'Dunbar'
'Dunbar'
OUR WAGYU CATTLE
OUR WAGYU CATTLE
Trading as TALDRA CATTLE CO
Producing tender, exquisitely marbled Wagyu beef.
Our Business
We continue to maximise our carrying capacity at 'Dunbar' and our leased country by constantly improving our pastures and crops and strategic supplementary feeding practices.
FOCUS
We aim to continuously improve marbling of our cattle while still focussing on fertility, growth rate and milking attributes.
BREEDING
The current mating season will see us produce some 35 fullblood embryos, 40 fullblood calves, 90 purebred calves and approx 60 third-cross calves.
MARKETS
Our current program is focussed on increasing purebred and fullblood numbers producing steers for top end markets in Australia and Japan.
PASTURES AND CROPS
Approx 50 hectares is devoted to crops for feeding to weaners in late winter and spring. Some cropping country has been converted to pasture, while other areas have been planted with Leucaena and legumes.
FULLBLOODS
In 2015 we purchased a small mob of well-bred fullblood heifers from Simon Coates of Sumo Pastoral Co. These females have formed the nucleus of our 'top end' breeding group.
SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING
We continually aim to increase our breeder performance and the average daily gain of our young cattle. We feed high protein pellets to young cattle and silage based rations to our breeders.
Genetics
Our beginnings
Early 2000 saw us purchase three Black Wagyu Bulls by Michifuku and Teratuni which were bought to mate back over the first cross heifers by the Red Wagyu Bulls at 'Conloi' in the Wandoan district.
Our best Black Wagyu
JHGFD037 was one of our best Wagyu Bulls by TF 151 out of a Michifuku cow. He consistently sired 80 calves per year at 'Conloi' until his death in 2017.
Improving bloodlines
We introduced fullblood bulls by Itoshigafuji, Itoshiganami and Itozurodoi over our Michifuku and Teratani females, and now we have introduced some newer bloodlines including Westholme B0039 and Hirashigetayasu J2351.
Current Bloodlines
Click on the images below to see each Wagyu Animal Details on the AWA Public database.
Sumo Terutani L49
Sumo FL049 was selected for us by the late Simon Coates in 2016 as a young bull that would increase milk and growth into our purebred cows. He has not only sired up to 90 calves per year but has consistently sired marble score 9 carcasses.
The Wright Wagyu M458
After reading of the high TCI of Westholme B0039, we sought to buy a son of his and achieved this in 2017. HPCFM0458 is a great young bull whose first steer calves are in the current RNA Wagyu Challenge. While we sought his high MS EBV his calves have shown great growth.
Rasco DRA P127
This young bull was one of the first calves by M458 out of K228, our best cow on EBVs. We are excited about the eight young bulls he has produced for our 2023 sale.
Sumo Itoshigenami CO158
Following our recent embryo transfer program we will be looking forward to fullblood calves by this great sire.
Poll Wagyu Phantom (P)
In 2020 we introduced poll genetics into our herd through embryo transfer. This sire is producing some excellent calves for us in 2023.
We are hoping that this bull from Michifuku and Tajima bloodlines will drive our business to new heights.
