Facts & Figures:

Number of Milk recorded cows	230.000
Percentage of all cows	98
Average size of herds	21
No of herds	11.000
No of 1st inseminations	287.626
Percent inseminated animals	85%
Percent with test bull inseminations	40%
No of tested bulls per year	125
Size of daughter groups	250
Breeding value estimation model	Animal model
Breed Average fore production (2010)	Kg milk 7.125, prot 3,38%, fat 4,24%
Highest producing cow (2010)	Cow 890, kg milk 18.549, fat 3,58%, prot 3,60%. Sire of the cow: 5522 Svarstad. Owner: Olstad/Hansen samdrift, N-3228 Sandefjord
Highest producing herd (2010)	Kg milk 11.811, fat 4,51%, prot 3,60%. Owner: Øyvind Talberg, N-1746 Skjeberg

 

 

Breeding Programme:

 

Breeding goal:

ž   Total Merit Index with the following weights (%): Milk yield 28, mastitis 21, fertility of daughters 18, udder and tears 15, beef 6, legs 6, temperament 2, other diseases 2, stillbirths 0,5 and calving ease 0,5.

 

ž   Screening the whole population for high index females and bull calves

ž   Bull sire suggestions to high index cows is made by the breeding software

ž   Fenotype test of 300 calves

ž   125 young bulls

ž   400 waiting bulls

ž   250 daughters in progeny test

ž   Progeny test 4 x/year

 

Contact:

www.geno.no

Geno breeding and AI Company

President: Sverre Bjørnstad

Secretary – Breeding manager: Trygve Roger Solberg

 

Geno SA

Holsetgata 22

N-2317 Hamar

Norway

Phone: +47 950 20600

E-mail: post@geno.no