Red Deer
Breed highly efficient maternal red deer, with emphasis on growth and meat yield.
Our focus is on breeding productive maternal red deer for NZ farmers, with an emphasis on commercial traits such as breeding efficiency, growth rates, early fawning, meat yield and moderate body size of our breeding hinds.
FEATURES
Recorded on DeerSelect
Initial programme established in 1990 – long history of objective selection
CT scanning for primal meat yield since 2005
Ultra-sound scanning for eye muscle area since 2008
Use of DNA for parentage assignment for more than 20 years
CarLA testing for resistance to internal parasites
Herd located at Stuart Farm, Te Anau (mating 800 hinds per year)