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#PolledPlace 1
#PolledPlaceVolume 5 - November/December 2014 Your Source for Polled Dairy Cattle!
#PolledPromoter Andre Bedard#Polled Breeder Perspectives#PolledPassport Göpel Genetik#PolledPastimes Burket Falls
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Red & Polled
LARGE PP-REDaAa 315243Lawn Boy P x Ludox x Convincer
Daughter ProvenSuper Type & Great Production
LAPTOP PP-REDaAa 324156Laron P x Mr Sam x Polled Plus
Health Trait SpecialistHigh Components
SCANDIC PP-REDaAa 516324Stronger P x Lypoll POutcross Bloodlines
High Protein +45kg +.10%High Productive Life & Low Somatic Cell
LABEL P-REDaAa 234165Ladd P x Sunrise x Spencer 2 x Talent
Hottest Polled in Europe +152 RZG(Highest B&W in Europe is +165 RZG)
Extreme Protein +72kg +.32%
German Genetics International+(49)4471-91740
Ag-Link Genetics(570)836-6593
homozygous homozygous
Red & PolledRed & Polledhomozygous homozygous
homozygoushomozygous
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Mark Rodgers1966 Andersonville Road
West Glover, VT 05875
Phone: 802-673-2072Email: [email protected]
www.facebook.com/AndersonvilleDairy
60% of Andersonville Dairy is POLLED! 23% of the Cows ~ 100% of the Heifers ~ 100% of the Bulls
Over 245 Polled animals to date with many Polled females projected to be born in 2015!
1-855-222-2013
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Twitter @DairyBullsOnlin @polledbreeder @PolledPlace
Fall 2014 Sire Catalog
The Future is POLLED!
Introducing...Andersonville SS GLOVER P*PO
Born: 8/25/13POLLED SuperSire x GP-83 Mitey P x GP-84 Batton
+2093GTPI +601NM$ +708CM$+1173M +104F +58P
**Highest Combined Fat & Protein Polled Bull in the Breed!**
Andersonville Dairy was featured on
the front of the 1st DairyBullsOnline
Sire Catalog!
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Your Source for Polled Dairy Cattle!
Features8 #PolledPromoters Andre Bedard10 #PolledPanel Polled Breeder Perspectives14 #PolledPrices Sale Highlights15 #PolledPlacings NEW Proofs Coming Soon16 #PolledPassport Göpel Genetik18 #PolledPastimes Burket Falls Farm22 #PolledPlace Polled Marketplace22 #PolledPlatform Polled Promotion
Calendar
Cover#PolledPhoto ”Baby It’s POLLED Outside!” Winter will soon be here, but this calf won’t need to be dehorned in the bitter cold temperatures. Donald Yoder of Yoder Family Farm in East Dublin, Georgia used this photo in his first #PolledPlace ad. THANK YOU for being a #PolledPromoter and a contract advertiser in 2014!
Nov 7-16 Royal Winter Fair Toronto, ON, CanadaNovember 8 57th Pot of Gold Sale Louisville, KYNovember 9 62nd All-American Sale Louisville, KYNovember 12 Canadian Logic Breeders Sale Guelph, ON, CanadaNovember 12 Jetstream Global Greatness Sale Toronto, ON, CanadaNovember 13 Sale of Stars at the Royal Winter Fair Toronto, ON, CanadaNovember 17 Hartford Genomic Extravaganza II Rochester, MNNovember 21 East Coast Breeders Sale Lancaster, PANovember 22 Minnesota Fall Harvest Sale Hutchinson, MNNovember 28 Northwest Stars of the Future Sale Rochester, Victoria, AustraliaDecember 1 Holiday Fashions Sale Fond du Lac, WIDecember 2 USDA/CDCB Proof EvaluationsDecember 5 Illini Futures Sale St. Charles, ILDecember 20 #PolledPlace DeadlineJan 18-22 International Dairy Week Tatura, Victoria, Australia
Polled Enthusiasts - THANK YOU for making our first year at World Dairy Expo a SUCCESS!#PolledPlace Advertising Rates Full Page - $400 1/2 Page - $250 1/3 Page - $200 1/4 Page - $150 1/6 Page - $100 #PolledPlace Listing - $50 20% Discount for Contract Ads!FULL
COLORADS!
#PolledPlace 5Contact information: Ed Peck • 608.444.8863 • E: [email protected] • Facebook: April-Day
April-Day M REISLING P-ET RC; GP-83 @ 2yrs2-06 3x 240d 21,641m 4.0% 859f 2.9% 620p inc.REISLING shares the parlor with her dam, VERDEJO
and already has one polled Red son in German AI.
Her homozygous polled Earnhardt will be released
in the U.S. later this year. Her three daughters by Parker P
and Sympatico RC are currently being flushed. REISLING
is due back in February 2015.
D&D Ottawa Beacon CALLIE P-ET RC; GP-83 @ 2yrs2-05 3x 352d 36,344m 3.4% 1034f 2.9% 878pCALLIE is a unique cow being a polled, RC Beacon
daughter. Her Lawn Boy-free, red, polled, high genomic,
Relief P RC son was just released by Accelerated Genetics.
CALLIE is due back in September 2014.
April-Day LB Pinot GRIGIO P RC; VG-852-02 3x 365d 27,678m 3.6% 1003f 2.8% 793pGRIGIO is the most successful under-dog donor with
which we’ve ever worked. With six daughters in our donor
program, our confidence is based on her 4 genomic sons
at Accelerated Genetics: GALVIN P, GUSTOLPH P RC,
GREGORY P and GREMLIN P. GRIGIO just calved back
in and looks fantastic!
Our Red and White program integrates
polled breeding with a focus on creating
fresh, exciting bulls and heifers from
sires that can only make polled offspring
when mated to a great cow. This allows us
to maintain priority focus on the maternal
side of the pedigree.
Photo by Nick Sarbacker
Photo by Nick Sarbacker
Photo by Nick Sarbacker
6 #PolledPlaceRED = P (polled) BLUE = p (horned) Watch the animated video at www.dairybullsonline.com!
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Donald & Joan Yoder & Family2655 Buckeye Road
East Dublin, GA 31027Phone: (478)278-2084
Email: [email protected]/yoderfamilyfarm
“From the Experts”
Check out the big “thumbs up” for the POLLED calf here and the big “thumbs down” for the dehorner in the box! These girls got the idea. Why in the world would you fool with a dehorner when you can have calves born like this? Definitely a reasonable question!
The calf pictured here is a Ladd P out of a VG-88 Advent from an EX-90 Talent then EX-94 x VG-88 x EX-91 x EX-91 x VG-87 x EX-90 x EX-90 x EX-93 x EX-96 x EX-90. POLLED, LONG PEDIGREE & PRETTY!
P.S. How about a big “thumbs up” to these girls for being #PolledPromoters!
Monica (left) holding the dehorner and Morie (right) holding the Polled calf
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#PolledPromoters Andre Bedard - Promoting Polled on Facebook
Social media has quickly become the #1 source for information around the world. It has also become a great way to promote Polled! Andre Bedard of Mooers, New York is a true #PolledPromoter and he shares his passion for Polled with others by using social media.
Andre Bedard farms in Mooers, New York with his father. They have 65 Holsteins milking with a growing presence of Red & Whites. They have been breeding for Polled since 2010 and Andre shares that they “just fell into it.” They purchased Fortify P and Raspberry P semen to start since they were Red & Whites and were hooked once the hornless calves arrived. “I use Facebook and have used it to show off Polled since we’ve had our first Polled calf,” adds Andre. There are many benefits of utilizing Facebook. “I can see what other breeders are work-ing with and what AI companies are coming out with in the near future.” Using social media is not all “ros-es” and has some challenges. “A chal-lenge I’ve noticed with social media is the common negativity from those that want to bash you for doing something different just because they’re skepti-cal,” explains Bedard. Not everyone agrees with the breeding decisions of everyone and that is what makes the
dairy business unique and pro-vides breeders with options. When asked what advice he would give to others in regards to using social media, Andre adds, “My ad-vice would be to check out how other breeders are promoting Polled and try to be positive.” How do you in-crease your social media following? “If I notice that someone works with
cows, it’s an opportunity to spread the word.” The key to maintaining your following on Facebook is unique posts and posts that others are interested in. Andre modestly shares that, “I wouldn’t say they’re unique, but I just try to keep them down to earth.” Andre does in fact share unique posts that capture an audience. Have you seen the vid-eo with the Red & White cow talking about her nice, round Polled head? Andre is behind that. How about the posts with the DairyBullsOnline.com hats or sun-glasses? Andre is behind these as well! Andre asked Bryan and Roy with DairyBull-sOnline.com if he
could have some items made up with the DairyBullsOnline.com logo to help promote Polled. They agreed and as a result, the DairyBullsOnline.com hats and sunglasses made their debut on Facebook. Andre shares that he had these made to show his appreciation to the DairyBullsOnline.com crew for answering the many questions he had regarding Polled and he adds...”there were a lot!” Andre contributed to making a fashion statement at this year’s De-signer Dairy World Dairy Expo by sending hats and sunglasses to the DairyBullsOnline.com booth...and a fashion statement they made! “The future of Polled is so bright...we gotta wear shades!” They were a hit for all ages!
Andre also promotes Polled by advertising on Craigslist and in his local milk co-op’s newsletter. He predicts that the next 5 years will be interesting and encourages breeders to keep up the work on breeding for Polled. “You’ll be one step up on the naysayers!”
#PolledPromoter Andre Bedard shares his passion for Polled on Facebook with #PolledFelfies of his calves
by Stephanie Stout
The Future of Polled is Getting Brighter!Future #PolledPromoter
Wyatt Schirm
Bright Polled Future with DairyBullsOnline.com &
Sierra Desert Breeders
#PolledPlace 9Matt Seeliger
594 Kennedy Road, Glencoe West, South AustraliaPhone: 01417887168 Email: [email protected]
Our New Polled Princesses
6 EMBRYOS BY TROUT RUN JEFF-PP FROM THE SNOW STORMSWESTDAMA WONDERMENT SHANIA-IMP-ETSire: Top Acres C WondermentDam: Terra Rose Shania EX-91-2E2nd Dam: Kulp-Gen Starbuck Shania EX-94-3ENext 5 Generations are ALL EXCELLENT!
WESTDAMA COLT45 HEATHER-P-IMP-ETColt 45-P*RC x Cherry Crest Black Heat*RC EX-91 1*
2nd Dam: Cherry Crest Sizzling Red Hot EX-91 3*
WESTDAMA GOLDEN ROYALTY-P-IMP-ET*RCGolden PP x Kingsmill Roy Roulette EX-92-2E2nd Dam: Astrahoe LJ Rosa Rebel EX-92-2E
Next 12 Dams are ALL EXCELLENT!
DIRECT FROM BLACK HEAT 14 GENERATIONS EXCELLENT
Polled isn’t just Black & White
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#PolledPanel Breeder Perspectives on POLLED
POLLED HOLSTEINS, JERSEYS & CROSSBREDS
Mesa DairyWisconsin, USA
Carrie Mess I farm with my husband and his parents on Mesa Dairy, a 100 cow dairy near Lake Mills, Wisconsin. We have been seriously breeding for Polled for the past two years. My breeding philosophy is focused on healthy, fertile cows. I am extreme-ly particular in which bulls we use on our farm. Anything Polled that fits our parameters goes to the top of the list. We jumped head first and start-ed using Polled on lots of cows! Right now, we are milking some Eclipse P and Lawn Boy P daugh-ters and we’ll start calving in some heifers from the DairyBullsOnline.com line-up soon. We’re currently using Oliver P, Eclipse P, RD Gorm P for Jerseys and we’re using Ladd P, King P, Midas P, Eliminator P, Ohio Style P, Dolo P and Transformer P for Holsteins. I love how quickly the availabil-ity of Polled bulls is growing. I think Bryan and Roy from DairyBullsOnline.com really started getting a lot of peo-ple thinking about Polled when they started their business and the big AI companies took notice. In the future, I would like to see more calving ease Polled bulls. We cur-rently use Polled semen on 25-30% of our herd. I’d like that to be 50% in the next two years.
POLLED MILKING SHORTHORNS& RED & WHITE HOLSTEINS
Corstar Cattle Co.Minnesota, USA
Cory Salzl & Kristen Heitke My fiancé, Kristen Heitke, and I operate a 30-acre farm near Litchfield, Minnesota. We own about 35 head of primarily Milking Shorthorns with a few Guernseys and Red & Whites. We milk the show cows, raise our own heifers and keep a few recipients at our farm. The remaining milking cows are housed at a few friends’ farms. We first started using Polled in our Milking Shorthorns about three years ago when we were intrigued with the pedigree on a young bull from Gold Mine Farms, GE Gold Mine Dimond Deuce P. He was a Mitey-P son from a strong Milking Shorthorn family. We liked the idea of mixing the Polled gene along with Goldwyn genetics into our Milking Shorthorn herd. Since then we have tried a few other Polled Milking Shorthorn bulls as there seemed to be a growing interest in the breed. The pri-mary focus of our breeding program is on type. We have bred Polled into some of our top type individuals so we could try to add Polled without sacri-ficing type. We have used Polled on two of our top families - we have some descendants of the Horizon-Tudor Margarita family that we have Polled offspring from as well as from North Stars Mega Peanut EXP ET. We have also used some on our Red & Whites. We currently have Polled daughters from GE Gold Mine Dimond Deuce P, Rovin Othello Ali Aladdan P and Ro-
vin Mega All Abner P. We are current-ly using GE Gold Mine Dimond Deuce P, Ocenabrae Ironman P and Tiger-Lily Ladd P-Red. There are limited Polled bulls avail-able in the Milking Shorthorn breed. I think Milking Shorthorns have an ad-vantage with the ability to infuse some Red & White Polled genetics into their breeding program. There is a good mix of bulls available for the Red & Whites and it is very limited on the Guernseys. I see the future of Polled continuing to grow. There is a demand for Polled bulls on the commercial market, so we need solid cow families to produce these bulls. We need to continue to de-velop Polled bloodlines that do not sac-rifice type or production or any other traits breeders are looking for to main-tain profitability on their operations.
POLLED HOLSTEINS, SWEDISH RED & MONTBELIARDE
Seagull Bay DairyIdaho, USA
Greg & Gwen Andersen & family Seagull Bay Dairy in American Falls, Idaho is owned by Alan and Norma Andersen, Ben and Robbie Andersen, and Greg and Gwen Andersen. Alan and Norma started the farm in 1980 with 100 cows on 40 acres. Today, our family owns 2 dairies with 2100 mature cows and 1700 heifers. Andersen Dairy in Declo, Idaho is the larger of our two dairies with 1400 milk cows. We have about 100 head of registered Holsteins while the majority of the herd are cross-breds from the Holstein, Montbeliarde, and Swedish Red breeds.
This magazine was developed for those passionate about Polled! In the #PolledPanel feature of #PolledPlace, breeders have the opportunity to share their perspective on Polled. Thank you to these breeders for sharing their Polled story and views on the future of Polled in their respective breeds!
Continued on page 12
#PolledPlace 11More classification photos available on our Facebook page!
Brian & Sue Crull and familyN2552 Balls Mill Road, Monroe, WI 53566Brian: 815-601-3673 Sue: [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/BriarHolsteins
Jessica’s 1st Excellent & She’s Polled!
Other Polled Classification Highlights...Maggie P (Rocco P x VG-87 EX-MS Kite) VG-88 VG-MS *Grand-Dtr of West Port Storm Moira*RC EX
Ariana P (Mitey P x EX-90 Radius) VG-85 *Polled Alchemy Daughter & Polled Epic Save Grand-Dtr
Simi P (Boxer x VG-87 EX-MS Lypoll P) VG-85 VG-88-MS-3Y *Homozygous Polled Ohio Style bull available
Reba P (Observer x EX-91 Debonair) GP-83 VG-85-MS-3Y *Flush-age Homozygous Polled Relief Daughter
Linny P (Gold Chip x September Storm) GP-83-2Y *Just fresh with an Ohio Style heifer!
*Simi P, Reba P & Linny P are owned by B&B Genetics
Else P (Rocco P x Hardwood P) EX-90 EX-92-MS *Polled Daughters by Illegal P, Lou P & Perry P
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#PolledPanel Breeder Perspectives on POLLEDContinued from Page 10 We used Earnhardt-P a couple of years ago on a few of our top females because he was a Polled sire with high production traits. In fact, the #1 Earnhardt son for gTPI is our bull 7HO12389 Seagull-Bay Sheriff (+2481 GTPI), but he isn’t Polled. Although with +81 PTAP, he is still being used some as a mating sire. We are just now really getting a significant number of Polled calves on our farm beginning in the Spring of 2014. This winter there will be some polled donors with our prefix entering our flush program. Our breeding goals include marketing several bulls each year to the AI mar-ket. Including Polled in our program at some level gives us another important trait that could help in marketing some of our sires. Our main breeding philos-ophy for Polled has been to purchase high NM$ Polled females and then breed them to the highest NM$ horned sires with an emphasis on production and fitness. Of note would be MD-Val-leyvue Nuno Kim-ET (+738 NM$) from the same family as the #1 Red proven sire Carson-Red, as well as Bryhill SS Sateen-P (+849 NM$) from the Gold-wyn Soup family. Kim has polled Su-persire and Mogul sons and daughters over +800 NM$ with Balisto calves also now awaiting genomic results. Sateen has calves from Kingboy and Balisto awaiting genomic results while calves
by Delta, Silver and Powerball will be born in the coming months. We have not used many Polled sires on our Polled donors up to this point with the exception of using Ohare-P in 2013 and early 2014 as well as using Powerball-P this past summer. We have Polled offspring from both the Shauna’s and the Seagull-Bay Manat Mirage families. Shauna’s Polled Earnhardt son (Premier P) is at Accelerated Genetics and her grand-son by Earnhardt (Siren-P) is at Inter-national Protein Sires. We are excited to soon begin flushing Seagull-Bay Mi-rage-P who is an Ohare-P daughter of Roorda Obsvr Majic 15272-ET VG-86 X VG Shottle X EX Seagull-Bay Manat Mirage. Mirage-P is +739 NM$ with +63 PTAP and +6.0 PL. The best Polled sires are nice for use as mating sires, but may not get a lot of widespread use because only 50% of their offspring will be Polled. The Holstein breed needs more elite True Polled sires to see more use in the gen-eral population. In the future, I would like to see Homozygous Polled sires with over +60 PTAP, low SCE and NM$ in the 90th percentile. There is great po-tential for breeding Polled into the Hol-stein breed. We are still in the infancy stage right now. Because Polled is a dominant trait, we can make very fast progress with both Polled males and females. I believe it will still be sever-
al years before we see the majority of the breed Polled, but we will certain-ly see the use of Polled sires increase significantly each year. Every AI stud now has a few polled sires featured in their line-up. There will be more rap-id use of Polled genetics in some of the European countries because of the in-creasing cost of dehorning due to strict regulations imposed by some govern-ments on animal agriculture. I am an advocate for both improv-ing the availability of Polled genetics as well as for increasing their popu-larity. However, I make certain not to imply that dehorning is a cruel animal care practice. When done properly, dehorning is quick and effective and causes minimal distress to the calf. It is very important to promote Polled genetics without shining a negative light on current animal care methods. Once there is a large selection of True Polled sires with genetic values close to the best horned sires in each respec-tive breed, then will every dairy farm-er gladly choose Polled over horned. In the meantime, it is not advisable to give up $200-$350 Net Merit dollars for genetically hornless calves. Hopefully, with more Holstein breeders strategi-cally breeding for Polled, we will soon close the genetic merit gap between the horned and the Polled cattle.
Visit the Polled Dairy Cattle Website!#PolledPlace ONLINEA place for people interested in the promotion
and education of Polled Dairy Cattle.
HOW DOES POLLED WORK?AVAILABLE POLLED BULLS
POLLED BREEDERSPOLLED SALES
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GAZELLE’S POLLED GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTERLemajru-N Shamrock Glee P *PO
Glee P calved in September with a POLLED Defender bull!Her sons: Lemajru-N International P-ET*PO +2289GTPI +760NM$
Lemajru-N Ohare Passport P-ET*PO +2067GTPI +620NM$ Lemajru-N Ohare Ticket PP-ET*PP +2049GPTI +575NM$
Lemajru-N Ohare Chicago P-ET*PO +1978GTPI +575NM$Her ONLY daughter: Lemajru-N Ohare Scarlet P-ET*PO +2012GTPI +552NM$
Lemajru Dairy Farm LLCCharles & Julie Nelkie Michael & Abigail O-Farrell
1595 W. State Road, West Branch, MI 48661Phone: 989-345-2255
Email: [email protected] Find us on Facebook!We have POLLED BULLS for sale - give us a call!
Hawksfield FarmsCharles, Henry, Shirley, Diane, Mark, Mary, Grace & Jonathan Sayles
Perry, MichiganEmail: [email protected]
POLLED Dairy Cattle - Ayrshires, Holsteins, Red & Whites and a Jersey
Got Polled Ayrshires?
Elite-Hawk Jessamine PEX-92-2E
6-11 365d 32,409m 3.6 1152f 3.2 1043pEmbryos starting at $300/embryo+shipping
Currently flushing to Maple-Dell Burdette DempseySeveral may be available after November 1st!
Let us know your POLLED AYRSHIRE needs!
Polled Pasture Genetics
POLLED the humane choicePOLLED nature’s dehornerPOLLED the future is now!
Ardachie POLLED JerseysMarton, New Zealand
Email: [email protected]
Ahead of the Field!Delivery to farms in Wisconsin,
Northern Illinois & Eastern IowaContact:
Justin Crull(815) 299-3673
CHAMP P*RC +2358GTPIOUTLINE P +2275GTPI
MONEYBALL P +2206GTPIOUTCOME P +2196GTPI
DOGMA P*RC +2186GTPIOHIO STYLE P +2182GTPIEFFECT P-RED +2097GTPI
APPL JAX P-RED +2068GTPITHOR PP +2032GTPI
DOLO P*RC +2022GTPI*Additional bulls available!
#POLLEDPOWER
3rd Dam: Lemajru-N BW Marshall Gazelle EX-90-2E
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Focus on POLLED sale highlights#PolledPrices
Do you have sale results or upcoming sale highlights to include in this section? Send them to [email protected] by December 20th to be included in the January/February issue.
Polled Sale Consignments57th Pot of Gold Sale
November 8 - Louisville, Kentucky POLLED JERSEY SELLS! - Suess Coamerica Savanah-P EX-92
62nd All American SaleNovember 9 - Louisville, Kentucky SEVERAL POLLED JERSEYS SELL! - 1st Choice Nikon P x Hillview Head- line Keylime-P - #1 CM$ Polled Heifer sells - Faria Brothers Magnum Di Maria-P
Canadian Logic Breeders SaleNovember 12 - Guelph, Ontario
POLLED FROM PRETTY P SELLS! - Dtrs by Alchemy & Colt 45 - Grand-dtrs by Dolo, Effect & Overtime - Embryos by Cash Coin POLLED FROM PARADE P SELLS! - Dtrs by Flame & Colt 45 HOMOZYGOUS POLLED COLT 45 X ROXYS SELLS!
Jetstream Global Greatness Sale November 12 - Toronto, Ontario
#4 GTPI POLLED HEIFER IN THE WORLD SELLS!
Sale of Stars at Royal Winter FairNovember 13 - Toronto, Ontario
#5 GTPI POLLED HEIFER IN THE WORLD SELLS!
Hartford Genomic Extravaganza II Sale November 17 - Rochester, Minnesota MANY HIGH GENOMIC POLLED ANIMALS SELL! Polled from the Silks and many other great cow families sell.
East Coast Breeders Sale November 21 - Lancaster, PA
POLLED RED ROXY SELLS! Ladd P dtr of Kulp-Dale Advent Renn-P-Red EX
Minnesota Fall Harvest SaleNovember 22 - Hutchinson, MN
POLLED EMBRYOS SELL! - Powerball P x Alchemy x Apple - Eraser P x Clerinda Myre Mitey Balti - Colt P x Blue Horizon Pic Pearl-Red
Northwest Stars of the Future SaleNovember 28 - Rochester, Victoria POLLED ADEEN SELLS! Sired by Golden PP.
Holiday Fashions at the Northern December 1 - Fond du Lac, Wisconsin CHASSITY’S POLLED EARNHARDT SELLS! +2006GTPI, bred to Mogul. POLLED RUDY MISSY! Toubib x VG-85 O-Man x Rudy Missy sells. FULL SISTER TO LONG P! Several sell from Ms Rollen-Ns Cam Lexie P VG.
Polled Dairy Cattle #PolledPlace, PO Box 813, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965 Phone: (608) 732-2757 Fax: (608) 237-2310Email: [email protected] Website: www.polleddairycattle.com
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Jersey Polled Genetics - Let Your Imagination Go Wild!
POLLEDJERSEYS
Unlock Your Potential! Taughboyne Jerseys ~ Victoria, Australia ~ [email protected]
Polled TestingThere are 2 independent origins of polled, one found in Hol-stein-Friesian and Jersey breeds (Pf), the other in many Eu-ropean breeds of Celtic origin (Pc) such as Angus, Blonde d’Aquitaine, Dexter, Limousin, Charolais, and Hereford, among others. Polledness is dominant; a polled animal can have one or two copies of the gene. All offspring of a bull with 2 copies of polled (homozygous) will be polled. Genetic testing is a cost-effective means to determine if a polled an-imal has 1 or 2 copies of the gene. The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory offers a test for the polled gene to assist breeders in selecting cattle that have 2 copies of Polled gene. H/H HORNED. No copies of either Polled molecular marker are present.Pf/H POLLED. One copy of the Polled-Friesian molecu-lar marker is present. At least 50% of the offspring will be polled.Pf/Pf POLLED. Two copies of the Polled-Friesian molec-ular marker are present. All offspring will be polled.Pc/H POLLED. One copy of the Polled-Celtic molecu-lar marker is present. At least 50% of the offspring will be polled.Pc/Pc POLLED. Two copies of the Polled-Celtic molecu-lar marker are present. All offspring will be polled.Pc/Pf POLLED. One copy of Polled-Celtic and 1 copy of Polled-Friesian molecular markers are present. All off-spring will be polled.
www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/Polled.php
#PolledPlacings POLLED Sire Rankings
COMING SOON!USDA/CDCB Proof Evaluations
will be released on December 2nd!
Included in the next issue will be the listings of available Polled sires and top rankings of Polled cows/heifers in all breeds. Do you have available Polled sires to include? Do you have high-ranking Polled cows/heifers? Send them to [email protected] by December 15th for the January/Feb-ruary issue of #PolledPlace.
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#PolledPassport Focus on International POLLED
About Göpel Genetik Göpel Genetik is located in Her-leshausen in the middle of Germany. About 100 miles north of Frankfurt am Main and two miles to the former border to East Germany. The AI center was founded in 2002 by the breeder and farmer Karl-Heinrich Göpel and his family. Karl-Heinrich and his wife Ute started to build up a Polled herd in the early 1980s, because Karl-Heinrich felt dehorning was worse than to visit a dentist. He knew that Polled was a dominant trait and thought about us-ing Polled Swedish Red or Norwegian Red breeds to get the Polled gene into his Holstein herd. Then he heard that some units of Burket-Falls Solomon P had been imported into Germany and he bought all 36 units that were avail-able to start his own Polled herd. One or two years later, he used semen of Burket-Falls Polled Tony P. In the late 1990s, Karl-Heinrich and Ute visited Burket Falls Farm and Hickorymea Polled Holsteins and tried to sell polled embryos in Germany, but then there was no market for that. At that time no Herdbook and none of the AI centers in Germany has been inter-ested in Polled breeding. Göpel even had to argue for some time until Polled cattle was labeled with P or PP. The Göpel family then decided to found the first private AI station in Germany to collect and sell Polled bulls. Because it is not allowed to have cows next to an AI station, Karl-Heinrich had to sell his milking herd. Since the beginning, there are now more than 100 Polled Holstein Sires that have been collected or imported and their semen has been made available for breeders. With a
new German breeding law in 2006, it became very difficult for a private AI center to make bulls available. In that year, WWS Germany and WWS Ltd. became shareholders of Göpel Gene-tik. In that time, Göpel collected semen of the former #1 bull Snowman, ALH Duke and ALH Dakota. With genomic testing in 2010 it became easier, even though up to today breeders and pri-vate AI stations are not able to have bulls genomic tested in Germany on their own. That is a strong handicap for breeding development, especially if it is not mainstream breeding, like focusing on Polled breeding. In 2011, Göpel decided to buy back the shares and son Micha who has accompanied
the business during his university time became official shareholder and this made Göpel Genetik a complete family run business again. In 2012, Karl-Heinrich was one of the members of a group with scientists from the University of Munich publish-ing an article about the location of the celtic and friesian Polled genes. This group also developed on the basis of a collection by Göpel of semen by Polled bulls a very successful Polled test. Since the beginning, Göpel Gene-tik also imported interesting Polled bulls from the United States and oth-er parts of the world. Bulls in the early days included Taurus bulls- Burket-Falls Polled Plus P, Burket-
In 2002, Karl-Heinrich Göpel, his wife Ute and son Micha founded Göpel Genetik, the 1st private German AI company to collect & sell Polled bulls.
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Göpel Genetik - Germany by Stephanie Stout
Falls Priority PP-Red, Burket-Falls For-tify P-Red or Wille Perplex P-Red from KI Samen in the Netherlands. Many of the more recent Göpel Genetik bulls trace back to Aggrava-tion Lawn Boy P-Red, West Port Arron Doon Mitey P and the WS Mabelpoll P family. Currently, they have import-ed Lirr Option PP and Pine-Tree Ohio Style P from DairyBullsOnline.com. A new Polled sire that has just started production is Baltimore PP (+1992 GTPI), the #1 GTPI PP in Ger-many and possibly the #1 GTPI PP in Europe. Even though there is an em-phasis on Holsteins, Göpel Genetik tries to find Polled bulls in every breed. In doing this, Göpel Genetik is able to offer the largest scale of Polled dairy and beef breeds in Europe. Like Valc PP (#2 Fleckvieh PP bull in Europe), Linus PP (former #1 Jersey PP bull), Vasient P (#1 Brown Swiss Polled bull in Europe). They also offer several beef breeds with Homozygous Polled Blonde d’Aquitaine or Dexter bulls. For more than 10 years now, Karl-Heinrich has been giving speech-es to groups of farmers, technicians, veterinarians and university students about Polled breeding. Even though Polled is much better known by now and Polled cattle reach high prices at
auctions, there are still many people, that don’t know about the great effect of Polled breeding and that Polled ani-mals have not been genetically manip-ulated. Now as Polled bulls become more and more available by several AI com-panies, Göpel Genetik emphasizes
to bring less used Polled blood lines into the breed to create outcross and increase their quality, which will also be an important task for future Polled breeding.
Visit www.goepelgenetik.de or www.horn-los.de for more information.
Beautiful view from Göpel Genetik
HGG Santa Fe P*RC from Göpel Genetik
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#PolledPastimes Burket Falls Farm - Dave Burket by Roy MacGregor Dave Burket has always been pas-sionate about Polled, and for 50 years he has tried to make Polled spread. He always claimed it was easy to do because Polled is a dominant trait. He believed it was something we would need in the future. Polled is “The solu-tion to your horny problems” he said, but for 50 years the experts tried to con-vince us that Dave Burket was wasting his time. Not good enough they said. Polled is related to beef they said. (Not True) More important things to do they said. Regardless of their claims, Dave continued to breed for Polled, not be-cause it was popular, fashionable, or because he thought they were supe-rior. He simply bred them because he liked them. They gave him pleasure. He liked that they were hornless. He liked that he didn’t have to do that job. He liked that they were different. He believed it was a good idea. He spent hours and hours doing free consulting, and talking about Polled. Although not everybody cared, there were enough people that did. With Dave Burket’s passion alone, the Polled gene spread. Once formulas and indexes were de-signed for the masses, it became very difficult for anyone breeding anything outside of the box to rank. It wasn’t just Polled breeders that suffered, those breeding show cows, Red & Whites or
outcross struggled too, as a system de-signed for the mass-es undervalued the unique. Despite the critics, Dave and his son John persisted. Burkets have bred an amazing herd with different lines with generations of VG and EX. Burket Falls Farm have collected bulls over the years to market to those that liked what they had. They have built a small business supplying them with semen. Slowly but surely the Polled gene spread. Even though the Polled population was small, making it hard to break through, Ed Johnson finally bred a Polled bull that made the top ranks. Number 16 on the TPI list was cause for celebration, those breeding Polled now knew their genetics could compare. Unfortunately the stigma on Polled meant Hickorymea Oswald P was not a bull they could sell to everyone. He is just a fluke they said. Not good enough yet they said. More im-portant things to breed for they said. However there were enough breeders who cared, and believed he was worth it that Oswald P helped the Polled gene spread. Next came a Polled bull who was bred by Robert Feldwisch. A bull no stud wanted. Why Red and Polled they said. That stuff just isn’t good enough. We can’t sell that to everybody, we can only sell it to a few. Well Robert didn’t care what they said, and although it took a lot of work from him, and a few others Aggravation Lawn Boy P Red finally did make it, and one more bull helped the Polled gene spread. (Read Fred Hendricks Lawn Boy Story in the July/August issue of #PolledPlace) Despite the critics and the warn-ings Dave and Ed persisted, and then one day along came a daughter of Bur-ket-Falls Perk P-Red. With seven EX dams from the Roxy’s behind her, she was special right from the start, but unfortunately it was her numbers that
mattered. Thankfully Gary and Nate Janssen of Golden Oaks Farm had a passion for breeding and the good sense to see that she had a trait for the future that breed-ers may need. So regardless of her rank they, like Dave and Ed before them cre-ated ‘Art’ and very special cow named Golden-Oaks Perk Rae P-Red helped spread the Polled gene around the world. For Dave Burket and others, Polled was their reason to get up in the morn-ing. These breeders were willing to trade in the numbers and the fools gold for a gene they felt had real value. It turns out they were right all along. Almost every single Polled female on earth traces back to a bull from the Burket Falls herd. Without their effort, without that work, Polled would have been lost forever. Now after 50 years of ignoring Polled, because it wasn’t good enough DNA proof shows less then one gen-eration is all that separates the Polled minority from the main stream (less than 9 months). Genomics is playing a huge role in why Polled is now spread-ing, and Polled is now bred into many world famous families. We now even see Polled coming from million dollar cows! There are still those today that stig-matize Polled. Regardless of their ef-forts, like it or not, its no longer a ques-tion of when, or if, but how long will it be, before the ‘Art’ this humble breeder created touches every single one of us?
Thanks Dave Burket!
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Choice PP*RC94HO1772521 Genetics
HO CAN 108502640 DOB: 7/18/2013 aAa: 342 DMS: 234,123Earnhardt P x Colt P-Red x SHOTTLE x Champion
Bred by: 21 Century Genetics, Frenchfort, PE
Choice PP’s Dam
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Homozygous Polled & RC+1941GTPI +370NM$
+961M +46F +41P+2.15T +1.83UDC +1.33FLCFrom the Chassity cow family
Goldwyn-free pedigreeGreat cross on Apple bloodlines
SireDa-So-Burn MOM Earnhardt PDamMs Chassity Colt Caser P*RCGrandamRegancrest S Chassity EX-92 GMD DOM3-10 365d 42,280m 4.3% 1798f 2.7% 1150pHolstein Int’l Global Cow of the Year 20113rd DamRegancrest Cinderella EX-92-2E GMD DOM5-00 365d 34,220m 4.1% 1418f 2.9% 1009p4th DamRegancrest-PR Barbie EX-92 GMD DOM2-06 365d 31,690m 3.9% 1237f 3.1% 990pHM All-American Junior 3-Year-Old5th DamRegancrest Juror Brina EX-92 DOM4-04 365d 40,640m 3.6% 1478f 3.0% 1217p6th DamRegancrest Aerostar Bert EX-90 GMD DOM7th DamRegancrest Mark Chairman Bea 2E-91 GMD DOM8th DamRegancrest Board Chairman Bea EX-90
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Polled Jersey Breeders Recognized at World Dairy Expo 2014
Information provided by Polled Jerseys - www.polledjerseys.com
WORLD DAIRY EXPODAIRYMAN OF THE YEAR
James HuffardVirginia, USA
James S. Huffard III of Crockett, Vir-ginia received the World Dairy Expo Dairyman of the Year award at the annual Dinner With The Stars on Wednesday evening, October 1st. Rec-ognized for the effective breeding pro-gram he has directed at Huffard Dairy Farms since completing his B.S. degree in dairy science at Virginia Tech in 1975 and taking on a management role in his family’s operation, he is noted as the breeder of Schultz Legal Critic-P, the most influential polled genomic young sire in Jersey breed history. His part-nership with Dr. Joe Lineweaver in the Fairway Jerseys syndicate also brought the widespread influence of Adonis Dally of Ash-Go-P into the breed as an AI bull mother. Earlier bulls of breed-wide impact from the Huffard herd include Schultz Performing Legend and Schultz Brook Hallmark. Having served in every leadership role avail-able from state to national levels in the Jersey breed, Huffard is presently the Vice-President of National All-Jersey (NAJ), having earlier served as Presi-dent of the American Jersey Cattle As-sociation (AJCA). In recent years he has expanded his family’s dairy enterprise by establishing Duchess Dairy, a part-nership with two other nearby Regis-tered Jersey™ breeders, where milk from these three herds is processed, to provide area families with milk and dairy products under the All-Jersey Queen of Quality® label.
NATIONAL DAIRY SHRINEDISTINGUISHED DAIRY
CATTLE BREEDERDutch Hollow Farm LLC
New York, USADutch Hollow Farm LLC, Schodack Landing, New York – owned and op-erated by Paul and Melanie Chittenden and their sons Brian, Alan and Nathan – received the National Dairy Shrine
Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award during that organization’s an-nual awards banquet on Thursday evening, October 2nd. Building on the legacy of breeding polled Registered Jerseys™ that began with Paul’s par-ents Stanley & Jane Chittenden at Fair Weather Farms in New Lebanon, New York, today the Dutch Hollow prefix is readily recognized as a leader in providing polled Registered Jersey™ genetics, nationally and international-ly. From the outset of founding Dutch Hollow in 1976, the family philosophy for a profitable dairy operation has been that “A cow was put on this earth for one reason – to produce milk. She doesn’t have to be ugly to do it and it is better if she is born without horns.” Those who study Jersey pedigrees and track influential cow families recognize that the maternal sisters Dutch Hollow Lester Mischief-P-ET and Dutch Hol-low S Joe Mistress-P were pivotal cows in propagating the polled influence breed-wide, with “Lester Mischief-P-ET” being the dam of several influen-tial polled bulls in AI service, as well as having daughters and maternal grand-daughters who became successful AI bull mothers, while a daughter of “S Joe Mistress-P” – Dutch Hollow Barber Milady-P-ET – became the founding matriarch for the polled influence at Den-Kel Jerseys, from which numerous prominent polled Registered Jersey™ bulls have appeared on the Active AI list. The Chittenden family has long been active in leadership roles within the US dairy industry and the Jersey breed, starting with Stanley (Paul’s father) serving as AJCC Director and President. Paul also served in both roles, and Alan (the third generation) is now serving his first term on the AJCA Board of Directors. The latest dairy in-dustry innovation pioneered at Dutch Hollow is the Dutch Hollow Education Center, established in 2011. Building on her background as a teacher, Beth (Brian’s wife) manages this operation, where pre-school and elementary
school students take part in hands-on activities that were developed to sup-port the New York state education cur-riculum standards in science and math.
NATIONAL DAIRY SHRINEPROGRESSIVE DAIRY MANAGER
GRANT (under 300 cows)Amanda Stiles Lutz
South Carolina, USAAmanda Stiles Lutz, Her-Man Jer-seys, Chester, South Carolina was recognized during the National Dairy Shrine Awards Banquet as the small herd size (under 300 cows) recipient of the Progressive Dairy Manager grant, an educational travel award designed to encourage young dairy producers to attend structured events that will broaden their outlook in pursuing op-portunities for developing more prof-itable dairy operations. Establishing their herd by combining the animals that Amanda and her husband had each accumulated during their respec-tive years of participation in Jersey Youth activities, she manages and op-erates the herd while he is employed full-time in the AI industry on the na-tional level. The most influential polled Registered Jersey™ bull bred to date in this herd is Her-Man Eclipes Master-P, available as a genomic young sire and being used as a “sire father” for AI sons. As a direct maternal descendant of the iconic Tenn Haug E Maid, his dam came to the Her-Man herd as an investment in genetic merchandising, and was bred to a prominent polled bull to capitalize on the interest in polled genetics, producing “Master-P”. Amanda’s track record of involvement in state and national Jersey and gener-al agricultural organization activities was also cited in her selection for this award, noting that she is President of the South Carolina Jersey Cattle Asso-ciation, is active in the South Carolina Young Farmers organization, and has chaired the AJCA National Jersey Jug Futurity Committee.
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Sateen P BRYHILL SS SATEEN-P+849NM$ +905CM$ +2440GTPI
+5.5PL 2.62SCS +2.90PTATSupersire x VG-87 Shottbolt Sizzle x 84 Goldwyn Soup
COMING SOON!Genomics on her 2 Polled Daughters
Sateen P is sure to have a HUGE impact on the breed! With ELITE NM$ and a Lawn Boy P-free pedigree, Sateen P has both Polled and horned offspring that are in HIGH DEMAND!
Halogen Dtr +2570GTPI +913NM$Halogen Son +2477GTPI (both horned)
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#PolledPlatformThe Power of Polled Promotion
Hard to believe this is the last issue of 2014! I would like to say THANK YOU to those that advertised in the first year of #PolledPlace! Your support of my dream of promoting Polled certainly does not go un-noticed. Special THANK YOU to those that were con-tract advertisers in 2014 - Andersonville Dairy, April Day, Ardachie Polled Jerseys, Briar Holsteins/B&B Genetics, DairyBullsOnline.com, GGI/AgLink, Lemajru Dairy Farm, Rol-len N’s Dairy, Taughboyne Jerseys, Warrencrest Holsteins, Westdama/Pole Position Genetics and Yoder Family Farm/GA-IL Holsteins! I enjoyed seeing so many Polled breeders at World Dairy Expo! It’s al-ways nice to put a face to the person on the other end of the phone or email conversation. My highlight this year was having not one, but two Polled breeders tell me that they will be LIFETIME ADVERTISERS in #Polled-Place! These breeders have a strong belief that the future of the dairy in-dustry WILL BE POLLED! Don’t miss out on the first issue of 2015! New year, new feature, new #PolledPlacings rankings! Ad reservation deadline is December 20th.
#PolledPlace On the Road Watch for #PolledPlace at these events in November and December! November 17 - Hartford Genomic Extravaganza II Sale - Rochester, MN
November 19 - Northeast Iowa Community College - Calmar, IANovember 22 - Minnesota Fall Harvest Sale - Hutchinson, MN
November 23 - Meeker County Holstein Meeting - Eden Valley, MNDecember 4&5 - Illinois Senior Holstein Convention - St. Charles, IL
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#PolledPredictions for 2015 As 2014 is coming to a close, now is the time to look forward to the new year! Do you make new year’s resolutions? What is your new year’s reso-lution for Polled? What do you predict for Polled in 2015? Would you like to promote your Polled genetics in 2015? In the first issue of 2015, there will be a NEW section of #PolledPlace! #PolledPredictions is YOUR place to share thoughts and opinions on Polled. Ring in the New Year with POLLED!
Stephanie Stout Editor
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endureth forever. Psalm 107:1
We are a family farm established in 1985 in the Finger Lakes region of New York
A Look Around Rollen N’s Dairy
100% of our animalsare Red or Red Carrier
& over 90% of our milking herd is Red
Over 50% of our herd is now Polled including
a growing number ofHomozygous Polled females, which will increase our Polled
percent in the next few years.
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100% Polled Calves GuaranteedRokeyroad RASCAL PP-RC +2053GTPI +437NM$ +1054M +96CFP +2.73PTATAndersonville 241 PP-RED +2033GTPI +569NM$ +1621M +69CFP +1.44PTATTom-Anna THOR PP +2032GTPI +473NM$ +1037M +95CFP +2.29PTATMr Rollen Ns LUMBER PP-RC +1957GTPI +357NM$ +1014M +83CFP +2.42PTATTom-Anna STAMP PP +1934GTPI +461NM$ +1386M +92CFP +1.51PTATLirr OPTION PP +1934GTPI +434NM$ +649M +73CFP +2.22PTATOur Top 6 PP Bulls Average: +1991GTPI +455NM$ +1127M +85CFP +2.10PTAT
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