Angus embryos exported in private deal

25 Aberdeen Angus embryos have been exported to Luxembourg as part of a private deal.

The embryos from the Netherton Angus herd of Messrs W and D McLaren, Aucheterarder, Perthshire were purchased through CONVIS on behalf of Alain Molitor, who runs a purebred Limousin commercial herd producing calves to be finished for the CONVIS beef brand.

Due to part of his land now being used extensively, for which he gets special subsidies from the Department of the Environment, he has decided to run Aberdeen-Angus.

Included in the shipment were embryos from some of the breed’s leading females with eight embryos from Netherton Fleur G413 who was Winter National Cow Champion last year and has been sold recently for £25,000 to Saville Angus and is by the Ballmachie and Netherton stock bull Netherton Mr Brazilian E377 and seven embryos from Netherton Annie H474, the top performance cow in the Netherton herd by the Genus bull Netherton Rader J527.

The remainder are sired by the Canadian bull HF El Tigre 28U and are out of Netherton Rachel G449, a top daughter of The Moss Mr Eshton D409 and Netherton Beauty J533, a maternal sister to Netherton Big Edition H460.

The embryos were selected to produce easy calving progeny that will mature into easy fleshed and good maternal cattle, according to seller William McLaren Jnr.