6 ml sperm from Sultan, Yuvraj fetches over ~1 lakh each
KOTA: Yuvraj is no ordinary bull. Its seed fetches its owner ~150,000 for one ejaculation. The 9-year-old bull of Murrah breed drinks 20 litres of milk every day to stay fit and healthy. He has so far fathered more than 200,000 calves, his owner says.
Like him, Sultan, too, is a stud but it ejaculates more semen than Yuvraj and , therefore, makes its owner richer. The two breeding bulls are the centre of attraction at the Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet at Kota where their owners are displaying them to motivate farmers to rear bulls to make money out of their semen. At a cattle fair in Karnal, Haryana, last year, a farmer offered ~9 crore to buy Yuvraj but his owner, 51-yearold Karamveer Singh of Sunariyo village in Kurukshetra, refused to part with the bull.
“I bought him for ~54,000 seven years ago; it has given me millions of rupees and there’s an emotional connection, too. I cannot sell him for any price,” he says.
Similarly, a cattle farmer from South Africa offered ~21 crore for Sultan but his owner, Naresh Beniwal, declined the offer.
Yuvraj weighs 1,500 kg and is 5 feet and 7 inches tall. He has been national livestock champion 24 times. Sultan is 5 feet and 11 inches tall and has won the championship six times. One ejaculate of these bulls is around 6 millilitre of semen from which 600 doses are prepared. Each dose costs around ~250. Yuvraj produces around 45,000 doses every year and Sultan, 54,000. “We spend around ~200,000 every year on their upkeep, health care and vaccines,” said Beniwal.