Kilburnie Angus. High Indexing Catalogue. A catalogue should provide you with useful information to help you make a rational decision

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1 Kilburnie Angus High Indexing Catalogue A catalogue should provide you with useful information to help you make a rational decision about your purchases. Below is an example of the way in which we will provide information to you about our 2018 sale bulls. There are two important features that we think will help you make better decisions. The graph on the right hand side shows you how the bull ranks in the breed. Indices are in purple, calving ease in yellow, growth in green, fertility in red. Docility and feed efficiency in dark blue and carcase EBVs in light blue. You can rapidly decide whether this bull ranks highly in your estimate. If you prefer numbers the rank is shown in the boxes. M36 is in the top 45% of the breed for calving ease. He is in the top 1% for DC (Days to Calving) and the top 28% for marbling. kilburnieangus.com.au Kilburnie Angus on Facebook You cannot use the catalogue directly to compare how these bulls compare with other sale bulls that you might look at. BUT if you are provided with information on the ranks of those other bulls you immediately have a comparison. If you are not provided with them automatically by the vendor ask for them. Alternatively take the bull by the horns and go and look for yourself at the Angus Australia website to get this information. Also on the table below note that we have highlighted the six important EBVs. We think they are calving ease, 600 day weight, days to calving, carcase weight, retail beef yield and IMF%. They are the EBVs most heavily weighted in the Indices. David Andy

2 Percentile Value Kilburnie Angus High Indexing Angus Bulls It is likely that in the reasonably near future premiums will be paid for cattle that marble at a young age. It is also probable that there will be premiums for cattle that produce meat rather than fat or bone. It is difficult to visually assess some of these attributes, particularly marbling. And it is even more difficult to assess whether an animal will pass these attributes on to its progeny. At Kilburnie our task is to use genetic tools, such as Breedplan and $indices, to provide you with the information you need to identify the bulls that will help you achieve market premiums. The most basic of these tools is the $indices which allow you to compare animals. An animal in the top 1% of the breed on the appropriate index is more likely to make money for you than an animal in the top 5% or, even worse, one in the top 50% of the breed. When premiums are being paid for high performing animals, as they will be, there will be no rewards for average animals. The bulls we are selling are, on average, well into the top 10% and 5% of the breed on the four indices. They are generally in the top 20% of the breed for the important EBVs. Kilburnie 2018 Sale Bull Average ABI DOM HGN HGS CED 600 DTC RBY IMF 5% 20% 40% 50% INDICES EBVs kilburnieangus.com.au Kilburnie Angus on Facebook David Andy

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5 G20 ABI DOM GRN GRS CE Dir 600 DTC RBY IMF EBV Perc YOUNG AND OLD BULLS Murray El Grando G20. Angus breeders have resolved the antagonisms between low birthweight and high growth rate and between marbling and muscling. They found the few animals that had both attributes and bred from them. There is a perceived antagonism between leanness and fertility. I am constantly being asked for bulls with high fats because they are fertile but excess fat is wasteful if you are selling meat. Grando is in the top 1% of the Angus breed in Australia for Retail Beef Yield and the bottom 99% of the breed for fat. His DTC EBV is in the top 10% of the breed. Murray Grando J136. This son of El Grando is out of a much less extreme cow. The main improvement is that he is a calving ease bull. El Grando is not. J136 is an animal that carries very little fat but marbles and is fertile. Grando has had carcase progeny measured for IMF through the ASBP so I am reasonably sure that these relations hold. We are steadily working on the supposed fat/fertility antagonism. J136 ABI DOM GRN GRS CE Dir 600 DTC RBY IMF EBV Perc M208 ABI DOM GRN GRS CE Dir 600 DTC RBY IMF EBV Perc N2 ABI DOM GRN GRS CE Dir 600 DTC RBY IMF EBV Perc Two younger bulls. M208 is by Pathfinder Genesis, a Berkley son. N2 is by a son of Bartel E7. M208 is currently being evaluated in the Angus Sire Benchmarking Programme. N2 will be offered for sale in August. M208 is the bigger and taller Angus bull of the sort that seems to be needed to meet the target weights particularly for the heavy grain fed market. N2 is a different style of animal and visually is the more attractive of these two bulls

6 Kilburnie Angus High Indexing Angus Heifers It is relatively easy to access semen from very high indexing bulls. It is much more difficult to access high indexing cows. We have to breed our own. In our program we retain a very high proportion of the heifers born in any year. We try to join a large proportion of them naturally and allow them to calve out. The second joining and pregnancy is the important one for any heifer. We mate all heifers naturally for their second pregnancy. They have to get pregnant to a bull not by artificial insemination where drugs are used which cause the heifers to cycle even if they would not do so naturally. 160 The diagram here shows the average index values for our sale bulls. The average indices for our heifers are almost the same. The green 120 bars are the index values for the Kilburnie animals. The blue bars are the fifth percentile for the breed, red the twentieth percentile and black the breed average. AVERAGE INDEX VALUE OF SALE BULLS 2018 With heifers of similar quality we can continue to produce very high indexing bulls. ABI DOM HGN HGS KILBURNIE SALE BULLS 2018 BREED 5%, 20% AND 50% The bulls we are selling are, on average, well into the top 10% and 5% of the breed on the four indices. They are generally in the top 20% of the breed for the important EBVs. We are breeding heifers that are capable of producing bulls of this calibre and better into the future. kilburnieangus.com.au Kilburnie Angus on Facebook David Andy

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9 Cows that have stood the test of time Murray Berkley F4. Rising 8 year old. This Berkley daughter was one of the first cows born on Straban after our relocation. In her prime she was one of our bigger cows and she remains an attractive traditional Angus cow. Mated to the right bull cows like this can still produce high performing progeny with longevity from the mother s side of the pedigree. F4 ABI DOM GRN GRS EBV Perc To date she has had 11 calves. Her current heifer calf, Discovery N25, is in the top 4% of the breed on all indices. She should be one of the first cows to calve this year. Murray Objective G81. A daughter of SS Objective T510 0T26 who has performed very well for us. She has 39 recorded calves. They include a very high indexing heifer, M171 by Bartel E7 and some very impressive male calves by G20 on show today. We knew that we had to increase frame and growth from cows such as Berkley F4 above. 0T26 was a controversial bull at the time. The mother of G81was a Lawsons bred cow by 1407 that we bought from Tuwharetoa Angus. Indices all in the top 5%. Mated to the right bull we have generated some outstanding calves. Murray Wave J43. NURG81 ABI DOM GRN GRS EBV Perc We already have ten calves from this young cow. She has bred very well. Her mother is a very high indexing cow (VTMD113) that we bought from Te Mania. Her father is an American bull, Gardens Wave, that at the time of joining was one of the outstanding carcase bull in the United States. NURJ43 ABI DOM GRN GRS EBV Perc We sold her recently to The Rock Angus. Murray Grando J105. A daughter of El Grando out of a Regent daughter. She has produced siix calves to date and more ET calves will be coming over the next two years. Her index values are very high. She retains the Grando mix of leanness, marbling and a Days to Calving EBV in the top 2% of the breed. NURJ105 ABI DOM GRN GRS EBV Perc kilburnieangus.com.au Kilburnie Angus on Facebook David Andy