Website:
Our new and improved website is now
launched and attracting more and more
visitors to the page every day. Huge
credit is due to Catherina Cunnane
from Derrybrack Aubracs for her
continued work in this area. However
we need your help!!!
Currently we only have 3 herd
profiles on the site. Herd profiles
are the perfect opportunity for you
to advertise your own herd so
please try to compile and send us
your herd profile.
Hints to help compile profiles: 100/200
words, summary of the herd, including
location of the farm, breeding
programme, your experience of having
Aubrac cattle, number of stock, and
future plans. Breeders may wish to
include photos (minimum of one). To
date there are three profiles listed on
the website.
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We need news relating to the
breed, the benefits of keeping
Aubrac Cattle is one of the best
kept secrets in Ireland – lets
change that by informing people
of kill-out results, mart prices,
competitions etc.
 We need your photos; do you
have progeny of Aubrac AI bulls
that we can put in our AI
section?
Contact: Catherina:
catherina@aubrac.ie or phone: 087
7706314
PJ: pjpollardwoodcrafts@gmail.com
or phone: 086 1562154
Michael:
micaelheslin@gmail.com or phone:
0863325496
Email:
To keep up to date with the society,
please send your email address, and
receive regular updates about
upcoming sales, events, etc. You can
alternatively sign up for the updates
through the website homepage.
Year Book
A new yearbook for 2015 will be
prepared shortly. If anyone has any
ideas, or articles they want covered,
please contact James at
086-8379057.
James: roseandjames@eircom.net, or
phone: 086 8379057.
We will be also looking for breeder's
ads for the Yearbook. The cost of
these is:
€180 Double Page
€110 Full Page
€60 Half Page
Catherina Cunnane will provide help
putting these ads together. She can be
contacted at: catherina@aubrac.ie, or
phone 087 7706314.
Please consider, as this is a good way
of advertising your herd.
Farm Walks
The society will be holding a number
of farm walks around the country,
during the summer. A Walk is planned
on the farm of Francis Butler, Streete,
Co. Westmeath in July and will include
a number of guest speakers such as
Catherina Cunnane who will speak
about promotion of the Aubrac breed
and life as a young female farmer,
Conor Craig (young handler of the year
2014) will speak about training cattle
for shows and what he looks for in a
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beef animal and A representative from
the ICBF gene Ireland programme is in
the process of being confirmed. There
are also a number of farm walks being
arranged around the country in an
effort to promote the Aubrac breed
including a visit to a dairy farm using
Aubrac sires. Please support these
walks, and encourage other farmers to
come along and see what the Aubrac
have to offer. If you are interested in
holding a farm walk, please contact
any one of the Aubrac Council
committee.
Transfer of Ownership
Department of Agriculture guidelines
states that all pedigree Stock has to be
transferred into new herd owner name
before they can be used to register
animals as pedigree. Certificates can
be sent to the Aubrac office to have
transfer completed and a new
Certificate is issued with the buyers
name on the Certificate at a cost of
€18 per certificate.
No certificate will be issued for 2015
Registrations if transfer is not
complete.
Tuam Aubrac Sale
A successful sale was held in Tuam
Mart on April 6. All but two cattle
were sold on the day, with a top price
of €2200 for a Dolby sired Bull, from
the De Buitlier herd.
DNA Testing of Bulls
It has been agreed in a council meeting
that Pedigree Aubrac bulls must have
their linage verified by means of a
DNA test before the society will issue
a pedigree cert. This ruling has been
put in place to protect the buyer and
ensure progression of high quality
Aubrac stock in the future.
Fundraising:
The society will be raffling a pedigree
aubrac heifer in a bid to raise funds to
cover the costs of attending the
ploughing championships 2015.
Members of the society will be kindly
asked to take a card and sell lines (€2
each) to people in their locality
throughout the summer. The Draw will
be held in September.
Tullamore Show
Support the Aubrac Cattle and Society
The Tullamore Show will be held this
year on Sun, 9th August. We encourage
as many breeders as possible to
exhibit their stock. Now is the time to
start picking out cattle for the show,
and preparing them. The society are
again sponsoring a heifer for the
farmers journal heifer and hogget
competition where the winner will be
announced at the Tullamore show.
Please encourage any young people to
enter this competition to be in with a
chance to win.
Over the past number of years we
have a growing interest in Aubrac
Stock, but we need to help promote
them in our area. We have a lot of calls
to the office to see the Aubrac animals
and in order to do that successfully we
need all of your help. If you have any
ideas, for example showing cattle or
farm walk or invite a group of farmers
to your farm or just some suggestions
send us an email or contact the
website and this promotion will benefit
everyone
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