• Each participating country is asked to provide ten (10) embryos at the providing country’s expense. The resulting cattle born are to be eligible for registration in the Canadian Angus Association (CAA) Herdbook.

• Once in Canada, the CAA is responsible for all costs. The embryos will be implanted by DRET into qualified recipient cows provided by Remington Cattle Company Inc. (RCC). The CAA, DRET and RCC assume no responsibility for conception rate success.
• The CAA, DRET and RCC assure that all efforts will be taken to achieve maximum successful results and all resulting calves will be treated equally.
• RCC will provide the recipient Angus cows for all embryos and the management of the program, under the guidance of the CAA.
• All resulting offspring become the sole property of RCC, who will maintain ownership until after the World Angus Forum 2009.
• Under agreement with the CAA, RCC will manage the offspring in the following manner:
  • All calves will be creep fed on cereal grain growing ration.
  • Calves will be culled at weaning for health, structure and testicles in consultation with the CAA and Dr. Roger Davis.
  • All bulls will be fed in the same group
• In order to register animals in the CAA Herdbook, DNA typing of the parents will be required.  If the sire and dam are not already DNA typed, clean tail hairs with follicles attached will be required for testing.  Contact the CAA for further information on collecting and submitting samples for DNA typing.

The International Embryo Program display at Spruce Meadows, July 2009 will be;

      a) Designed by and constructed by the CAA in co-operation with RCC.

      b) Materials, decorations, and support material will be at the cost of the CAA.

      c) Staffing will be by and at the cost of RCC.

      d) International youth that may assist with the display will be under the guidance of

          CAA and RCC, and at N/C to RCC.

      e) All displayed offspring will be under the management, care and cost of RCC.  

      f) All offspring will be presented halter broke, clipped, and groomed.

The calves will be displayed by country with appropriate signage and information provided by the Canadian Angus Association (pedigree, pictures of parents if provided, etc.)  Electronic photographs of sires and dams should be JPG files of at least 300 dpi and emailed to ceo@cdnangus.ca or alternatively, high-quality photographs can be mailed to the CAA.

The International Embryo Program has nine confirmed participants to date with the new approvals granted to SA countries. Each will provide ten embryos that
will be implanted on August 24, 2007 and then the resulting offspring will be displayed at our July 2009 Forum.
The 9 participants are: both USA Assoc's (Black & Red), England, Ireland, Scotland , Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Australia.
The WAF embryo program has met with great interest and enthusiasm around the world and we are looking forward to this being a unique highlight. I'm sure
that the co-operation and dedication by Dr. Rogar Davis, Davis-Rairdan Embryo Transplants, Remington Cattle Co. along with CAA/WAF will make this a
most successful attraction to WAF '09.