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VikingNews UK 01 2017
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5 march 2017 | vikingnews news from breeding news from our breeds at the
export
markets, clients still rely a lot on progeny tested sires. all the sires among the top 10 most
sold
bulls
last year on
export
, are proven
bulls
. the most
sold
genomic sire was vr hel p, a polled sire, on 11th place. vr hjusticia and vr grolle from swe- den, as well as vr umbro from finland were really worth transferring to denmark into x-vik production. they are all among the four most
sold
sires. vr donato, who is on the 3rd place, has been
sold
mainly at
export
markets for procross. progeny tested sires, favorites on
export
market vikinggenetics has a goal of having 10% of our holstein
bulls
purchased and housed in the united states (us) and canada during 2017. there are two main reasons for that: first, it gives us the opportunity to have more of our
bulls
available for
export
to third coun- tries, and second reason is to be able to find different pedigrees in the us, still with nor- dic total merit (ntm) as the only selection criteria. so far, we have had great success in find- ing
bulls
in the exchange project with nog (nord-ost genetics), but now in north amer- ica and canada it will be more based on our own selection. recently, we have bought six
bulls
in the nog cooperation, three in germany and three in north america and canada. 10% of purchased
bulls
in north america in 2017 for vikinggenetics, it is important to genomically test females to get their data into our reference population. this mecha- nism ensures high reliability of genomic proofs, and for us this is crucial. daughter proven
bulls
contribute with more informa- tion per individual, but with this high num- ber of cows it give us valuable information that we use in the breeding program. in total, we have 2,800 danish and north american jersey
bulls
in the reference popu- lation and 17,500 cows. females can only contribute if we have all registrations availa- ble ? milk recording, classification, health and reproduction data. breeders from other countries are encour- aged to test their jersey females in our sys- tem, to have highly reliable breeding values and better selection tools with ntm. increased number of jersey
bulls
from et 25% of the
bulls
bought in 2016 were a re- sult of et (embryo transfer). this year, it is expected that 50% of the
bulls
entering vi- kinggenetics bull stations will be from et. the reason is the increased focus on et and opu (ovum pick up) as well as the opening of et heifer barns in 2016. 17,500 jerseys in the genomic reference population
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