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25.01.2022 Coolabah couldn’t look finer

21.01.2022 Another new calf today

21.01.2022 Coolabah Qantas has found a new forever home

21.01.2022 Black and White everywhere

20.01.2022 Paradise at Coolabah

19.01.2022 Our girls are happy again

19.01.2022 Today has been a great day

19.01.2022 Love these cattle

18.01.2022 Three new calves this week at Coolabah we have only been able to view them on camera some motherly

18.01.2022 Girls where lucky today

18.01.2022 Pregnancy Testing today and outstanding results with near perfect fertility as usual. More calves due in November.

18.01.2022 Rye grass and chicory coming along nicely

15.01.2022 New water system 5 years in the making

11.01.2022 Winter 2020 is stunning

10.01.2022 Moving our cattle is easy work we simply call them and they come, treating animals with love and respect they return it to you in ease of management

06.01.2022 The dry is unrelenting we can’t wait to see some rain

05.01.2022 Hand feeding in the rain

05.01.2022 Annual day of vacation today at Coolabah 7 in 1 all round, and drenched for good measure.

05.01.2022 COLLECTING the BELTIE EGGS! So today, while multiple events were announcing their cancellations , we were busy on the stud’s first stage of a new IVF programme..., which we are to believe is the first to occur in Australia for Belted Galloways. The programme is designed to preserve the early strain Belties, and ensure that potential females can be frozen in case numbers get very low ( the early strains are quite rare currently). It’s a form of insurance for the breed - frozen bull semen is great, but totally useless unless there are females to impregnate. A number of early strain sires have been acquired including some of the last remaining straws of original imports. A group of Jandrew cows were chosen, and their eggs successfully collected today by a Brazilian team of IVF experts (and with a higher average per cow than the Angus breed apparently). These eggs will be joined with three of the sires held (reserving the other sires for future IVF and AI projects). Next week, a number of embryos will be implanted into recipient cows of another breed, with calves expected in January. These calves will produce early strain females, and hopefully, replacement bulls to collect as representatives of the genetics of their sires. The aim is to provide multiple genetic outcrosses for the breed and help sustain better the original Belted Galloway genetics that Australia started with (this first exercise may provide us with up to 17 genetic variations to help early strain studs start to develop a wider genetic distance between studs, and this will help with hybrid vigour). It’s a breed preservation project that will occur over several years. It’s all rather exciting! Will reveal more as time goes on, results come in, and as the various stages occur. It was a successful start today See more

03.01.2022 Searching for water as the dry continues

02.01.2022 The Breeding herd at Coolabah