Dairy G€N€ IR€LAND 2025 Programme Launched
We are delighted to present you with the breed packs for this year’s Spring Dairy Gene Ireland programme.
The bulls available through this year’s dairy programme are the best genetics available, with an average EBI of €344. Building a pack of these bulls into your breeding programme will not only help to accelerate your herd’s genetic gain but will also ensure that more EBI high bulls are progeny tested for initial calving and male fertility data, with the very best of these then returned for widespread AI next season. By using the bulls as part of a bull team (with an average of 7 straws/bull), you will minimise the risk of changes to any one bull, resulting in a group of replacement females entering your herd in Spring 2027, with excellent potential for improved profitability and sustainability.
Straws are available in packs of 25 (5 bulls x 5 straws), 35 (5 bulls x 7 straws), 49 (7 bulls x 7 straws), 70 (7 bulls x 10 straws and 100 (10 bulls x 10 straws). Packs are distributed to participating herds through sales reps or AI technicians.
Why Use GENE IRELAND bulls?
- The use of top Genetic bulls at a discount rate, only €12 per straw.
- Access to some of the highest EBI young sires available thus speeding up the rate of genetic gain in their own herd.
- The average pack EBI of the Ho/Fr bulls is €163 more than the national average.
- There is also the opportunity to get dairy cows weighed free of charge by a weighing technician.
- The opportunity to sell G€N€ IRE€LAND progeny into the national bull performance test centre at Tully.
Requirements for herds to participate in the programme involve recording inseminations, sire and calving ease details, using all allocated straws in the current season and providing health information as it becomes available on daughters of these bulls.
Click Here to view the genetic indexes of the Individual Bulls.
The breed packs and the EBI details available this year are as follows:
Why Use GENE IRELAND bulls?
- The use of top Genetic bulls at a discount rate, only €12 per straw.
- Access to some of the highest EBI young sires available thus speeding up the rate of genetic gain in their own herd.
- The average pack EBI of the Ho/Fr bulls is €163 more than the national average.
- There is also the opportunity to get dairy cows weighed free of charge by a weighing technician.
- The opportunity to sell G€N€ IRE€LAND progeny into the national bull performance test centre at Tully.
Requirements for herds to participate in the programme involve recording inseminations, sire and calving ease details, using all allocated straws in the current season and providing health information as it becomes available on daughters of these bulls.
Click Here to view the genetic indexes of the Individual Bulls.
The breed packs and the EBI details available this year are as follows:
Dairy-Beef Pack:
Straws from beef bulls suitable for use on dairy cows are also available. These bulls have been selected for easy calving, combined with good carcass merit. Available breeds include Angus, Aubrac, Belgian Blue, Hereford, and Limousin. Additional breeds may be added to the programme later in Spring.