Polled & A2A2 feature in Vala Holsteins Spring Sale
Featuring some of the world’s leading maternal lines the heifers on offer at the Vala Holsteins Spring Feature 2019 include daughters of cows classified to EX with dams that complete up to 13 generations of EX & VG, direct daughters from dams to 42 SBC and dams that have produced to 19,107 litres, 645 kg protein and 913 kg fat.
The sale takes place on-farm at Vala Holsteins, 1350 River Road, Toolamba, Victoria, 3614 at 11am Thursday 31st October 2019.
The offering also reflects Vala Holsteins emphasis on A2/A2 and polled. Of the 101 heifers for sale thirty-one are polled, one PP, fifty-three A2/A2 and thirty-nine A1/A2. Twelve bulls, all semen tested, also go under the hammer.
All heifers have been joined to the top Poll sires Mirand-PP and Andreas-P. Lots sell with TPI +2596. PTAT +3.84. NM$ 761. BPI +272.
“Our breeding philosophy is simple,” says Vala Holsteins Alex Arena. “We want to breed world-class Holsteins - animals that rank highly on a variety of indexes - GTPI, GLPI and BPI - so that they meet a variety of needs.
“We look towards producing well balanced Holsteins rather than extremes focused on certain traits at the expense of others. Animal health, fertility, longevity and calving ease are important to us - as are high milk components. For years we have been breeding for A2A2 and polled - the latter is very important to us because we feel that eliminating de-horning biologically is the right thing to do,” says Alex.
The full sale catalogue can be downloaded here.
All Vala Holsteins pedigree livestock are registered and genomically tested - males on both GTPI and BPI; and females on GTPI, GLPI and BPI.
For news and updates on the Vala Holsteins Spring Feature Sale 2019 prior to Thursday and on the day keep an eye on the Dairy Livestock Services and Vala Holsteins Facebook pages.
Pictured are full sisters Vala Polar Maya (ET) PC-RC. BPI + 223. TPI +2372 (Lot 14) and Vala Polar Mayan (ET) PC (Lot 15), two of many selling by leading Poll sire Calbrett Polar-PP +3039 GLPI. Their dam is by Monterey with BPI +213. Second dam is 9th gen EX & VG with over 14,800 litres and the third dam is an EX maternal sister to one of the Breed’s greatest sires of recent times in MOGUL that made over 21,000 litres.
Further information from Brian Leslie 0418 365 934; Lee Hamilton 0418 352 366; Shaun Hamilton 0456 666 724; Ben Minogue 0438 145 926 or Angela Varcoe at Vala Holsteins on 0407 938 443.