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Written by Greg Palen
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Saturday, 13 December 2008 14:33 |
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FERNS FASHION ICON
147JE 6150 aAa pending (expecting 3-5-4) List Price: $12 Our current price is $10
Combining the Canadian type of "Amedeo" with the cow line depth of "Sambo Fern"
'ICON' is fairly new to our lineup, but we appreciate the inclusion as he offers a different pedigree and phenotypic mating direction to the variety of sires in our list.
"Amedeo" is a Grove son of one of the greatest "Juno" cows that ever walked. He was acquired by Doug Robinson of Payneside Jerseys (eastern Ontario) and eventually a small quantity of semen was produced to meet the demand of those discriminating breeders who recognize the unique cow ability of Mr Robinson. "Amedeo" eventually sired the current highest scored Canadian Jersey cow (scored EX 97 in 2007) and is one of the top ranked sires for overall type ability.
"Icon" is a result of mating Amedeo to Family Hill Sambo Fern (EX94%)-- a great cow who has until recently stood in the shadow of her more famous stablemate, "Circus"-- but now coming into her own reputation as an elite type cow, a representative of the best in Jersey maturability, and possessing a depth of maternal pedigree that traces through Jersey royalty all the way to Designs Fashion Fern -- a name your Grandfather would recall as a noted Island-bred cow, greatly ahead of her time in the evolution of Jersey type in the USA.
"ICON" is owned by a partnership of USA and UK breeders, so will see worldwide use.
Look to "Icon" to make the wide rumped, well sprung cow, with an upstanding front end.
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Read more... [Fern's Fashion ICON]
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Written by Greg Palen
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 14:06 |
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COMBINING "JUNO" AND "M C TOPS"
NETTLE CREEK C TOPS RASCAL -ET
179JE 036 Semen price $7.00
aAa 1-6-2-3-4-5
The first bull acquired by Breeders Choice Sires was Juno Rocco of Nettle Creek ET, the last son of Billings Top Roseanne (EX 96%) -- sired by "Juno" -- whom we sold to Taurus Service, like us an admirer of the "Roseanne" cow's deep family inheritance. As 76JE 123, he eventually proved out to be one of their leading bulls on the longevity indicator PTA "Productive Life".
"Rocco" has a full sister, named JUNO ROSEANNE OF NETTLE CREEK (EX 92%) who is now a brood cow in her own right, with EX daughters from three different sires. Through "Juno Roseanne", the "Rose" cow line can now boast ten generations of EX females in direct maternal line.
John and Brenda Lewis of Jerome, MI, have one of the better Jersey breeding herds in Michigan, one of the few who give JVB Red Hot Jerseys some State Fair competition (recently showing the State Fair Futurity winner) -- milking around 40 cows. They acquired "C TOPS RASCAL" as a calf from his well known breeder, Dr Rick Dalessandro of Richmond, IN, using him first on heifers, and the first milking daughters are within their small, select herd.
We saw him at Lewis' and decided that he was phenotypically somewhat a reincarnation of his famous grandsire "Juno" -- taller and stretchier than his uncle "Rocco", more dairy than his sire "C Tops".
When Lewis' could no longer deal with a bull of his size, we agreed to a joint semen collection and brought "Rascal" to the market, for those who liked the "Juno" look.
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Read more... [Nettle Creek C Tops Rascal]
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Written by Greg Palen
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Friday, 01 August 2008 17:07 |
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HIGH CONCEPTION SEMEN AND GOOD UDDERED DAUGHTERS
That has proven to be the story on JUST A FEW JUDE EASTON
aAa 3-5-4-1-2-6 179JE026 List Price $8.00
Semen available in Canada-- contact Janice Marshall at Just A Few Fotos
This bull was one of the last "Jude" sons to be sampled, and he has milking daughters now in three countries-- Canada, then the USA, and then the UK (England). His inheritance is quite high for both butterfat % and protein %, from a traditional Canadian pedigree that can offer you "outcross" when you feel you have all the "Sooner" blood you want.
Like most Jude sons, he is not a perfect bull, but if you need a more efficient sized cow that has more spring to the rib and width of rear end than you are getting from other choices, this bull is the right one for you. But what pleases us most is to see the steady gains he has made in two highly important evaluation areas: (1) Productive Life, and (2) Jersey Udder Index.
His first heifers in Canada and the UK included many show type successes. This result has taken longer to materialize in the USA but he is capable of making the "right kind" on the tall, style sort of cow where you need a more "wedgy" result in the body.
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Read more... [Just A Few Jude Easton]
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Written by Greg Palen
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:47 |
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PATRICK'S (NOT SO LITTLE) BROTHER
140JE 059 BRIDON PREMONITION
aAa 3-5-1-4-2-6 Semen price $ 10.00
(Also available at Taurus Service, Mehoopany PA)
If you lived in the upper midwest, and went to any major show in the 1990s, you might see Ron Mosser with a string of "Patrick" offspring, winning enough to get your attention.
The "Patrick" bull was an earlier result of a collaboration between Norm Nabholz of Iowa and Brian Sayles of Ontario, in the "Patsy" cow family, that eventually produced BRIDON PREMONITION after the dam of "Patrick", SAMPLE PATRICE (VG88% USA, EX-Canada) moved to Ontario.
OUTCROSS TO "SSO", LINEBRED "SLEEPER"
"Premonition" caught our eye as a yearling when his generally outstanding individuality for type was first recognized. Our interest quickened when we realized he would also be a major outcross to the prevailing sire lines in the USA, as his pedigree contains none of the blood of Secret Signal Observer.
His sire is MASTER C TOPS, who was always under private ownership and thus had little distribution of semen. "Tops" was a son of Master Milestone C from the "Topsy" granddaughter, Gusto Milestone Christmas Day (EX90%), bred by Max Gordon in IN. He went to Rock Ella at a young age, and was there until his aggressive disposition brought on his demise with little semen remaining. "Tops" is recognized today as one of the unique Jersey phenotypes-- wide thurls, flat rumps, flat thighs, long bodies, soft udders, great fore udders and teat placement. His highest profile son is Hollylane R Response, his highest profile daughter is C Tops Impressive (EX95%).
His dam is SAMPLE PATRICE, bred by Norm Nabholz of Iowa, owned in partnership with Brian Sayles, eventually moving to Ontario as part of the Bridon Farms Jersey herd. "Patrice" was sired by an early son of Milestones Generator (Sample Generator, 14J 145) and from the interestingly linebred cow, Zettas Advancer Patsy (EX92%), whose sire was a son of Nancys Sleeping Advancer. Besides her fame as the dam of Nabdon Master Patrick (sire of "Nadine" and "Buffy'), she has produced a variety of good daughters (including a full sister to "Premonition") and the cow family remains a source of substance and good udders.
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Read more... [Bridon Premonition]
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