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Registry Report

Samantha Brosnahan | Registry

Autumn sale season is over and we are nearly through If you are an owner of a sire from which you have
the next, which for me being my second year was less collected semen for the purpose of breeding registerable
stressful, until Covid hit again and I found myself working calves, that sire MUST be recorded as an NZ Hereford AI
from home with the added responsibility of two pre- Sire.
schoolers! The Sire must be listed as an ‘AI Approved’ or ‘AI
While its still fresh in your mind, if you have bought Restricted’ on Internet Solutions, so the breeder who used
yourself a few nice bulls this season to add to your herd, the semen can register their calves by him.
please chase up the purchasers and remind them to
submit the transfer form, otherwise you and I will run As per the NZ Hereford rules the requirements are:
into trouble when you try to register your calves by them
as internet solutions will not recognise you own the sire • Minimum 50K SNP DNA
and will come up an ‘error’. The transfer form can be found • Tested for all known genetic conditions for which
on the website under “Member services/forms”. To make there is a commercial test, and declared FREE
things easier we made the transfer forms interactive! • Correct SNP sire verification
This means you no longer have to print them out, simply
fill them out online, save and email them through to me. For further details or to request AI approval please visit
The requirements are listed on the transfer form, which the Hereford website under member services/forms.
includes that all bulls transferred must have a minimum If you have imported Semen, please check that imported
50k SNP DNA profile and SNP Sire verification. sires/semen has been registered in NZ prior to completing
Note: Posy is also monitoring the 30 day transfer rule! your calf registrations. If semen has been purchased
through a genetics company, please request that they send
While you are calving, you could consider registering your the required documentation to NZ Herefords Registry in
calves as you go. There are multiple options available to order to complete the registration.
record your 2021 calf registrations. Did you know you can receive and check your outlier
reports online through Internet Solutions? Found in the
All of which are compatible for loading into ILR2 "Download Files" after logging in, you are able to check the
(BREEDPLAN): report and email me with the animal number to verify or
correct the outlier/s.
• Internet Solutions (via your login on the NZ As usual please submit all data you wish to be included
Herefords website) in the monthly group run by the 3rd of every month.
• Stockbook
• HerdMASTER4
• Spreadsheet/Excel template (this is more suited Kind regards,
to the larger herds who don’t have Stockbook or Samantha E: samantha@pbbnz.com DDI: 06 323 0865
HerdMASTER – let me know if you would like one
and I can email it to you)

Natalie Campbell | HP Brand Manager

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