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March Genomic values just received! |
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RockyMountain consignment at The Explosion Heifer Sale 2010
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Our consignment at BC Spring Sale Selling! Beautiful young cow ready to flush at
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Macy was named Alberta Cow of the Year |
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RockyMountain 2010 Celebration Sale RockyMountain 2010 Celebration Sale is scheduled for Saturday, September 18, 2010 at the farm. This is our 7th year of operation and it is time to share our progress with fellow breeders. All of our top cows including Secret, Macy’s family, Comestar Lautelmy Titanic and Gillette Shottle 2nd Moon will be offered for sale. On offer will be one of the largest groups of Excellent and Very Good cows ever presented at an auction in Canada. The opportunity to buy high genomic females at this sale will give successful buyers an introduction to the lucrative new era of genomics in Holstein breeding!
There will be 100 head of cows, heifers and calves the majority born at RockyMountain Holsteins.
Following the sale RockyMountain Holsteins will rebuild the herd with pregnancies and embryos from many of the cows and heifers that will be sold.
Mark your calendar to join us for a very special event.
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Classification at RockyMountain Holsteins The last 2 classification rounds at RockyMountain Holsteins have yielded exceptional results. The herd average value for all cow classified has been 85.2 with 70% of these first calf heifers. Crackholm Emory Fashion is a first time Excellent at Excellent 92 and Pineriver Thunder Kelly scored 92 2E and Guyview Gibson Gina is 91 2E. The 2nd lactation Greenlea-I SS Carrissa scored VG 89 the maximum possible for a 2nd lactation heifer. Two special 1st lactation heifers Gillette Shottle 2nd Moon one of the highest Genomic heifer in Canada scored VG87. Irwindale Leduc Madelynn, Macy’s full sister also scored VG-87.
We pleased that Macy’s daughter Dundee Matilda also scored VG-87 in her first lactation for Morsan. Two of our favorite cows raised their scores Comestar Lautlemy Titanic and Northen-Glo MacIntosh Red are both VG-87. All of the above animals except Matilda and MacIntosh will sell in our RockyMountain 2010 Celebration Sale on September 18, 2010 at the Farm.
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Genomics - January 2010 RockyMountain Holsteins is a Genomic leader in Red and White Holsteins.
Gen-I-Beq Goldwyn Secret *RDC VG-87 co-owned with Crackholm continues to hold her position as the Number 1 *RDC Genomic LPI cow in Canada, with an GLPI of +2565. Now Secret’s son Crackholm Secure Red with his first official Genomic results is the Number 1 GPA RED Bull in the world on the CDN LPI report. CRACKHOLM Secure Red is a very popular flush sire for GenerVations and we have had excellent flush results with him at RockyMountain...
Secure’s full brother, RockyMountain Shiraz Red at Semex is also a very high Genomic young sire ranking Number 14 LPI RED on the CDN world list for Genomic. RockyMountain is proud to have bred or co-bred 5 of the top 50 bulls on the CDN GPA LPI list.
Another dominant Red cow family at RockyMountain is the MacIntosh Family who are high scoring GLPI Cows. Northern Glo Macintosh Red VG-87 is Number 5 GLPI RED cow in Canada and her daughter RockyMountain Salto Margaret VG is Number 4. Macintosh’s Red carrier son by Shottle, RockyMountain Mackinaw at Semex is the 2nd highest Red carrier bull born in 2006 on the CDN GPA LPI list. He has been used as flush sire around the world and he will be an early proven *RDC son of Shottle. Margaret’s son RockyMountain Postmaster by Mr Burns, also at Semex is the 10th highest Red bull on the GPA LPI list.
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