The Top 20 Heifers from the Aug 09 Dairy Co Rankings

These 20 heifers all have a £PLI of more than +£120 which places in them in the top 5% of the breed genetically and the 19 that have been classified average 82.6 points which will be about 4 points better than the breed average. 12 of the heifers are appearing for the first time whilst the other 8 have all improved their figures since the April proof run.

Number 4 in this Series is Clay Hill Alice. She was one of a number of in calf heifers bred in East Kent by the Solley’s. She was purchased by Phil and Poppet Foord for their Clay Hill herd and is now milking in her 7th lactation.

These 29 cows and heifers are taken from the April 2009 Dairy Co list of top cows and have a £PLI score of more than +£150.

The average for the 29 is as follows

Dairy Co released the revised proofs in early April 09 and there are 25 heifers listed in the Top 1000 with a GMI of +350, 6 of these were in the January list but their figures have all risen.

For the first time there are heifers with GMI’s of over +500 and heading the list is Brymor Peggy 24 whose GMI has risen by +65 to +554 GMI. This daughter of Helium is a granddaughter of Brymor Peggy 9 EX90 who was probably the best daughter of Sagittarius. Peggy 24 is the 4th generation of the cow family to be Good Plus or better.

The second heifer with a GMI of over +500 is Blacknor Margaret 160, a Tiresford Pedro daughter classified H86 and she was Heifer Champion at the Bath & West in 2008 and is the third generation VG, her GMI +541.

Number Three in this series is Tiresford Posie 2, she has recently been classified EX 93 and is now in her 6th lactation. She has done over 40 thousand Kgs Lifetime and has a index within the herd of 123.

The second cow in this series is Nuthurst Princess 584, she is one of two Nuthurst cows in the Jan 09 Dairy Co top 1000 with more than eight calves.

There are 14 Guernsey heifers in the January 09 Dairy Co rankings that have a GMI of more than +350, they are sired by 9 different sires and the list is dominated by 6 daughters of Trotacre Jay Mr Luck in the Briddlesford herd.

One of the strengths of the Guernsey Breed is the ability of some of the females to go on and on and on, seem to remember another famous Lady making some such statement.

Females with GMI’s of more than 350 Jan 09

Click on the highlighted names to be taken direct to CDI pedigree details.

 There are 118 Females with more than +350 GMI in the Jan 09 proofs released last week by Dairy Co.

They are in 28 different herds with the leading herds being:-

Whilst working with the top 1000 cow list, I noticed several cows that had more than 8 calves but were still ranked in the top 10% of the UK Guernsey herd. These cows are the real money makers in the breed.  Name  Sire  Lacts  Age at Last Calving  Milk kgs  Fat …

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