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This is also top dressed with 2kg of rearing nut,” explains Michael. “Feeding TMR at a younger age has helped rumen development and our heifers are growing far better than before. Our aim is to average 24 months at calving. After five months heifers are moved on to a young stock ration of 10kg silage, 2kg whole-crop, 2kg draff, 1.25kg water, 1kg blend, 0.75kg molasses and 0.5kg hay.”
Breeding has always been important at Logan and now most AI sires used are genomic bulls with current bulls in the tank being Soloman, High
Octane, Beamer, Dreamer, Hurricane, Mario, Numero Uno, Flame and Cayle.
For the first time in many years sexed semen is being used on heifers in place of flushing at the moment. However, the heifer rate has always been high in the herd, says Brian. “We use 20 straws of each bull because, particularly with genomics, everything is moving so quickly. Stock bulls leave as many daughters as anything and we use home bred bulls to sweep up. The most impact was made by Logan Hershel. Hershel was by Lexvold Luke Hershel and out of Shoremar Jed Becky EX93-3E – he bred
good cows that lasted well and his progeny won the progeny group in the South West Scotland herds competition for five years.
“Another hopeful homebred bull is Logan Avatar. He is breeding calves that look promising for the future and is a Genervations Epic son out of Twinfields Shottle Autumn. “One of the early genomic sires we used was Goldchip. His progeny are pleasing us, they are calving in with their second and maturing in to the kind of cows we like.
The herd has had numerous achievements in the show ring over recent years with Logan
Wood chip is burned in the biomass boiler as a cheaper option.
The 150kWh biomass boiler was installed in May 2014 with VG Energy and the first 197,000kWh is paid at 8.8ppkWh.
The Yates’ have had numerous successes since Logan Outside Roxy put the herd on the map in 2005.
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