Genomics

NMR's GeneTracker uses the UK’s 1st non-hair, non-tag sampling system designed to reduce hassle, cross-contamination and improve welfare and accuracy, by not leaving a plastic tag behind or requiring you to pull hairs.

The simple two-stage process allows you to take a tiny ear notch from any animal of any age and seal this within a pre-labeled vial, individually allocated to each individual animal.

The vials are then sent back to the central office for batch transport to our state of the art Genotyping laboratory – Weatherbys of Ireland.

Once the Genotype has been accurately produced, it is then sent to the Genetic Evaluation Centres run by AHDB Dairy - for Production, health, Fitness and Fertility traits and Holstein UK – for Conformation Traits.

You do need to milk record to use this service with one of the three ICAR accredited Milk Recording Organisations: NMR, CIS or UDF.

• Identify those likely to be expensive passengers and avoid rearing costs
• Identify which heifers to breed/sell/implant
• Interactive reports to quickly evaluate genetic potential, design selection & make breeding decisions
• View youngstock, herd summary and individual animal reports
• Access results for production, health, fertility, conformation and associated GPLI and GTM indexes
• Screen for known genetic recessives – many free of charge

• Dates for submission
• Result release dates
• Explanations of the genetic recessives
• Example reports