Gender SELECTed Semen
Available from Select Sires
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Dec. 22, 2005 — Dairy producers who have shown interest in using sexed semen can take advantage of superior genetics offered by proven Holstein and Jersey bulls at stud through Select Sires’ gender SELECTed™ program.
"Research has consistently proven this patented technology sex-sorts sperm with 90 percent purity. Dairy producers can be confident in the probability of adding heifers to the herd with the gender SELECTed program," said Mel DeJarnette, Select Sires senior reproduction specialist. "We’re excited to offer this cutting-edge technology to our customers and help them improve profitability by minimizing the number of unwanted bull calf births," he said.
Nine of the sires with sexed semen available are graduates of Select’s Program for Genetic Advancement™ (PGA™), the cooperative’s young sire proving program. The remaining sire with sexed semen availability is currently in sampling at Select.
New to Select’s active lineup and gender SELECTed program, 7HO7135 Creek Bwmarshall DAKOTA-ET is an Excellent (90) son of 7HO5375 Mara-Thon BW MARSHALL-ET and sires a balance for production (+1,187M 92% Rel.) and type (+1.67 PTAT 83% Rel.). His dam is Excellent (91) producing 47,770 pounds of milk, 1,658 pounds of fat and 1,341 pounds of protein and traces back to the famous Dellia cow family. Also a Herdlife Builder™ and Superior Settler™, DAKOTA is a calving-ease specialist that will work well on heifers with a service-sire calving-ease value of only 7 percent Difficult Births in Heifers (DBH)(87% Rel.).
7HO6055 D-P-M Rudolph BRIGHT-ET offers a low 6 percent DBH (96% Rel.) and boosts profit (+$360NM 88% Rel.) and milk production (+868M 91% Rel.). BRIGHT is also a feet and leg specialist (+1.23 FL) who improves mobility and straightens legs while adding a high +3.7 Productive Life to the herd (74% Rel.).
Select also offers gender-sorted semen from Holstein sires that excel in production, type and health traits. 7HO6685 Roylane Patron BRYCE-ET and 7HO6759 Regancrest-Be Mto MORGAN-ET offer calving ease with a low 7 percent DBH. BRYCE adds a +1.05 Udder Composite and +1.54 Dairy Composite (84% Rel.) and MORGAN is an udder improver (+1.28 UDC) and foot and leg specialist (+1.50 FLC 91% Rel.).
9HO2763 Plushanski FARADAY-ET and 7HO6454 J-Mor Demand GENISIS-ET are sires well-balanced overall in type, health and production traits. FARADAY stands with a respectable +1543 TPI and +1.03 PTAT (85% Rel.) combined with production of +964M +46P (88% Rel.). GENISIS has customer-pleasing type (+0.88T +1402 TPI 79% Rel.) and balances milk production (+817M 83% Rel.) with solid components (+42P +34F).
A limited amount of sexed semen is available from Excellent (90) Holstein sires 7HO7084 Fieldstone SILVER-ET*B/R and 7HO6546 Din-A-Ste REMINGTON. These sires are udder improvers who each offer more than 1,000 pounds of milk and positive merit scores.
Brown Swiss Super Sampler™ 7BS794 Top Acres GM BROCK covers the bases as the first Showcase Selections™ bull with sexed semen from Select Sires. A son of Top Acres E P Premium ET, BROCK is tall, clean-boned and stylish with textbook dairy strength. He’s also the product of a storied maternal line that includes Blessing Tom Bevan ET, his Excellent (91) dam nominated All-American as a 3-year-old making more than 33,000 pounds of milk. Her dam, Blessing Sensation Bria (EX-93), is a four-time All-American nominee, reserve All-American aged cow and has three records over 33,000 pounds of milk up to 37,000 pounds of milk with 3.7% protein. BROCK’s pedigree stack, show ring allure and solid parent averages appeal to dairy producers who want cows who can milk and win major competitions on the tanbark.
Select Sires is the only artificial insemination company to offer sexed semen from proven Jersey sires. 7JE613 Blackys BIG TIME-ET is out of Blacky Rose of Briarcliffs, his Excellent (96) dam with a milk record of 1,230 pounds of fat and 826 pounds of protein at 5-6, and has two sisters scored Excellent (92 and 90). Looking at his pedigree, it’s no surprise BIG TIME balances components (+0.09%P +0.24%F 97% Rel.) with the Type dairy producers want (+1.3T 93% Rel.).
7JE576 O.F. Montana SAWYER-ET, a sire with a valuable +1.3 Productive Life (67% Rel.) and low 2.84 Somatic Cell Score (76% Rel.), also combines excellent milk production (+884M 89% Rel.) and type (+1.9T 79% Rel.) in his daughters. SAWYER is a son of O.F. Lester Ladyslipper (EX-94), the only two-time Premier Performance Cow of the All American Jersey Show in Louisville, Ky., and is a half-brother to the popular new release 7JE645 O.F. Para LEGAL-ET.
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 dairy and beef producers with North America’s best genetics at a reasonable price.
™Type-Production Index and TPI are trademarks of Holstein Association USA.
™Jersey Performance Index and JPI are trademarks of the American Jersey Cattle Association.
™gender SELECTed, Program for Genetic Advancement, PGA, Herdlife Builder, Superior Settler, Showcase Selections and Super Sampler are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.
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