Performance – Production – Type Philosophy
Our cattle demonstrate the phenotype and performance blended package we have been striving for. Moderately framed, heavier and earlier maturing seed stock is what we are aiming to deliver to our commercial cattleman.
We want to make our commercial clients more money by improving the genetics in their stock and by helping them to breed a self-replacing herd, mirrored to our own high performance cattle.
In our clients’ herds we are seeing impressive results in improving calf weights and finishing weights, in shorter time frames. We have a number of clients IMF scanning their heifers and picking their replacements from this information. This means both the dam and the Twin Oaks sire are improving the strength of reliability and heritability of marbling in these herds.
This year we are starting to see sires hit the top 1% of traits we are striving for: carcase weight, IMF, calving ease and growth, which screams profitability. Our industry will not survive without high numbers of live calves and performance driven growth and carcass attributes.
Waipapa Station is 860ha of north island hill country, situated at Te Akau, one hour west of Hamilton on the Raglan Harbour.
We are currently mating over 400 stud females.
We continue to mate all females as yearlings and only females that rear a calf every year are retained in the herd. No exceptions.
Alongside the angus cow herd, we are trading 900 Angus Steers. We try to purchase these from our clients because we know what these cattle can do for us.
We are also trading between 5000-8000 lambs.
