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Daughters offer quality (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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Daughters offer quality
2:36pm Friday 26th June 2009
TWO leading health and fitness bulls have been launched by Dairy Daughters.
New Farm Britt Prince offers a minus 31 for somatic cell count index, making him the second cell count improver available to UK farmers.
He combines this with excellent scores for lifespan (+0.3) and fertility index (+0.2).
Prince daughters have near average stature, which they combine with body strength and depth. Rump angle is close to perfect and overall type merit is +1.77; mammary +1.36 and legs and feet +1.85.
His milk components are both positive at +0.07pc fat and +0.03pc protein together with 225kg milk, making him attractive to those seeking to improve the quality of milk from cows. He has a profitable lifetime index of £140.
The second sire is Ladys-Manor O Autumn which also scores well for cell counts (SCC minus 19), fertility (FI +0.1) and lifespan (LS +0.2) while maintaining excellent milk production.
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IMPROVE HERD: a daughter of leading bull New Farm Britt Prince
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