Angus cattle are great all-rounders and cow-families are at the heart of any successful stud programme.
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Foundation bloodlines for the Shamrock Angus stud cow herd started with the purchase of nine (9) in-calf cows from the Springdale dispersal.
Stud numbers increased with the purchase of stud heifers from Kaharau Angus over a number of years and 21 females at the Rangatira dispersals.
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The cow herd at Shamrock Angus are a very sound, robust, easy doing, good quiet temperament herd and fit extremely well into the Shamrock Angus stud programme and ideally suited to their clients.
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Practical stockmanship, experience and common sense, combined with carcase scanning data, guide Shamrock Angus in their benchmark criteria.
- All females are performance recorded and expected to breed and rear a calf every year. Any that fail to meet our benchmark are culled. This is a fundamental practice at Shamrock Angus, as is temperament at calving combined with mothering skills.
- Structural soundness, fertility and temperament are fundamentals in any breeding herd.
- Shamrock Angus cows are run under commercial conditions in conjunction with the sheep flock.
All Shamrock Angus progeny have been tested with the AngusGS Total Bundle.