Hi!
My name is John Carter. I started 007 Angus Stud with some cast for age Glen Arm cows some 20 years ago. I began artificial insemination with the best genetics that were available at the time. I introduced some Merry Grange Vicky H42 embryos by Merry Grange Scotch Whiskey and some Te Mania Japara R182 embryos by Te Mania Knight to compare with my stock. I will list some of the Reference Sires I have used in the past at the end of this page.

The purpose of the site is to make available the important information related to the 2 year old Sale Bulls. To start click on the blue Catalogue tab above right then select the first bull and left click on him. This will bring up his page including EBVs and Pedigree. To see how an individual EBV trait value compares with all other 2 year old bulls in the breed left click on the Percentile table located below the EBV values. To use this table: eg if you wanted to check out the 400 day growth figure of eg 71 then go down the 400 day column till you come to 71 then follow this value across to the left of the table and you will see that a bull with a 400 day EBV of 71 ranks in the top 20% of the breed for that trait and so forth.




Figures arent everything and I want to encourage you to come and have a look at the bulls.

The 4 most important characteristics for me in selecting bulls are:-
1.Temperament - all bulls are handled with a cattle cane on the back while they are having their daily feed until they will tolerate being touched without moving. Most bulls I can get my hand on. Any bull that sticks its head up in the air and snorts at me is culled.
2.Feet - any bull or cow with bad feet is culled.
3.Thickness - I only select thick bulls both subjectively and by scan. I am still waiting for the Group EMA scan results for these bulls and I will list them when they are posted. I hate slab sided bulls and cull them immediately.
4.Calving ease - I do not use bulls that have big calves and result in pulling calves. We are lucky if we pull one calf per season.

Reference Sires: Bonview Bando 598, Waitapu Governor, HF Professor, Woodhill Scotchman, Vermillion Top Guy, Bonview Balance, Whitestone Widespread, BT Ultravox, Athaua Legacy, GT Maximum, Whitestone Dependabul, Papa Forte, Vdar New Trend 315, Te Mania Kelp, Brackenhead Radar, Gdar Oscar, Rito 4u3, Fraser of Stern, Paramount Ambush 2172, BSS Limited Design,Toebeen Alliance C902, Vdar Lucys Boy