{"id":6435,"date":"2022-07-28T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/?page_id=6435"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:31:29","slug":"jersey-future-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jersey.org.nz\/jersey-future-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Future 2024 &#8211; Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jersey Future Team &#8211; Nominations for 2024<\/h1>\n<h2>A joint programme<\/h2>\n<p>We are once again on the lookout for diverse high genetic merit bull calves. We are aiming for a team of up to eight young bulls represented by eight different sires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team concept is very important. We can only take the best young bulls from each sire. When nominating, be mindful that bull calves offered by high-ranking young diverse sires have an advantage with higher chances of final selection over popular proven bulls where we get offered larger numbers of calves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This team concept allows us some movement across traits if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Strong maternal families have been a strong focus. Cows criteria includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three generations of registration and classification. We prefer bull dams to have minimum 8 udder overall score but we will consider scores down 6.&nbsp; The 2022 team had an average UO BV 0.84. Our preference is to have all bulls above 0.50 UO BV.<\/li>\n<li>Three generations of high performance indicators with PW and LW indexes 350 or higher. Setting strong criteria for production and non-production traits has been a winning formula resulting in very good return to service results for Jersey Future bulls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Bull calf criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Minimum 360 BW for bulls with common NZ breeding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outcross and polled bull calves will be considered if above 250 BW.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full three generation pedigree J16 breed is strongly preferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Outstanding females sired by overseas sires is a great way to bring genetic diversity to our program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Setting the bar high on BW is important from a marketing point. Most of our Jersey Future users are focused on high genetic indexes and we need to sell a minimum 1000 straws per bull to have enough reliability to market as a proven sire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We will always consider outcross bulls on their own merits and what they can bring to the team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polled bulls are of particular interest going forward. There are several very useful polled Jersey bulls available today. Our breed needs development in this area if we want to compete with other breeds as the industry progresses down this path for animal welfare standards. We need polled genetics to be at similar levels to horned genetics going forward to be a viable option for farmers. We encourage the use of polled genetics over high-ranking females to develop great polled families.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fertility BV is important from a marketing perspective, negative fertility BV is hard to sell and we should be moving fertility in a positive direction.&nbsp; We are reluctant to genomically test bull calves with less than -2 fertility BV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The industry values A2A2 as a preferred choice. We aim to have a full A2A2 team unless an exceptional A1A2 bull is offered. We will not consider A1A1 bulls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We will genomically test all bull calves who pass the first selection phase. We select and market on genomic BVs for all traits, and of course take into consideration all the criteria mentioned. Bull calf indexes and BVs can shift significantly on genomics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we cannot take bull calves sired by CRV sires again this year.&nbsp; We are potentially able to test bull calves sired by Samen NZ and a few other AI companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate ability for Jersey Future to deliver outstanding Jersey genetics to the industry, starts and stops with the quality of bull calves offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id='wufoo-x16wrwpm1k88c5y'>\nFill out my <a href='https:\/\/jerseynz.wufoo.com\/forms\/x16wrwpm1k88c5y'>online form<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>var x16wrwpm1k88c5y;(function(d, t) {\nvar s = d.createElement(t), options = {\n'userName'      : 'jerseynz',    \n'formHash'      : 'x16wrwpm1k88c5y',    \n'autoResize'    :  true,   \n'height'        : '341',      \n'async'         :  true,          \n'header'        : 'show',      \n'host'          : 'wufoo.com',    \n'entSource'     : 'wordpress',   \n'defaultValues' : ''     \n,'ssl'          :  1           };\ns.src = ('https:' == d.location.protocol ? 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We are aiming for a team of up to eight young bulls represented by eight different sires.&nbsp; The team concept is very important. 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