Male Sexed genetics from our NuEra beef sires, offering a revolutionary solution for dairy farmers looking to improve the profitability of their beef cross calves.
What is Sexcel® Male Beef?
Sexcel Male Beef provides male sexed genetics engineered to boost herd profitability. This product ensures the delivery of high fertility, easy-calving, and exceptional quality male offspring. Seamlessly integrated into personalised genetic plans, Sexcel Male Beef maximises the value of your beef calf crop.
Why Choose Sexcel Male Beef?
Typically, male beef cross progeny generate higher profits for the entire supply chain throughout their whole lifecycle. This profitability often begins at the dairy farm level, where many farmers earn an average of £70-£100 more for male beef cross calves compared to female beef cross calves. This advantage extends through to the rearing and finishing phases, as calves grow faster, have fewer days to harvest and produce more valuable carcasses. Male beef cross off-spring average around £150 more in profitability compared to female beef cross animals from the same dam. With this economic advantage in mind, Genus ABS developed Sexcel Male Beef genetics to boost herd profitability. Our genetics are created with the beef and dairy supply chain in mind to ensure optimal return on your investment.
Incorporating Sexcel Male Beef into Your Breeding Strategy
Sexcel Male Beef fits seamlessly into an enhanced sexed and beef breeding strategy, enabling your herd to increase genetic progress and maximise the value of beef cross calf production. This involves:
- Breeding your high-performing females using Sexcel Female Dairy genetics, to create replacement females for your herd.
- Breeding your first and second lactation cows to breed a high-value male beef calf from, using Sexcel Male Beef genetics.
- Breeding your lower-end animals to produce male and female beef cross calves, using conventional NuEra Beef Genetics.
Demonstrating how to perform an enhanced breeding strategy:
Our team of genetic experts can help you to identify which animals to inseminate at every stage of the breeding strategy to ensure it aligns to your breeding goals.
1. NuEra Beef Genetics
Breeding your lower-performing animals with NuEra Beef Genetics allows you to create a calf that has a value for the beef supply chain.
NuEra Beef Genetics ensures that calves are born easily, have quick growth rates and consume less feed, making them better than your average beef progeny, in turn making sure you can sell them more quickly with better margins.
2. Male Sexed Beef Genetics
Breeding your first and second lactation animals who are genetically undesirable but are positive for fertility will allow you to maximise the value from your beef calf crop. A beef cross male calf is worth approximately £100 more than a female calf from the same cow. More selective breeding decisions can add value to your business.
3. Female Sexed Dairy Genetics
Breeding your high-performance females with Sexcel allows you to create better cows faster, by breeding the superior animals in the herd. With more than 6.9 million inseminations, Sexcel is the highest fertility product in the industry. Conception rates are 0.8% points higher for Holstein cows and 2.7% points higher for Holstein heifers. The result is you can achieve higher value pregnancies quicker than anywhere else.
Dairy farmers finishing their own beef cross calves can extract maximum value from Sexcel Male Beef genetics.
For over a decade, Genus ABS has gathered extensive data on beef cross progeny from the Holstein population to identify the genetic differences that enhance beef production efficiency from rearing to harvest.
This data reveals that by using NuEra Beef Sires, you can:
- Improve daily growth rates
- Increase feed efficiency
- Reduce days to harvest
What our customers’ say:
John and Sue Redmayne, Preston
Herd: 220 Holsteins | System: All-Year-Round calving
John and Sue have experienced great success using Sexcel male Angus genetics. They have achieved an benefitted from a higher percentage of easy calving male calves. When it came to selling his beef animals, John found that the males received a higher return on investment compared to the heifers at all stages, including selling them as calves, selling as store cattle and when finishing through to deadweight. John said: “All day long for the Angus breed, even up to 18-months stores, there is a massive gap on the gender”.
Richard Woolford, Wiltshire
Herd: 260 Holsteins | System: All-Year-Round calving
“I have inseminated male sexed semen on 1st and 2nd services, then have swapped back to conventional beef. We have experienced no calving issues. Angus heifer calves are always penalised at the point of sale, whereas male calves always achieve more value.”
Andrew & Alison Walmsley, Harrogate
Herd: 180 Holsteins | System: Robotic, All-Year-Round calving
For over six years, Andrew and Alison Walmsley have used a Sexcel Female Dairy and NuEra Beef Genetics strategy. Six months ago, they started using Sexcel Male British Blue genetics and have achieved a conception rate of 53%. Andrew and Alison explain, “The reason that we switched to using male sexed semen in the herd is to increase our calf income. Our calf buyer prefers male calves, making male sexed semen the logical choice for us”.
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