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AGHAVILLY SILVERADO All Nure Baxter Silvy
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enomic testing has allowed smaller AI companies to identify and market high indexing young British sires. One such bull is Aghavilly Silverado, bred by Noel McGarragher and his son Stephen, from County Armagh, and collected by Scawfell Genetics in Cumbria.
Silverado's £606 PLI puts him firmly in the elite category and he backs this up with an equally impressive Spring Calving Index (SCI) of £354. As a grandson of Mogul, he also offers access to what is currently the world's most in demand Holstein bloodline.
Unsold mother Silverado's mother, then named J K Eder DG Superior, made an inauspicious start
to her career in the UK. As a yearling heifer, imported from Holland by Diamond Genetics, she went through the ring unsold at the 2012 Black & White sale. Noel McGarragher ended up boarding her on his farm and liked what he saw enough to eventually purchase her.
Renamed J K Eder Silvy, she is a Bookem daughter of the Italian cow All Nure Baxter Silvy that traces back to the prolific brood cow Morningview Converse Judy EX93 in the USA.
Silvy was not to disappoint Noel and completed a huge first lactation of 12,885kg at 4.74% fat and scored VG87 first time around. By this time she had bred two embryo sisters by Da- So-Burn MOM Earnhadt as well
as her first natural calf, a De-Su Freddie Galaxy daughter. One of the embryos, the polled Aghavilly Earnhardt P Silvy currently ranks as the number four genomic PLI heifer in the UK with an index of £623. Now in her third lactation, Noel believes Silvy is one of the oldest Bookem daughters in Europe and her latest bull calf is earmarked for Cogent. A maternal sister to Silvy, All-Nure Snowman Syam, was champion two year old in Cremona in 2013.
Triple Baxter
Unusually for a high ranking young genomic sire these days, Silverado was the second born natural calf. His sire STE Odile Satisfaction is a three year old Canadian bull, still being
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