Top-Ranking High-Components
Sires Enter Active-A.I.
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Nov. 15, 2003 — Three sires have graduated
into the Select Sires lineup, all entering active-A.I. service
near the top of the Production-Type Index lists for their
respective breeds. This follows the quarterly publishing of the
dairy sire evaluations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
InterBull and dairy breed associations. Representing the
Ayrshire, Brown Swiss and Guernsey breeds, these individuals are
transmitting a balance of production and type traits that will make them
popular mating sires throughout the world.
"These new high-ranking sires give producers even more flexibility when
designing matings to fit their overall herd-management goals," says Blaine
Crosser, dairy sire analyst, Select Sires. "Credit goes to breeders of
Ayrshire, Brown Swiss and Guernsey cattle for their commitment to help
progeny-test young sires, which yields exciting graduates like SATELLITE,
DYNASTY and BANGER. While already home of North America’s most comprehensive
dairy lineup, Select Sires has maintained its commitment to sample
approximately 45 high-components-breeds sires every year."
Three New Sires Become Breed Leaders
Just seven PTI points away from debuting as the Guernsey breed’s
highest-ranking sire, 7GU379 My Day Bliss BANGER-ET has a PTI of +277. He is
a Trotacre Mercury LORRY-ET son out of Laeschland Perfect Bliss-ET,
Excellent (92), the first cow of any breed to be the No. 1 Cow Performance
Index cow at the time she was named national grand champion. Bred by Erdman,
Wilson, Griggs and Rushing, Chenoa, Ill., and acquired from Lutz and Erdman,
Chester, S.C., and Chenoa, Ill., BANGER has PTAs of +1,990M +69F +57P +1.7T.
He will transmit extreme dairy strength, improved feet and legs, and firmly
attached udders with strong center support and close teat placement.
Landing in the Brown Swiss breed’s top 10 for PTI with a value of +261,
7BS750 Hilltop Acres En DYNASTY ET already is becoming well-known as an
udder specialist like his father, R Hart Simon ENSIGN ET. DYNASTY is from
a cow family with extraordinary milk and components production that
successfully has placed a number of sons in A.I. Bred by Hilltop Acres,
Calmar, Iowa, he has PTAs of +1,970M +59F +55P +505 fluid merit dollars,
+0.9T. Producers can use DYNASTY to sire medium-sized daughters with
dairyness, snug fore-udder attachments,
outstanding rear udders and close teat placement.
7AY70 Palmyra Reward SATELLITE-ET debuts as the No. 7 PTI sire (+196 PTI)
as he joins the Ayrshire breed’s strongest lineup. Bred by Ralph and
Patricia Shank, Hagerstown, Md., SATELLITE is a Covey-Farms Olympic REWARD
son from two generations of high-testing Excellent dams with more than
23,000 pounds of milk. He has production PTAs of +1,016M +35F +34P +291
cheese-merit dollars, and a PTA for type of +0.6. Breeders can expect
SATELLITE to sire clean-boned, deep-ribbed daughters with good width and
foot angle, as well as udders with strong support and high, wide rear
attachments.
Up-to-Date Sire-Evaluation Statistics Readily Available
Producers can obtain additional details about these three new graduates
into active-A.I. service as well as up-to-date production and type data on
all 38 high-components-breeds sires in Select’s 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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