Expresso - Still Hot to Go!

EXPRESSO STILL HOT TO GO!
“SOME LIKE THEIR COFFEE HOT!” HERALDED THE ARRIVAL OF AN EXCITING
NEW EXTASY SON IN SPRING 2007 WHEN THE FIRST DAUGHTERS OF MAIRE
EX-PRESSO CALVED DOWN AND ENTERED PRODUCTION.

Firenze

Stunning second crop!

He has been CRV Ambreed’s highest rated Holstein-Friesian sire for four seasons now with progeny exhibiting stunning all-round production, farmer likeability, longevity and conformation. But with his New Zealand second crop daughters now in production the fairytale journey of Telesis Euon Firenze is only just taking flight.

Fluke

Commercial Flier

He is a Holstein-Friesian sire that might never have been. Now marketed by AmBreed the very likeable ‘commercial farmer’s dream’ Ngaio Hugo Fluke is not the product of any formal progeny test program and was initially marketed by the breeding company Liberty Genetics, a company specialising in lower cost unproven bulls.

Comments from Fluke's Breeder

As the breeder and owner of Ngaio Hugo Fluke, there is some irony in the emergence of this sire. He was the last bull calf we kept before dispersing our herd in 2003, and he is named “Fluke”!
A sense of humour is required in the animal breeding business. When I was involved, an attempt in our operation included trying to develop young bulls for progeny testing, with only varying success...

Megabuck

Protein power family

It wasn’t long after the first Megabuck daughters calved in New Zealand last spring that reports began filtering in from the field of these tall strong dairy cattle that were pumping out large volumes of milk from exceptional udders. CRV AmBreed sales consultants were impressed with the early daughters they were seeing by this OMan son, one of a handful of the first OMan sons to graduate via CRV AmBreed’s progeny test program.

Overdrive

In top gear!

It has been the latest race waiting to happen for the Holstein-Friesian breed in New Zealand – that of which new sire from the exciting field of O-Man sons graduating this season via progeny test would get the checkered flag. And what a race! With the great international commercial sire O-Bee Manfred Justice, known as ‘O-Man’, largely under-used by New Zealand dairy farmers due to his cost and availability, attention was turned to his sons to do the job. And with high race expectations the turnout has not disappointed.

Pierre

POWER OF PIERRE

Seven years on and one of AmBreed’s finest and most successful Holstein-Friesian bulls is still a popular sire by choice with dairy farmers, now casting his influential bloodlines even deeper into the New Zealand dairy herd via the success of his sons.