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programme - always with our farmers in focus ? are you interested in genetics? look at nav
webpage! just make sure you have plenty of time - it will catch you! what is nav? nav started in 2002, and the common breeding evaluation and a common ntm in all three counties started when vikinggenetics was established in 2008. nav is owned by seges in denmark, faba in finland and växasverige in sweden. all the time there are different projects going on at nav and people from universities together with employees at seg- es, faba and växasverige work together with the different tasks that can make breeding evaluation better in the future. lots of information on the web - www.nordicebv.info if you are interested in breeding, and for those of you who are not familiar with nav webpage, it is a recommendation to go there. you will find nav bull search, nav interbull search and genetic trends. you will also find information about latest evaluation, articles, presentations and webinars. all publica- tions are done in swedish, danish, finnish and english. just make sure you have plenty of time before you enter! our members are the fundament the fundament for the whole breeding programme are loyal members that use our best genetics on their best dairy cows to make the next generation of bulls
and bull dams. this funda- ment is the basement and we have to protect it! more focus on et the past years, more focus has been put on embryo transfer (et) on the best females, where we contract the farmers to ei- ther sell the heifers to vikinggenetics, or flush the heifer in their home herds ? all in all 400 holstein flushings per year in our three countries in the holstein breed. this has to be put in relation to the number of bull calves that we buy every year, which will be about 125 in 2016, same as 2015. it is clear that this et-activity will increase the quality of the bulls, which will benefit all the farmers in better profit. vikinggenetics owns bulls in other countries the quality of the holstein breed is very high in many coun- tries, and we use the best foreign bulls also in vikingholstein breeding programme. a new activity in vikinggenetics is that we now also buy bulls in other countries. earlier, we have in- formed about the cooperation with german nog, where we get the genomic breeding values from 5,000 german bull calves every year. this has meant that vikinggene tics now owns bulls in germany but also in usa/canada. these bulls have the same high level in gntm as the bulls we buy in denmark, sweden and finland and they are bought as a good comple- ment to our own line up. below is an overview of the bulls that we have in usa/canda today owned by vikinggenetics: vh ramis ? a son by racer, on the cow woodcrest mogul anna (mogul x freddie) from blondin farm. vh ramis has pro- duced the first doses now which will be used for flushings. vh sextonp ? a polled heterozygotic son by silver on the cow butlerview pixie (supersire x colt p red), also from the blondin farm. vh yeppie ? a son by yoder on view-home mcc alabama (mccutchen x robust) from view-home farm. the robust cow is also the dam to monterey, and from the same family we also have bulls like powerball p and missouri. vh stan ? a son by supershot on stantons freddie cameo (freddie x lucky star) from stantons farm. from the same freddie cow, we also have the previous sire of sons s casual and checkers by claus langdahl, holstein breed coordinator, vikinggenetics 9 february 2016 | vikingnews
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