After a long association breeding Poll Hereford cattle Bruce and Katrina Archer will disperse Chester Poll Hereford Stud on Monday 27th November.
With Bruce and Katrina Archer are stepping back from the management of Chester Poll Hereford Stud; their sons Andrew and Sam, who are keen to take over the running of the business have decided to sell the Chester Poll Herford stud herd.
Their passions lie with prime lambs, cropping and commercial cattle breeding. They will continue to run a 400-cow herd Poll Hereford commercial herd, finishing the heifers and steers for Woolworths.
Chester started breeding stud Poll Hereford cattle jointly with brother Richard Archer under the Quamby Plains prefix in 1973.
Under this prefix, Chester showed and sold bulls very successfully for 21 years until 2005 when they started the Chester prefix.
Chester and Quamby Plains have continued to purchase sires together and to successfully run a combined annual bull sale for 34 years.
The final Chester Bull Sale will be held at Chester on April 30th, 2018.
Chester Poll Hereford Stud is committed to outstanding performance; they have been weighing all calves at birth and recording for Breedplan since 1981. Chester has achieved 4.5 stars out of 5 for Completeness of Performance.
Fertility remains the main priority in the breeding programme. They have aimed to build an efficient and fertile cow herd with high emphasis on calving ease.
At Chester the yearling heifers have always been mated to calve as two-year old’s and they have only retained females that have reared a calf every year.
Chester Poll Hereford Stud strives for excellent structural soundness and good temperament. All yearling bulls and heifers are independently assessed by Roger Evans for structure and temperament.
They have always aimed to breed cattle with good growth, excellent eye muscle as well as positive for fat and marbling.
The Chester Female Dispersal Sale will offer 107 stud cows and calves and 42 yearling heifers. All the cows have registered calves at foot and were born in August /September 2017.
The cows will be mated by November 27th. All cows with August drop calves will be in our AI programme to leading performance-sires.
The AI programme is run over 21 days naturally and we consistently achieve a 70% conception rate.
The cows with September born calves will be mated to Yavenvale Kingpin K317, who has bred very well, and our new sire, Kanimbla Spartan L099, the top priced bull at the 2017 Kanimbla Bull Sale.
The yearling heifers will be mated in a fixed-time AI programme on November 27th.
Chester and Quamby Plains stud have jointly purchased some of the top-priced and best performance bulls from Dubbo National Sale over the last 30 years.
This, combined with the fact that they have 80 cows and 50 yearling heifers in our AI programme, giving them the opportunity to use some of the best bulls in Australia from the Herefords Australia Progeny Test Project.
Bruce Archer made comment that the family “look forward to seeing a large contingent of Poll Hereford enthusiasts on Monday 27th November 2017 and welcome inspections and enquiries”.