2025 Glendhu Shorthorns Bull Sale ~ 2oth May 2025

Susie and I welcome you to our seventh on farm Bull sale. We started Glendhu

Shorthorns in 1995 and today the herd is made up of 85 Stud cows. This makes us the

largest registered Shorthorn Stud in the South Island.

We have a clear breeding emphasis at Glendhu on producing structurally sound bulls

that are soft, easy doing with good temperament. EBV play a vital role in our selection as

we aim to have moderate birth sires with good growth, high muscle, IMF and fat, while

maintaining the strong maternal attributes of the Shorthorn breed.

In 2023 we had 44 Bull calves born. The Bulls have been run in one mob from weaning.

They went onto crop on the 10th of May 2024 and after the wettest September since

1972 we had to leave them on crop to the 10th of October 2024 (150 days). They all ran

together until February 2025 to we selected the best 24 bulls.

I believe this selection pressure has made this years crop of sale Bulls the best we have

ever offered. The best bulls have made their way to the front of the pack and can give

any buyer confidence. For the past 10 years we have selected high muscle bulls and I

strongly believe under challenging climatic conditions these cattle hold their condition

so much better. The Bulls with the strong performance data have stood out after a long

winter. Its always easy to hide whats under the skin with feed. Our eye muscle scanning

continues to lift each year and we have made huge strides with our IMF data lifting as

well. As a result we offer bulls we consider as high as any in NZ for Genotype.

Our 2025 sale bulls are sired by three sires.

This is Hinewaka Anzaz 81/19 second crop of bulls and he was used as our herd sire

over our cows. Sired by an Australian Bull Yamburgan Anzac L278 he was a bull we

purchased for his power with outstanding data to support him. His data we believe is

as good as you can get and now supported by high accuracies: Top 1% (400Days and

600Days), top 10 % (200Days, EMA, Milk and IMF), top 25% (FATS). Although he has

great growth what we are impressed by is the moderate heavy muscled bulls he has

bred. They have incredible weights for moderate framed animals. We have just weaned

his first crop of daughters and they have fantastic milking ability so we think he will be

a good female breeder as well. Our heifers have weaned the highest raw data weight

calves we have had since we started breeding.

Browns Unique 02/19 is a bull we used as a heifer bull 2 years ago. We leased him

out for a mating but after viewing his progeny we got him back! We mated him to the

R3 cows and he has 4 cracking sons in the sale. He is a moderate birth Bull with good

growth and outstanding carcase data. His sons have a huge amount of thickness and

scanned really high for IMF. They are moderate framed bulls who won’t be massive but

are so easy doing and soft.

Hinewaka Rembrandt was used exclusively over the R2 Heifers. Calving ease and low

birth have been the features that have stood out for him and he is supported by strong

growth and carcase data.

3 Years ago we were lucky enough to have 2 Bulls selected for the NZ Shorthorn progeny

test run by Beef and Lamb in the North Island. The first results have our bulls placed 1st

and 4th for weaning weight. I have included this on the next page. We will watch with

interest on how Shorthorns and in particular our bulls perform against the best of the

Angus and Hereford Bulls in NZ in a commercial environment.

Selecting 16 bulls from 44 has been extremely difficult and caused much headaches

for myself this year! I hope you can come along and view our bulls and see where our

breeding programme is heading.

Our herd is C10 and sale tested clear, all Bulls have been BVD tested negative

and have been vaccinated.

Thanks

Fraser, Susie, Lachie, Innes and Abby

Susie - 027 365 0954

Fraser - 0274 978 104

fraserfletcher@gmail.com

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