Riga Angus bulls undergo significant screening, ensuring clients can buy them with confidence.
Riga Angus is a family owned business with the focus on producing top-quality yearling bulls, to allow for the introduction of superior genetic material into herds a year earlier than normal, resulting in a rapid genetic improvement for breeders.
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This year will see the stud’s eighth on-property sale in mid-April.
While late in the stud sale calendar, this best suits the preparation of the yearlings who are born in a tight calving over March and early April the year before.
The preparation is intricate from the point of weaning in spring to meeting the nutrition requirements of the bulls over the feed deficit in summer and autumn.
Meeting their critical growth and development during this period is essential to ensure they are ready for work on client properties from mid-autumn.
Riga Angus’ breeding objectives are to produce sound, functional cattle in a thick but moderate frame with excellent fertility and temperament, adequate milk, calving ease (with an emphasis on gestation length and structure), plenty of growth in combination with good carcase and IMF.
The bulls undergo significant screening to ensure clients can purchase bulls with confidence.
This includes i50K genomic testing, parent verification or sire verification, that they are genetic disorder free, come with comprehensive vaccination program, are structure and temperament assessed and are vet checked, which includes a bull breeding soundness examination.
Yearling bulls are typically bought for use over heifers but increasingly producers are becoming more open to also using them over first and second calvers as well as mature females where applicable.
This year feature sires include Landfall Newground N90, Sydgen Bonus, Sydgen Enhance, Musgrave 316 Exclusive, Chiltern Park Moe M6 and Rennylea Prospect P550 — collectively these will offer some excellent maternal and carcase genetics in combination with Riga’s trademark quiet temperament.
In spring 2022 the stud held its inaugural spring sale and it is excited to offer more bulls this spring.
