Current Taurus Sire News August 2010

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TAURUS SERVICE has been marketing "PROFITABLE GENETICS"™ to dairymen around the world for 40 years. Taurus Sires, Browndale Specialty Sires and Foundation Sires headline the Proven Profitable Genetic Holstein marketing list. The 1^st Choice Genomics group includes AFFILIATED SIRES™ from all three companies. Taurus offers all dairy breeds and has a very diversified line-up including many polled sires, plus red carriers and crossbreeding choices. Taurus Service is also the LIC NZG distributor for the USA. LIC has the best sires for grazers and fertility for commercial dairymen.

PROGENY TEST SIRES & TAP (TAURUS AFFILIATED PROGENCY HERDS) Taurus is one of the few AI studs that offers "G" genomic proofs on all our young sires and continues with a PT program allowing dairymen to purchase young sires at a very low cost and also participate in incentives for daughters that enter a ("T") traditional proof with milking daughters.

DAIRYMAN’S CHOICE SPECIAL: Check out our elite group of "T" & "G" proven sires available at the best prices. Note that our highest prices are the same as what some studs offer at 50% discount. You can get the most value and best fertility purchasing "PROFITABLE GENETICS"™ from Taurus, Browndale Specialty Sires and Foundation Sires. It’s not the discount you get on semen; it’s the price you pay per straw or pregnancy.

1^ST CHOICE GENOMICS, Taurus Service tests all Holstein bulls for sire selection and chooses the best that fit our "PROFITABLE GENETICS"™ philosophy to market around the world. Check the Taurus Genomic proven line-up and note that some of the highest bulls are Code 76 Sires such as Explode, Mr Savage, Mr Casino, Exact, Esteem and Elite. Check the "G" proven sires ranked by TTV in a separate group on our proof/price list.

76HO0500 RIDGEDALE REFRESH *RC VG-88 is our #1 TTV (+2720) traditional proven sire with milking daughters. REFRESH is a red carrier Sept Storm son whose Red dam Rehema-Red 2E-93 is the 8^th generation EX Roxy. REFRESH also has 4 EX sisters and is one of the breeds lowest expected future inbreeding bull available. REFRESH offers a complete package for Profitable Genetics, +3.4 PL, very low SCS (2.57), +.12% F, +.9 DPR, Ave CE +2.02 FLC with +2.73 foot angle, udders are shallow (+2.87) with strong fore attachment +2.51 and high +2.30 rear udders. 76HO0501 REX EX-90 is the proven "Forbidden" son out of Rochelle EX-93 the grandam of REFRESH. REX is a 7 CE sire with an all plus proof at 83% REL. 76HO0450 ROCKIN-RED is the breeds #1 fat sire at +.29% with +407 M +91 F lbs that also hails from the "Queen of the Breed" Roxy family.

PALA FAMILY SIRES AT TAURUS have been popular and well respected for providing Profitable Genetics from one of the best transmitting families in the world. 76HO0441 PROMOTE EX-92 has several EX 1^st crop daughters and now at 96% REL (324d/186h), he is proven to be a great sire. Check out his proof profile and note he is 8 CE and +2.9 DPR. 76HO0437 POWERHOUSE EX-93 is out of Stardust Peggy and sires strength (+2.98) deep bodies (+2.85) great F&L (+2.04) and is high fertility +3.0 SCR and +2.3 DPR. 76HO0442 POPULAR EX-93 has a Juror dam and is +3.0 PL, low SCS 2.81, 8 CE and another fertility sire +.4 SCR and +.6 DPR, note his 2164 aAa and that he can lower pin setting. 76HO0544 PERSIST EX-90 is a Mr. Sam son of Pledge, he is +.15%F, +.03%P, +1.1PL with a nice type profile. 76HO0504 PIBSON EX-92 Promis’s Gibson son is now proven with plus components and siring big open frames with wide rumps and well attached shallow (2.23) udders. Recently our most popular genomic sire has been 76HO0567 PHOENIX VG-89, this Goldwyn son of Pledge 2E-95 DOM is +2024 GTPI, +3.01 T, +4.30 FS, +2.47 UDC and off the chart linear type traits with all plus yield traits and 3.8 PL and 2.88 SCS, he is +449 NM$ and +2995 TTV. 76HO0577 PLATNUM *RC by Advent and 76HO0580 PARK*RC by Talent are an avenue to get Red from the Pala Family through Pledge. 76HO0604 PIRATE is the Baxter son of Pammy EX-92 a maternal sister to the All American Pledge.

NEW PROVEN SIRES ARE: 76HO0507 JENKIN an outcross 7 CE bull is +720 M, +.02%, +32 F, +.03%, +29 P, 87% Rel +1.64 T, +1.86 UDC & +1.68 FLC, 1728 TPI, 2361 TTV. 76HO0503 HITMAN (Outside X HH Black Jack) +487 NM, +.17% F, +5.6 PL, +1901 TPI from back to back EX-93 cows that both are teenagers with high lifetime production.

76HO0532 MILES is a Morty X Durham cross from the Autumn-Ridge Family that also produced MOSES and MILO. 76HO0295 SAVAGE LEIGH LYDON*RC is the Talent son from the Linda Family that is siring the big time show winners and has a high daughter classification average (81.1) with over 153d/112h scored already. Taurus now has "T" proven Goldwyn & Shottle sons, check 76HO0551 SOLOMON and 76HO0552 MR ACHILLIES.

From Foundation Sires 80HO1073 MARINO is +11 confirmation in Canada. His US (Mace) proof is +2.16 T, +1.79 UDC. MARINO will be a popular outcross (Roy X Encore) bull that has one of the breeds best linear type profiles with 612 aAa.

HIGH RELIABLE "T" proven bulls that are top Profitable Genetics TTV ranked bulls are: 76HO0422 TRACE EX-90 (Lee x Tobi) +.21% F, +1.66 T. 76HO0466 ESCALATE EX- 94 with three EX-95 dams is +2308 TTV. 76HO0279 MR LEVEL the 6 CE, top conception high test +.33 % and +90 F Linda son and of course, ABSOLUTE LEE, POWER, CARISMA, SOVERIGN, LARAMIE and REDLINER from our AFFILIATED SIRES™ partners.

THE BEST OF RED & WHITE: 80HO0317 REDLINER is plus milk in US and +1.99 PTAT, & CE and +4.0 SCR (real high fertility), 5314 aAa. 76HO0545 MAZADA-RED is +4.1 PL, +2.32 UDC and 1636 TPI. 76HO0541 FUSION-RED +2.05 T, +1.98 UDC. 80HO1068 REDLOU the popular Talent son +2.01 T, +1.95 UDC & +2021 TTV.

TAURUS POLLED SIRES are available in Holstein, Red & White, Ayrshire, Jersey, Milking Shorthorn and Lineback. Check out the great group of Polled Sires available, including some top "G" proven RC and Holstein young sires.

TAURUS AND LIC JERSEY SIRES are a diversified group with high components and low EFI. See our list of over 60 Jersey Sires and note 76JE0158 IMPACT (Implus x Centurion) is now +1006 M and +.7 T. Several LIC Jersey bulls are high test, up to +.53% F, Taurus has 10 over +.30% F. We are getting good reports on early 76JE0157 BIG BOY daughters. 76HO0156 TEQUILA has been very popular because of his numerous show winning daughters and early type information (+2.0) and 5.89 JUI. We are offering 5 "G" proven LIC Jersey Sires and sexed semen from a group of bulls. Please check the LIC Sire Directory and our NZG proof/price list.

AYRSHIRE SIRES: 76AY0732 GARTH is the #1 Taurus NM$ US bull at +394. 76AY0735 SAVIOR is +324 and +809 M, +.05%, +45F. 76AY0741 PRUDENCE is now +199 NM$, 4.2 PL and +.9 T. 76AY0752 NAPIER the top bull from UK is +218 NM. Several of the LIC Ayrshire breed leaders to consider are BRODY, CHALLENGE, and MIKA & BLAZE.

BROWN SWISS SIRES: 76BS0900 EVEN after a couple of base changes leads the world with the highest proof with numerous daughters. 76BS0914 ADAPTIC is "G" proven and +324 NM$ with plus in every category. 76BS9016 EMORY semen is still available. A new release is 76BS0913 TEDDY at +435 M.

TAURUS GUERNSEY SIRES: 76GU0805 ADACKA EX-95 and 76GU0804 ARCHIE are two sires that sire balance and have good proofs from great cows. 76GU0803 MASTERPIECE is +733 M.

MILKING SHORTHORN SIRES: The Taurus program has grown to 17 bulls with 8 proven sires including the best, so consider 76MS0049 FAMOUS, 76MS0432 LOGIC and 76MS0435 MILLIONAIRE plus the All American Bred 76MS0041 PRINCE and 76MS0440 SNOOPY as a new young sires.

AMERICAN LINEBACK and BELTED BULLS are also available from Taurus. Check out these and the good selection plus CROSSBREED sires, including Kiwi cross bulls from LIC/NZG.

TAURUS SIRES are available around the world. For "Profitable Genetics"™ with the highest conception and best prices call Taurus Service Inc. or see your Taurus Rep, Dealer or Technician.

August 17, 2010 www.taurus-service.com e-mail: taurus@epix.net

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