Beef Sires
The sires featured in this section are aimed at pedigree breeders looking to use AI sires to introduce new bloodlines into their herds. Some of the sires listed are registered for Semen Royalty schemes.
Monaduff SNORTER
Simmental
£ 40.00- Semen imported from Ireland, where his daughters have dominated the commercial Simmental breeding heifer trade at Ballymote for several years
- A prolific and consistent breeder of quality cattle
- Progeny have performed well in the show ring
Pistyll KINGSMAN 19
Simmental
£ 45.00- Top seller at Stirling in 2021
- Sire of the 46,000 gns UK Breed record holder at auction
- "He’s very square at the back, as long as a train, stylish with a cracking head and a good colour" says his owner
Hawkley RED SATURN
Aberdeen Angus
£ 30.00- Outcross Red Angus sire with good temperament
- His EBVs are balanced throughout with good figures for calving ease and gestation length
- Red Saturn’s dam Hawkley Red Stony 578 is an ET daughter of OHRR Red Dakota Copper, a US World Beef Expo Champion Red Angus. She calves regularly and is one of the oldest cows in the herd, being bred from the Stonys, who were the best cow family at Hidden Creek Farm in Wisconsin
5331 SAPHIR
Limousin
£ 50.00- Half brother to Requin, Rocky, Paul and Rosignion & sire of the renowned Lodge Hamlet
- Saphir is homozygous double-muscled – carries two copies of the NT821 gene
- An extremely long, clean and mobile bull
Rathnashan JEREMY
Simmental
£ 25.00- Imported from Ireland and has bred very well in the Loxton herd
- His dam Seafort Cheryl was a big muscled Curaheen Alonzo daughter and a very consistent breeder
- Semen stocks are limited
Haymount PRECURSOR
Aberdeen Angus
£ 20.00- 18,000gns Supreme Champion at Stirling in February 2014
- Greatly admired for his exceptional head and Angus style
- Multiple sons to five figures and he also left tremendous cows at Gretnahouse
Upperffrydd POWER
Limousin
£ 50.00- Overall Champion at the National 50th Anniversary Limousin Show at Carlisle 2022 and won multiple Interbreed and Breed championships across the UK in 2022
- x1 copy F94L and x1 copy of Q204X
- Calvings have been easy on heifers and progeny have already won prizes
Virginia ANDY
Limousin
£ 8.50- Double F94L myostatin carrier
- Well proven sire
- Consistent breeder of show winning progeny
Idvies ELAND
Aberdeen Angus
£ 50.00- His sire was Interbreed Champion at the 2015 Royal Highland Show, then went on to be the Angus Champion of Europe 2015 and was voted the Scottish Farmer's Aberdeen Angus Champion of the Decade in 2020
- Eland has bred tremendously well for Shadwell including Shadwell Pam T941 who won at the Great Yorkshire, South of England and Royal Norfolk shows in 2018
- A son of Eland, Shadwell Romeo, was sold off-farm at 13months old for £9,000
