Holbrook Breeders Australia

04/06/2024

25/05/2024

Had a great little helper hanging out at the yards while we did our AI & recip programs over the past few weeks. Big thank you to the Holbrook Breeders Australia team for braving the chilly start and getting our embryos implanted this week. We had a great response on the recips so we got 93 implanted in this round! Very excited for these joinings next Autumn!!

21/05/2024

17/05/2024

Join us next week!

Angus Australia invites you to join us for three key events on Wednesday May 22nd, 2024, in Albury NSW. The day will made up of three events, including the third and final NSW Export Capability Workshop, a Producer Workshop, and will finish with the Annual General Meeting, and drinks with staff and directors at the completion.

Learn more 👉 https://buff.ly/4bEC6SZ

15/05/2024

Agri-Gene & Holbrook Breeders Australia are opening their doors and invite you to join us for an ‘Open House’ Bull inspection at Holbrook Breeders Australia.

21st May 2024 from 3.30pm - 5.30pm

Bulls on display:
MANDAYEN Reebok R442
MANDAYEN Mainland T221
RENNYLEA T17
JADE PARK Turbo T104
LANDFALL Signature S1755. - on behalf of Dunno Angus

Mandayen Limousin & Angus
Rennylea Angus
Jade Park Angus
Dunoon Angus

16/04/2024

Great morning networking at the Angus Australia Export Ready Workshop today. Attendees were given insight into how to best prepare and plan for the genetic export opportunities that might arise at the World Angus Forum.
Team member Caitlin spoke alongside Debbie Mills from Holbrook Breeders Australia on all things genetic export.
Another workshop is being held this Thursday (18th April) in Tamworth and we look forward to seeing you there!

11/04/2024

You will now be able to find us thanks to Signeffects for our new fascia signage and light box 🤩 Great job boys 👏 we sure do stand-out in the street now 😀

10/04/2024

✨𝓖𝓞𝓛𝓓 𝓢𝓟𝓞𝓝𝓢𝓞𝓡 𝓢𝓟𝓞𝓣𝓛𝓘𝓖𝓗𝓣✨

Holbrook Breeders Australia

PH: 0260363149
EM: [email protected]
https://holbrookbreeders.com.au/

02/04/2024

Signature returned to Holbrook Breeders today.
He looks an absolute treat!

28/03/2024

A great podcast shared by our good friends at Repro360 Australia. A MUST watch and honest insight into IVF out of the US. Please let us know if you require further information on our MOET or IVF services.

Contact

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Texas A&M Associate Professor Dr Ky Pohler, one of Amercia's leading bovine reproductive physiologists, shares his extensive knowledge about In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in the US market with Vetoquinol Australia's Rebecca Arnott. Topics covered include why 80% of US embryos are produced from IVP (I...

05/03/2024

05/03/2024

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23/02/2024

💥 Breaking News - IVF 💥

🐮🔬🧬

A New Chapter Begins at
Holbrook Breeders Australia 🇭🇲

HBA is excited to announce we are now able to offer In-Vitro Embryo Production (IVF), in addition to our current conventional flushing (MOET) method.

HBA have completed our new world class IVF laboratory at the HBA Donor Centre at Mangoplah, NSW. This, allowing HBA to expand our services to our valuable clients, including bi-weekly collections on centre, collections at your farm or also at one of our many satellite centres throughout the regions.

As a leading Australian artificial breeding company, HBA have engaged expert IVF technicians to add to our already experienced team of embryo transfer veterinarians.

Breeders will be able to entrust their IVF programs to the experienced HBA team knowing that HBA can offer the full suite of services, from collection right through to implant; providing the best possible care of your entire IVF program.

Watch this space as we bring to you updates on the laboratory, the people and the process of IVF.

In the meantime, feel free to email or call us for all your artificial breeding enquiries.

Email - [email protected]

Call - (02) 6036 3149

Holbrook Breeders Australia 🇭🇲
Your Expert Partner in Artificial Breeding

06/02/2024

The box had everyone in the office intrigued as to who had sent flowers 💐🤔
It turned out it was a very grateful lady in USA 🇺🇸 who was so happy that Debbie had been able to find a genetic test lab report from over 20 years ago so she could register her animals 🐂🐃🐮🧬
Sometimes being a serial hoarder 😜 is not all bad so a very precious straw didn't need to be scarificed for testing 🥼
Great outcome 🙌

25/01/2024

Great results for our first flush program for the year last week!
Average 15 embryos across our four Summit donors - big thank you to Dr Stuart Geard & the team at Holbrook Breeders Australia! Look forward to getting these into recips this Autumn!

📸 Checking the cows & managed to grab a nice photo on the phone of one of our Angus donors KENNYS CREEK BARA M206 - we already have some impressive progeny from this cow so excited to see the next joinings hit the ground!

Kenny's Creek Angus

16/01/2024

19/12/2023

Spring embryo implants running at 76% with 500 of 704 scanned. (previously 120 spring implants).
Thankyou to the Milwillah Team, and ; Deb, Kylie and Emelia for your guidance and patience throughout the year! aswell as Stuey Geard with Felix for doing the heavy lifting at the crush!
Thankyou to for coming on board also.

Exciting genetics from our very best dam lines on the way to scale both Angus and Ultrablack breeding programs. Photo cred AB- making history under the ice cream umbrella!
Moyean yards Dec.23.saunders.167189 .michael .rowson

16/12/2023

Just your regular Saturday during breeding season!

A big thanks to the team from Holbrook Breeders Australia and also our good friend, Bill Findlay, for another big day working towards the 2024-drop of JAD ET-bred stud calves. 124 frozen transfers today, with another day of flushing and fresh transfers tomorrow. We just need to all behave tonight and not get too caught up in festive cheer!🎄😜

15/12/2023

2305
Bull
Born: 30th November 2023
Sire: 33C Slice of Heaven or Wildman W***y
Dam: 2003 (Air Time x 1706)

14/12/2023

29/11/2023

HBA is proud to be apart of the JAD program 🙌 🧫🧬

When it comes to dedication and passion for their craft, there are few who we would hold in such high regard as our ET vet, Dr Stuart Geard, of Holbrook Breeders Australia. We have worked with Stu and the HBA team since January 2018, and have appreciated so much the professional advice and friendship that has transpired. He always goes that extra mile for his clients - as you can see here!! More recently, we have also enjoyed working with Dr Felix Coates, who Stu has mentored into an excellent ET vet as well.

Today, we pregnancy scanned our first ET transfer program for the season, with the foetuses at 60 days of age. The program included 100% frozen embryos of both A and B Grade, and even the less-than-perfect recips on that day got an embryo. Despite this, we have 73 pregnancies from 93 transfers, running at 78.5%! To achieve this result at scale, we are over the moon!

What makes us even more proud of the result is that these recips were transitioned from a paddock environment to full containment feeding post-implant, due to the deteriorating season and our overarching commitment to prioritise pasture longevity and water use efficiency.

We are very proud to have long-term relationships with our service providers. In our experience and observations, it is the ability to hold long-term relationships with the likes of service providers that provides so much valuable insight into a person or business. We know Holbrook Breeders also holds so many long-term relationships with great businesses in agriculture that we look up to.

“The triumph of one multiplies with a team. In the battlefield, you are only as strong as a whole,” - anonymous.

Thanks Team HBA! 💪

23/11/2023

23/11/2023

Congratulations to all who were involved in the Kelly Country Cattle Dog Trials at Morven last weekend 👏🐕🐶

Proudly sponsored by Holbrook Breeders Australia

20/11/2023

You’ve got to love the power of embryo transfer (ET)! Today, we had Drs Stuart Geard and Felix Coates of Holbrook Breeders Australia on-farm to flush and transfer embryos, together with their offsider, Leigh. They flushed all 9 JAD donors with success to average over 6 good embryos each, and then there were 63 embryo transfers completed this afternoon.

Some special embryos that were transferred today were flushed in Canada on May 17, 2013. Before our older son, Jack, was even born! They were the 7 last remaining embryos out of the old Prairie Hill Paddy 233P (CWC 233P) cow - a cow family that has been so successful here for us. They are sired by old foundation sire, P.A.R. Moo Fassa.

CWC 233P: http://abri.une.edu.au/online/cgi-bin/i4.dll?1=3F312F3D33&2=2420&3=56&5=2B3C2B3C3A&6=265D5D5C5A215925&9=5C5A595E

We’re looking forward to Day #2 of our November ET program tomorrow, flushing 8 donors followed by more transfers. 🤞

14/11/2023

📢📢 Please note the important upcoming dates for our HBA Christmas break🎄🎁

🗓 4 December 2023 - 12 noon 🔹️ Last date for FREIGHT OUT for Tank despatches 🚚

🗓 11 December 2023 - 12 noon 🔹️ Last date for AUS EXPRESS POST packages 📦

🗓 20 December 2023 - 12 noon 🔹️ Office closing @ 12noon for Christmas 🎄

🗓 8 January 2024 - 8.30 am 🔹️ Office will reopen for 2024 💻🐮🧫🧬

🗓 Please organise to send any semen and embryos you will need for January 2024 programs NOW to ensure product is where it needs to be for your programs next year.

10/11/2023

🐮💻🧬☎️*** JOB OPPORTUNITY ***🐮💻🧬☎️

Holbrook Breeders Australia is seeking a person to fill a full-time position as DESPATCH MANAGER, at our Holbrook office at 109 Albury Street, Holbrook NSW 2644.

Holbrook Breeders is a leading bovine artificial breeding company. Our company is involved with
production, importing, exporting, storage and logistics of semen and embryos.

This position is within a team environment and the person we seek must communicate well, be
highly organised, have efficient time management skills and is meticulous with attention to detail.

The position is to manage all aspects of tank despatches. Duties will include, but not limited to, the
following tasks:
• Liaising with clients and suppliers
• Co-ordinating incoming and outgoing product
• Record keeping and invoicing
• Handle frozen semen & embryos
• Monitor different freight systems
• Organise & co-ordinate product movements & inventory
• Monitor & maintain nitrogen levels in tanks

Proficient in Excel, Outlook and Xero; experience not essential, training will be provided if necessary.
Excellent phone manner required, willingness to learn on the job desired.

Applications close Friday , 24th
November 2023, please forward your resume and cover letter to [email protected]

06/11/2023

01/11/2023

An amazing few weeks of drafting. Moon made the final of the Condamine Bell, Warwick stallion draft and the Cannings. He missed out on a place but showed his awesome talent and earned some more fans along the way. Be sure to not miss out on breeding your mare this season his service fee with be increasing next season.

Moon Beam is now at Boonara Performance Horses for the breeding season until mid December then heading back south to Glen Innes.
Frozen semen is available from Holbrook Breeders Australia please contact Luke Bennett for more details.

Awesome picture captured by Southern Belle Photography.

01/11/2023

Holbrook Breeders Australia is proudly sponsoring Kelly Country Cattle Dog Trials to be held at Morven on Saturday 18th November 🐕
Take a look on there page for more details.🐶🐮🐑

12/07/2023

This is a photo of a grade 2 embryo Stu took today flushed at the donor centre at Australian Premier Genetics at Coonabarabran (the best he could get on his phone)🔬🧫 He said although it has a concavity in the zona pellucida, who wants to guess what's going on in there? It is very rare to see before freezing 🥶🤔🧬