Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Hennie de Lange +27 82 455 1630 - Graeme Currin +27 82 893 8147

Volume 18 1 April 2013

Sales Call! Excelsus Production Sale 1 May 2013

www.excelsuslandgoed.co.za

In This Issue: -Excelsus International Cricket Team. Excelsus Stamp Collection -2012 National Show: all the winners -2012 Herd Consultation -Fred Dell Inspects Excelsus Heifers. -Sales Call and sale offerings -

Lot 4C HDL0755 Excelsus Cala & Cala 2 a Galen daughter. Cala is back in calf to Excelsus Papa

Stats:

Birth +0.2

- 200 29

- 400 35

- 600 44

- Milk 3

Excelsus Pacific HDL09127C (P) (CPT) PRR Prevail-HDL0241C Tac

An awesome opening bat and captain of the team. His

calves this year are Tops. Used on heifers 2011 Pacific is

now our main herd sire

Stats:

Birth +0.8

- 200 26

- 400 36

- 600 43

- Milk 1

Excelsus Penzance HDL09138C (P) PRR Prevail-FM03123C Metsi

The National blup champion bull, Parys 2012. Used as

Multi-Sire with Pacific on heifers 2011 Penzance make a

perfect opening bat and partner to Pacific

Stats:

Birth +4.5

- 200 41

- 400 54

- 600 65

- Milk 3

Excelsus Prodigy HDL09155C (P) PRR Prevail-HDL0220C Kit

Prodigy has now been used with success at Excelsus,

Wisp Will and is now breeding with Werner Emslie. A

perfect no 3 batter to play long innings and score heavily

Stats:

Birth -0.9

- 200 8

- 400 8

- 600 16

- Milk 3

Excelsus Galen HDL0633B Dianas Gugi-HDL9817A Noxi

Our most consistent performer eclipsing Excelsus Chris as

our most prolific show bull and whose calves are always

in the top at Excelsus. A perfect No 4 batter.

Stats:

Birth +1.3

- 200 26

- 400 36

- 600 47

- Milk 1

Excelsus Prairie HDL1034C (P) PRR Prevail-HDL06142C Icy

A young and exciting talent, Prairie is closest to our vision

of the perfect Excelsus type and is the bull we should not

have sold. A perfect No 5 batter to shepherd the tail.

Stats:

Birth +3.6

- 200 21

- 400 33

- 600 44

- Milk 2

Excelsus Papa HDL1094C (P) PRR Papa-HDL0295B Fan

The exciting new young wicket keeper of the side bred

from our premier cow line and the new PRR bull Papa.

Papa has developed into a hard muscled, quality bull

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international genetics

Excelsus International Cricket Team: Batsmen

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international genetics

Excelsus International Cricket Team: Batsmen

Stats:

Birth +1.7

- 200 16

- 400 22

- 600 30

- Milk 2

Excelsus Pioneer HDL09141B PRR Pioneer-HDL02170A Qik

A fearsome fast opening bowler breeding broad thick

calves. This is our broadest bull with a massive hindquar-

ter. PRR & Excelsus breeding at its best.

Stats:

Birth 2.2

- 200 13

- 400 20

- 600 30

- Milk 4

Excelsus Amigo HDL08104C Four Feet Naas-HDL0328B Ice

A beautifully built Simbra bull breeding red right type

calves and brings the old Sonbri Delux lines into Excel-

sus. A top performer and fourth bowler for Excelsus.

Stats:

Birth +1

- 200 18

- 400 22

- 600 33

- Milk 4

Excelsus Galen 2 HDL09161C Excelsus Galen– AZ0631 Zoranna

Our spin wizard breeding short, thick calves perfect for

bringing tall cattle down a size and giving breadth, type

and weight to rangy animals.

Stats:

Birth +0.4

- 200 13

- 400 22

- 600 29

- Milk 2

Excelsus Jicolo HDL09163C (P) Wisp Will Jim-AZ0317 Picolo

Our batting all rounder and super-sub for our 2012 calving

year. Jicolo is the maternal half brother to Patriarch that

topped the Excelsus sale charts last year.

Stats:

Birth +3.5

- 200 16

- 400 21

- 600 30

- Milk 1

Excelsus Peri-Peri HDL0871C (P) Rx Platinum-AZ0328 Pippa

This swing bowling master has been used at the Birkin,

Excelsus and Wisp Will Studs and throws polls, growth

and right type Simbra calves.

Stats:

Birth +0.8

- 200 17

- 400 25

- 600 33

- Milk 1

PRR Palisade 813T (P) PRR Pace Setter-PRR Optima 677J

Our premium international import filling PRR Prevails

shoes mightily. His daughters are all the talk here at Ex-

celsus and makes this bull the perfect first change bowler.

Most points Bulls National Champs Parys 2012

Excelsus Landgoed

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013

Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international

Excelsus Stamp Collection: National Championship Parys 2012

Postage Paid

Postage Paid

HDL09138C Excelsus Penzance: Nat Blup Champ

Weiveld Agricultural School

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013

Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international

A Selection of Excelsus Stamps: Calf Crop 2012

Postage P

aid

Postage Paid

1st Calver Calves Kelly– Peri Peri Sicilly– Pacific

Huzzer– Galen 2

Disco– Peri Peri

Zadi– Galen 2

Fen– Prevail Tamara– Galen Mia &Pink—Pacific

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international genetics

Excelsus Herd Consultation 2013

Bull Id No Daughters Score /9

HDL02157A Excelsus Chris 3 6.7

HDL04112C Excelsus Mcix 5 6.9

HDL0522 Excelsus Challis 3 5.8

WC06110B Wisp Will Jim 8 6.5

LP98061 Maratana Langman 17 6.49

MPB05127B Four Feet Naas 4 6.5

OH9970 Daina's Gugi 5 6.2

Patriot LMC Patriot 7 6.78

Prevail PRRPrevail 5 7.12

UDM9355 Tingeling 3 7.3

UDM9453 Metsibra 21 6.92

UG0946 Salerika 3 6.5

VV927 Vegkop 4 6.7

WC0062C Wisp Will Enos 16 6.75

Every year around March the Excelsus female herd is put through its paces and the rigorous selection process is one of our yearly highlights. Each cow is evaluated on phenotype,

her age, present calf and the calves produced over her life time. This selects then those who stay and those who have to make way for a younger heifer that shows potential.

Herewith the general breakdown of the Excelsus Female herd.

The Table left show all the Herd Sires that have three or more daughters older than 2009 retained in the herd

and their phenotypical scores out of nine. It should also be noted a lot of the Excelsus home bred bulls are usu-

ally used just for a season as a back ups to an AI program.

The bulls with just one or two daughters are too many to tabulate but form a very large and diverse genetic

pool. Bulls such as Sonbri De Lux, Maratana LP9911 and LP0135, AZ0311, DM96125, GH0416, FM9793,

Excelsus Rex, Excelsus Blou, Bulk en Brul Marloe (SIM) DSV96253 (Bra) , Makam Matrix, Zamugo Zorro,

MAS0323 (Bra), Excelsus oo7, Rx Platinum, Excelsus Galen, Texas Red, Belle-Ombre Jared, Bonina Futeris-

tic, Smith Top Shelf, Smith Sergeant, PRR Perfection, LMC Red Bullet and Wisp Will Zane.

In Total 61 Herd Sires have been used over the last ten years or so with Metsibra UDM9453B having the most

retention success. The two former Zamugo herd sires Maratana Langman and Wisp Will Enos bred top females

also. Of the imported bulls PRR Prevail came out on top breeding beautiful females. His son and heir Excelsus

Pacific has bred the best 2012 calves breeding fine looking bull and heifer calves. LMC Patriot also stepped up

onto the plate with truly beautiful females.

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international genetics

Fred Dell Inspection 2013

Our yearly Simbra Consultation also involves a visit from our Technical Advisor Fred Dell who inspected the late 2010 heifers and the 2011 heifer herds.

Herewith Fred's breakdown of the young Excelsus females!

Sire Number Sire Name No of females Score /9

HDL0799C Excelsus Chewan 3 6

HDL0633B Excelsus Galen 14 6.2

OH0454 Diana's Dynamite 5 7.2

PRR Prevail 2 7

PRR Perfection 4 6.5

HDL08104C Excelsus Amigo 3 6

HDL08103C Excelsus Patriarch 2 8

PRR Palisade 10 6.8

HDL09127C Excelsus Pacific 4 7

LMC Patriot 2 6

KS02100 Kyksim Honeymoon 2 6.5

51

The 2011 and late 2010 heifers realized the first PRR Palisade calves. This is an underrated

bull being the son of PRR Pace Setter that bred taller, rangier animals. Stud breeding is a

mixing of desirable traits trying to paint a perfect picture. Palisade brought growth, length,

polls, PRR phenotype and medium framed animals. Palisade scored a 6.8/9 with ten heifers

and drew a lot of favourable comment from Fred.

The biggest winner was Diana’s Dynamite with 7.2/9 for five heifers and further justified

the many hours spent with Dr. Otto Herrigel who bred Diana’s James Bond and Diana’s

Gugi from which our Excelsus Galen line is built.

Excelsus Pacific had very few calves in his first year having been used as a twelve month

old bull and has scored 7/9 from four heifers. His 2012 calf crop is phenomenal and is a

worthy heir to his sire PRR Prevail.

Excelsus Patriarch was used for half a season and then replaced as a part of our rotational

policy. We only got four females from Patriarch and the two up for Inspection scored 8/9

Imported Genetics makes a huge impact at Excelsus Landgoed

If you consider the fact that 23 of the 51 heifers inspected were directly from our imported genetic program and also that Pacific and Patriarch are

sons of this program meaning over half this batch are bred from American or Namibian bulls. All these bulls scored highly and gives us a strong

polled base to work from. These are all bulls that have been carefully selected and bred carefully to the right type female. The Imported bulls are also

polled and homozygous polled bulls bringing a sharp injection of polled gene into the mix.

Pine Ridge Ranching remains the focus of our importation program and in our opinion the pinnacle of Simbra breeding.

Excelsus Summer Bulletin 2013 Excelsus Landgoed– your gateway to international genetics

Sales Call: Excelsus Production Sale 1 May 2013

Excelsus has joined hands with BKB Louwiid and Jan Mostert to offer a selection of females on a special May 1 2013

Sale.

Offering: 25 Cows with calves (15 3/1 Cows in calf to Excelsus Papa or Excelsus Perfecto sons of PRR Bulls Papa and Perfection)

30 In calf Cows

30 2010 in calf heifers

17 2011 open heifers.

All females have been bulled to a PRR Pine Ridge related bull.

Watch our Web Site for the Catalogue and further sale information.

Lot 2 AZ0367 Zamugo Petra & Pitsa 4 an Excelsus Amigo daughter. Petra is back in calf to Excelsus Papa

Lot 4A HDL0722A Excelsus Langxi & Hondo a Galen 2 son. Langxi is back in calf to Excelsus Papa