Ultrasonic U122(P) is a trim sheathed, large framed bull who will keep on growing. Quiet, as his Flight Time EBV suggests, Ultrasonic’s fertility data is a feature.

The Empire line has underpinned our drive to breed extremely fertile cattle. This line leads the breed for both female Days to Calving and male Percent Normal Sperm. The challenge has been to make them polled and quieter, features that P72 offers. He gives away a little in carcase EMA but this is generally the case with higly maternal animals.

In other, more intensive industries maternal and terminal bloodlines are bred in order to capture the best of all performance traits in the ultimate end product. It is becoming evident to us that the extremely fertile lines generally don’t excel in the ‘power’ aspects of production but are vital to industry profitability. Especially where seasonal conditions can regularly limit feed availability, a calf every year is the basic ingredient to making a financial return year-in, year-out.

Driving high semen morphology levels in our herd has been an obvious focus for some years. We know it is such a heritable trait and aim to multiply our high performing animals. Ultrasonic sells with a test result of 86% normal.