When Clynton was visiting on his
uncle’s farm in Zambia during
the late 1960’s he was for the
first time introduced to some
Boran cattle. He was fascinated
by their sturdy body structure
and muscling on a small body
frame. It was strange that at no
stage had this unique African
cattle breed crossed the South
African borders.
On hearing about the importation
of Borans during the early
1990’s Clynton once again became
interested in the breed, but
knowing about all the hassles of
embryo transfers, he decided to
wait until the animals could be
bought. Realizing that the breed
was becoming more and more
expensive he decided to buy 10
SP females and a bull on Terry
Mclintoc’s dispersal sale in
February 2006 as this was
arguably the best Boran Stud in
South Africa. We immediately
mated the beautiful polled bull
(UMVUBU) we had bought for R 130
000 to 80 stud Nguni and
Bonsmara cows to start up an
appendix section.
We sold our polled Nguni stud in
2008 and kept back the few A
Boran heifers
In 2007-2008 we also bought in a
number of appendix A and B
polled heifers upgraded from
African breeds such as
Africanders, Bonsmara,
Droughtmaster, Beefmaster and
Tuli to broaden the genetic base
of our stud
Since 2008 we have bought in a
further 8 SP females
In 2011 we had a total of 104
SP, C and B Boran stud female
animals.
To build this heard of females
we used semen from only the best
bulls in South Africa
We also had our own excellent
Polled Bulls, TLM 03-65
Umvubu, MHB 05-18 Nite
and our own bred polled bull CC
09-53 Checkmate.
Having reached our goal of a 100
stud females from more than 38
different sires representing all
of the best Kenyan and Zambian
bloodlines available we are now
concentrating on genetic heard
improvement. |