Newcomers at
Bullsemen.com Cow health and welfare sires at Dairy Daughters
Van Gogh, who enters the UK rankings as
the number one Type Merit Holstein after the August proof run, is one of three new German- bred bulls entering the listings from Bullsemen. com.
Goldwyn son Van Gogh has an outstanding
Type Merit figure of +3.77 with all of his major type traits over +3. Easy calving and with good temperament, Van Gogh has strong all-round characteristics with a £122 PLI, +0.3 Lifespan, +2.9 Daughter Fertility and is a significant Somatic Cell Count improver at -19. Gandolf is another Goldwyn son making a notable introduction into the UK rankings for
Bullsemen.com. The bull has already made an impact in Germany, sitting at number six in the latest RZG list and featuring in the country’s DTG programme that ensures universal access to selected high ranking sires. Gandolf features as a newcomer in the August proof run, with a £150 PLI, over 400 kg milk and 2.1 Type Merit. His all round strengths also include a Lifespan figure of +0.1 and -9 for Somatic Cell Count. Also from GGI and available through
Bullsemen.com is the Titanic son Toscano. Another easy calving bull with strong production (381 kg), Toscano has a high Type Merit (+2.75) and positive Lifespan (+0.2). With a £127 PLI, he is another bull that meets
Bullsemen.com’s stringent minimum standards criteria and is an outstanding option for dairy farmers looking to build their herds with a combination of longevity and performance.
DAIRY COW WELFARE is high on the agenda in the autumn catalogue from Dairy Daughters in which three of the company’s new headline bulls will transmit big improvements in their daughters’ lifespans, robustness and their general health and fitness. The three headline bulls – Bronco, Durable and Palermo - each transmit extra chest width and depth; low Somatic Cell Counts; long Lifespans; and good Daughter Fertility. They each combine this with profitable milk production and hence score well for Profitable Lifetime Index (PLI). End-Road O-Man Bronco has the edge on PLI of the three, with an index
of £201 placing him twelth on the official DairyCo ranking. He features many of the traits for which his famous sire (Oman) is known, but with extra weight of milk (746 kg) and considerably higher type (Type Merit +1.23). His linear type profile is without fault and without extreme. It shows daughters to be robust-framed cows with good leg set and udder conformation. But his outstanding traits are for daughter fertility (Fertility Index +4.9) and Lifespan (LS +0.4). Ronelee SS Durable is the newly launched son of Storm and has become
one of the highest ranking Red Factor carriers in the world. And while his high type (TM +1.9); solid production and outstanding fitness (SCC -16; Lifespan +0.2; Fertility Index +4.4) will be a great attraction to milk producers, it is his dam – Ronelee Outside Dabble - who is beginning to attract world-wide attention as a bull mother. An exceptional production cow based in Washington State, she is said to be ‘sturdy and rugged’, and has produced some outstanding young bulls with exceptionally high indexes based on their genomic assessment. Meanwhile, a granddaughter from Dabble recently sold for $34,000. Glenn-Ann Palermo is the final leading fitness bull, whose PLI of £169
puts him high in the newly launched rankings. Already the leading PLI Goldwyn son available to British breeders, Palermo is also one of the highest type (TM +2.26) bulls in this ranking and at +2.46, has one of the highest scores for Udders. With rock solid milk production and – like his sire - positive components, it is his superb fitness traits which make him the complete package. His proof features long lifespans (LS +0.2); low cell counts (-22) and exceptional daughter fertility (FI +6.2).
Top sires making an improvement on dams
Top 10 Sires with 50+ daughters classified in 6 month period (February 2010 to July 2010 inclusive)
Sire
BKB Affirmed Askew Reece
Deslacs Milkstar
Dupasquier Carisma Jocko Besne
Penn-England Garrison Altagen-I Merchant Comestar Leader Roylane Jordan Lucky Mike
Moet Nansen Summershade Igniter
Daughters classified
65 92 51 69 70
175 120 71
542 55
134 142
% higher than Dam
63.1 60.9 58.8 56.5 54.3 54.3 52.5 52.1 51.8 50.9 50.7 50.7
Daus/Dam Avg. scores
82.9/81.8 81.8/80.6 80.7/78.8 83.0/81.9 80.4/79.7 80.6/79.5 81.5/80.3 80.8/80.9 81.0/80.2 81.2/80.5 80.1/79.2 81.2/80.6
Top 10 Sires with 20-50 daughters classified in 6 month period (February 2010 to July 2010 inclusive)
Sire
Wilcoxview Jasper Lauden
Robthom Integrity Gillette Cutler
Scotchhills Patriot Lystel Lorenzo
Carp-Pyr Basar Brad Moorshard Revolution Manager
Donelea Instinct Hilmar CVC Starr
Daughters classified
28 20 45 47 31 21 28 23 27 24 21
% higher than Dam
60.7 60.0 60.0 59.6 58.1 57.1 57.1 56.5 55.6 54.2 52.4
Daus/Dam Avg. scores
83.4/82.5 81.4/81.2 81.3/80.2 81.9/80.4 81.5/80.3 83.5/82.3 80.2/79.3 83.9/82.9 80.7/80.0 82.6/81.8 80./82.1
THE JOURNAL OCTOBER 2010 91
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