Waitangi Angus

Our own herd ‘Kai Iwi” was established in 1954 by my father Phil Bayly at Kai Iwi near Wanganui. Over the years the stud enjoyed much success in both the show ring and with the supplying of bulls to the beef industry. In 1994 a selected nucleus of females was brought north to Paihia. ​ In 2004 we were offered the opportunity to purchase the very well known and respected ‘Rarewa’ herd of cows from the Lovell family near Whangarei. We purchased the complete herd and they arrived at Waitangi in July of that year. They are a very sound, robust, easy going, good temperament herd of cows and fitted extremely well into what we were trying to achieve here at Waitangi. The combination of the two herds has been most successful and is well demonstrated by the uniformity in our lines of bull and heifer calves we produce each year, despite the use of numerous sires. The cow herd is the strength of the Waitangi breeding programme and over the years a limited number of females from other well recognized herds have been introduced into the herd as well.