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Breeding at Thorndale | |||
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All animals are bred AI, with the exception of the herd bull, Top Acres Basehit ET (Banker x Bouquet)who is used on most of the heifers. Scott and Don do any AI breeding on the heifers. Wilkins are responsible for breeding the cows, and select from a list of bulls provided prior to breeding. The semen avilable to use is provided by Don and Scott. We really began to get selective in our breeding in 1999 after selling the farm, we could start to really focus on the Swiss. The focus resulted in heavy use of Prelude, as well as a few other Emory sons on the random selection of bloodlines we had. We would love to keep using Jetway on these lines.
Top Acres Basehit ET is our newest bull on the farm, full brother to Blue Chip, he is a Banker out of the great Bouquet. This bull is very tall as expected. Many pregnancies, but no calves yet! We are excited to see these calves.
Today, as our Jetway supply shrinks, we have begun to use numerous young sires from cows we greatly admire. Currently in the tank we have Power Surge (ABS), Soprano (PBSS), CoPilot, Sliker, and Snikpak.
We also are using our own bull, Top Acres Co PILOT ET. Co Pilot is the maternal brother to Jet Pilot, Pawnee, Paddy, Pinnacle, and other great offspring from the famous Price cow. We had him collected, and we have plenty available and will continue to in the future. We have many pregnancies by him as he seems to be very fertile, getting most every cow bred to pregnant on the first service. Many calves have hit the ground and many more on the way. We have gotten a high percentage of heifers so far, and the ones on the ground look very deep with the strength in the shoulder that we have been needing. We are impressed so far!
CoPilot- summer '06 |
Top Acres Co Pilot ET
Dam of Co Pilot: Top Acres Emory Price 4E94
 Sire of Co Pilot: Collection
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