Select Sires
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024
Snoopy ranks at Nr.1 ISU in France, and is also 209 gPPR in the US and 134 gGZW in Germany. He is a son of Jonmar, who is now proven...
AI’s Recommend Their Own Favourites These Bulls Should Be Used More Often:
For decades already, sire selection primarily takes place via indexes. The number of bulls that are selected based on word of mouth reports, evaluating daughters, or in other ways, is...
Focus on... July 2024
Those who select for the combination milk, udder, and longevity, cannot bypass America’s nr.1 bull Darth Vader, given +2458 lb milk, 258 lb fat+protein, 1.70 udder and 6.2 longevity. The...
Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024
‘Oli, a Conway grandson via sire Letchworth, is the nr.2 gLPI bull. Both in Canada and the US (3159 gTPI) Oli dazzles via strong components, desirable fitness, and high conformation...
The favourites of the AI studs
Among the sires of sons over the last 3 years, bulls from the Blooming line come out on top with the highest number of sons: every ninth AI bull in...
Intriguing Sires DNA - June 2024
Karl, a top-5 sire in the US, distinguishes himself with positive indexes for daughter fertility (+0.6 gDPR/+1.7 fertility index). ‘Dairymen want cows that produce a lot of high component milk...
BullTalk - March 2024
One of the brand new AI companies in North America is Showbox Sires. For distribution, they work with Select Sires and Semex, and the first four sires to be presented...
BullTalk - January 2024
Nr.1: +4.99 gPTATSince the December release, the world has a new Nr.1 for PTAT: the Denmark bred SHG Lego is good for +4.99 gPTAT with 2356 gTPI and owned by...
Bulltalk - December 2023
With 159 gRZG, he is nr.4 on the German DNA list, but he has a fully American pedigree: Montague. A son of AltaZazzle son Progenesis Monteverdi (2960 gTPI) out of...
World-Wide Sires and Select Sires: Jersey Sires Victorious and Starlord Remain Popular
Those who have carefully followed recent editions of Dairy Breeds International will likely immediately recognize this prefix: River-Valley, from the Sauder family in Illinois. After all, they created one of...
Intriguing Sires DP - November 2023
Solito-Red is the German Nr.1 daughter-proven red and white sire for RZG (143) and RZE (140). The Salvatore son showed again in the last breeding evaluation period that he is...
Focus On... November 2023
HI’s editorial in September discussed balance, inspired by responses that we as HI’s editorial staff often receive in the field. In connection with this, here you find three sires that...