Matariki Holy Smoke (IMP NZ)
Holy Smoke is an exciting new sire to say the least, phenotypically his progeny are consistently spot on being moderate easy doing animals, displaying plenty of thickness and visual muscling as well as sound structure. The consistency of type in the calves we have seen in other herds has given us the piece of mind that this is a proven performance sire we need in our programme.
His figures support this visual evaluation as he offers top 5% EMA and fat as well as top 1% IMF and carcase weight. Weight for age is not a problem either offering top 1% 400 day growth from a moderate birth weight. Homework indicates this outcross sire offers homozygous polled genetics hence we have used him extensively over our J heifers as well as a few select older cows and look forward to the results.
His figures support this visual evaluation as he offers top 5% EMA and fat as well as top 1% IMF and carcase weight. Weight for age is not a problem either offering top 1% 400 day growth from a moderate birth weight. Homework indicates this outcross sire offers homozygous polled genetics hence we have used him extensively over our J heifers as well as a few select older cows and look forward to the results.
