“The Ultimate Short Cut”  

Trans Ova Genetics’ Golden Certified Braford F1 Embryo  

By: Dakota Moyers 
Southern Sales and Project Manager 

The F1 Tiger Stripe cow is the undisputed “Queen of the South”, her ability to thrive in the tougher environments makes her value unlimited to cattlemen all cross the south. Research has backed the claims of cattlemen that the maximized heterosis the Tiger Stripe cow possess allow her to be the productive, long lasting commercial cow option for the south. However, the toughest part of the Tiger Stripe Female is her creation, because it isn’t cost effective for commercial producers to run a set of purebred cows alongside the commercial cows.

This ultimately led to the creation of the Trans Ova GenPlus Golden Certified Braford embryo. The Trans Ova F1 Tiger Stripe is the creation of matching some of the most progressive seedstock genetics from producers that have spent multiple generations establishing cow families and sire groups that work for the commercial cattlemen. The genetics represented in the Trans Ova Tiger Stripe replacements can easily be described as “maternal perfection”. When you think of the cow power, when you think of the bull power, when you think of the earning potential, the Trans Ova F1 embryos become a sound investment for every commercial cattle producer.   

Trans Ova’s F1’s continue to make a name for themselves for the commercial cattlemen that utilized the advanced reproductive technology offered by Trans Ova. They bring the extra shot of hybrid vigor that allows them not only to excel from a maternal aspect, but the resulting offspring just get the job done from a performance perspective, and in a business where pounds pay it becomes an easy choice to jump on the band wagon.

On a personal note having family that runs F1 cows in southeastern Oklahoma I will never tell a commercial producer that the only way to be successful is using the Trans Ova embryos but like I told my granddad  “we don’t have to use the advanced reproductive technology, we just have to compete against those that do”, and that perspective has given us the clarity to say its not a question of if we will put in some embryos but when can we get the cows lined up. This decision will allow us to take some of the most progressive genetics in the country and in one generation jump from our basic commercial cow population to an elevated status on a consistent basis with cows that just make money, and that is “the ultimate short cut”.