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Sons of O-Bee Manfred Justice Enter the PLI Rankings
13/01/09

New excitement in the world of Holstein breeding has emerged with the publication of the January ’09 genetic indexes today (13 January), as sons of the renowned O-Bee Manfred Justice start to gain their own proofs.

An O-Bee Manfred Justice daughter
An O-Bee Manfred Justice daughter

The most promising of these makes his debut well within the DairyCo breeding+ top 10 Profitable Lifetime Index ranking and just a few places below his famous father.

But remarkably, O-Bee Manfred Justice himself (otherwise known as O-Man) holds his number one position with little close competition, his PLI of 267 representing a further improvement on his previous performance and largely reflecting a strengthening of his daughter Fertility Index (FI) to +1.6.

There are increasing numbers of lifespan, fertility and overall ‘fitness’ improvers high in the rankings, according to Marco Winters, director of DairyCo breeding+, who says there is plentiful choice for the producers who are keen to improve these important traits.

“All of the top 10 PLI sires are cow survival improvers as measured by the Lifespan Index (LS), and as a group, they also improve daughter fertility, with an average Fertility Index of +1.9,” says Mr Winters.

Topping the lifespan improvers is the second placed PLI sire Laudan, with daughters surviving nearly a full lactation longer than the average cow, as indicated by his LS score of +0.8 lactations. Laudan has improved 15 points on PLI since the last proof run in August ’08, to 229. His daughter survival is no surprise, as this bull is a fitness specialist who reduces daughter somatic cell counts, improves daughter fertility and transmits good legs and mammary traits.

Number three is Wizzard, who at +40.9 kg of fat is the best fat improver of the bunch.

Re-entering the top 10 in fourth place, adding 14 points to his PLI to reach 205, is the popular Braedale Goldwyn. This type specialist at +3.6 Type Merit has a no-holes proof combined with one of the best daughter SCC scores in the top list at
-22.

Remaining in fifth place is Leif, again with very strong fitness traits.

The highest new entry is the first of the new O-Man sons, the sixth placed
Wa-Del Hayden. Out of a Mtoto dam, and with an impressive -22 SCC, +0.2 Lifespan and an incredible +4.0 Fertility Index, this bull seems to have inherited all of the strong fitness characteristics of his sire, which he combines with a strong Type Merit of +1.6, which arguably is more characteristic of his maternal grandsire.

“There are likely to be more O-Man sons coming through in the near future as AI companies announce their marketing strategies, but our lists today only include bulls which are already being actively marketed,” remarks Mr Winters.

In seventh place is Jardin and climbing into the top 10 this time are Gibor, Jobess and Klassic Merrill Lynch – the latter with a FI of +7.3, making him the best daughter fertility improver of the top bulls. In equal 10th place with Merrill Lynch is Janthur, who matches his PLI of 187.

The highest British bred bulls are equal 14th placed Burlane Tennyson who improves his previous PLI by 10 points and Bilsrow Jock, both at PLI 179.

Other British interest can be found at numbers 23 and 28 with new entries of Lookout son - Richley S S Lookout (171 PLI) and Courier son – Cogent Easter (PLI 167).

Commenting on the rankings, Mr Winters says: “With the formula for PLI having been significantly changed in 2007, the featured bulls are no longer necessarily those with the highest production, but more a reflection of the balanced approach to breeding this index was designed to support. Further evidence of this is the fact that the highest production bull now no longer ranks in the top 50 available PLI bulls.”

A list of the top 30 available Holstein bulls ranked on the latest PLI (January 2009) is below.

Rank

PLI

Bull name

Rel %

Milk kg

Fat kg

Ptn kg

Fat %

Ptn %

SCC

LS

PIN

FI

TM

Supp-lier

1

267

O-BEE MANFRED JUSTICE

98

704

31.8

28.0

0.06

0.06

-21

0.6

54

1.6

0.5

DD

2

229

LAUDAN

94

642

22.1

20.9

-0.03

0.00

-10

0.8

36

1.0

2.4

BUL

3

208

WIZZARD

74

585

40.9

22.0

0.23

0.04

4

0.2

55

-2.1

1.1

ALT

4

205

BRAEDALE GOLDWYN

99

417

24.4

15.9

0.11

0.03

-22

0.4

35

-0.5

3.6

SMX

5

199

LEIF

93

264

25.6

11.6

0.20

0.04

-21

0.5

33

4.2

1.3

BUL

6

197

 WA-DEL HAYDEN-ET

70

614

28.9

19.0

0.07

-0.01

-22

0.2

39

4.0

1.6

GEN

7

194

JARDIN

74

472

20.6

25.1

0.03

0.12

10

0.2

47

1.7

1.6

BUL

8

189

GIBOR

83

529

11.0

18.2

-0.11

0.01

-21

0.7

26

3.0

1.4

BUL

9

188

JOBESS

74

697

29.1

22.7

0.03

0.00

-11

0.3

43

-2.3

1.2

DD

10=

187

KLASSIC MERRILL LYNCH 

98

269

19.8

14.4

0.12

0.07

-6

0.4

33

7.3

0.8

BUL

10=

187

JANTHUR

72

239

34.6

9.6

0.33

0.02

-12

0.3

38

3.3

1.0

BUL

12=

181

MASCOL

81

371

23.5

18.5

0.12

0.08

-19

0.2

40

-2.6

2.1

BUL

12=

181

ALPAG IRON ACTIVE

77

556

25.3

16.7

0.05

-0.02

-11

0.4

34

2.6

1.2

DD

14=

179

URNIETA ZELATI II

99

264

36.0

12.0

0.33

0.04

-17

0.3

42

-4.1

1.0

WWS

14=

179

BURLANE TENNYSON

95

773

27.5

21.8

-0.02

-0.04

-7

0.2

38

2.6

1.4

GEN

14=

179

BILSROW JOCK

94

516

30.3

22.4

0.13

0.07

-10

0.0

49

-0.7

0.4

COG

17

178

JANGO

70

718

24.6

24.4

-0.03

0.02

0

-0.1

42

3.1

3.4

DD

18

177

TELEMARK

74

142

26.5

13.7

0.27

0.12

0

0.3

41

-2.2

1.7

FTF

19=

176

COMESTAR EXPORT

99

336

23.3

13.0

0.13

0.03

-9

0.4

32

2.7

1.6

SMX

19=

176

RAMOS

97

265

10.6

10.0

0.01

0.02

-26

0.7

18

3.7

2.2

ALT

21

175

IJSSELVLIEDT BREAKOUT

99

28

25.4

10.8

0.32

0.13

6

0.3

38

2.7

0.9

ALT

22

173

DELTA PERIDOT

97

202

29.7

12.4

0.28

0.08

13

0.2

40

4.4

1.1

GEN

23=

171

LANCELOT

99

377

17.2

20.8

0.04

0.11

7

0.4

39

-1.0

0.9

ALT

23=

171

RICHLEY S S LOOKOUT

91

595

21.4

22.8

-0.01

0.04

-10

0.1

40

1.0

1.2

GEN

25

169

JURUS

73

474

23.5

17.6

0.07

0.03

-26

0.0

36

1.5

2.3

BUL

26=

168

USONET FIN

73

949

28.3

30.3

-0.09

0.00

0

0.0

49

-1.3

0.2

FTF

26=

168

ENSENADA TABOO PLANET

69

937

25.6

25.9

-0.12

-0.05

-9

0.3

39

-4.4

1.4

DD

28=

167

COGENT EASTER

79

538

18.1

22.5

-0.03

0.06

2

0.2

38

-1.6

2.4

COG

28=

167

BOBAS

72

697

18.0

23.0

-0.10

0.01

-16

0.4

35

-3.2

1.1

BUL

30

166

EMIL II

74

374

22.6

17.9

0.11

0.07

2

0.3

39

-1.9

1.4

BUL

ALT = Alta; BUL = bullsemen.com; COG = Cogent; DD = DairyDaughters; FTF = FarmerToFarmer; GEN = Genus; SMX = Semex; WWS = World Wide Sires UK.

FI = Fertility Index; LS = Lifespan Index; PIN = Profit Index; SCC = Somatic Cell Count Index; TM = Type Merit.

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