Welcome to Westholme

The AAco Westholme owned Wagyu herd contains the most highly credentialed fullblood Japanese Black Wagyu sires and breeding females to ever leave Japan.

In 1997 and 1998 Westholme Wagyu imported 84 Japanese born Black-haired Wagyu females from Hokkaido in northern Japan, to USA.  The Westholme import of females is believed to represent 46% of all fullblood Japanese Black Wagyu females (184) imported to USA from Japan. 

The Westholme imports are significant because of the value and diversity of the genetic lines imported. These include 11 Hongen-registered (the highest Japanese ranking for cattle) Kedaka females of 28 total Kedaka, 12 Tajiri females & 44 Fujiyoshi females.  Diversity of lines is critical because of the high level of in-breeding in the Tajiri and Fujiyoshi (Shimane) lines of cattle previously exported from Japan.

For production of fullblood Wagyu outside Japan, the Kedaka females give the frame size, body volume and maternal traits (milk) to raise 400kg+ carcases out of dams which can produce in the paddock when mated to Tajiri sires such as Kitateruyasu-Doi (003).

These females are amongst the biggest to ever leave Japan and many of them excel in milking and thus have become important to develop heavy, well-marbled fullblood carcases at low cost.

Other important females exported from Japan include daughters of Kikuyasu, Tanahide, Yasukane and Shin 4 (Tajiri line) as well as daughters of Kitaguni 7 & 8, Itokitazuru, Hirata and Itoyoshihiro of the Fujiyoshi bloodline from Shimane prefecture.

The bull in this photograph is ITOKITAZURU and this picture was taken in the Tottori Prefecture in front of Mount Hokidaizan, Japan. ITOKITAZURU is Hongen registered and is the sire of 10 of our Japan born and registered breeding females now located in Australia.

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