SPAIN JULY-2005. A GLOBAL GENETIC GIANT, DUPLEX. EXCITING NEW ABEREKIN HOLSTEIN SIRES

DUPLEX, with 164 daughters has the strength the Holstein population is looking for and the strength of his cow family (Henkeseen Hillary) is world wide renowned.

DUPLEX has the ability to stamp his daughters with power, strength and openness of ribs. In addition, daughters walk and exhibit a hard top line. They have extremely good foot angle and depth of heel. The udders are very impressive, especially good in the fore udder.

The Duplex daughters are long bodied young cows, more Durham like than Emory, plenty of width through the thurls, stature and strength. The Duplex's have tremendous deep open fore and rear rib.

His daughters' udders are the best part. The fore udders are long and well attached. High wide rear udders. This is an exceptional udder bull.

The Duplex daughters have a slight slope to their rumps and this trait has been corrected with this July-2005 sire summary.

Duplex added 134 daughters to the production side of his evaluation and experienced increases in those ratings to +1135 milk, +0,03% protein, while picking up +263 points of his ICO to finish at a breed leading +2628.

A very exciting newly proven sire, ALMERIA (Aaron x Jolt VG-88) arrives on the top of the list. ALMERIA is one of the top bulls for udder (+2,47), he is +2,01 for feet and legs, and his daughters have high, wide rear udders, with an exceptional central support. This combination for long-lasting cows will make ALMERIA an extremely popular choice for any type of housing system.

STALIN (Storm x Melwood Dinah x Dellia EX-95) makes a strong debut with +2147 ICO. STALIN sires tall, open, ribbed cows with exceptional bone quality. He transmits very high fat components and excels in all mammary traits.

Aberekin veterans remain consistent breed leaders and Aberekin newcomers make a splash on the ICO list following the July 2005 sire summary. In total, 14 of the top 25 ICO sires are Aberekin Sires.