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20th June 2008
News History
Tuesday 15th April
Western Holstein Club Spring Show 2008
Monday 7th April
UK Bred bulls on the rise
Thursday 14th February
Allan Hoy Presentation
Tuesday 15th January 2008
Bull Proofs January 2008 & New Apointment
Wednesday 17th December 2007
Cogent Presentation
Wednesday 7th December 2007
Get ahead of the game
Tuesday 11th December 2007
The Winning Tournament
Friday 23rd November 2007
Sexed Semen meeting a success
Friday 23rd November 2007
No Mountain to High
Friday 23rd November 2007
Northern Expo
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Holsworth Special Show
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Young Farmer of the Year
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Getting it Right with Cogent Sexed Semen
A full sister to Cogent's exciting new Red sire, sold for €15,000 at the recent K&L Selection sale in Holland, she was consigned by Aryan Scholten, from the Netherlands and purchased by a syndicate of 3 German and 1 Danish breeders.
Sterndale Roseman Red is an early Advent son from a VG87 Outside sister to noted proven bull Ladino Park Talent, tracing via an EX91 Leader to the renowned Stookey Elm Park Blackrose EX96.
Congratulations to all Cogent Visions members who were the first to use Roseman Red as part of the Young Sire testing programme, we are now looking forward to the first calver hitting the ground. Roseman Red is now available as part of Cogent's growing Coloured collection.
Click here for further information
18th June 2008
Top Cogent bulls Netherside Dynamo & Dalbytop Phil join a very small group of bulls to be classified Excellent-95, now making only 9 bulls living in the UK to have achieved that score or higher.
Scoring EX95 Dalbytop Phil joins his father Crichel Principal EX95 who has just celebrated his 13th birthday at the Cogent stud. Phil is an imposing bull that moves incredibly well, scoring EX96 for Legs and EX95 for Feet. Phil's daughters are beautifully refined cattle, with fantastic udders and locomotion like their father, making them ideal for modern dairying conditions, they also show well above average fertility so will stay in the herds for a long time.
Netherside Dynamo has always been a firm favourite amongst the stockmen in the stud, and it was no surprise to them when he also scored EX95. Dynamo has incredible body capacity with a beautiful sweep and openness of rib. Dynamo daughters have the same capacity as their father, and with this produce extremely high volumes of milk with high fat and protein percentages.
Other highlights on classification day were top PLI sires Bilsrow Jock and Cogent Desmond both scoring EX93, Overside Dictator at EX92 along with new top type prospect Cogent Loader, the exciting Red bull Baileys Red Rock scoring EX91 and top allrounders Huddlestone Spooky & Stair JB Fron at EX90 completing the group of new Excellents.
The Cogent stud is one of the highest classified in the world with one EX96, three EX95 and eight EX94 bulls scored in recent years.
For more information please contact:
UK Sales & Genetics Manager Hugh Pocock -
07789 171378
hugh.pocock@cogentuk.com
Marketing Manager Alison Millar -
07802 316350
alison.millar@cogentuk.com
*Pictures available of bulls or daughters of bulls at your request
Monday 9th June 2008
The Kintyre Holstein Breeders Club recently announced the winners
of their Annual Herds Competition.
Congratulations to David Graham, West Backs Farm, Campbeltown took home the coveted 1st Large Herd and were crowned overall Herd Winners. Presented to the judge were daughters by Lucente, Dictator, Shaker and Coni.
1st Overall Production 2007 & 2008 and 1st Overall Inspection 2007 & 2008 was the Darlochan Herd of William Ralston, West Darlochan, Campbeltown. Claiming the title was Darlochan BLW Sheena - a Bakersfield Lord William daughter (Sexed Semen). This youthful looking cow has calved again for the fifth time having produced over 55,000kgs in her lifetime to date.
You can see her and her herdmates at the
Holstein Scotland South Annual Stockjudging and
Herd Visit on 21st July.
There will also be stockjudging in the morning at the farm of John Smith, Drumlea Farm. Everyone welcome!
For more information please contact Matthew Ralston on:
07739 349818
SEXED SEMEN FROM BREED LEADING BULL NOW AVAILABLE
Friday 23rd May 2008
One of the UK’s top PLI sires is now available to customers through the company’s sexed-semen product range Cogent announced this week. Cogent Desmond is the latest sexed-semen sire to be launched by the Cheshire-based cattle breeding company having previously graduated through the company’s Visions Young Sire Programme. The bull is the highest available PLI sexed-semen sire in the world and offers a PLI of +£201.
Cogent Desmond is one of the first UK proven sons of Ricecrest Marshall and offers significant improvements on production and type. His April 2008 UK production proof offers increases of +508 kgs milk, +30.8 kgs fat and +24.9 kgs protein. The bull also offers the rare combination of increasing milk components by +0.14% fat and + 0.11% protein according to the company’s Sire Analyst Craig Davidson.
“Desmond is one of Cogent’s most popular sires and the bull is now available to our customers on a sexed and non-sexed-basis. The bull transmits the complete genetics package by offering customers increases on milk, fat and protein as well as, fat and protein deviations. Desmond also delivers increases on health traits and offers a minus 10 Somatic Cell Score; +0.1 Lifespan, a 7% calving-ease and +.01 on Body Condition score,” he says.
“The bull has a modern day pedigree and his proof reflects a highly desirable sire-stack that contains many of the Holstein breed’s most popular sires. We’re delighted to launch a plus +£200 PLI bull into our sexed semen product range and Desmond has been accordingly priced to appeal to commercial and pedigree breeders,” he states.
Cogent Desmond is available to customers on a sexed-product basis of £37 The bull is available to members of the company’s Visions Young Sire Programme at a rate of £28 Conventional semen is available at £13 per dose with a concessionary price of £9 per dose for members of the Visions Programme. For more information contact Cogent on 0800 783 7258 or your local breeding advisor.
For more information contact –
UK Sales & Genetics Manager Hugh Pocock – 07789 171378
Sire Analyst Craig Davidson – 07901 914160