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el trébol ? the success story of red dairy
breed
in
colombia
felipe
calderón is the owner of el trébol and always wanted to buy a farm with something different from the tradi- tional
breed
s existing in
colombia
by the 70´s. he started to look out of the
colombia
n borders and found the
breed
he was looking for in canada in 1986; the ayrshire
breed
. in 1996, calderón participated in the world ayrshire congress where he heard about the swedish red
breed
(srb). the refreshment of the blood was very important for the ayrshire
breed
in
colombia
, because the in
breed
ing was already producing weak animals and the results with srb are magnificent. always go for the best vikingred bulls
felipe
calderon chose t bruno, b ju- rist, peterslund, torpane and orraryd and he could see the benefits quickly because the first daughters of these bulls gave much more milk than their mothers and improved feet&legs and strength a lot. they also had a perfect size for moving across the steep moun- tain pastures and black hooves are very important for the hot lands and the hu- mid tropical areas. vikingred are today well-known in the cattle shows in
colombia
. calderon explains that a great satisfaction was to have the grand champion for crosses two years ago with his cow uva nueva (a crossbred gyr (a zebu
breed
) x viking red). she won the milk champion ship, best udder and grand champion titles. in agroexpo 2015 the grand champion was a daughter by a linné born in el trébol. high production there are 55 cows in el trébol, milking three times a day with an average of more than 9000 kg milk per cow/year, which is above average of the country. vikingred works really well with high production, high solids, good longevity and good type and udders. a good amount of the vikingred se- men sold goes to cross
breed
ing in hol- stein farms and zebu farms. "and it works really well?, he explains. ?i have rented a new farm for my heifers, and in order to rent the farm land, i had to buy the holstein herd residing there. i have decided to continue with the holstein
breed
and use vikingholstein to improve health traits, reduce the size of the cows and improve the solids?, says
felipe
who by now is planning to have a show window herd for the vikingholstein, similar to the vikingred show window herd in el trébol. by vikinggenetics based on text by
felipe
calderón, owner of the el trébol, and president of the ayrshi- re
breed
ers? association of
colombia
. the el trébol farm is located very near bogotá, the capital of
colombia
, with an altitude of 2700 meters above sea level. the owner is
felipe
calderón, who bought the farm in 1977. this is a story of how vikingred
breed
was first introduced in
colombia
. the new holstein herd that
felipe
has bought to make a show window herd for vikingholstein facts of the farm: el trébol is located in a small and steep property in a land that has an average quality but generally very rainy. earlier the average rain fall of the area was 1500 mm per year, but now because of global warming it rains more than 2500 mm per year. el trébol uses v föske, pell-pers, uudin, valpas, tosikko, turandot and gunnarstorp and tuomi. they produce embryos by flushing with sexed semen from pell-pers, a linné, v föske and r facet. uva nueva was the best crossbred cow in
colombia
in 2013.
felipe
calderon (5th from the right) is the owner of the el trébol farm 8 vikingnews | june 2016
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