Today our Vet Dave Morris from Bass Valley Embryo Services pregnancy tested 90 Salers in our Spring calving group. 84 tested pregnant for a 93% pregnancy rate. One 14 year old cow was empty, although another 17 year old cow was pregnant with what will be her 15th calf. Salers are exceptionally fertile and long lived. 3 of the other empty animals were 16 month old heifers who were the youngest animals to go with the bull. 61 out of 63 cows with calves at foot are back in calf, including 15 to AI bulls; a great outcome.

18 month old Salers heifers PTIC for August/September 2020 calving

Dave Morris from Bass Valley Embryo Services preg testing Salers

As well as preg testing our Spring calving herd, we are in the middle of calving our Autumn calving herd. We labelled 10 new calves this weekend and after 2 weeks of calving have 22 out of 50 calves on the ground.

Newborn Salers calves with their mums.

Saturday 1st of February was Day 4 of Beef Week. A brief description and photo from Salco Salers Stud is on the Stock and Land website at:

https://www.stockandland.com.au/story/6604761/visitors-get-a-behind-the-scenes-look-during-beef-week/?cs=5448#slide=14

In addition to 27mm rain at the weekend, we also had the first 2 calves for 2020. Both born with the minimum of fuss and up and feeding within minutes.

Rain and calves: farming can be easy when everything goes to plan!

RLWPR001 and RLWP002