Sire Directory 20212021 SIRE SUMMARY AUGUST 2020 US BASBASEE , MASTERRIND in Germany Lower Saxony Saxony- Anhalt Saxony Nückel Hamburg Bad Zwischenahn Bremen Verden Haselünne farmers and final customers. We will update you and provide more details via specific Hanover Magdeburg Halle Leipzig Meißen Dresden Hohenfichte [email protected] www.masterrind.com Meet our MASTERRIND-Team Meet our MASTERRIND-Team Anja Heckel Monika Guth Volker Meins Diana Walter Melanie Brak Kira Dömland Dr. Alex Bauer Steffen Feurich Almut Averbeck Dr. Matthias Riedl M K D D Dear Friends, Partners & Customers, MASTERRIND is proud to present the new Sire Salvo RDC underlining the fundamental power of Directory 2021, offering a superior selection of our Red breeding program. Holstein sires from Germany‘s Premier Holstein Because animal health is of utmost importance, we Breeding Program with their breeding values ex- continue to publish the top bulls for the important pressed using the US base. Our large international German Total Health Index (RZHealth) in this cata- breeding program sources bulls from the very best logue on page 5. Further, we have marked bulls with cow families worldwide. Besides the routine testing a high resistance to the most common hoof disease, we do using the German RZG or other European digital dermatitis or hairy foot warts, with the “DD bases, we are also frequently analysing our bulls control” logo. The top 10 % of bulls carry the highest on the US base to allow for an attractive offering for label “DD premium” while the 25 % best bulls show those customers, who are selecting on German as the label “DD control”. well as the US scale. Besides the overall attractive genomic bull line up Since genetic progress and farm profitability are we are also featuring our top daughter proven bulls essential for today’s dairy producers all around the (MASTERPROVEN) using the US base. These bulls world, we continue our precise selection to breed for have successfully confirmed their worth with solid long lasting, trouble free dairy cows, who produce proofs based on high daughter numbers. well under most type of management conditions. Whether you strive to improve milk production, milk Once again, a fine selection of polled Jersey sires solids, breed for smaller stature cows with a high complements our overall offering. productive life or particularly focus on cow health Please also note that the August 2020 Sire Summary and a better reproductive performance of your herd in the USA has seen an adjustment in the pheno- we are confident that your needs will be met. typic base of calving traits. This led to a significantly decrease of all calving values to a new mean of Furthermore, MASTERRIND is convinced that the 2.2 % for sire calving ease (SCE) and 2.7 % for advantages of using Polled genetics are manifold daughter calving ease (DCE) among bulls. This fact and that the future will be in using homozygous needs to be considered when comparing the August Polled sires (PP). Therefore we continue to enhance 2020 US calving figures of a MASTERRIND bull with our Polled line-up and are proud to offer the world’s its US figures from the April Sire Summery 2020. best trio of high GTPI Hotspot sons all making 100% hornless calves, plus carrying the sought after Casein Team MASTERRIND hopes you will enjoy studying genotype combination BB and A2/A2 at the same our new 2021 Sire Directory on the US base and time (see page 34/35). we wish you the greatest success with selecting the sires that meet the criteria of your personal breeding With the new US base edition, we are also excited goal and that will allow for a profitable future in dairy to deliver a group of breed leading Red & White production. sires, including the current #2 and #5 of the Top 100 Red genomic young bull list in August 2020 plus 10 additional genomic Red & White bulls over 2500 GTPI. Several of those are sired by our own popular Almut Averbeck Dr. Matthias Riedl MASTERGEN bulls like Gywer RDC, Spark Red or Division Manager International Sales Head of Semen Export Department 1 YOUR »MASTERpiece« WHEN IT COMES TO TYPE AND UDDER Ptit Coeur Doorman DARLINGO EX-91 Doormann x DH Gold Chip Darling EX-96 | A2/A2 | aAa 243615 | CH 120121465150 Emalie VG-85 (Germany, right); Giessen Gorgeous (Netherlands, left) Photos: Wolfhard Schulze 2 Table of Contents Sire Special Genotypes ID-No. Page Sire Special Genotypes ID-No. Page MASTERGEN Holsteins Black & White MASTERGEN Holsteins Black & White SE X ED SE X ED Topmodel AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 DEU 14 05290977 28 Belcanto AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 05 40252566 8 SE X ED Oh DG Topstone AVAILABLE BB NLD 07 15952290 29 Benwick DEU 09 54382841 8 Wendland Holsteins Yonder BB DEU 03 61214602 29 Wendland Holsteins Benzko BB A2/A2 DEU 03 61214594 9 Bomaz Yourbest USA 32 06093990 30 Bongani DEU 14 05723149 9 Yukon BB A2/A2 DEU 03 61395670 30 OCD Boundless USA 32 09343490 10 MASTERGEN Holsteins Red & White Sächsische Holst. Auligk Capetown DEU 14 05723654 10 SE X ED SE X ED Kenmore Avance-Red AVAILABLE USA 31 43029864 36 Hul-Stein Crownmax AVAILABLE NLD 05 88627231 11 SE X ED Höven Holsteins Avatar Red AVAILABLE DEU 03 60940067 31 SE X ED Ptit Coeur Doorman Darlingo AVAILABLE A2/A2 CHE 12 01 21465150 31 Aprilday Avid Red USA 32 01598550 36 Aardema Dateless USA 31 48280154 11 SE X ED Loh Dice Red AVAILABLE DEU 03 59824500 32 SE X ED Bomaz Eldon USA 31 46923064 12 Grando Red AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 62097590 37 SE X ED Rinderzuchtbetrieb Hellwig Marco Red A2/A2 DEU 06 67321608 37 Emoji AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 59824822 12 SE X ED MBL Mars Red P A2/A2 DEU 12 69545653 33 Sandy-Valley Ettrick AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 31 40616234 13 SE X ED Sächsische Holst. Auligk Pan Red PP AVAILABLE DEU 14 05290964 35 SE X ED Wendland Holsteins Franky AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 61214674 13 R DG Pargo Red BB NLD 05 94341309 38 SE X ED Niermann-Schiplage Haggai PP AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 DEU 03 61080168 34 Hainichen Pappendorf Holst. Parino Red DEU 14 04580611 38 Kings-Ransom G Himark USA 31 39851225 14 Sudena Safari Red NLD 06 67959244 39 SE X ED Misnia Holsteins Hobbit PP BB A2/A2 DEU 14 05898535 34 Sam Red P AVAILABLE DEU 03 61789760 33 Jook Save Red USA 32 07082532 39 Wesselcrest Hooked A2/A2 USA 31 43660048 14 Nosbisch Holsteins Solito Red DEU 07 70599024 40 SE X ED Hotbull PP AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 DEU 14 05889330 35 SE X ED DG Col Spark Red AVAILABLE BB NLD 08 83219744 40 SE X ED Hainichen Pappendorf Holst. Hubertus BB A2/A2 DEU 14 04580635 15 Speedy Red AVAILABLE DEU 03 60889156 41 SE X ED Sanderij Stern Red SE X ED BB NLD 06 68111302 41 Jook Huey Humphrey AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 31 51767568 15 AVAILABLE SE X ED Plain-Knoll Hurley AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 31 49934625 16 MASTERPROVEN Holsteins Black & White SE X ED Ladys-Manor Hurricane AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 USA 31 45285423 16 SE X ED Niermann-Schiplage Baldur AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 DEU 03 57640608 42 SE X ED Wilder Jonathan AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 05 39855584 17 Reinermann Rüsfort Bestboss A2/A2 DEU 03 57196821 42 SE X ED Larcrest Kenley AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 31 41227755 17 SE X ED Koesters Checkpoint AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 58740721 43 SE X ED Kings-Ransom Kindheart A2/A2 USA 32 03361412 18 Heidenskipster Kingman AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 NLD 09 20855490 43 SE X ED SE X ED Kingsley A2/A2 DEU 03 58388697 44 Genesland KingMaster AVAILABLE BB DEU 05 40983744 32 AVAILABLE SE X ED Kioto DEU 14 04580557 44 Sandy-Valley Kodiak AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 USA 31 48929242 18 SE X ED Vendairy Lendary AVAILABLE BB NLD 09 19137806 45 SE X ED Welcome Leading AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 32 06963786 19 SE X ED Benninghoff Holsteins Missan AVAILABLE DEU 03 58162492 45 Lenovo DEU 14 04580609 19 Reinermann Rüsfort Playoff A2/A2 DEU 03 58633620 46 SE X ED Kings-Ransom License BB A2/A2 USA 32 05611043 20 Herman Meyer Oberende Silverstar AVAILABLE DEU 03 57780149 46 SE X ED Bacon-Hill Montgomery BB A2/A2 USA 31 38817693 20 Lis-Leck Souki AVAILABLE LUX 01 99442868 47 Hof am Sylvert Sylvert A2/A2 DEU 01 21814251 47 Mr. Future BB A2/A2 DEU 07 70655510 21 Wendland Holsteins Promotion A2/A2 DEU 03 61214538 21 MASTERPROVEN Holsteins Red & White SE X ED Wendland Holsteins Proximo AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 61214527 22 SE X ED Arino Red AVAILABLE DEU 14 04867415 48 Mr Ragen Radcliff USA 31 43160060 22 SE X ED Stantons Eloped Red AVAILABLE BB CAN 00 11872867 48 SE X ED SE X ED Matcrest Rock On AVAILABLE BB USA 31 40239448 23 Step Red AVAILABLE DEU 03 56650139 49 SE X ED SE X ED Sunset Red AVAILABLE A2/A2 DEU 03 58241694 49 Bomaz Rockstone AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 USA 31 46923037 23 SE X ED Salvo RDC AVAILABLE DEU 03 59821287 24 Jersey SE X ED Sandy-Valley Ek Savant AVAILABLE A2/A2 USA 31 48929305 24 SE X ED Rose Callenberg Crystal P-ET AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 DEU 05 39873090 52 SE X ED JC-Kow Skydancer AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 USA 31 50905530 25 SE X ED River Valley NBrazil Saxxon-P-ET AVAILABLE BB A2/A2 USA 31 33234518 52 Skydoc BB A2/A2 DEU 03 61913069 25 Stantons Skyscraper BB CAN 00 13198664 26 All Holstein bulls offered in the 2021 Sire Directory have tested free (non-carriers) of the genetic recessives BLAD, Brachyspina, CVM and CDH.