New Top-10 Holstein Leads
Seven Graduates at Select Sires
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Aug. 12, 2003 — The new red-and-white
Type-Production Index (TPI™) leader that also debuts
as No. 6 for TPI in the Holstein breed leads a group of
seven graduates into active-A.I. service at Select Sires.
This follows the Aug. 11 announcement of new official
evaluations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Interbull
and Holstein Association USA. Four of these new sires will
appear on the Top-100 TPI list, with all transmitting a balance
of production and type as they join North America's leading
active-A.I. lineup of 90 Holsteins.
"While each one of these graduates is impressive in his own right,
three also are brothers to some of the breed's most-popular proven
sires - including 7HO6417 O-Bee MANfred Justice-ET*TV, 7HO5157
Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET*CV and 7HO5841 Sikkema-Star-W HI
METRO-ET*CV," says Rick VerBeek, sire analyst, Select Sires.
"In addition, the group has high average reliabilities of 85
percent for yield traits and 81 percent for type traits, which
provides added assurance for producers. Backed by 12 different
sires and maternal grandsires, these seven graduates offer
diverse possibilities to improve the production of milk and
milk components, while improving economically important type traits."
Graduates Offer Extraordinary Production
While debuting as the No. 1 red-and-white sire for Type-Production
Index, 7HO8430 Zee-Cal PERSIA-RED-ET also earned a place among the
top 10 Holsteins for TPI. This son of 7HO4350 Bassetts Masal
ALAMO-RED-ET*TV is transmitting extraordinary milk production
(+2,399 PTAM, 82 percent reliability), is Select's third-highest
sire for protein production (+69 PTAP) and has an impressive type
PTA of +2.17 (76 percent reliability), all contributing to a TPI
value of +1730. Acquired from Bill Ziese, Upland, Calif., and
Diamond S Ranch, Waterford, Calif., PERSIA-RED is backed by three
generations of Very Good or Excellent dams with first lactations
greater than 27,000 pounds of milk. Breeders will turn to this
red-and-white outlier to improve body width, depth and scale, to
transmit correct feet and legs with steep foot angle, and to sire
high, wide rear udders with strong fore-udder attachments.
Starting his A.I. career as the second-highest Select sire for
milk (+2,479 PTAM), 7HO6511 O-Bee Winchester JASON*TV is a maternal
brother to O MAN - the breed's highest-TPI sire for the second,
consecutive quarter. JASON is an early 7HO4637 Ladys-Manor
WINCHESTER-ET son with strong credentials for protein production
(+69 PTAP, 84 percent yield reliability) and dollar values (+533
Fluid Merit Dollars). Bred by Gary, Gaylon and Steve Obert,
Dakota, Ill., he is backed by two generations of high-scoring
Dams of Merit with records in excess of 27,800 pounds of milk.
JASON has PTAs of +1579 TPI and +1.28 PTAT (73 percent reliability),
and is siring extremely dairy, tall daughters with legs that track
straight, and udders that have a strong suspensory ligament and
square teat placement.
More Top-100 TPI Sires
A TPI value of +1590 will place 9HO2673 Mr Majic TOUCH*TV in the
top half of the Holstein Association USA Top-100 TPI list. This
7HO4638 Ricecrest Tesk TERRY son has a desirable below-average
expected inbreeding coefficient of 4.8, and is out of a Very
Good (87) Maizefield BELLWOOD-ET daughter with 2-4 265d 34,190M
3.9% 1,327F. Bred by Mon Cher Holsteins and Eric Lang, Walcott,
Iowa, TOUCH has balanced PTAs of +1,189M +43F +34P +501FM$ (82
percent yield reliability), +2.12T (80 percent reliability),
and +3.1 productive life (46 percent reliability). TOUCH will
sire tall, open-ribbed daughters with extraordinary feet and
legs (+2.74 feet-and-leg composite, which leads the Select lineup),
improved strength and depth, and strongly attached udders with
deep suspensory ligaments.
7HO6329 ZIMMERview Terry Micah-ET*TV is another TERRY son debuting
in the breed's top 100 for TPI (+1576). Bred by Paul E. Zimmer,
Marietta, Ohio, this high-milk SUPERIOR SETTLER™ has PTAs of
+1,849M +48F +44P +466FM$ (81 percent yield reliability), +2.07T
(80 percent reliability) and +3.0PL (53 percent reliability).
ZIMMER is backed by three generations of Excellent dams, the
closest a Gen-Ace Petrum LD ELVIN daughter with 5-3 365d 43,740M
4.2% 1,858F. Producers can use ZIMMER to significantly enhance
body traits such as scale, strength, depth and width , and as an
all-around udder and feet-and-leg improver.
The fourth top-100 TPI graduate at +1555-M is 7HO6313 CROCKETT-Acres
Sully-ET*CV, a high-reliability, milk-components specialist with
one of the industry's highest udder composites. Bred by Crockett
Farms Holsteins Inc., Coldwater, Ohio, this 7HO4482 Margene Blackstar
FRED son has Interbull MACE PTAs of +540M +.20%F +67F +.08%P +36P
+504 Cheese-Merit Dollars (93 percent reliability). Like his maternal
brother, HI METRO, CROCKETT has a low somatic cell score (PTA 2.91,
80 percent reliability), and will noticeably improve udders (+2.71 UDC)
and overall type (+1.94 PTAT, 89 percent reliability).
Sires That Improve Milk Components
Another high-components type-improver is 7HO6326 Regancrest
DIFFERENCE-ET*TV, a maternal brother to DURHAM - the breed's
highest-TPI sire with 97 percent U.S. reliabilities for both milk
and type. Bred by Regancrest Farm, Waukon, Iowa, this Jo-Wal Cubby
METRO-ET son has PTAs of +772M +.04%F +39F +.03%P +30P (92 percent
reliability), 2.89 SCS (80 percent reliability), +1435 TPI. DIFFERENCE
has impressive type composites of +2.20 FLC, +3.51 BDC and +2.45 DC,
which contribute to a PTAT of +2.14 (89 percent reliability). Producers
can use this breed leader in frame traits to improve size, strength and
width, while transmitting high, wide rear udders, and ideal feet and legs.
Protein-specialist 9HO2638 Agriprize FORSYTH-ET*TV graduates with PTAs
of +1,693M +44F +63P +525 CM$, 83 percent yield reliability, +1515 TPI.
Bred by Russell E. Schroeder, Horicon, Wis., this Shen-Val NV LM
FORMATION-ET son is out of a Very Good (87) Dam of Merit with 3-10
365d 3X 32,100M 1250F 1067P that's from the well-known Flute family.
FORSYTH daughters are moderate in size with steep foot angle and
high, wide rear-udder attachments.
Up-to-Date Sire-Evaluation Statistics Readily Available
Producers can obtain additional details about these seven new active-A.I.
Holstein sires as well as up-to-date production and type data on all
126 individuals in the Select Sires dairy lineup from a single
source - www.selectsires.com. This information is available free
to producers and others interested in obtaining information about
breed-leading genetics. In addition, people can contact the Select
Sires representative nearest them for more details.
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is a federation of 10
farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. It provides highly fertile
semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its
basic objective of supplying livestock breeders with America's best
genetics at a reasonable price.
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