New Sires at Select

Andy VanceGenetics, Production

Select Sires added six high-components breed sires to the active A.I. lineup this week. The new Jersey lineup includes three new graduates, alongside one new Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire sire.

The Jersey sires feature 7JE714 Sunset Canyon MATINEE-ET, with a debut at #1 in the breed for fat poinds and #12 for percent. MATINEE is a maternal sibling of MAXIMUS-ET and MECCA, both already in the Select Sires lineup.

Jersey sire 7JE641 Sunbow Freedom ROMO-ET and 7JE679 All Lynns Hallmark RAY-ET both join the team, with ROMO standing 10th in the breed for milk yield.

Brown Swiss sire 7BS769 Oak Forest Ace CHRIS ET*TM in a Top-5 PTI bull, topping the breed for fat, calved from a Excellent 93 dam making over 42,000 pounds of milk.

Guernsey grad 7GU391 Jens Gold G HAWK signs on tied for the #1 spot in the breed for Protein, as a Top-5 PTI sire, and with a three-generation Gold Star Dam maternal family.

Ayrshire sire 7AY76 Kellcrest AVENGER-ET ranks fourth among Ayrshires for PTI, standing first in the breed for Fat percent.

Bovine Genome Project Releases New Material

Chuck ZimmermanGenetics, Government

Researchers from the Bovine Genome Sequencing Project are nearing completion on sequencing the genome of the cow and have released on free public databases bovine genetic information, including the most current, complete and accurate genome sequence and an upgraded genetic map. According to a USDA-ARS release, the new bovine genome sequence contains 2.9 billion DNA base pairs and incorporated one-third … Read More