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VikingNews UK 02 2016
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?we trust
ntm
and the genomic
test results? yli-räihälä is an excellent example of cooperation with vi- kinggenetics breeding programs. they have bought embryos and they have high index females that are inseminated with sire of sons or flushed on a contract and they sell heifers to vi- kingembryo program. ?we started to do genomic test because of the embryo flush- es because we wanted to know the genomic breeding values of the heifers? pekka and päivi say. 75% of the herd of 50 cows are vikingred and the average production is over 10,000 kg. pekka and päivi are happy with their red cows, and they are determined to take the high production level even higher. the circle closes in a nice way with the 3rd calver ilo et (tosikko x sale) who was bought as an embryo to the farm. her first calf kiva out of vr cigar was inseminated with vr florin, and that?s how the best daughter of vr florin was born called muru. now this nice young muru is bought to vikinggenetics in hollola and is waiting to become old enough to be flushed. jackpot in bull calves päivi and pekka hit the jackpot last summer when vikingge- netics bought two bull calves from them. first was vr vaisto (vr visio x vr tornado) from a cow kirsikka and right after him vr esperi (vr erkki x r facet) from the dam of kirsikka. both boys have already been selected for semen production, so they have taken a big step in their career. ?we trust ntm and the genomic test results of younger animals. good ones have been good, the lower have been aver- age. success with embryos and genomic testing have improved our herd a lot?, says pekka. by ritva hilpelä-lallukka, vikingred sire analyst, vikinggenetics yli-räihälä farm in finland has been part of the ld-project* right from the start. pekka and päivi nuorala did the genomic tests for heifer calves born out of embryos already before the ld-project and tested bull calves that vikinggenetics was interested in. rdc adjusts weights for yield and udder confor- mation in ntm at the same time as including young stock survival in the nordic total merit (ntm), the red dairy cattle (rdc) is changing the weights for some other indices in ntm and weight on yield (from 0.96 to 1.00) and udder conformation (from 0.32 to 0.35) is increased slightly. the objective is to ensure that ge- netic progress for these traits is maintained when introducing young stock survival in ntm. the change has only limited effect on ranking of bulls. all the current weights for different sub-indices in ntm and the correlations between ntm and sub-indices can be found on nav web page (www.nordicebv.info) under ntm and breeding values/ntm. *ld-project= subsidised genomic tests on all females in the farm. angler
in germany ? a pilot project for cooperation already today, there are 100 angler daughter proven bulls in- cluded in the red dairy cattle (rdc) reference population. in addition, 200 high index angler females were agreed to be tested in our reference group. the results are transformed to german rzg scale. the level of angler bulls is a bit lower than vikingred and the best females reach gntm+20. the status of the cooperation today is that angler can test females and also bull calves on ntm-scale. the contract includes the opportunity of 50/50 ownership for rinder- zucht schleswig-holstein (rsh) and vikinggenetics (vg) for bulls that are tested and bought. angler will also have the possibility to join the breed association?s meeting in october 2016 organized by the viking red committee. by auli himanen, vikingred breed coordinator, vikinggenetics the strategic aim for vikingred (vr) has been to create stronger links to other red populations and angler in germany is one of them with 11,000 milk recorded cows. 14 vikingnews | june 2016
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