traits and adding the proven fertility and longevity influence of the great Turihaua Crump. A double shot of Matauri Reality 3 generations back on the maternal side of both parents will ensure an exciting data set for these embryo calves.