Good flushes for international markets

We flushed two Irish Kildysart females yesterday for an Aussie breeder. Both were flushed to Mandalong Super Flag, who was imported to Canada from Australia as a calf. To my knowledge, no Super Flag semen was ever used in Australia. One donor is sired by Deerpark Leader 13th ( Dividend) and she produced 28 grade 1 embryos. Her daughter by Deerpark Leader 20th, had a slight uterine infection so she will be flushed again to Super Flag. Following these flushes, both females will then be flushed to Four Point Major ( Massive Major). The Kildysarts in Ireland were referred to as the dams of the best breeding sires and I think these matings should make for some excellent offspring. The Super Flag semen used in these flushes was almost 40 years old, and the ET center said it was very high quality and probably better quality than some semen collected in recent years. Guess that proves that old semen can be excellent semen if it has been handled properly over the years.

Two other females are presently being flushed for some New Zealand breeders. They are being flushed to Saskvalley Pioneer 126P and Paintearth Rama, and then each flushed a second time to Saskvalley Primo 40P ( if I can beg, borrow or steal some semen from okotoks!)

We also have sold a Myrtle Bo female ( HC Myrtle Bo 50L) to a Scottish breeder and he plans on flushing her to several different sires. She will remain in Canada but all her embryos will be shipped over to Scotland.  He flushed her the first tim to CCS Equity's Charmer. I sold some Charmer embryos to Britain from this cow a few years ago, and a heifer produced from these, was undefeated in Britain and sold at Perth for a record price of 10,000 pounds ( about $20,000 here). This same Scottish breeder also purchased all the embryos we had in inventory from B Good Red Sue 1P. There appears to be excellent interest in Shorthorn genetics from around the world right now.

Ok will you tell us your secret to how you get the 25+ embryos?? Is it your water? Opera music playing?  Maybe you have a big pic or a carcass hanging for the cows to see ;D
That is cool though to get that many good ones. Which girls are being flushed to Rama? I hope to see some Rama calves at our farm next year.

If anybody is interested, have one highfield hawthorne and 5 deerpark strawberrys that would be available sometime for flushing. All are full irish. I think i might have 7 full irish in my herd. some are sired by deerpark impover 3, Kiwaliks highlander,Highler 202,and hfs o'malley

Hilltop said:

Ok will you tell us your secret to how you get the 25+ embryos?? Is it your water? Opera music playing?  Maybe you have a big pic or a carcass hanging for the cows to see ;D
That is cool though to get that many good ones. Which girls are being flushed to Rama? I hope to see some Rama calves at our farm next year.

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I have much better success when flushing at the ET center in Alberta although we have had a few good flushes here at the farm. One I remember was old Strawberry to Irish Mist and we got 31 grade 1 embryos. HC Mist's Return 13R was out of this flush. HC Sparkle's Delight 2X (Saskvalley Pioneer 126P X Prairie Lane Sparkle 1K) is being flushed to Paintearth Rama for NZ. Sparkle herself is getting older but was just flushed to Pioneer for NZ as well. She will be flushed to Saskvalley Primo 40P next and then to Rama. Both females will probably be flushed 3 times each for NZ. Hilltop, you may remember the 2X female. She was the red Pioneer bred heifer in our string at Agribition last fall.

About a year ago, Sparkle almost quit producing embryos and was very lame and arthritic and the end appeared to be near for her. I told the ET center to try flushing her one more time and if she did not produce, she was to be shipped to market. She produced the most embryos in that next flush in her lifetime. The flush after that one was also excellent. They put also put her on a new drug and her lameness and arthtitis seems to have disappeared. I told them the other day that it may be time to scare her again and that they should maybe put  McDonald's flyer in her pen.... maybe that would make her start producing again. A little threat seemed to work great last year!

nativeman said:

If anybody is interested, have one highfield hawthorne and 5 deerpark strawberrys that would be available sometime for flushing. All are full irish. I think i might have 7 full irish in my herd. some are sired by deerpark impover 3, Kiwaliks highlander,Highler 202,and hfs o'malley

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My Strawberry cow was sired by Waymar HFS O'Malley and was out of HFS HL Strawberry 3rd. I see you have an O'Malley Irish cow as well. Could you have a full sister to mine?  Here is a picture of our Strawberry cow.She was shipped to market last week as she would not stay in calf any more. She was almost 17 years old and was in excellent condition so the decision was made to send her to town. I reallly hated to do this, but I guess they all have to go sometime. She brought $.845/ lb and grossed $1275.  She was 13 years old in this picture.