by admin | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The business case for buying pregnant recipients with an embryo made with sexed semen1. At Fire Sky Genetics we only make embryos with sexed semen from our topbulls, despite the additional cost.2. Ramsem (in Bloemfontein) claims a 92% success rate in achieving the sex...
by Bernard Swanepoel | Mar 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The challenge: How do new entrants get into the Ankole Market? “I just can’t see how I’ll ever get into the Ankole farming business” These were the words of a dejected looking attendee outside the Auction venue at the spectacularly successful Ntaba Nyoni auction which...
by Bernard Swanepoel | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
All 23 lots sold for a total turnover of R7,5m or an average of R326k per lot. Clearly a financial success! All the numbers I quote are exclusive of VAT. Of the lots on offer, 12 were less than a year old and 11 were between 1 and 2 years old. The younger lots...
by Bernard Swanepoel | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Background facts Cloning is a proven technology, both in cattle, but also in SA. It is not illegal in SA to clone any animal, as long as you are the owner. There is no cattle breed in SA that prevents the use of cloning to make embryos. It will be impossible to...
by admin | Nov 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
The cost of producing a 1-year-old Ankole heifer: Cost range (R000)Cost of embryos (say 4-8 embryos @ R5000/embryo)20-40Recipient cost up to pregnancy (current rate commercially available)35-40Cost of recipient till weaning (R2000/month x 15)30Recouping of...
by Zack Swanepoel | Sep 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Project The purpose of this project is to improve communal farmers’ cattle by providing high quality full blood Ankole bulls to local farmers. We have a surplus of Ankole bulls which we would like to sell or exchange with local community and subsistence farmers....
