The AI Total calving ease specialists!
Earlier this week we published an article about the significance of calving ease. The average for all AI bulls with progeny is 7.9% Difficult Births in Heifers (DBH). AI Total has currently 58 bulls in its active portfolio. The average Sire Calving Ease (SCE) of the active portfolio is 6.9%. Below you find the top-10 ranking:
| Naab code | Name | SCE | GTPI | NM$ | PTA Milk | PTA % Fat | PTA % Protein | PTA Type | PL | DPR |
| 515HO00307 | Halloween | 4.9 | +2584 | 752 | +1074 | +0.14 | +0.04 | +1.65 | +4.8 | +2.7 |
| 307HO00014 | Rafter | 5.0 | +2743 | 891 | +1146 | +0.08 | +0.03 | +1.34 | +9.1 | +4.4 |
| 515HO00324 | Elvis | 5.3 | +2623 | 822 | +2085 | +0.03 | -0.02 | +1.15 | +5.3 | +2.5 |
| 515HO00308 | Sergio | 5.7 | +2666 | 813 | +1644 | -0.02 | +0.04 | +1.76 | +2.8 | +2.7 |
| 515HO00322 | Neal | 5.7 | +2742 | 876 | +1259 | +0.10 | +0.06 | +1.59 | +7.4 | +3.5 |
| 515HO00306 | It's me | 5.8 | +2721 | 887 | +1894 | +0.04 | +0.03 | +1.57 | +6.7 | +1.5 |
| 515HO00138 | Modious | 5.9 | +2383 | 581 | +1200 | -0.02 | -0.02 | +2.19 | +3.1 | -0.9 |
| 515HO00277 | Puma | 5.9 | +2397 | 587 | +717 | +0.08 | +0.04 | +1.75 | +4.5 | +0.7 |
| 515HO00333 | Mainstay | 5.9 | +2653 | 787 | +1705 | +0.00 | +0.04 | +1.53 | +6.1 | +2.8 |
| 515HO00319 | Mitch | 6.0 | +2650 | 838 | +1261 | +0.19 | +0.08 | +1.70 | +3.9 | -0.3 |
| 515HO00299 | Rival | 6.3 | +2574 | +697 | +1435 | +0.11 | +0.05 | +2.62 | +2.9 | +0.9 |
The lowest is HALLOWEEN (Flagship x Supersire x Man-O-Man) with a Calving Ease of only 4,9%. HALLOWEEN has a high Fertility Index (FI) of +3.3 and a Daughter Pregnancy Rate (DPR) of +2.7. Productive Life (PL) is a long +4.8. HALLOWEEN breeds beautiful udders which is shown by an UDC score of +2.04. The last nine generations were at least VG-88 and the pedigree traces back to the famous Denises Dellia EX-95.
More about RAFTER you can read here.
ELVIS (Montana x Montross x Supersire) is quite new in the line-up of AI Total. Calving Ease is 5.3% and also other health & fertility traits are very positive. ELVIS breeds a lot of Milk: +2085 lbs. In addition ELVIS has the A2A2 casein! Net Merit $ is over 820 and ELVIS transmits +87 lbs Fat & +57 lbs Protein. Also noticeable is that ELVIS gives medium sized daughters.
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