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Breeding at Thorndale

All animals are bred AI, Scott and Don do any AI breeding on the heifers. Wilkins are responsible for breeding the cows, and select from a list of bulls provided prior to breeding. The semen avilable to use is provided by Don and Scott. We really began to get selective in our breeding in 1999 after selling the farm, we could start to really focus on the Swiss. The focus resulted in heavy use of Prelude, as well as a few other Emory sons on the random selection of bloodlines we had. We would love to keep using Jetway on these lines.

 

WE FOUND A SPECIAL CROSS, our boys work well together:

Top Acres Basehit ET was an exciting bull on the farm, full brother to Blue Chip, he is a Banker out of the great Bouquet. This bull is very tall as expected. Many pregnancies on the way, and many calves already standing in the pens and on the pasture. His oldest daughter is pictured to the right as a calf and is now fresh. 1st two milking daughters are testing very well and have identical udders, high and wide with great test placement.
 
We also are using our own bull, Top Acres Co PILOT ET. Co Pilot is the maternal brother to Jet Pilot, Pawnee, Paddy, Pinnacle, and other great offspring from the famous Price cow. We had him collected, and we have plenty available and will continue to in the future. We have many pregnancies on the way and many calves already sold the past 3 years. His daughters consistently are very deep with the strength in the shoulder that we have been needing. His oldest daughters have just calved in with an awesome udders, short and perfectly square teat placement, very high and wide in the read udder, and a lot of cleft to the udder. One of his daughters is to the right as a Winter Yearling.

CoPilot- summer '06

 

Today, we are using sons of cows we greatly admire. Currently in the tank we have Secret (Pilot x Sue), Galaxy (Premium x Goldie), Protype (Jetway x Price), Total (Lecacy x Twilite), Denver (Prelude x Jetway), Basehit, and CoPilot.

Future bulls to come:  Tressel, Titanium, more Protype, Galxay, and Parker.

 



Top Acres Pre Bouquet- dam of Basehit


Basehit's oldest daughter-"Sweetheart" as a winter calf

CoPilot daughter "Corvette" x VG88 Jetway- as a Winter yearling

Top Acres Co Pilot ET
 

Dam of Co Pilot: Top Acres Emory Price 4E94
 
Sire of Co Pilot: Collection