Available Brown Swiss bulls
Botticelli, sexed £39
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Savona, sexed £39
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Salvador, sexed £39
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Discover our exclusive selection of Brown Swiss and Fleckvieh sires supplied by GGI-Spermex. They are ideal for crossbreeding with VikingRed and VikingHolstein.
Available Fleckvieh bulls
Sisyphus, Conv £18 / Sexed £38
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HokusPokus, Conv £15 / Sexed £37
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Senator, Conv £18 / Sexed £40
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Hammerfall, Conv £18
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Eintracht, Conv £18
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Haix, Conv £18
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The German Brown Swiss is a dual-purpose breed with a high focus on milk performance and production. They also provide top longevity, udder conformation, and solid feet and legs.
It is a highly adaptable breed, making it an excellent choice for milking operations in all systems across diverse geographic locations and conditions.
Brown Swiss cows produce milk renowned for its excellent protein composition, which will boost the quality of your milk for better cheese making.
Fleckvieh
Fleckvieh are dual-purpose cows with excellent strength and fitness, while also maintaining high milk production.
They are adaptable animals suited to all production systems – intensive, extensive, and organic – making them a good, balanced choice.
GGI-Spermex’s Fleckvieh is characterised by high milk yields, good hoof health, positive energy balance, solid feet and legs with a steep hoof angle, and nice udders with reasonable teat size and placement.
The free benefits of heterosis
Both breeds have great adaptability and will provide good levels of heterosis to any systematic crossbreeding programme. This makes them an excellent choice for three-way crossbreeding, especially with VikingRed and VikingHolstein.
Heterosis is the increase of favourable characteristics over the parent average. It happens when you cross two unrelated breeds – the opposite of inbreeding.
Thanks to heterosis, crossbred cows stay longer in your herd with an increased lifetime production, and have better performance in traits like:
- Fertility
- Health
- Vitality
- Survival
With three-way crossbreeding, you can achieve a steady heterosis of 86% compared to 67% with a two-way cross. This way, your herd's genetic heritage becomes stronger.
In crossbreeding, the first generation is called G1. Instead of backcrossing the G1 as you would in two-way crossbreeding, you introduce a third breed.