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VikingNews UK 04 2015
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gunnarstorp
? standing the test of time g unnarstorp truly has been standing the test of time and he is now the oldest vikingred sire
in the vi- kinggenetics barns. he was born in june 2002 by tor- björn & ola johnsson, gunnarstorp gård in sweden. the dam 1131 eda calved eight times and produced on average 9,400 kg milk with high components; 4,6% fat and 3,7% protein. 9,358 daughters are included in gunnarstorp?s international breeding values from six different countries: sweden, finland, denmark, usa, holland and germany. besides that he has been used in great britain and chile. in total vikinggenetics
has exported 116,000 doses outside the home markets. gunnarstorp keeps a high ntm +15 which makes him atractive in many countries and he is the highest ranking sire born in 2002. vikinggenetics has 17 sons by gunnarstorp, and most of them already have breeding values based on daughters. the highest ranking son is vr gobel with ntm +23. in addition, gunnarstorp has many daughters who are bull dams and so far vikinggenetics has recruited 55 bulls with gunnarstorp as maternal grand sire. this guarantees gunnarstorp high influ- ence on the vikingred breeding program the coming years gunnarstorp is doing well in all parts of the world with red cows. in the usa he is the highest ranking ayrshire sire with nm$ +547, in germany he is the highest ranking sire in the angler group with rzg 134, in the uk pli 502 and in canada he is the highest ranking sire with lpi 3032. gunnarstorp photographed at the age of 13½ years in front of the barn at the skara bull station in sweden. vr gobel is gunnarstorp?s best son with ntm +23. dam of five proven sires in vikinggenetics: vr felipe, vr faber, vr bar- kov, vr bruhn and vr rafael from morten hansen, denmark. o nly few cows in vikinggenetics get a son on the dai- ly plan ? and even less get more sons on the daily plan. a g edbo cow from morten hansen in den- mark beat all records by having her fifth son on the daily plan. no cows ever before have had this many sons on the daily plan in vikinggenetics. her sons are vr felipe, vr faber, vr barkov, vr bruhn and vr rafael. the five bulls have four different sires of sons. new record with five sons at the daily plan 16 vikingnews | december 2015
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