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Select Sires Graduates
Three More DURHAM Sons


PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Nov. 9, 2004 — Select Sires has added three new proven sons of 7HO5157 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET*CV to its Holstein lineup. All three are graduates of the Program for Genetic Advancement™ (PGA™) and all three are listed on the Holstein Association USA Top-100 TPI list.

"Five years ago Select Sires began using DURHAM as a sire father to procure sons that would further improve the type traits that dairy producers have selected for in the past 20 years...udders, and feet and legs," says Charlie Will, Holstein sire program manager, Select Sires. "At the time we did not realize that DURHAM also would become one of the breed's best sources for health and management traits at 99% Reliability. Now with over 60 sons sampled and more to come, Select Sires can be very selective in marketing only the best and most reliable, from a new generation of DURHAM genetics."

Most-Widely Sampled DURHAM Sons in the Industry

In August 2004, Select Sires released its first DURHAM son, 7HO6761 Creek Durham SHANE-ET*CV. Then the most-widely sampled proven son in active A.I., he established a benchmark by which all proven DURHAM sons would be measured. Now with 299 daughters in 195 herds, SHANE offers a balanced Predicted Transmitting Ability (PTA) for Milk of +1,181 at 95% Reliability and a PTA for Type of +2.33 at 91% Reliability, ranking him among the best ten for type at Select Sires.

A popular new release in November, 7HO6758 Regancrest-MR Drham SAM-ET*TV enters active A.I. with 166 daughters in 103 herds and 90% Reliability. He also is Select's third-highest type sire at +2.98T with HA composite scores of +2.37 Udder Composite (UDC) and +2.39 Feet-and-Legs Composite (FLC) at 86% Reliability. With Standard Transmitting Ability (STA) values of +2.01 Dairy Form and +1.67 Strength, MR SAM transmits ideal dairy strength, acquired from his maternal pedigree. His dam is a daughter of 7HO3948 MJR Blackstar EMORY-ET and completes six generations of Excellent cows with numerous high-component records. With PTA yield values of +1,229M +.04%F +55F+.01%P +38P at 90% Reliability, this SUPER SAMPLER™ ranks among the breed's top-30 sires for Type-Production Index (TPI™) at +1647.

7HO6782 Ocean-View ZENITH-TW-ET*TV may hold the record for highest reliability (92%) at time of graduation of any Select sire with 195 daughters in 140 herds. Also a SUPER SAMPLER, ZENITH is a son of the Excellent (95-2E-GMD-DOM) Ocean-View Mandel Zandra, who is out of an Excellent (92-GMD) Ocean-View SEXATION. The third dam also is Excellent and all three dams are over 30,000 pounds of milk and as high as 1,300 pounds of fat and 1,000 pounds of protein. ZENITH ranks fifth at Select Sires with +2.46 PTAT (84% Rel.) and composite values of +2.17 UDC and +1.36 FLC. Combine his fancy type with solid milk components of +904M +.01%F +.05%P and great management traits at 2.79 Somatic Cell Score (SCS) and +1.8 Productive Life (PL). The result is a top 100-TPI (+1582) sire that will be used heavily in component pricing markets.

No. 1 DURHAM Son for PTA Milk World Wide

7HO6762 Creek Durham Sorry-ET*CV is the best DURHAM son for milk production world wide at +1,931 PTAM (86% Rel.). CD can be used to generate profits across all milk markets as a result of these dollar values +513 Net Merit Dollars (NM$), +503 Cheese Merit Dollars (CM$), and +533 Fluid Merit Dollars (FM$). A full brother to SHANE, this DURHAM son comes from two generations of Excellent (90-2E-GMD-DOM) dams with milk production records of 49,000 and 42,000 pounds, respectively. Bred for longevity, CD also transmits sound type with particular emphasis on quality udders (+1.79T +1.57 UDC +1.73 FLC 80% Rel.). Favorable management trait values of 2.89 SCS, +2.3 PL and +1.8 DPR are added incentives for producers to use this extremely balanced Top-100 TPI (+1583) DURHAM son.

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc., is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, 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.

™TPI is a trademark of Holstein Association USA
™Program for Genetic Advancement, PGA and SUPER SAMPLER are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.

Source: 11/04 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Interbull and the Holstein Association USA Inc.





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