CONDITIONS OF SALE

  1. The Sale: will be conducted in accordance with conditions of sale as set down by the Hawke’s Bay Stock and Station Agents Association, a copy of which will be exhibited at the sale.
  2. Veterinary Test: Glen Anthony Stud is accredited for both Brucellosis and Tuberculosis- C10. These bulls are all blood tested free of B.V.D. and vaccinated twice before sale.
  3. Semen & Service Testing: All entries in this sale have been semen tested and serving ability tested prior to sale. This is Glen Anthony Stud’s committment to clients, to put up for sale a quality assured product - a bull that at the point of sale is 100% fertile and capable of serving. We encourage buyers to insure their bulls at the point of sale to cover them for problems that may arise from that time onwards which are outside the vendor’s control.
  4. Insurance: Each lot will be at the risk of the purchaser as from the fall of the hammer. Transit insurance and period insurance can be arranged with the Auctioneers. No errors, omissions or misdescription will in any way invalidate the sale.
  5. Breed Society: Breed society transfers must be signed prior to animals being removed from the selling centre.
  6. Animals sold for export: Sales to overseas buyers are conditional on the animals passing the necessary export tests. Unless the animals fail the tests all costs from the fall of the hammer will be borne by the purchaser.
  7. Deliveries: Before any animal is removed from the selling centre a delivery instruction sheet must be completed and signed by each buyer. 

 

Simmental Trans Tasman Group Breedplan Performance Data

 

Breedplan is a modern genetic valuation programme for beef cattle. It produces Estimated Breeding Values (EBV’s) for a range of traits including: Milk, birthweight, 200 day weight, 400 day weight, and 600 day weight.

An EBV is a prediction of the genetic merit of an animal for that production trait
expressed as + or - kg in comparison to a base of 0.

The Simmental Trans Tasman Group Breedplan allows EBV’s to be calculated not
only from the performance of an animal compared to its contemporaries within the
same herd but also from the performance of all known relatives and progeny. It
also simultaneously takes into account correlated traits and genetic linkage across
different herds and so is able to relate an animal’s performance to all animals from
all years across the breed and compare this to a breed base of zero.

Group EBV’s are the best figures available on the relative performance of
Australian and New Zealand Simmentals for each important trait. Used in
conjunction with assessment for structural soundness, fertility and muscling
ability they help take the guesswork out of bull buying.