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SIRE DESIGNATIONS
SELECT SIRES DESIGNATIONS
Throughout this directory, you will find icons designating traits and/ or industry sectors where a sire offers significant improvement. Listed below are the descriptions for these new icons. Use these icons to help find and utilize the sires that best fit your needs and goals.
COWMAKER
The Cowmaker logo designates sires expected to make the next generation of daughters to retain in your herd. This designation is a combination of maternal EPDs and reports from the field.
FERTILITY VERIFIED
Using conception data along with quality control evaluations, beef sires designated as Fertility Verified have been field tested and achieved Select Sires’ industry-leading quality standards.
PROOF POSITIVE
Sires that are .85 or higher accuracy for Birth Weight EPD.
SHOWCASE
Sires earn the Showcase™ designation through outstanding show results or from a show-winning pedigree. Turn to this designation to produce your next show winner or to improve the overall phenotype of your herd.
PERFORMANCE LEADERS
Expect Performance Leaders sires to deliver cattle that are leaders for adding growth. These sires will rank among the best in their respective breeds for WW, YW, and ADG.
PAP
These sires are designed to perform at high altitudes and rank high for PAP EPD or by having great individual PAP data.
CALVING EASE
These sires are your go-to for your heifers. The Calving Ease logo identifies sires that rank high for Calving Ease Direct and/or have been successfully used in the field on virgin heifers.
CARCASS
The Carcass logo designates sires that will add carcass value and quality. These sires rank high for marbling, ribeye area and $B.
CAB TARGETING THE BRAND
Identifies sires that will help you target CAB standards.
Limitations and Conditions of Sale: gender SELECTED semen shall be used only for the single insemination of one female bovine during natural ovulation with the intent to produce a single offspring unless specifically approved on an individual customer basis by Sexing Technologies in writing. As a condition of purchasing gender SELECTED semen, the purchaser agrees that gender SELECTED semen will not be reverse sorted or re-sorted unless specifically permitted, in advance, on a case-bycase basis by Select Sires in writing. Select Sires intends to monitor the use of the gender SELECTED semen and vigorously enforce these restrictions on use. Please see http://www.selectsires.com/designations/genderselected.html for additional details. 4
Look for the gender SELECTED 4M icon to identify sires with sex-sorted female semen available in 4 million sperm doses. All gender SELECTED semen is processed using Ultraplus technology.
44 BUY BACK PROGRAM
This represents a sire with progeny qualifying for the 44 Farms Prime Pursuits and Angus Strong buy back programs. Using these sires will make your calf crop eligible to participate in 44 supply chain opportunities.
™Showcase, gender SELECTED, gender SELECTED 4M and Proof Positive are trademarks of Select Sires Inc., Ultraplus is a trademark of STGen LLC. and ®Certified Angus Beef and CAB are registered trademarks of Certified Angus Beef LLC.
